Michael L. Brown

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Michael L. Brown
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Brown in 2014
Born (1955-03-16) March 16, 1955 (age 69)
New York, New York, U.S.
Nationality American
Alma mater New York University (PhD)
Occupation(s)Radio host, professor
Political partyIndependent
SpouseNancy Gurian Conway Brown (married 1977)
Website www.askdrbrown.org

Michael L. Brown (born March 16, 1955) is an American radio host, author, apologist, activist, and proponent of Messianic Judaism, Christian Zionism, [1] and the Charismatic Movement. 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 Townhall, and serves as head of the Coalition of Conscience, a Christian organization in the Charlotte, North Carolina area. He holds a Ph.D in Near Eastern Languages and Literature from New York University.[ citation needed ]

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Career

Brown is president and professor of practical theology at FIRE School of Ministry in Concord, NC. He has also served as visiting professor of Old Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois and visiting professor of Jewish apologetics at Fuller Theological Seminary, School of World Mission as well as several other seminaries. [2]

Between 1996 and 2000, Brown was one of the leaders in the Brownsville Revival, a Christian movement that began on June 18, 1995 at the Brownsville Assembly of God church in Pensacola, Florida. In 2000, though, the board removed Brown from his position as president of Brownsville Revival School of Ministry (BRSM). [3] [ better source needed ]

In 2001, Brown 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. [4] [ better source needed ]

Brown has been criticized in Charlotte by the local LGBT community for holding a rally in protest of their 2009 Charlotte Pride Festival. [5] The Southern Poverty Law Center has profiled him for his promotion of "junk science" on topics connected to sexual orientation, such as in his regular claims that, rather than being genetic, homosexuality is caused by childhood trauma, as well as his support for conversion therapy. [6] In September 2012, the organization named him in their list of "30 New Activists Heading Up the Radical Right." [7] In March 2014, Brown traveled to Peru to oppose the legalization of gay marriage there. [8] He has also defended Uganda's criminalization of homosexuality, saying that the law was necessary to fight the spread of AIDS/HIV and combat pedophilia. [9] But he also posted on his website that he "renounces" homophobic views, such as advocated by Steven Anderson (who called for the death penalty for homosexuals) [10] and said that "gay people should be treated with respect and dignity". [11]

Brown was criticized for citing the white supremacist website Stormfront in an article "asking whether it was time for another Jesus Movement among Jewish millennials". [12] [ better source needed ] He apologized, saying he was not aware what the site was. [13]

Theology

Brown holds to Arminian tenets. [14] [15]

Publications

With others

Contributions

Videos

Channel

ASKDrBrown - Youtube channel

Debates

vs. E. Michael Jones [16] and Owen Benjamin:
Are Dr. E. Michael Jones and Owen Benjamin Telling the Truth? on YouTube, May 11, 2019 [17]
vs. E. Michael Jones: [16]
Dr. Brown Discusses Antisemitism on YouTube, April 18, 2019 [18]
vs. Rabbi Jacob Immanuel Schochet:
Is Jesus the Jewish Messiah? Michael Brown vs Rabbi Immanuel Schochet on YouTube, March 30, 1995
vs. Rabbi Tovia Singer:
Is Jesus the Messiah? on YouTube, November 1, 2015
vs. David Blumofe (RZA): [19]
Who is Jesus? on YouTube, December 16, 2010
vs. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach:
Can Jews Believe in Jesus? on Vimeo, December 10, 2008
vs. Rabbi Daniel Freitag:
Is Jesus the Jewish Messiah? on YouTube, March 3, 2017

