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I'm a person sincerely interested in seeking religious truth, for years I studied and did my best to seek out the truth about God's existence, the existence and nature of the afterlife and which religion might be true and/or endorsed by God. At the end of my searching, I came to the conclusion that Christianity is the religion that God wants me to follow and believe. I hope to help other "real seekers" in their journey to finding the same truth that I did. I can be reached via email at reals ...
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Welcome to World Class, the podcast that takes you on a journey through the vibrant and diverse voices shaping theological education worldwide. Imagine a global classroom where faith, culture, and wisdom intersect—this is the heart of World Class. In each episode, we engage in rich conversations with educators, leaders, and practitioners from around the globe. Together, we listen to their stories, learn from their insights, and explore how theology connects with real-life challenges and oppo ...
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In this thought-provoking episode, I sit down with Elmo, Adjunct Faculty in the Doctor of Ministry in Contextual Leadership program at Palmer Theological Seminary, for a powerful conversation on mission in a globalized world. Together, we explore how globalization is transforming the way we think about mission, evangelism, culture, race, and power.…
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This is the first of three planned follow up shows responding to ultimate Shroud skeptic, Hugh Farey and his Quem Quaeritis image formation hypothesis. In this show, I read over Giulio Fanti's peer-reviewed journal paper directly evaluating Hugh's own experimental results and finds them wanting!In other words, according to Giulio Fanti, the science…
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It's April 15th and that means Larry Stalley's new book entitled "Divine Testimony for the Resurrection: Hidden References to the Holy Shroud in the Bible" is out!!! Larry gives us a glimpse of his newest research contained in the book using the "Sign of Jonah" in the Gospel of Matthew as proof for a cryptic mention of the Shroud of Turin.RSM Blog …
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Real Seekers fan Fyre Rayne asked Dale to respond to Douglas Joseph's Jesus-Words Onlyism arguments against Paul.Join Dr. Craig Blomberg, Dale Glover, and me for a discussion on whether the writings of the apostle Paul are inspired scripture. RSM Blog (with free sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/was-paul-inspired-refu…
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In this episode, I’m joined by the distinguished Professor and Templeton Chair for Christian Service through Entrepreneurship at Eastern University. Together, we explore how faith and business converge in meaningful ways. We dive into the ways spiritual values shape ethical decision-making, leadership styles, and workplace culture. You'll hear insi…
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Phil Bair joins me to discuss the issue of what the church/ecclesia is in the New Testament. We discover that the Eastern Orthodox notion of "The Church" is Biblically false and Satanically authoritarian in nature compared to the true Biblical model consistent with Protestantism.
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Sharon Koh, CEO/Executive Director of International Ministries, explores the core missiological approach of International Ministries (IM) and its integration of proclamation, discipleship, and social justice in mission work. She highlights the biblical and theological foundations shaping IM’s global engagement and its commitment to contextualizatio…
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This is the third and final part of my show with Biblical Unitarian Andrew Griffin; this time we look at 3 Bible verses proving Jesus was divine.RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/trinity-vs-unitarian-shows-march-december-2025/
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My guest in this episode is the Rev. Dr. Marie Onubuariri, Director of Intercultural Ministries at the American Baptist Home Mission Societies. In this episode, Marie explores the intersection of contextual theology and intercultural ministry. She shares how understanding the relationship between the Gospel and culture shapes ministry, leadership, …
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In Part 2, I discuss the Biblical evidence for the divinity of the Holy Spirit as the new Shekinah and thus, He is a essential and personal part of Yahweh.RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/trinity-vs-unitarian-shows-march-december-2025/
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David and David are back! This time they tackle the meaning of Romans 1 and in particular, Romans 1:20, are those who deny the existence of God damned to Hell without an excuse or is this just, as David J. puts it, a "factually incorrect, hateful and divisive" teaching????Tune in to find out!RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/202…
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Dale Tuggy and myself were invited onto Luis Dizon and Michael Lofton's "1P3" Podcast to discuss the philosophical/logical coherence of the Trinity. RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/trinity-vs-unitarian-shows-march-december-2025/
