Jack Coe: The Preacher Who Scammed America

Jack Coe: The Preacher Who Scammed a Nation

Jack Coe: the faith healer who kickstarted a nation-wide faith healing tent revival before landing himself in jail for practicing medicine without a license would con hundreds of thousands of Americans out of millions of dollars. He built a small empire, packed out arenas, and traveled the US in the world’s largest tent – claiming he possessed the gift of healing and spoke words of prophecy during the uncertain times of the Cold War. Joining the ranks of Oral Roberts, A. A. Allen, and William Branham, Jack Coe helped create the blueprint that laid the grounds for the modern faith healing con used by many health and wealth prosperity doctrine preachers today.

After working closely with Gordon Lindsay, editing the Voices of Healing Magazine, Reverend Jack Coe launched his own magazine, the Herald of Healing which reached over 300,000 members. Although he was exposed as a faith healing charlatan by Adon Taft of the Miami Herald, Pastor Jack Coe amassed a fortune while offering nothing but false hope and deception before the pastor died of polio at just 38 years old.

Faith Healing Cringe Fails: Part 1

Faith Healing Cringe Fails - Kenneth Copeland Pushes a guy in a wheelchair

Are miracles real? Does faith healing work? These famous faith healers are about to be exposed in this brutal compilation of faith healing fails. Come learn the tricks faith healers use to con millions.

Watch as Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, W.V. Grant, Robert Tilton, and Peter Popoff are exposed in this new series on faith healing.

Calling out Abuse in the Atheist Community

Calling out Abuse in the Atheist Community

How can you spot abusive behavior and what makes a community abusive? At the 2022 Better Conference (BetterCon), Thomas Westbrook gave this talk calling out abusive behavior in the atheist community, but the points in this talk are fairly universal to all communities. We need to recognize online abuse and learn how can you mitigate or avoid abusive behavior, whether it’s harassments on social media or in-person bullying. There can be abusive bullies in any community, but in order to build a healthy community, it’s important to spot problematic behavior and to avoid being toxic or abusive ourselves. Here are some of the red flags/warning signs of abuse.

Exposing Biblical Pseudohistory

Dr. Josh Bowen, an Assyriologist, author, & host of the Digital Hammurabi show explores the history of the Old Testament with me to learn how historically reliable the Bible actually is. Are there contradictions in the Bible or historical errors in the Old Testament? Who even wrote the Pentateuch? Was Daniel a real prophet or was his book written after the events he allegedly prophesied? How do we know when Daniel was written?

The Backstep Paradox

Progress often feels like it only happens when no one is looking. Because it’s one step forward two steps back, it’s easy to get fixated on the backsteps and feel like no progress is happening at all. The irony is that by focusing on the backsteps, we stand to catalyze change.