A View from the Bunker

WHAT HAPPENS when the dead don’t stay that way? And is that even possible? Our monthly Iron and Myth roundtable tackles the topic of the unquiet dead—revenants, ghouls, zombies, vampires, ghosts, and more. Do the dead come back? If so, how do we deal with it? We’re joined by Brian Godawa ( www. Godawa.com ), author of the new novel Cruel Logic, Doug Van Dorn ( www.douglasvandorn.com ), author of G...

A NEW AGE teaching very much like sorcery is making its way into Christian churches. Our guest this week is the author of a book that pulls no punches in calling out this doctrine. Jon Clash ( www.godtrepreneur.com ) discusses his book The Law of Attraction: A Gateway Drug to Spiritual Heroin. Jon explains what the Law of Attraction is, the similar teachings corrupting Christians under a variety o...

COULD YOU defend your worldview as if your worldview depended on it? What if your life actually DID depend on it? Award-winning screenwriter and bestselling author Brian Godawa ( www.godawa.com ) joins us to discuss his new novel, the “theological thriller” Cruel Logic: The Philosopher Killer. The plot features a brilliant university professor—a ruthless killer who captures distinguished college p...

MUSIC HAS power. It can inspire, and it can seduce. And for those with the gift of making music, it can be a test and a trap. Two world-class musicians join us this week who gave up careers as secular musicians to share the gospel of Jesus Christ: Caspar McCloud ( casparmccloudmusic.com ), pastor of the Upper Room Fellowship in Ball Ground, Georgia ( theupperroomfellowship.org ), and Renae Truex (...

IS IT possible for a story to literally scare the Hell out of you? Every era has had its stories of monsters, demons, and gods. Those tales can teach some supernatural truth—sometimes by accident. That’s not to say that we can find the gospel in every tale of horror; as Brian Godawa ( www. Godawa.com ), author of the forthcoming novel Cruel Logic, observes, they are “reflections through a distorte...

IT’S TRUE—if you want to do archaeology in Israel, you go into the field with a shovel in one hand and a Bible in the other.  Dr. Mike Freikman of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem joins us this week to discuss his current excavation at Tell Beit Mirsim. This site, located about 12-1/2 miles southwest of Hebron, was excavated more than 90 years ago by one of the giants of biblical archaeology, Wi...

A GROWING BODY of evidence links the giants of the pre-Flood world with ancient Canaan and the mysterious island of Sardinia off the west coast of Italy.  Author, filmmaker, and explorer Timothy Alberino ( www.timothyalberino.com ), who is our special guest on our 2024 tour of Israel, joins us to discuss the hundreds of giants’ tombs on Sardinia. They are used to this day in a rite of passage trad...

WERE THE fertility goddesses of the ancient world the women who’d been taken as wives by the rebel Watchers? Michael Gagliardi, author of Devil Take the Hindmost ( www.amzn.to/3Y1OcQw ), a terrifying account of his childhood as the son of a mother possessed by demons, joins us to discuss an aspect of the pre-Flood world most of us have never considered: Is it possible the women venerated as fertil...

IT IS possible to be delivered from addiction so severe that not only do you lose your family, but you’re convinced that you are the Messiah in the flesh.  Barbara Joan Briggs discusses her book  Love and Renewal of the Heart and Mind , an honest, revealing, and inspiring account of how Jesus Christ saved her from a life of mental illness, hearing voices from the unseen realm that encouraged her t...

IS IT possible to literally scare the hell out of someone? Joining us for our monthly Iron and Myth round table are award-winning screenwriter and best-selling author Brian Godawa ( Godawa.com ), Pastor Doug Van Dorn ( DouglasVanDorn.com ), author of Giants: Sons of the Gods, and Director of the Institute of Biblical Anthropology Dr. Judd Burton ( BurtonBeyond.net ), author of Interview With the G...

GOTH CULTURE is dark. So, how is it even possible for music described as “Christian Goth” to be a thing, much less spread the gospel of Jesus Christ? Musician and author Trace Taylor joins us to discuss the unique musical styles she employs to share the hope we have in Jesus, especially her genre-busting single Parousia , which has earned praise from secular media like Zero Tolerance magazine, a m...

OFFICIAL DISCLOSURE is back in the news as a “whistleblower” has come forward with claims of alien spacecraft recovered by the US military. We’ve heard this before. Actual proof is non-existent, and, as with every major UFO/UAP “disclosure” since Roswell in 1947, the military-intelligence complex has fingerprints all over it. So, to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the Roswell incident, we brin...

