There is a strange irony to the internet: it makes it possible to share (and often preserve, at least over decades) good material widely, and just as possible for that same material to disappear into the noise.
For those who have followed Dr. Heiser for long, you are probably familiar with a lot of the older YouTube content, plenty of podcast interviews, and the like. And you’re also familiar with the fact that YouTube is now flooded with clips, reposts, and the same material shared in many iterations. While sharing the material by new people helps it get “found” anew (and helps it endure technical problems), it also dilutes the ability for people to find certain things. We here at the MSH Foundation understand that and are just as concerned at preserving the old content as you are.
The Blog Migration +Plus
This website is now the new home for the original “drmsh” blog archive. But this is only a first step. The goal is not only to preserve what was already published there, but also to build a curated resource hub that helps readers find important material that has been scattered across the web for years, especially older videos, interviews, podcast appearances, and other resources that were never part of the original blog, but still deserve to be accessible.
This broad archive matters because Dr. Heiser’s work continues to help people think more carefully about Scripture, the supernatural worldview of the Bible, and the importance of reading the text in its ancient context. This material lives in so many places: on YouTube channels, in podcast feeds, in interviews, and in corners of the internet that are easy to overlook and even easier to lose.
This new site is meant to help address the difficulty in accessing that full catalog (or at least as much as we can find and access today). But please be assured, this is not about removing the content from where it lives currently (we wouldn’t want to do that, even were it possible). This is about having an easy place to find what you want to find.
Please be aware that currently, this is a work-in-progress. We don't have the search function in yet and some other neat features that are in the works. Rest assured we are working on many things that will benefit this project.
What You Can Expect Going Forward
This site will continue to serve as a home for the blog archive, but it will also become a place where older, lesser-known, and easily missed material will be surfaced, organized, and shared.
That means readers can expect more than reposted blog entries. You will also see curated additions that point to content already in the public domain but not previously gathered here, particularly older YouTube videos, podcast interviews, and other resources that are worth preserving and revisiting.
That original material will not be “new” in the sense of being newly created. But it will be new to this site, and in many cases it may be new to readers who never encountered it the first time around. You will also find in these posts some explanatory material that will help you search for what you’re looking for and understand what you’ll be hearing in the linked videos and interviews.
The aim here is to make valuable work findable again. Sometimes that will mean highlighting an older interview that has been largely forgotten. Sometimes it will mean gathering resources around a particular theme so readers can explore them more easily. Sometimes it will mean drawing attention to material that has been publicly available for years, but never had a clear home within the larger body of Dr. Heiser’s work.
In other words, part of the work ahead is archival, and part of it is curatorial.
So, welcome.
Whether you are returning to familiar material from the original blog or discovering this work for the first time, we hope this site becomes a useful place to explore, revisit, and recover resources that still have much to offer. There is more to come, not only in preserving what has already been written, but in surfacing what has too often remained scattered, overlooked, or difficult to find.
If you find this project useful, one of the simplest ways to help is by sharing articles and resources from the site on social media. A great deal of worthwhile material becomes hard to find not because it disappears completely, but because fewer people know where to look for it. Sharing posts, interviews, and archived resources helps more readers discover them again.
You can also help by subscribing or following on the platforms where this work will be shared. That makes it easier to stay aware of new additions to the site, newly surfaced older material, and future curated resources as they are published. (For most up-to-date ins-and-outs of the website and other curated content, you'll especially want to follow the Substack.)
Thanks for being here at the beginning of this new stage.
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