Michael is a doctorate-level clinical psychologist (Widener University, 2003) who spent years treating patients through evidence-based clinical practice. He was trained to explain human experience through science. Then he experienced a miracle  real,...

Michael is a doctorate-level clinical psychologist (Widener University, 2003) who spent years treating patients through evidence-based clinical practice. He was trained to explain human experience through science. Then he experienced a miracle  real, undeniable, and completely outside his clinical framework. The kind of thing a psychologist is trained to be skeptical of. That's where it gets theologically interesting. Instead of rationalizing it away, he leaned in. He walked away from the career path he'd built and poured every resource he had into a single calling: making the Bible understandable for every person on earth. No publishers came knocking. No network offered a deal. No ministry funded it. He self-financed the entire thing — 10 books, a television ministry now broadcasting on TBN UK, TBN Asia, TBN Pacific, and TBN Africa, a radio show on Sirius XM's Family Talk Channel 131, and free Bible teaching materials distributed to home churches and Sunday schools across Africa and Asia. His bestseller, "Easy to Read Bible Summary for Teens and Adults," has 900+ Amazon ratings at 4.6 stars. He produced editions for Catholics with full Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur certification. He created teacher's manuals so the material could be used in churches and schools globally. All of it paid for out of his own family's pocket from a small town in Southeast Pennsylvania. TOPICS THAT FIT THE SHOW: • How does a trained psychologist process a miracle? The epistemological tension between clinical training and supernatural experience. What happens when your framework for understanding reality breaks? • The Bible literacy crisis- Most Christians own a Bible but have never read it cover to cover. Why Michael believes accessibility, not just theology, is the bottleneck to discipleship. And what he did about it. • Self-funding a global ministry - The theology of sacrifice and obedience behind financing a six-continent broadcast ministry with no outside funding. What that costs a family. Why he did it anyway. • Psychology, faith, and suffering Drawing from his clinical practice and his books on trials, temptation, and the story of Job. Where clinical psychology and biblical theology converge and where they diverge on the question of human suffering. CREDENTIALS: • Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (Widener University, 2003) • Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Christian Counseling Center (since 2006) • 10 published books including Amazon bestseller (900+ ratings, 4.6★) • TV: "Teaching the Bible" and "The Gospel" on TBN UK, TBN Asia, TBN Pacific, TBN Africa • Radio: Sirius XM Family Talk Ch. 131; WFIL 560 AM Philadelphia • Ministry: Teaching the Bible with Michael Kotch — 501(c)(3)