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The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven
''The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven: A True Story'' is a best-selling 2010 Christian book that purported to tell the story of Alex Malarkey's experiences in heaven after a traffic accident in 2004. It was published by Tyndale House Publishers in 2010. Alex's father Kevin Malarkey is credited as a co-author along with Alex, although Kevin holds sole copyright. Alex admitted in writing the story was made up and he never went to heaven. The book has been pulled since. The book was a commercial success, selling over a million copies. It was adapted into a television film in March 2010. Since publication, Alex Malarkey and his mother Beth have disavowed the book. Alex commented online in 2011 that it was "one of the most deceptive books ever",Alex Malarkey, as quoted by Beth Malarkey as quoted by and wrote an extensive repudiation in an open letter to Christian bookstores in 2015, describing his near-death experience as a fabrication. As a result, Tyndale House removed the book f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyndale House Publishers
Tyndale House is a Christian publisher in Carol Stream, Illinois. History Tyndale was founded in 1962 by Kenneth N. Taylor in order to publish his paraphrase of the Epistles, which he had composed while commuting to work at Moody Press in Chicago.Ken Walker"Living Bible Creator Dies But Ken Taylor's legacy is even larger", 7/13/2005, Christianity Today. The book appeared under the title ''Living Letters'', and received a television endorsement from Billy Graham. This ensured the book's great success, and in 1971 Tyndale published Taylor's complete ''Living Bible''. Taylor named the company after William Tyndale, whose English translation of the New Testament was first printed in 1526. After Kenneth Taylor retired, his son, Mark D. Taylor, became the CEO. In 2021, Scott Mathews became the newest CEO. During the first nine years of Tyndale's history, Kenneth N. Taylor continued paraphrasing the text of the Bible. Living Letters was followed by ''Living Prophecies'' (1965) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Research Institute
The Christian Research Institute (CRI) is an evangelical Christian apologetics ministry. It was established in October 1960 in the state of New Jersey by Walter Martin (1928–1989). In 1974, Martin relocated the ministry to San Juan Capistrano, California. The ministry's office was relocated in the 1990s near Rancho Santa Margarita. In 2005, the organization moved to its present location in Charlotte, North Carolina. Background The establishment of CRI in 1960 is closely linked to Walter Martin. It represents one of the pioneering organizations in what is called the Christian countercult movement, but also relates to the wider history of Evangelical Christian apologetics in the mid-twentieth century. Martin is considered one of the first full-time career apologists to have specialized in Christian countercult apologetics. In 1949, Martin began his forays into the theological analysis of various groups, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science, Mormonism and Spiritualism. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerry Packer
Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer (17 December 1937 – 26 December 2005) was an Australian media tycoon, and was considered one of Australia's most powerful media proprietors of the twentieth century. The Packer family company owned a controlling interest in both the Nine Network and the publishing company Australian Consolidated Press, which were later merged to form Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL). Outside Australia, Packer was best known for founding World Series Cricket. At the time of his death, he was the richest and one of the most influential men in Australia. In 2004, ''Business Review Weekly'' magazine estimated Packer's net worth at . Early life Kerry Packer was born on 17 December 1937 in Sydney, Australia. His father was Sir Frank Packer, an Australian media proprietor who controlled Australian Consolidated Press and the Nine Network. His mother, Gretel Bullmore, was the daughter of Herbert Bullmore, the Scottish rugby union player. He had an older brother, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Reynolds Case
Pam Reynolds Lowery (1956 – May 22, 2010), from Atlanta, Georgia, was an American singer-songwriter. In 1991, at the age of 35, she stated that she had a near-death experience (NDE) during a brain operation performed by Robert F. Spetzler at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Reynolds was under close medical monitoring during the entire operation. During part of the operation she had no brain-wave activity and no blood flowing in her brain, which rendered her clinically dead. She claimed to have made several observations during the procedure which later medical personnel reported to be accurate. Within the field of near-death studies and among those who believe in life after death, the case has been cited as well-documented and significant with many proponents considering it to be evidence of the survival of consciousness after death. However, an anesthesiologist who examined the case offered anesthesia awareness as a more prosaic and conventional explanation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Religious Hoaxes
This is a list of hoaxes related to religion. In Christianity * Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ – 1908 book by American preacher Levi H. Dowling who claimed to have transcribed the text from the akashic records, a purported compendium of mystical knowledge supposedly encoded in a non-physical plane of existence. *Book of Jasher – the name of a lost book mentioned several times in the Bible, which was subject to at least two high-profile forgeries in the 18th and 19th century. *Gospel of Josephus – 1927 forgery attributed to Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, actually created by Italian writer Luigi Moccia to raise publicity for one of his novels.' *Holy Fire – miracle alleged by Orthodox Christians to occur every year at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Great Saturday. First mentioned in the 8th century. Later shown to be man-made. * Letter of Benan – an alleged translation of a 5th-century Coptic papyrus containing a description by an Egyptian phys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Storm (author)
