Right Behind: A Parody of Last Days Goofiness

LaHaye and Jenkins' best-selling apocalyptic fiction novel, Left Behind, is already so ridiculous that it's hard to make a parody of it. Yet the conservative Christian author, Nathan Wilson, bravely sets forth to push it over the top. Tweaked versions of all the original characters work together in an absurd tangle of Evangelical goofiness struggling to make sense of the pathetically gnostic vision of the original story. You won't want to miss all body parts, cats, and youth pastors left behind, Buff Williamson's Ivy League deductions, Haddie the Whore of Babylon, or the climactic struggle with the Tulsa Antichrist in a Christian "book store." If you regret reading Left Behind, read Right Behind to ease that pain with laughter.

Nathan D. Wilson received his M.A. from St. Johns College, after doing a year's time at Liberty University graduate school (the future home of the Tim LaHaye School of Prophecy). Nate is the managing editor of Credenda/Agenda magazine and an instructor at New St. Andrews College, Moscow, Idaho.