PURE PARODY. Everything below about the Columbus Land Coalition, its officers, members, merchandise, and “beneficiaries” is invented for satirical purposes in the tradition of The Babylon Bee. Quotations attributed to real publications are reproduced accurately from the sources cited at the end; every other quotation is fictional and spoken by fictional people. Finders Keepers Since…
Author: Dennis Robbins
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The Semi-Annual LDS YawnFest: A Lighthearted (and Then Not So Lighthearted) Look at General Conference, Amway, and the Art of Sounding Christian
Why the Church’s twice-yearly broadcast feels so much like an Amway distributor rally and what its polished vocabulary leaves unsaid ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: Welcome to the Rally Somewhere in a hotel ballroom in the American Midwest, a man in a well-pressed suit is walking to a lectern. The lights soften. The music swells, then…
From the Sycamore Tree to the Supper Table: How Jesus Sought and Saved Zacchaeus. Luke 19:1-10
The following is a summary of the sermon: The Sovereign Call of the Savior Luke 19:1-10 Speaker: Pastor Joey Sampaga ❦ ✦ ❦ Overview Wealth could not save Zacchaeus, and poverty could not save Bartimaeus. In Luke 19, Jesus calls a hated tax collector by name, and grace overturns his greed. Pastor Joey presses the…
Are You Ready For a Study of The Book of Revelation?
The Lamb, the Scroll, and the Day of Wrath Revelation Without the Fog: A CliffsNotes Walk Through the Apocalypse ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: A Book That Refuses to Stay Sealed Few books provoke as much fascination, and as much confusion, as the last book of the Bible. Readers open Revelation expecting answers and close it…
The Unlabeled Faith: Glenn Beck, a Quarter-Century of Latter-day Saint Membership, and the Curious Silence of the Public Record
Glenn Beck: A Mormon For All Seasons ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: The Most Famous Convert Nobody Mentions In October 1999, a thirty-five-year-old radio personality with a turbulent past stepped into a baptismal font and was immersed by his friend and broadcast partner, Pat Gray. The man was Glenn Beck. Within a decade he would become…
Not Enough? A Devotional for the Restless Heart
When Manna is Enough “Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’” (Hebrews 13:5) Every morning for forty years, Israel woke to find bread on the ground. It came with the dew, white and thin as…
The Saucer That Never Landed: An Investigative Look at the Extraterrestrial Claims of Bob Lazar
Thirty-Seven Years, Zero Saucers: Testing the Bob Lazar Story ❦ ✦ ❧ Introduction: A Man in Shadow On a May evening in 1989, viewers of KLAS-TV in Las Vegas watched an interview with a man whose face was hidden in shadow and whose voice was disguised. He called himself “Dennis.” He told reporter George Knapp…
The Camera Is Not a Crime: First Amendment Auditors, Police Training Failures, and the Constitutional Right to Record What Anyone Can See
“At this point you’re being detained for disorderly conduct.” — and Other Laws That Don’t Exist This essay is legal commentary for public education. It is not legal advice, and statutes differ from state to state. Readers facing a specific situation should consult a licensed attorney in their jurisdiction. ❧ ❖ ☙ Introduction: An Illegal…
Laying the Ark to Rest: The Durupınar Formation, the Biblical Flood, and the Endless Search for Noah’s Ark
The Religious Oak Island Mystery: Radar, Rock, and the Endless Hunt for Noah’s Ark ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: A Boat-Shaped Shadow on the Mountainside In the autumn of 2026, the headlines came in a rush. On October 2, Fox News reported that the Noah’s Ark Research Project had finished its first full field season in…
The World’s Most Studied Nothing: Rockets, Radar, Drones, and an Invisible Bubble: A Forensic Examination of Skinwalker Ranch
Seven Seasons, Zero Photographs: The Skinwalker Ranch Problem ❧ ✦ ☙ Introduction: The Most Studied Place on Earth Somewhere in Utah’s Uinta Basin, on 512 acres of sagebrush, red sandstone, and irrigated pasture southeast of the town of Ballard, there may be more scientific instruments per acre than at any other privately owned cattle ranch…