#479 Kevin Schoeppel and The Bible: The Truth about Psychics & Spiritual Gifts

Dave the Mystic is unavailable to create this show so an archived show is being posted.  This interview was conducted in December 2013.

Tonight, our guest is Kevin Schoeppel.Kevin was raised in in Southern Baptist churches, and began teaching the Bible in 1992. In 1999 he was ordained as a deacon by Pima Street Baptist Church of Tucson, and in 2006 was elected Adult Education Director of the church. In this position he began writing his own Bible studies for the two classes which he taught there. He began doing public speaking there by filling the church’s pulpit regularly on Sunday nights from 2006-2008, and on Sunday mornings in the pastor’s absence.

Kevin’s interest in psychics began in 1975 when he fell in love with a girl who could predict the future. This relationship sparked his interest in social attitudes towards psychics, as well as in discovering what he could about how psychic ability worked. He married his wife, Stanna—also a psychic—in 1978.

While teaching his adult Bible-study classes in the mid-2000’s, paranormal shows such as “Medium” began to appear on television, and his students began to have questions for Kevin on what the Bible says about psychics and mediums. At the same time, as social media emerged on the scene, Kevin began to make friends much more easily with mediums, many of whom were pleasantly surprised at his unconditional acceptance of them, and in return were willing to share their experiences with him.

At the encouragement of his wife Stanna, and their medium friend Melanie, Kevin began writing The Bible: The Truth about Psychics & Spiritual Gifts in 2012, based upon his findings that the Bible did not support the church’s assertion that psychic and mediumship abilities were evil in origin, but rather were bonafide spiritual gifts from God. The book was published in May, 2013.