Mystic-Skeptic Radio: Uncensored/Raiders of the Unknown

In this week's show we are honored to have Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library, Faculty Member Trevan Hatch. He is a graduate of Spertus Institute of Jewish Learning and author of A Stranger in Jerusalem: Seeing Jesus as a Jew. Mystic-Skeptic Radio produces programs such as Uncensored & Raiders of the Unknown. Some of the ongoing series are: Anti-Semitism Rising & Jesus Th...

In this week's show we are honored to have Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library, Faculty Member Trevan Hatch. He is a graduate of Spertust Institute of jewish Learning and author of A Stranger in Jerusalem: Seeing Jesus as a Jew. Mystic-Skeptic Radio produces programs such as Uncensored & Raiders of the Unknown. Some of the ongoing series are: Anti-Semitism Rising & Jesus T...

In 2020 we discussed the "Replacement" or "White Genocide" Conspiracy Theory. This issue is now at the forefront again after the massacre in Buffalo, New York. Dr. Michael Heiser gave us his take on what led the Poway Synagogue Shooter (a devout Christian) to harm a group of Jews at a Chabad Synagogue? We now present this relevant program in which Dr. Heiser discusses the falla...

In this week’s episode we discuss the anachronism of “a Jewish Trinity” proposed by Daniel Boyarin and promoted by Michael Heiser. This idea retrograde into Israelite/biblical theology by these two scholars. We address this by comparing Jewish and Christian approaches to describing or defining God. Both authors point to Cannanite Theology to support their claims. Talmudist Daniel Boyarin in his Je...

In the week's show our guest is Rebecca Moore professor Emerita of Religion at San Diego State University. She is currently Reviews Editor for Nova Religio, the quarterly journal on new and emergent religions published by University of California Press. She is an expert in the history of Christianity, in 2015 she published Women in Christian Traditions, a feminist analysis of the role women h...

Mira Z. Amiras was raised on her mother’s accounts of the Inquisition and Holocaust, and her father’s tales of the Hebrew aleph bet letters and their role in the creation of the universe. Mira Amiras has taught Jewish mysticism, magic, and folklore along with many other topics in Jewish and Islamic Studies and the anthropology of religion. She founded the Middle East Studies Program at San Jose St...

In this week's show our guest is Rabbi Mike Harvey. He is an Author, Podcaster, Chaplain, PhD Student, Jewish Studies Scholar. Ordained by the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in 2015, Rabbi Harvey earned a Master’s degree in Hebrew Letters from Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion and a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Boston University. Throug...

In this week's show our guest is Rabbi Dr. Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez   author of Reimagining Boundaries: Jewish and Christian Identity in Late Antiquity. In the eighth century, a debate between Sergius the Stylite and a Jew occurred. The discussion was conveniently titled, Debate against a Jew . It records arguments about the relevance of biblical texts to Christians and the Jewish peopl...

In this week’s show we feature  Grace Kohn in celebration of World Autism Day. Grace Kohn is an author and mother of a person with Autism. She shares her metamorphosis as a result of doing everything in her power to help her daughter, Julianne, heal. She is the author of Children on Autumn Autism-Here on Purpose a book of teachings. As an autism advocate Grace shares how to develop a supportive lo...

In this conversation we discuss the way the death by suicide of a sibling impacted his brother Rafael and the emotional, spiritual and religious challenges connected to this tragedy. Our guest is a an American born citizen of the State of Israel who shares about his experience and the way his family supported each other through their grief and complex existential questions about the loss of their...

In this week's  edition of Mystic-Skeptic we are honored to feature an interview with Natalie Khawam the attorney for Vanessa Guillen’s family who passed federal legislation to protect survivors of harassment and sexual assault in the military.  Military sexual trauma as defined by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, entails military sexual trauma experiences of sexual assault,...

In this week’s show we present an interview of the guest judges of Cosplay contest at Brazcon Teen Comic Convention. Organized by the Brazoria County Library System this event included sessions and activities based on comic books, graphic novels, manga, anime, and popular fiction. The participants were judged in the following criteria: Creativity, time and effort and out of the ordinary. During ev...

In this week's show our guest is Greg Kelso host of the Con Hour. A podcast for those who are interested in Conventions and like/love to attend panels and can't always go to the Cons. On their show they interview Artists, Actors, Authors, Musicians and Cosplayers.  Greg is an author and shares the podcast hosting with Aimee and C.J. for more information visit: https://www.facebook.com/gr...

