Faith and Fake News: A Guide to Consuming Information WiselyRachel I.Wightman, Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 2023 (ISBN 0802882455), 192 pp., pb $19.99

public discipleship' (p.233).Using the example of the Barmen Declaration of the Confessing Church in Nazi Germany, it demands of discerning Christians that they publicly declare their faith in God and Christ, refuse to compromise with the demonic forces that control Babylon, and accept that the fulfilment of their hope comes only in that unknown and unknowable time when God will finally overthrow the power of evil and with it the fallen world of Babylon.The authors take seriously their intention to make the often arcane material of Revelation accessible to the average reader, resorting frequently to colloquial terms for biblical imagery: 'The Playbill of Revelation' describes the ultimate conflict between 'Team Dragon in Babylon' and 'Team Lamb in New Jerusalem' (pp.38-9), while the Beasts from the sea and the earth are called throughout 'the wild things'.In the Appendix 'What's an Apocalypse?' the authors argue that John 'appeals to all the senses of the readers or listeners and because of these sensations to imagine an alternative world and to live in that alternative world now' (p.256).An Anglican perspective would find little to challenge in this statement, but the authors' view of the pervasive nature of Babylon, and their pessimism with regard to finding any concrete signs of God's reign in the here and now, do not sit well with the more positive doctrine of creation which lies behind much of the Anglican theological tradition.But their analysis of the ways in which the current American political scene has more in common with Babylon than the New Jerusalem is surely a perspective with which it is impossible to argue.