Backstory on the Shroud of Turin

For this week I will be interviewing Russ Breault who has been researching and lecturing on The Shroud of Turin for over 30 years. His highly acclaimed presentation known as Shroud Encounter makes use of over 200 superb images and unfolds like a CSI investigation. He has presented to hundreds of audiences from New York to Hawaii. College and university presentations include Duke, Johns Hopkins, Pe...

Matt has been a native of Georgian for 57 years and graduated from UGA in 1988 with a BBA in entrepreneurship. He has worked in several different industries, including Hospital Administration at Newnan Hospital and as a Financial Consultant for Synovus, The Robinson - Humphrey Co., and Smith Barney. He is a member of the Trinity Church in Georgia, a Christian apologist (He's Jesus' lawyer), and an...

Welcome to my interview with Barrie Schwortz. He was the Official Documenting Photographer for the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP), the team that conducted the first in-depth scientific examination of the Shroud in 1978. Today, he plays an influential role in Shroud research and education as the editor and founder of the internationally recognized Shroud of Turin Website (www.shroud.com),...

Justin Robinson BA (Hons), MA is a historian working in the coin industry. He is a fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society and a member of the British Numismatic Society. He is a regular contributor to Coin News, the UKs biggest selling coin magazine. He also writes for the Coins and History Foundation, which shares the fascinating stories behind some of the world’s most important coins and medals....

Thomas McAvoy received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1961. He received a Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University in 1964. He taught chemical engineering for 40 years, first at the University of Massachusetts (1964-1980) and then at the University of Maryland (1980-2004). Tom is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland. He...

For this weeks episode I am interviewing Dr. Kelly Kearse who has an MS in Biology: Virginia Commonwealth University, Ph. D. In Immunology: University of Kentucky. While also pursuing postdoctoral work in Biochemistry: Johns Hopkins and postdoctoral work in Immunology: National Cancer Institute, NIH. He is also the principal Investigator in Immunology: Experimental Immunology Branch, NIH and the i...

David Windsor Rolfe is a British Academy Award-winning producer and director with a long career in British television and film. After graduating from the London Film School in 1971 he cut his teeth making specialized sequences within major films like The Great Gatsby (Redford and Farrow) for Paramount and other major distributors and then documentaries around the world charting subjects as diverse...

Joseph Marino is one of the preeminent researchers and a long-term Sindonologist on the Shroud of Turin since the 1970s. He has a BA in theological studies from St. Louis University and currently works at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Joseph Marino is also an author, and his newest novel is titled, The 1988 RC-14 Dating of the Shroud of Turin, A stunning expose. Subscribe to channel to...

For this weeks episode Russ Breault is back on the podcast to talk about his most recent paper on "Historical References on the Turin Shroud from the Third through Thirteenth Centuries". Russ Breault has been researching and lecturing on  The   Shroud of Turin  for over 30 years. His highly acclaimed presentation known as  Shroud Encounter  makes use of over 200 superb ima...

For this weeks episode we are joined by Pam Moon, who is a researcher on the Shroud of Turin and the Holy Mandylion. Her work can be found in numerous papers and her latest appearance on the documentary by David Rolfe titled Who Can He Be. Find out more on Pam Moon by heading to: https://independent.academia.edu/PamMoon1 and the British Society for the Turin Shroud at:https://bstsnewsletter.com/ S...

In this episode of the Backstory of the Shroud of Turin, I am interviewing Brenda Benton a public speaker on the Turin Shroud. She has been involved with the Turin Shroud since 1978, just weeks before her only child died. When her husband Stuart saw David Rolfe’s film, “The Silent Witness.” (1978) This film about the Turin Shroud has had a powerful impact on the rest of our lives. Thirty-three yea...

On this episode with Andrew R. Casper is Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio where he specializes in late sixteenth and seventeenth-century religious imagery in Italy. His research on the Shroud of Turin has resulted in numerous works of scholarship, most notably his book  An Artful Relic: The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Ital...

On this weeks episode I am honored to have a conversation with Dr. Cheryl White   a professor of history at Louisiana State University at Shreveport. In university her major fields of interests were medieval and early modern Europe, the history of Christianity, local and regional history, historical folklore and the Shroud of Turin and religious relics. She is now the author of eight historic...

In this weeks episode I am interviewing Jack Markwardt who majored in history and languages at Rutgers University and received his Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from Albany Law School where he had served as an editor and author of the Law Review. He has studied the Shroud of Turin for more than thirty-five years, written many articles on the subject, and presented a number of scholarly papers to...

Myra Kahn Adams is a political and religious writer with over a decade of numerous national credits, starting in 2010. Since Jan. 2021, she has been an op-ed contributor to The Hill and RealClearPolitics since 2018. She was a National Review contributor from 2014 to 2018. Myra is also co-founder and executive dire...

Welcome to this weeks episode of the Backstory on the Shroud of Turin Podcast. This week I am interviewing Brian Hyland who is an associate curator of medieval manuscripts at the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C. Brian Hyland has a B.A. in history from the University of Maryland and a masters degree in history from the University of Chicago. Listen to learn more about Brian Hyland. Subscribe...

Welcome to my interview with Robert Siefker, an engineer and an expert on the Shroud of Turin; where we talk about Siefker’s work with the Shroud of Turin and The Holy Fire. Siefker was brought up in California and attended UCLA on a Navy scholarship with a major in engineering. After his nearly five years of Naval service he worked in the software industry eventually serving as a VP for two softw...

For this week I will be interviewing Russ Breault who has been researching and lecturing on  The   Shroud of Turin  for over 30 years. His highly acclaimed presentation known as  Shroud Encounter  makes use of over 200 superb images and unfolds like a  CSI investigation . He has presented to hundreds of audiences from New York to Hawaii. College and university pr...

For this weeks episode I am joined by Robert A. Rucker (Bob) who earned an MS degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Michigan. He has worked for 38 years in the nuclear industry doing nuclear reactor design, criticality safety for nuclear fuel production, and nondestructive testing (NDT) or assay (NDA) of fissile material in containers.  He published 41 documents...

On this weeks episode I am interviewing a leading expert in the Shroud of Turin Jim Bertrand. He began teaching high school science in 1981, obtained his Master’s Degree in Education in 1987, and taught high school science for 39 years. He is now retired, working full time giving Shroud presentations. He and his wife have been married for 37 years and have 6 children. They are members of St. Peter...

This weeks podcast features Joseph Marino. He's one of the preeminent researchers on the Shroud of Turin, we'll be talking about the most recent book he just published, and it's titled, The 1988 RC-14 Dating of the Shroud of Turin, A stunning expose . And I must say this, it's a fascinating read, there's some interesting politics in here, and I look forward to talking about that. If you are intere...

Welcome to my interview with Barrie Schwortz. He was the Official Documenting Photographer for the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP), the team that conducted the first in-depth scientific examination of the Shroud in 1978. Today, he plays an influential role in Shroud research and education as the editor and founder of the internationally recognized Shroud of Turin Website (www.shroud.com),...