I’ve blogged on this topic before, but I’ve recently gotten a few questions on it in email. I decided to revisit it by posting some PDF resources. Here’s the short answer to “Was Jesus a failed prophet?” Yes, if you don’t understand...
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Matthew, The Didache, and Q
I decided to post something on this topic because someone recently sent me a post promoting (?) a particular view of “Q” and Matthean authorship that appeared at divinecouncil.org. That is not my website. Briefly, the website was promoting the work of New...
Former Pentagon Aerospace ID Director: Some UFOs Still “Defy Explanation”
Precisely. As illustrated by one of the best scenes in X-Files history: Here’s the article from the Daily Beast.
Secret Defense Department Investigation into UFOs
Here’s a pretty compelling UFO video — from the cockpit of a Navy F/A 18 Super Hornet: As the captioning notes the UFO video comes to the public via the Department of Defense (DOD). I found it reading an article in the NY Times about the DOD’s secret...
Why FringePop321? Watch This Video
Want to know why my non-profit, MIQLAT, is partnering with AllAboutGod.com to create our "fringe / Middle Earth" video show Fringepop321? Watch this video (and get a peek). Â By helping AllAboutGod.com, you're not only helping a Miqlat ministry effort, you're doing...
Mike talks Unseen Realm on the Eric Metaxas Show
My interview on the Eric Metaxas Show airs today (2-4 pm Eastern time; I’m in hour 2, starting at 3pm Eastern). I’m a newcomer to Eric’s show (about two months now). I enjoy its eclectic nature and the fact that he’s unafraid to make the faith...
Mike Talks About the Bible Unfiltered With Shaun Tabatt
The short interview lives here. Enjoy and pass it on!
Want to Help Mike Title His Next Novel?
You can vote on the title … if you subscribe to my newsletter. In the next issue (that will go out early next week) there will be a link to an online survey to choose the title. I’ve been thinking about four options and can’t decide — so I...
Naked Bible Podcast Episodes 190, 191, and 192: Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Interviews
The interviews from the 2017 SBL meetings had to be broken up into three episodes: Episode 190 (SBL, Part 1) We get caught up with David Burnett, now in his first semester of doctoral work at Marquette University. We also chat with Marina Westerdahl, a former student...
Fake 2011 Video of UFO Over Dome of the Rock on the Jerusalem Temple Mount is Still Fake
Breaking news … Sigh. Please don’t send this to me or post it on social media where I’ll see it. It’s fake, folks. Here’s the video. Watch it and you’ll see something very odd (not the “UFO”) that tells you it’s a...
Mike Talks Unseen Realm on the Frank Sontag Show
This was a fun interview. Frank was enthusiastic about the content. His show (KKLA, Los Angeles) has a large audience, to hopefully people new to the content will read the book!
Audio from the ETS Session on New Testament Textual Criticism
The Evangelical Textual Criticism blog has a link to the audio files of the presentations in the ETS session devoted to NT Textual criticism. As the ETC blog notes: The session was titled “Growing Up in the Ehrman Era: Retrospect and Prospect on Our Text-Critical...
MK-ULTRA Settlement in the News
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) recently ran this headline (both the title and sub-title are noteworthy): Federal government quietly compensates daughter of brainwashing experiments victim Lawsuit filed after The Fifth Estate re-aired documentary about Dr....
Rice University Scholar Jeffrey Kripal: Meet Diego Cuoghi
Jason Colavito has a lengthy, but worthwhile (as usual) post on Rice University Prof. Jeffrey’s Kripal’s claim for UFOs in medieval art. Kripal shows his unfamiliarity with the work of art historian Diego Cuoghi on this matter. PaleoBabble readers should...
Tom DeLonge: Stop the Madness
Robert Sheaffer has another funny-but-sad essay on the antics of Tom DeLonge, he of Blink182 fame (I confess to not knowing anything about the group, but it helps with Google search results so there it is). Sheaffer chronicles some fake photos and such that DeLonge...