After Harold Camping's predictions for rapture and judgment day failed to materialize on May 21st, Christians who had taken comfort from Family Radio and had given effort, money, time, and visibility to the campaign to share their beliefs, are now struggling financially and spiritually. How do individuals and families make sense of what has happened? How are they reinterpreting their experiences? How are they coping after giving a great deal of time and money to this campaign? How are they responding to Harold Camping's new prediction - that May 21st was a invisible, spiritual Judgment Day and that the apocalyptic end of the world will happen definitively on October 21?A news story emerged yesterday concerning a family who is struggling with an inheritance. Doris Schmidt was an avid listener of Family Radio, and she died on May 2nd. She gave the majority of her estate to Family Radio. Schmidt's niece, Eileen Heuwetter, was initially supportive of the gift because she knew that Family Radio had given her aunt a great deal of comfort before she died, but when she and the rest of the family realized that Family Radio is the organization connected to Harold Camping and his failed May 21st prediction, they were devastated. This news story gives more detail:
Here are some more reflections concerning the aftermath of Camping's failed prediction:
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