6/11. 7/11. 8/11. Is it that time of the year again already? I can't let another 9/11 pass us by without something new to offer. And so, my classic interviews involving Bob Knodel, David Weiss, Robbie Davidson, and Rick Hummer has been dusted off to include a new...
A whopping four years have passed since the publication of my monumental article in July of 2019, though really, it's more of a novella. Where has the time gone? I can still recall the hot summer day lounging alongside Dordogne River in France when I received the...
I HUNG up the phone with Adam Fink of Parable of the Vineyard and went straight for the writer’s desk, feverishly unloading the congestion of sentences onto the electronic page before they floated off into the forever oblivion. That was in the dawning hours of 2020....
HAS it been four years since the original release of ‘The Zen Garcia Story?’ And here I was, gearing up for a sizable expansion of our interivews. Blame it on Covid, I guess. The world changed overnight and duty called. I had trained for that moment and my orders had...
The following script derives from my disbanded book anthology series, The Unexpected Cosmology, which sought to chronicle the lives of flat earthists and also those within the Torah community. Hours upon hours of interviews were recorded. It was truly a project of...
The following script derives from my disbanded book anthology series, The Unexpected Cosmology, which sought to chronicle the lives of flat earthists and also those within the Torah community. Hours upon hours of interviews were recorded. It was truly a project of...
IMAGINING Jeran Campanella walking the center aisle of his local parish dressed in a white alb with a cincture tied at the waist would be incredibly difficult to do—particularly for those of us who know him now. The personality behind YouTube channels...
3 IF HOUSES could walk, then Laini Inivale would be a tower built of rebar and brick. In a crowded room, he's rather difficult to miss. This is the story about the year we met. On the 26th of October, 2016, nearly 5,000 athletes gathered in Perth, Australia, to...
1 THE TALL, DARK, AND HANDSOME standing on her doorstep was the very tall, dark, and handsome from her dream—quite literally. To put it in slightly other terms, she had dreamed of this very scenario earlier that morning. Even his clothes were indistinguishable. Karen...
SEPTEMBER | Rick Hummer IF THE MEDIA has its way, and believe me, they’ll try, then the end of the world will be met with sensationalism. Tuesday was a practice run. As the sun dawned over America’s eastern shoreline on the eleventh of September, 2001, New York...
1 FROM THAT DAY FORWARD, SHELLEY LEWIS knew exactly what she was going to do with her life. Ronald Reagan was still president when astronaut Alan B. Shepard walked into the room. The thirteen year-old was literally star struck. And she had good reason to be. After...
1 HE WAS A MARTIAL ARTIST AND A POET, and then finally one day in the spring of 1992 it occurred to twenty-one year old Zen Garcia that he was trapped behind four walls too many, and the view through his window was lacking. After abandoning church as a teenager he...
1 SEVERAL CONSIDERATIONS ARE PROBABLY in order as to why I distinctly recall the space shuttle Challenger disaster in real time—specifically the manner in which its memory has always been recollected. It’s literally burned into my mind. On the 28th of January, 1986 I...
For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Matthew 12:34 17 THE BEGINNING IS THE END I HAVE A CONFESSION TO MAKE. I’ve always wanted to be interviewed by Patricia Steere. Ever since coming over to the flat earth community in its toddler...
“Their weapons were ready, the mockers were trained, the prowlers were waiting.” Tom Gordon, Space Prison. 1 ONCE THE DEVIL “ROB SKIBA IS THE DEVIL,” my friend said. Bunyan. For the remainder of this article, that’s what we’ll call him—Bunyan (though I...