Michael L. Brown Explained

Michael L. Brown
Birth Date:	16 March 1955
Birth Place:	New York, New York, U.S.
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	New York University (PhD)
Occupation:	Radio host, professor
Party:	Independent
Spouse:	Nancy Gurian Conway Brown (married 1977)

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.

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]

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]

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] He apologized, saying he was not aware what the site was.^[13]

Theology

Brown holds to Arminian tenets.

Publications

• How Saved Are We?: Has the Church Fallen Asleep in the Enemy's Lap? (1990)
• Our Hands Are Stained with Blood: The Tragic Story of the Church and the Jewish People (1992)
• It's Time to Rock the Boat: A Call to God's People to Rise Up and Preach a Confrontational Gospel (1993)
• The End of the American Gospel Enterprise (1993)
• Israel's Divine Healer (1995)
• Let No One Deceive You: Confronting the Critics of Revival (1997)
• Go and Sin No More: A Call to Holiness (1999)
• Revolution!: The Call to Holy War (2000)
• Book: Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus . file listing . . . 2019-01-05.
  1. Book: General and Historical Objections . PDF . 1 . 2000 . 978-0-8010-6063-2 . 2019-01-05 . Brown . Michael L. . Baker Books .
  2. Book: Theological Objections . PDF . 2 . 2000 . 978-0-8010-6334-3 . 2019-01-05 . registration . Brown . Michael L. . Baker Publishing .
  3. Book: Messianic Prophecy Objections . PDF . 3 . 2003 . 978-0-8010-6423-4 . 2019-01-05 . registration . Brown . Michael L. . Baker Publishing .
  4. Book: New Testament Objections . PDF . 4 . 2006 . 978-0-8010-6426-5 . 2019-01-05 . registration . Brown . Michael L. . Baker Publishing .
  5. Book: Traditional Jewish Objections . . 5 . 2010 . 978-1-881022-86-2 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190105135359/https://the-eye.eu/public/concen.org/01052018_updates/Conflict%20between%20Judaism%20and%20Christianity%20-%20Collection%204/Brown%20-%20Answering%20Jewish%20Objections%20to%20Jesus%2C%20Vol.%205%3B%20Traditional%20Jewish%20Objections%20(2009).epub . 2019-01-05 . live . 2019-01-05. Brown . Michael L. . Baker Books .
• The Revival Answer Book: Rightly Discerning the Contemporary Revival Movements (2001)
• What Do Jewish People Think about Jesus?: And Other Questions Christians Ask about Jewish Beliefs, Practices, and History (2007)
• A Time for Holy Fire: Preparing the Way for Divine Visitation (2008)
• 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)
• The Real Kosher Jesus: Revealing the Mysteries of the Hidden Messiah (2012)
• Hyper-Grace: Exposing the Dangers of the Modern Grace Message (2014)
• 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)
• Jezebel's War With America: The Plot to Destroy Our Country and What We Can Do to Turn the Tide (2019)

With others

• Jeremiah--Ezekiel (The Expositor's Bible Commentary) (2010) with Tremper Longman III, David E. Garland, Paul Ferris Jr.
• Tree of Life Version (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
• Not Afraid of the Antichrist: Why We Don't Believe in a Pre-Tribulation Rapture (2019) with Craig S. Keener

Contributions

• Oxford Dictionary of Jewish Religion
• Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament.

Videos

Channel

ASKDrBrown - Youtube channel

Debates

References

Sources

• Web site: en . Glynn . Martin . Thoughts on John 6 . Society of Evangelical Arminians . 2011-04-27 . 2019-01-05 .
• Web site: en . Witzki . Steve . Messianic Jewish Scholar Dr. Michael L. Brown Affirms Conditional Security . Society of Evangelical Arminians . 2010-09-11 . 2019-01-05 .

External links

• Retrieved 2019-01-05.
• Web site: Michael Brown Articles – Political Columnist & Commentator . . https://web.archive.org/web/20190102030735/http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/ . 2019-01-02 . live . 2019-01-05.
• Web site: Michael Brown . . https://web.archive.org/web/20181222053020/https://stream.org/author/michaelbrown/ . 2018-12-22 . live . 2019-01-05.