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In the grand finale, I show the first segments of a Resurrection debate between Dr. William Lane Craig (Christian) and Gerd Ludemann (Atheist) and the class gives their assessment of their cases based on what I taught in the previous 6 weeks of our Bible Study.RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/oakwood-wesleyan-church-…
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Immunologist and blood experts Dr. Kelly Kearse joins me and former Catholic, now skeptic, Kevin Nontradicath (aka Kevin O'Connor) to discuss what the scientific truth is regarding the evidence for Eucharistic Miracles.RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/the-scientific-truth-about-eucharist…
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David Spear (aka. The Vulture) returns to debate Atheist David Johnson on the issue of skepticism and what it entails.RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/02/22/skepticism-epistemic-necessity-or-epistemic-nihilism-the-vulture-vs-ss-atheist-david-johnson/
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Hugh Farey joins me to discuss the remaining image formation mechanisms we have yet to cover in the Panel Review series; i) the Artistic Boiling hypothesis, ii) the Bacteria/Fungal hypothesis, iii) Volkringer Patterns and Singlet-Oxygen/Russell Effect theories and finally, iv) Thomas Devins' Rainbow Bodies hypothesis.Plus some interesting ground-br…
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In the final lecture in my Bible Study series on the historical evidence for Jesus' Resurrection, we look at 4 objections skeptics present as Negative evidence supposedly falsifying the Resurrection hypothesis;i) Preservation Problems with errors in the Manuscript Copiesii) Eyewitness Testimony/Memory is Unreliableiii) Gospel Contradictions on Jesu…
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I read Lydia McGrew's emails verifying that what I called my "Bayes-ish" approach is mathematically correct even though the way I describe what I'm calculating is inaccurate. She also responds to the foolish notion that the prior prob for any miracle like the Resurrection is 1/infinity because God can do a miracle in an infinite amount of different…
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Lydia McGrew returns to tackle David Kemball-Cooks objections to her 2009 Blackwell Companion paper on Jesus Resurrection and Bayes Theorem. This is the final round between the two and it went extra long, so enjoy :)RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2024/03/31/the-resurrection-of-christ-debating-skeptic-dr-david-kemball-cook/ & …
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I was invited to guest star on Biblical Unitarian Carlos Xavier's YouTube channel (thehumanjesus.org) to be grilled on my own Trinitarian understanding. Originally, I wanted to do a debate where I had time to prepare properly, but circumstances didn't allow for the debate and thus we did a Grill-a-Christian type format instead which isn't ideal for…
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In the 5th Lecture we finish our assessment of 4 more Skeptical hypotheses ranging from the Illusion/substitution theory, hallucination hypothesis, objective visions/ghosts and finally, the infamous Buddhist notion of Jesus and the Rainbow bodies! All of them fail meaning the Christian Resurrection hypothesis is clearly the best explanation for the…
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Rev. Dr. Sam George is my guest on this podcast. He is the Director of the Global Diaspora Institute at the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center and a Catalyst for the Lausanne Movement. He explores one of the most urgent and transformative realities of our time—migration. As a global expert on migration and diaspora communities, Dr. George unpacks …
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In this episode, the Vulture invites on noted math expert, John Elias, to speak on his research on the various Gematria or Numerical Patterns found in the Bible. We go into detail on methodology and how to distinguish between the more meaningful patterns vs. what John calls the more common and often times fallacious "free-association" patterns as i…
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In Lecture #4, we turn to evaluating 4 skeptical hypotheses from the Resurrection skeptics to try and explain the 9 historical facts (Lecture #3 last week). We cover the following; i) The Original Conspiracy Hypothesisii) The Stolen Body and/or Wrong Tomb Hypothesesiii) The Swoon Hypothesisiv) The Legend (Jesus Mythicist) HypothesisRSM Blog = https…
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Dr. Craig Keener, the "scholar's scholar" is back! Today, we are discussing his take on the Biblical evidence for and against Jesus Resurrection + we have a surprise at the end!RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/dr-craig-keener-jesus-resurrection-the-biblical-evidence/…
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In the final part of this interview with Craig Keener, I ask him about natural theories to try and explain the Resurrection data, miracles theory in General (including modern day resuscitation miracles) and I also get Craig's official take on the Shroud of Turin!!!P.S. Next week, I will post this interview in full which shall include some bonus con…
