Michael L. Brown (born March 16, 1955) is an American

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, author, apologist, and proponent of

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, and the

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. His nationally syndicated radio show, ''The Line of Fire'', airs throughout the United States. He contributes articles to the Christian news platform The Stream as well as to the news site

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, and serves as head of the Coalition of Conscience, a Christian organization in the

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area. He holds a Ph.D in Near Eastern Languages and Literature from

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Career

Academic

Michael L. Brown (PhD,

) is president and professor of

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at FIRE School of Ministry in

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. He has also served as visiting professor of

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and

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Jewish apologetics Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

at Fuller Theological Seminary, School of World Mission as well as several other seminaries.

His own organizations

Between 1996 and 2000 he was one of the leaders in the

Brownsville Revival The Brownsville Revival (also known as the Pensacola Outpouring) was a widely reported Christian revival within the Pentecostal movement that began on Father's Day June 18, 1995, at Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida. Characteristic ...

, a

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that began on June 18, 1995, at the Brownsville Assembly of God church in

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. In 2000, though, the board removed him from the movement. In 2001 he started the FIRE School of Ministry, a Christian leadership training institute that is heavily influenced by the revival movement that Brown was removed from. In 2005 Brown founded another revivalist organization called ICN Ministries. The intent of the organization is to spread the revivalist message to places like Israel, other Christian organizations, and other places where Brown has influence.

Controversy

In the past Brown has been criticized in Charlotte by the local

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community for holding a rally in protest of their 2009 Charlotte Pride Festival. The

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has profiled him for his promotion of "junk science" on topics connected to

sexual orientation Sexual orientation is an enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender. These attractions are generall ...

, such as in his regular claims that, rather than being genetic, homosexuality is caused by

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, as well as his support for

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. In September 2012, the organization named him in their list of "30 New Activists Heading Up the Radical Right." In March 2014, Brown traveled to Peru to oppose the legalization of

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there. He has also defended Uganda's criminalization of homosexuality. He has said gay people should be treated with respect and dignity. Brown was criticized for citing the

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website Stormfront in an article "asking whether it was time for another Jesus Movement among Jewish millennials". He apologized, saying he was not aware what the site was.

Publications

*''Jezebel's War With America'' (2019) *''Hyper-Grace : Exposing the Dangers of the Modern Grace Message'' (2014) *''The Real Kosher Jesus: Revealing the Mysteries of the Hidden Messiah'' (2012) *''60 Questions Christians Ask About Jewish Beliefs and Practices'' (2011) *''A Queer Thing Happened to America: And What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been'' (2011) * *# *# *# *# *# *''It's Time to Rock the Boat'' (1993) *''How Saved Are We?'' (1990) *''Go And Sin No More: A Call To Holiness'' (1999) *''Israel's Divine Healer'' (1995) *''A Time For Holy Fire: Preparing the Way for Divine Visitation'' (2008) *''What Do Jewish People Think about Jesus?: And Other Questions Christians Ask about Jewish Beliefs, Practices, and History'' (2007) *''The Revival Answer Book'' (2001) *''The End of the American Gospel Enterprise'' (1993) *''Revolution!: The Call to Holy War'' (2000) *''Let No One Deceive You'' (1997) *''Our Hands Are Stained with Blood'' (1992) *''Can You Be Gay and Christian?: Responding With Love and Truth to Questions About Homosexuality'' (2014) *''Authentic Fire: A Response to John MacArthur's Strange Fire'' (2015)

With others

*''Jeremiah--Ezekiel (The Expositor's Bible Commentary)'' (2010) with Tremper Longman III, David E. Garland, Paul Ferris Jr. *''

Tree of Life Version The Tree of Life Version of the Holy Scriptures (TLV), first published in 2014, is a Messianic Judaism, Messianic Jewish translation of the Hebrew Bible (or TA-NA-KH) and the New Testament (or New Covenant) sponsored by the Messianic Jewish Family B ...

'' (2014) with Jeffrey Seif et al. *''Breaking the Stronghold of Food: How We Conquered Food Addictions and Discovered a New Way of Living'' (2017) With his wife Nancy Brown

Contributions

*''Oxford Dictionary of Jewish Religion'' *''Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament.''

Videos

Channel

'
ASKDrBrown
'' - Youtube channel

Debates

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References

External links

* Retrieved 2019-01-05. * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Michael L. 1955 births Living people American biblical scholars American spiritual teachers American television evangelists Editors of Christian publications Messianic Jews New York University alumni Old Testament scholars Radio personalities from North Carolina Writers from Charlotte, North Carolina Jewish translators of the Bible Bible commentators Writers on antisemitism American Christian Zionists Writers on Zionism