Notes and References

1. Does the New Testament Support Zionism? . May 17, 2019 . Video . YouTube . May 25, 2019. Web site: Jesus is My Everything, And He Confirms God's Promises to Israel . Brown . Michael L. . video review of an altar call at . . May 26, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190607153055/https://stream.org/jesus-is-my-everything-and-he-confirms-gods-promises-to-israel/ . June 7, 2019 . live . June 7, 2019 . Watch it for yourself here, starting at 1:20:28 until 1:22:41..
2. Encyclopedia: Brown . Michael L. . Michael L. Brown . Ferris Jr. . Paul W. . Paul W. Ferris Jr. . Longman III . Tremper . Tremper Longman III . Garland . David E. . David E. Garland . Jeremiah, Lamentations . [{{Google books|8cESDgAAQBAJ|page=PT16|plainurl=yes}} Contributors ]. 2019-01-04 . 2017-03-07 . . The Expositor's Bible Commentary . Revised . . 978-0-310-53187-6. Web site: Biography . AskDrBrown . https://web.archive.org/web/20181120130219/https://askdrbrown.org/biography/ . 2018-11-20 . live . 2019-01-04. Web site: Academic C.V. . AskDrBrown . https://web.archive.org/web/20180223212725/https://askdrbrown.org/academic-c-v/ . 2018-02-23 . live . 2019-01-04.
3. Web site: Major Split at Brownsville. Sermon Index. July 19, 2015. January 1, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180101234441/http://www.sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=11041. live.
4. Web site: Author Profile. Awakening the One New Man. 2015-07-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20150810073338/http://awakening1.org/authors/michael-l-brown/. 2015-08-10. dead.
5. News: Comer . Matt . Indeed, God has a better way . QNotes . December 28, 2013 . August 20, 2011 . April 18, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150418151809/http://goqnotes.com/12063/indeed-god-has-a-better-way/ . live .
6. Web site: Southern Poverty Law Center > Intelligence File: Michael Brown. December 29, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20140313021819/http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/michael-brown. March 13, 2014. live.
7. News: 30 New Activists Heading Up the Radical Right . Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report . December 29, 2013 . Summer 2012 . 146 . December 30, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131230232926/http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2012/summer/30-to-watch . live .
8. Web site: The next anti-LGBT export target: Peru. March 17, 2014. GLAAD. March 8, 2021. January 26, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210126110649/https://www.glaad.org/blog/next-anti-lgbt-export-target-peru. live.
9. Web site: Michael Brown Defends Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Law as Necessary to Fight HIV/AIDS | Right Wing Watch . www.rightwingwatch.org . 14 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180126073820/http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/michael-brown-defends-uganda-anti-homosexuality-law-as-necessary-to-fight-hivaids/ . 26 January 2018 . dead.
10. Web site: 18 Anti-Gay Groups and Their Propaganda . 2023-04-06 . Southern Poverty Law Center . en . July 17, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150717205833/http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/winter/the-hard-liners . live .
11. Web site: Renouncing 'Christian' Homo-hatred . June 28, 2016 . Ask Dr. Brown . November 11, 2017 . November 11, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171111095009/https://askdrbrown.org/library/renouncing-christian-homo-hatred . live . Web site: Let's Help Lauren Daigle Rather Than Condemn Her . December 4, 2018 . Ask Dr. Brown . 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.) . December 9, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181209124420/https://askdrbrown.org/library/let%E2%80%99s-help-lauren-daigle-rather-condemn-her . live .
12. Web site: Is It Time for a New Jesus Movement Among Jewish Millennials? . Brown . Michael L. . . November 5, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190427013602/https://stream.org/jesus-movement-jewish-millennials/ . April 27, 2019 . live . April 27, 2019.
13. Web site: When Social Media Explodes Over an Editing Oversight . November 9, 2017 . Ask Dr. Brown . November 11, 2017 . November 10, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171110114502/https://askdrbrown.org/library/when-social-media-explodes-over-editing-oversight . live .