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Ralph Fiennes and Chi Lewis-Parry in ’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ (2026) (Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures).
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When a Christian World Loses Christ

‘The Bone Temple’ shows a nightmarish earth with only vestiges of Christian morality.
Ralph Fiennes and Chi Lewis-Parry in '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple' (2026) (Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures).

In 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, the latest installment of the hit zombie film franchise kicked off by 28 Days Later in 2002, the liberal world order has given way to a Hobbesian state of nature. Its fictional Britain is thoroughly secular; Christianity remains only vestigially, mostly in the language of the survivors of the zombie apocalypse that began the first movie.

Maggie Phillips authors Tablet Magazine’s “Religious Literacy in America” series and her reporting and analysis on religion appears regularly in various online and print outlets. She writes about religion and culture at her Substack, People Really Believe This Stuff.

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