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References

Citations

  1. ↑ Does the New Testament Support Zionism? (Video). YouTube. May 17, 2019. Retrieved May 25, 2019. ·Brown, Michael L. (May 26, 2019). "Jesus is My Everything, And He Confirms God's Promises to Israel" (video review of an altar call at TruNews' channel on YouTube). Life Outreach International. Archived from the original on June 7, 2019. Retrieved June 7, 2019. Watch it for yourself here, starting at 1:20:28 until 1:22:41.{{cite web}}: External link in |quote= and |type= (help)
  2. ↑ Brown, Michael L.; Ferris Jr., Paul W. (March 7, 2017). "Contributors". In Longman III, Tremper; Garland, David E. (eds.). Jeremiah, Lamentations. The Expositor's Bible Commentary (Revised ed.). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. ISBN   978-0-310-53187-6 . Retrieved January 4, 2019. · "Biography". AskDrBrown. Archived from the original on November 20, 2018. Retrieved January 4, 2019. · "Academic C.V." AskDrBrown. Archived from the original on February 23, 2018. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Major Split at Brownsville". Sermon Index. Archived from the original on January 1, 2018. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Author Profile". Awakening the One New Man. Archived from the original on August 10, 2015. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  5. ↑ Comer, Matt (August 20, 2011). "Indeed, God has a better way". QNotes. Archived from the original on April 18, 2015. Retrieved December 28, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Southern Poverty Law Center > Intelligence File: Michael Brown". Archived from the original on March 13, 2014. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
  7. ↑ "30 New Activists Heading Up the Radical Right". No. 146. Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report. Summer 2012. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
  8. ↑ "The next anti-LGBT export target: Peru". GLAAD. March 17, 2014. Archived from the original on January 26, 2021. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  9. ↑ "Michael Brown Defends Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Law as Necessary to Fight HIV/AIDS | Right Wing Watch". www.rightwingwatch.org. Archived from the original on January 26, 2018. Retrieved January 14, 2022.
  10. ↑ "18 Anti-Gay Groups and Their Propaganda". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on July 17, 2015. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  11. ↑ "Renouncing 'Christian' Homo-hatred". Ask Dr. Brown. June 28, 2016. Archived from the original on November 11, 2017. Retrieved November 11, 2017. "Let's Help Lauren Daigle Rather Than Condemn Her". Ask Dr. Brown. December 4, 2018. Archived from the original on December 9, 2018. Retrieved December 8, 2018. I have been marked by major leftwing groups (including the SPLC, the HRC, and GLAAD) as one of the most dangerous, vicious, homophobic, transphobic voices in America, and the secular media has been warned to stay away from me. (For me, these accusations and attacks, while sad in themselves, are truly a badge of honor. See Matthew 5:10-12.)
  12. ↑ Brown, Michael L. (November 5, 2017). "Is It Time for a New Jesus Movement Among Jewish Millennials?". Life Outreach International. Archived from the original on April 27, 2019. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
  13. ↑ "When Social Media Explodes Over an Editing Oversight". Ask Dr. Brown. November 9, 2017. Archived from the original on November 10, 2017. Retrieved November 11, 2017.
  14. ↑ Witzki 2010.
  15. ↑ Glynn 2011.
  16. ↑ Michael L. Brown defends his interpretation of 1 Thessalonians 2:14–15 ("the Jews: Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men") against accusations of being "cockamamie" under reference to Raymond E. Brown.Brown, Michael L. (May 13, 2019). "Did Paul Call 'the Jews' the 'Enemies of the Whole Human Race'?". Life Outreach International. Archived from the original on May 15, 2019. Retrieved May 23, 2019. Are the views of Raymond Brown also 'cockamamie'?
  17. ↑ With reference to 1 Thessalonians 2:14–15 ("the Jews: Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men"):Brown, Michael L. (April 20, 2019). "Why Russian Jews Dreaded the Easter Weekend: Sadly, Anti-Semitism still exists in our world today…". GOD TV. Archived from the original on April 27, 2019. Retrieved April 27, 2019. I interviewed E. Michael Jones of the book The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit. He flatly denies being anti-Semitic and speaks against hurting the Jewish people physically. At the same time, he affirms the blanket statement that 'the Jews killed Christ' and believes that Paul explicitly taught that 'the Jews' are hostile to all people and do not please God. ·With reference to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor:Petrus, Johannes (July–August 2012). Jones, E. Michael (ed.). "Elder Brother". South Bend, IN: Culture Wars. Archived from the original on May 28, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2019. What would someone say if they were asked 'who bombed Pearl Harbor'? Almost everyone will respond by saying: 'The Japanese'.
  18. ↑ "Thank You To Our Sponsors". Camp Moshava of Wild Rose, WI. August 2, 2018. Archived from the original on January 5, 2019. Retrieved January 5, 2019. In Memory of Rabbi Dr David S. Blumofe […], founder of the RZA in Chicago, by the Blumofe families (CA).

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