by J. A. Bouma | Apr 9, 2019 | Book Research
Who were the Knights Templar? 8 Things You Probably Didn’t Know. Nine-hundred years ago, a band of nine former Crusader knights banded together to form a Church order. We know them as the Knights Templar. The history behind the Templars is a fascinating, if not...
by J. A. Bouma | Dec 18, 2018 | Book Research
Is the Holy Grail Real? The Legend and Meaning of the Mythic Chalice As a sucker for a good relic mystery and suspense thriller, I figured the next book I wrote was pretty obvious. And as a super fan of Indiana Jones stretching back to my early teens, here we are...
by J. A. Bouma | Dec 6, 2018 | Book Research
Is Mormonism authentically Christian? The Facts about the History and Theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints When I wrote my latest religious conspiracy thriller, American God, I recognized people would probably either love it or hate it, given...
by J. A. Bouma | Sep 13, 2018 | Book Research
What Happened to the Ark of the Covenant? Let’s face it: any religious conspiracy thriller writer worth their salt cannot not write about the Ark of the Covenant. I mean…come on! So, here we are, another tome to add to the shelves of Ark lore. And yet this one is a...
by J. A. Bouma | Jun 21, 2018 | Book Research
The Gospel of Judas and Story of Jesus Over 15 years ago, the Western reading world alighted with a tantalizing tale told by a one Dan Brown in his New York Times bestselling book The DaVinci Code. The yarn he spun suggested the story about Jesus wasn’t the one that...
by J. A. Bouma | Jun 15, 2018 | Book Research
12 Things You Need to Know about the Shroud of Turin Ever since watching an episode of Unsolved Mysteries as a boy that chronicled the history and mystery of the Shroud of Turin, I have been fascinated with the fourteen-by-nine foot ancient Church relic. As a...
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