In this week’s show we are honored to have again our expert on scientific knowledge and inquiry, Brian Dunning. The host of “Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Media” he shares about how conspiracy shows are supporting flawed thinking for people who already have preconceived notions about some topics.  We  discuss Alex Jones' influence as many similar conspiracy theorists and “entertainers” h...

In this week's show we discuss Comedian Tim Dillon's recent interview with Joe Rogan on his podcast. During the conversation influential Spotify podcaster and social commentator Joe Rogan made the following statement "most of his (Alex Jones') predictions have come true..." Sam Granger a fan of Rogan and Joe Balog our religion and spirituality commentator and I discuss the...

In this week's show yours truly is interviewed by the host of Love and Loss Podcast Joy Van Staalduinen. Our topic Pediatric Chaplaincy and Bereavement Support addresses the needs of those who have experienced death of a child/miscarriage or are in the process of supporting someone who is dying. I am currently spearheading a grief guidance project with his wife Jodie Gonzalez, LCSW to provide...

In this week's show we discuss the concept of Jesus being a Necromancer. Our discussion of early Christianity, Greco-Roman culture and Gnosticism with Robert Conner continues. He is the author of Resurrection or Ghost Story? available online. During our program we discuss his research and the different types of ghosts stories in the ancient world. He shares how modern ghost stories are influe...

In this week's show we discuss the concept of Jesus being a Necromancer. Our discussion of early Christianity, Greco-Roman culture and Gnosticism with Robert Conner continues. He is the author of Resurrection or Ghost Story? available online. During our program we discuss his research and the different types of ghosts stories in the ancient world. He shares how modern ghost stories are influe...

In this week's show discuss the religious case for Vegetarianism/Veganism with a friend of the show Joe Balog. Mystic-Skeptic Radio produces programs such as Uncensored & Raiders of the Unknown. Some of the ongoing series are: Anti-Semitism Rising & Jesus The Israelite (all available on our YouTube channels). In the past 10 seasons we have featured academics (Amy Jill Levine) , presid...

In this interview with researcher Robert Conner we discuss the following discovery: While cataloging material in the library of the monastery of Mar Saba in 1958, Morton Smith discovered a quotation from a letter of Clement of Alexandria copied in the end pages of a 17th century collection of the letters of Ignatius. After more than a decade of collaborative analysis of the find, Smith published h...

In this weeks's show we interview Chaplain Tom Saunders about the historical Jesus and discuss alternative views on prophecies considered to be related to him. We also address some of the  halachic (concerning Jewish Law) challenges to the theological concept that Jesus kept the Torah perfectly. Did Jesus partake in the sacrificial system, did he eat the passover lamb, did he obeyed his paren...

2020 Interview of Rabbi Asher Meza in which he describes historical, halachic (concerning Jewish Law) and messianic trends in Judaism. He also considers the impact of Jesus on the Jewish community and his place in Jewish history. Mystic-Skeptic Radio produces programs such as Uncensored & Raiders of the Unknown. Some of the ongoing series are: Anti-Semitism Rising & Jesus The Israelite (al...

John Dominic Crossan joins our discussion as we unravel the origins of anti-Semitism in the Christian Church. Mystic-Skeptic Radio produces programs such as Uncensored & Raiders of the Unknown. Some of the ongoing series are: Anti-Semitism Rising & Jesus The Israelite (all available on our YouTube channels). In the past 10 seasons we have featured academics (Amy Jill Levine) , presidential...

Frank Morris and I discuss our new series and some of the theological challenges Christianity creates by its brand of sectarian Judaism as it originally was intended to be. Mystic-Skeptic Radio produces programs such as Uncensored & Raiders of the Unknown. Some of the ongoing series are: Anti-Semitism Rising & Jesus The Israelite (all available on our YouTube channels). In the past 10 seas...

Mystic-Skeptic Radio Show/Podcast was honored to be part of COMICPALOOZA Houston this year. We interviewed participants/guests and attended celebrity panels. We include our interviews individually for you to enjoy. The 501st Legion is a worldwide Star Wars costuming organization comprised of and operated by Star Wars fans. While it is not sponsored by Lucasfilm Ltd., it is Lucasfilm's preferr...