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In this 3rd Lecture in my Bible Study on the historical evidence for Jesus' Resurrection, I establish the historical facts from the historical sources we learned about last time using the historical criteria of authenticity.RSM Blog (with my Slides) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/oakwood-wesleyan-church-bible-studies-2025/…
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In this inaugural episode of World Class, host Rodney Ragwan, a Global Servant with International Ministries, explores the essence of theology and introduces contextual theology—understanding faith within specific cultural contexts. He emphasizes that while contextual theology acknowledges diverse perspectives, it remains firmly grounded in the unc…
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In this video, I answer a fan request on the Shroud images relationship to Aliens and UFO phenomenon as well as explain why I assign a 50% prior prob to miracles using the Jefferey Conditionalization Formula.RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/shroud-wars-battling-10-hours-of-shroud-skepticism-parts-1-2-with-otangelo-gr…
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Welcome to Round 2 of this special Shroud Wars episode. In Round 1, Otangelo Grasso and I discussed the 10 hour Shroud Skeptics video done on the Shroud by Digital Gnosis (Nathan Ormond) and James Fodor from a Pro-Shroud perspective. In this follow up episode, I discuss with the two Shroud skeptics themselves in a friendly dialogue. There may possi…
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In Part 2 of my Bible Study series on the historical evidence for Jesus' atoning death and Resurrection from the dead, I evaluate and assess 6 categories of relevant historical sources that we will be using in our study. These include; i) The 4 Canonical Gospels & Acts, The 7 'Authentic" Letters of Paul, the Pre-NT Oral traditions (such as the 1st …
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Lydia McGrew and skeptic David Kemball Cook come back for a Round 2 discussion addressing the evidence for Jesus' Resurrection. In the first half of the show, David KC takes over and probes Lydia on 7 contradictions he sees in the Gospels. The Lydia takes charge and challenges David KC on some of his skepticism pertaining to the eyewitness testimon…
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My friend and Christian mentor Dr. Tony Costa was kind enough to invite me as a guest onto his channel to be interviewed about the incredible historical and scientific evidence in favour of the Shroud's authenticity as proof for Jesus' Resurrection.RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/18/is-the…
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In this first class of our Bible Study on the Historical evidence for Jesus' Resurrection at Oakwood Wesleyan Church, I cover the nature of the Resurrection body- is it physical or spiritual/immaterial? RSM Blog (with my Slide Presentation & Sources for free) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/oakwood-wesleyan-church-bible-stud…
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Shroud skeptics, James Fodor and Nathan/Digital Gnosis, have done a 9.5 hour podcast covering their own take on the Shroud of Turin. Otangelo and I give our assessment of it.RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/shroud-wars-battling-10-hours-of-shroud-skepticism-parts-1-2-with-otangelo-grasso-james-fodor-digital-gnosis/…
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Dr. Lydia McGrew will be facing off, in person, against Resurrection skeptic David Kemball Cook in an upcoming Real Seekers show on Jan 18th. In the meantime, Harry Stark alerted me to Lydia's dealing with another skeptic Dick Harrison. The Swedish historian Dick Harrison is wrong about the Census of Quirinius in the Gospel of Luke, according to Ly…
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Jaime comes on to make an impassioned plea to the Real Seekers audience to help promote and support my new Shroud Explorations Bible studies. Beyond the sales pitch, Jaime and I take turns interviewing each other on the significance the Shroud evidence has had on our own faith and in evangelizing others.RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordp…
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Agnostic and Pro-Shroud expert John Loken (as well as fan Orthodox Joker) both requested that I refute the recent media sensation, Cícero Moraes, and his new forensic digital assessment of the Shroud's "3D" quality which he claims rules it out from covering the corpse of Christ.Unfortunately, Pro-Shroud scientists and experts are way ahead of ole' …
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Catholics and Orthodox advocates love to stick it to Protestants by claiming Sola Scriptura inevitably leads to 37,000 different denominations and thus, we are guilty of dividing the Body of Christ. Phil Bair and I expose the fallacious nature of this line of attack!RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2024/08/02/reason-theology-de…
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This is NOT a revenge video. As a true Bible-believing Christian I feel compelled by God to let the "truth have it's day" after Tyler has publicly revealed bits and pieces of the controversy on his own Faith Unaltered channels and I have been censored from giving my own take on the situation entirely on FUA. I truly believe this video will be edify…
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