ANCIENT ALIENS, cosmic conspiracies, and a final battle for the fate of humanity. It's like the Avengers meets the Book of Revelation.  That’s the elevator pitch for the new novel  The Regenesis Code: The Cosmic Conspiracy Book 1 . Co-authors  Dr. Doug Hamp  and filmmaker Morné Theunissen join us to discuss the inspiration for a fresh take on the end of days—a story that includes Doug’s discovery...

JESUS BASED his ministry in a part of Israel that was known as a hotbed of supernatural activity for thousands of years—a place that features not one, but three megalithic sites described as “wheels of the giants.” Why did he do it? What was special about the Upper Galilee and Golan Heights—the ancient kingdom of Bashan, a name that literally means “place of the serpent”? Brian Godawa , award-winn...

WHAT DOES pickleball have to do with living life as a follower of Jesus Christ? Surprisingly, more than you’d think. Stacy Lynn Harp , Christian therapist and host of  Bible News Radio , joins us to discuss her book  Pickleball Faith: Inspiration On and Off the Court . Stacy explains how what appeared to be a means to connect with others in her adopted home state of Tennessee became a series of li...

WHERE JESUS performed his miracles is often just as important as the miracles themselves.  Case in point: The only miracle other than the Resurrection to appear in all four gospels is the feeding of the 5,000. The Bible tells us this occurred in a desolate area near Bethsaida, the hometown of the apostles Peter, Andrew, and Philip.  Doug Van Dorn , author of Giants: Sons of the Gods, and Director...

TWO THOUSAND years ago, the city of Ephesus was dominated by the cult of Artemis. Her temple was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and the silversmiths who made images of the goddess started a riot because Paul’s preaching cut into their business. Stephan Caraway, co-founder of Fig Tree Watchers Ministries , joins us to discuss a new article he’s posted as part of a series on the Book...

ONE OF THE difficulties in understanding the spirit realm is that New Testament authors, especially Paul, used the same Greek terms for both earthly and heavenly beings. So, how do we understand terms like thrones, dominions, rulers, authorities, principalities, and powers? To borrow another phrase from Paul, as though we’re looking into a mirror in a darkened room. Joining us for our monthly Iron...

NEARLY EVERY culture on Earth features a creation account that includes heavenly voice speaking into the human world and creating the algorithms of human civilization. Ali Siadatan, creator of Think Again Productions , joins us to discuss the fundamental differences between the creation accounts of the pagan world and the story contained in the Bible—and to explain why the modern UFO phenomenon is...

IT COULD BE the most controversial passage in the Bible: The Nephilim [or giants] were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. (Gen 6:4, ESV) Scholars and theologians have argued over that verse for thousands of years. While scholars have come t...

HUMANITY IS CAUGHT in a life-and-death struggle with forces beyond our comprehension. And powerful political and religious groups appear to be siding with this inhuman enemy. Daniel Holdings, writer of the new Steve Quayle documentary Lies of Men and Gods, discusses this supernatural conspiracy thousands of years in the making.

What’s the difference between angels, cherubim, and seraphim? Who are the Watchers, and can a messenger angel, a malak, be promoted to the rank of Watcher? We’re joined for our monthly Iron and Myth roundtable by  Brian Godawa , award-winning screenwriter and best-selling author; Pastor  Doug Van Dorn , author of Giants: Sons of the Gods and The Angel of the LORD; and Director of the Institute of...

SOMEONE OR some group has figured out a process for abducting and disposing of more than a hundred healthy young men in the U.S., U.K., and Europe over the last twenty years.  The victims are found in bodies of water, but not drowned, and many were found with a smiley face symbol painted or carved on a surface nearby.  William Ramsey , producer/director of the documentary The Smiley Face Killers,...

MORE PEOPLE believe in ET than in the God of the Bible. We wish that was a joke.  Josh Peck , co-author with Derek of  The Day the Earth Stands Still , explains why a couple of Christian researchers and authors spent half a year writing a book about UFOs and “alien” abduction.

OUR GUEST this week is a longtime UFO investigator who has concluded, after decades of research, that the “UFO phenomenon does not constitute conclusive evidence of actual physical ET visitations by physical extraterrestrial biological entities piloting or maneuvering physical extraterrestrial spacecraft of any kind.” Norio Hayakawa, who’s featured in the film Alien Intrusion, joins us to explain...