The Assembly: When Prophecy Fails: Cults and the End of the World
Schedule
Sun, 09 Nov, 2025 at 11:00 am
UTC-05:00Location
28611 W 12 Mile Rd, Farmington Hills, MI 48334-4225, United States | Farmington Hills, MI
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Sunday Assembly Detroit is a secular congregation that meets to hear great talks and generally celebrate the wonder of life. It’s a service for anyone who wants to live better, help often, and wonder more.This free event is in beautiful Farmington Hills. We'll listening to a talk then enjoying a meal during the event.
**Speaker**
We don't have clergy, instead we have local community leaders and thinkers. For this month we are having Lance talk about When Prophecy Fails.
Here is a taste of what he'll talk about this month:
This month’s talk will discuss When Prophecy Fails, how religious organizations and doomsday cults contend with prophetic failure. From the Millerites, to Jehovah’s Witnesses, to modern evangelicals, end-times predictions are commonplace and commonly fail. This talk will discuss the continuing appeal of apocalyptic predictions and movements, what common rationale lies behind these inevitable failures, and hopefully, what we ourselves can learn from these rationalizations.
**Our Program**
1. Welcome and Gathering Statement
2. Quick agenda outline
3. Speaker and speech introduction
4. Speaker gives talk
5. Dismissal for food
6. Everyone comes back to table(s)
7. Brief toast/address, including some short recognition of "life happens" (ie. Birthdays, other news)
8. We dig in! Feel free to chat about whatever.
9. Cleanup and taking leftovers home
**Childcare**
Families with children are encouraged to attend! There is free childcare.
**Radically Inclusive**
We are a radically inclusive community and we welcome our LGBTQIA+ brothers, sisters, and siblings. We will have material supplied from Affirmations on our welcome table along with free prophylactics and feminine hygiene products.
We also welcome everyone along the secular/religious spectrum. Whatever your degree of religion, spirituality, or utter lack thereof you are welcome here. As an organization, we don't do religious, spiritual, or supernatural things, but we don't dwell on that -- rather we focus on Humanism and its associated values.
**Little Free Library**
If all of that doesn't bring you in, then maybe your love of reading will. We have a running little free library at our assemblies so we encourage you to bring a book to exchange or to take a book to enjoy.
**We can't wait to see you!**
If you're looking for an inviting and positive community, you've come to the right place. We look forward to getting to know you if you're new and welcoming you back home if you've been before.
**About the speaker**
Our speaker is Lance Crandall, podcast host of the show “When Prophecy Fails: Apocalypticism, Cults, and End of the World.” His work focuses on failed apocalyptic movements, their theories, histories, and their continuing appeal. He is a husband and father of one (with another on the way), and has a history of naming pets after dead revolutionaries.
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Where is it happening?
28611 W 12 Mile Rd, Farmington Hills, MI 48334-4225, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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