''For the film, television director and actor, see Howard Storm (director)'' Howard Storm (born October 26, 1946) is an American Christian minister, writer, and painter. He is a former professor and chairman of the art department at Northern Kentucky University. In 2000, he authored ''My Descent Into Death'', which chronicles his near-death experience. Storm's near-death experience has been cited in literature on near-death studies, and his book has garnered endorsement by gothic fiction writer Anne Rice before it was acquired by Doubleday (publisher), Doubleday and republished in 2005. Storm has retold his story on NBC's ''Today (NBC program), Today Show'', ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'',Howard Storm, ''My descent into death: and the message of love which brought me back'', London: Claireview, 2000, front end leaf. ''48 Hours (TV series), 48 Hours'', ''Discovery Channel'' and ''Coast to Coast AM''.Former atheist to tell how near-death changed life: Author, missionary says he was delive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eben Alexander (author)
Eben Alexander III (born December 11, 1953) is an American neurosurgeon and author. His book '' Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife'' (2012) describes his near-death experience that happened in 2008 under medically-induced coma when treated for meningitis. He asserts that the coma resulted in brain death, that consciousness is not only a product of the brain and that this permits access to an afterlife. Alexander has also authored follow-up books. Early life and education Alexander was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was adopted by Eben Alexander Jr and his wife Elizabeth West Alexander and raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with three siblings. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (A.B., 1975), and the Duke University School of Medicine (M.D., 1980). Medical career Alexander has taught and had appointments at Duke University Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, University of Massachusett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
23 Minutes In Hell
''23 Minutes in Hell'' is a personal book written by Protestantism, Protestant Christians, Christian Bill Wiese and published in 2006. The book recounts what the author claims were his experiences in Hell in Christian beliefs, Hell in 1998. The book and the underlying story within it are the topic of a series of speaking tours given by Wiese, predominantly to Protestant churches and other Christian organizations. He says his visits to Hell were out-of-body experiences that were also Vision (spirituality), visions, one lasting 23 minutes and the other 10 seconds. Description Wiese states that he had been a Christian since 1970, but had never studied Hell before his experiences on the night of November 22, 1998. According to the book, Wiese, then a real estate broker, found himself in a cell approximately high and by in area, where there were two foul-smelling beasts, personifications of evil and terror, who spoke in a blasphemous language. Wiese says that the creatures had streng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GetPocket
Pocket, previously known as Read It Later, is a social bookmarking service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. Released in 2007, the service was originally only for desktop and laptop computers, and is now available for macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Kobo eReaders, and web browsers. History Pocket was introduced in August 2007 as a Mozilla Firefox browser extension named Read It Later by Nathan (Nate) Weiner. Once his product was used by millions of people, he moved his office to Silicon Valley and four other people joined the Read It Later team. Weiner's intention was to have the application be like a TiVo for web content and giving users access to that content on any device. Read It Later obtained venture capital investments of US$2.5 million in 2011 and $5.0 million in 2012. The 2011 funding came from Foundation Capital, Baseline Ventures, Google Ventures, Founder Collective and unnamed angel investors. The company rejected an acqui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advance Against Royalties
In the field of intellectual property licensing, an advance against royalties is a payment made by the licensee to the licensor at the start of the period of licensing (usually immediately upon contract, or on delivery of the property being licensed) which is to be offset against future royalty payments. It is also known as a ''guaranteed minimum royalty payment''. For example, a book's author may sell a license to a publisher in return for 5% royalties on sales of the book and a $5,000 advance against those royalties. In this case, the author would immediately receive the $5,000, and royalty payments would be withheld until $5000 in royalties already paid had been earned — that is, until the publisher's takings from selling copies of the book reached $100,000; after that point the 5% royalty would be paid on any additional sales. In some business areas (e.g. film production), it is common practice for the licensee to demand repayment of any advance that is not covered by r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slate (magazine)
''Slate'' is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States. It was created in 1996 by former '' New Republic'' editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN. In 2004, it was purchased by The Washington Post Company (later renamed the Graham Holdings Company), and since 2008 has been managed by The Slate Group, an online publishing entity created by Graham Holdings. ''Slate'' is based in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C. ''Slate'', which is updated throughout the day, covers politics, arts and culture, sports, and news. According to its former editor-in-chief Julia Turner, the magazine is "not fundamentally a breaking news source", but rather aimed at helping readers to "analyze and understand and interpret the world" with witty and entertaining writing. As of mid-2015, it publishes about 1,500 stories per month. A French version, ''slate.fr'', was launched in February 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thom S
The surname Thom is of Scottish origin, from the city of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Angus, and is a sept of the Clan MacThomas. Thom is also a first name variant of the abbreviation " Tom" of " Thomas" that holds the "h". People with the surname * Alexander Thom (other), multiple people * Andreas Thom (b. 1965), former German football player * Bing Thom (b. 1940), Canadian architect * Cameron E. Thom (1825–1915), early settler in California, Confederate officer and lawyer * Charles Thom (1872–1956), US microbiologist and mycologist with the standard author abbreviation "Thom" * Cristy Thom (b. 1971), American model, actress and artist * Graeme Thom (born 1967), Zimbabwean cricketer * H. B. Thom (c. 1905–1983), South African rector and Chancellor of the Stellenbosch University * James Thom (other), multiple people * Jess Thom (b. 1980), English comedian * John Thom (soldier) (1891–1941), British lieutenant-colonel, judge and politician * John H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
