CHICAGO — If recent world events make you wonder if The End is near, take heart. You have plenty of company. But apocalyptic predictions are hardly new, and everyone who has made one has been ...

From its very inception in the wake of the defunct Millerite Movement, the Seventh-day Adventist Church has been a center of controversy. Even today, over a century later, it is virtually impossible ...

WORCESTER ― In 1844, a group of Worcester residents woke up on the morning of Oct. 23 to find the world had not ended, the rapture had not in fact happened and Christ had not arrived. To say they were ...

The Millerite movement experienced its Great Disappointment on this day in 1844, after the Second Coming event predicted by the movement’s leader did not occur. You may use the comment thread on this ...

Oct. 22—Spoiler alert: The rapture didn't happen on Oct. 22, 1844. But a lot of people sure thought it would. They were followers of a preacher and self-proclaimed prophet from Vermont named William ...