The Frankenstein Gospel: Why Real Fragments Make the Most Convincing Counterfeit Introduction: The Bill That Almost Passes Every cashier in a busy store eventually meets a bill that feels wrong. The paper has the right weight, the familiar texture, the faint red and blue fibers that come from genuine currency stock. The watermark is there…
Grok: Tell me more about Eric Deters and Kimberly Guilfoyle
Grok: Tell me more about Eric Deters and how this report might complicate his political aspirations: Kimberly Guilfoyle Resigns as U.S. Ambassador to Greece: A Wall Street Journal report said Guilfoyle apparently asked a donor to President Donald Trump for $100,000. *UPDATE 11:18 AM* Kimberly Guilfoyle has resigned as U.S. Ambassador to Greece after the…
Popular Content Creator Brands Paul a False Apostle: Discernment or Heresy?
“As It Is Written”: Who Is Really Twisting the Scriptures? ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: An Apostle in the Dock Every generation produces someone who discovers, apparently for the first time, that the Apostle Paul was a fraud. The charge is never new, but it always arrives sounding new, because it is usually made by someone…
New Nonprofit Vows to Return Stolen Land to Its Rightful Owners by Taking It From the People Who Keep Confessing They Stole It
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…
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…