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Faith on the Fringe

Faith on the Fringe

著者: Leah Steele Barnett/Malaine Lea Butler
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The Bible is stranger, darker, and more glorious than you were taught. Let's talk about it.

Faith on the Fringe is where Leah Steele Barnett and Malaine Lea Butler explore the supernatural biblical worldview that most modern churches have quietly shelved. Spirit-Filled. Bible-Obsessed. Slightly Unhinged.

The Divine Council. Fallen Watchers. The Nephilim. Pre-flood history. Spiritual warfare with real teeth. We bring the scholarship, the Spirit, and zero religious performance.

We are not doom-scrolling through Revelation or building bunkers. This is a Kingdom-forward conversation rooted in the belief that God's story is bigger, wilder, and more victorious than mainstream theology has made room for.

For the believers who never stopped asking questions. For the Christ-followers who want the whole Bible, not just the comfortable parts.

MEET THE HOSTS OF FAITH ON THE FRINGE

LEAH STEELE BARNETT

Faith-led cultural commentator, AI educator, and host of The Culture Cast operating at the intersection of technology, culture, and Kingdom stewardship. She examines cultural deception, belief systems, and power structures through a biblical lens. She is pattern-oriented, allergic to hype, and built for the kind of theology that doesn't flinch. On The Fringe, she brings the research, the receipts, and a refusal to let comfortable doctrine go unchallenged.

MALAINE LEA BUTLER

Deliverance-driven disciple of Jesus Christ who walked out of the New Age and into radical transformation through the power of the Gospel. Host of Kingdom Talk and founder of Eden House, she creates space for raw, deep, and confrontational conversations that call hearts into full surrender and freedom in Christ. On The Fringe, she brings fire, spiritual authority, and zero tolerance for religious performance.

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  • The Judas Spirit in the Church: Slander, Rebukes & Biblical Reconciliation - Weekly Update
    2026/06/27
    When the body of Christ starts eating its own, something darker is always at work. In this weekly update, Leah and Malaine break down the chaos tearing through online Christian spaces right now: public rebukes, slander, and a defamation campaign dressed up as discernment ministry. This is a blueprint for spiritual deception, and if you cannot recognize the fruit, you will get caught in the crossfire. They walk through the Cocchini and Taylor Welch conflict, Mike Winger's videos, and the defamation series against Dan Duval, applying godly discernment to what is really happening beneath the surface. When christian teaching gives way to name-calling, offense, and public shaming, the body of Christ bleeds, and spiritual warfare stops being theory and starts playing out in real time on podcasts and in comment sections. "It is a Judas spirit. And it absolutely believes that it is doing the right thing by the body of Christ. These people are deceived." -Leah Steele Barnett Key Takeaways The biblical reconciliation process in Matthew 18, go to your brother privately first, then bring trusted witnesses, then the church, is the step almost everyone skips before going public.A Judas spirit can operate in someone fully convinced they are defending the body of Christ. Deception, not open malice, is what makes it so dangerous.The test for any online ministry is fruit: the posture, the tone, and whether compassion or vindictiveness is driving the rebuke.There is a real watchman calling and a place for biblical exposure done right. Mike Winger offering to fund an independent investigation and to publicly repent if he is wrong is the model, because it follows the process and protects people instead of chasing a takedown.A check in your spirit is enough. You can stop watching content mid-stream without needing a reason, and a 70/30 rule lets you receive someone's good fruit without endorsing all of their theology. Featured Scripture Matthew 18:15 "If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother." Application: the entire episode hinges on this one skipped step. Reconciliation is meant to begin privately, face to face, long before anyone reaches for a platform. 00:00 Intro: fringe theology & weird rabbit holes 01:20 Accusations & name-calling among believers 05:38 Offense spirit vs New Age conflict patterns 08:08 Greg Locke repentance vs callout culture 11:34 Michael Cocchini & Taylor Welch conflict context 16:20 Taylor Welch callout: a letter from God 20:59 Mike Winger video & Dan Duval's response 26:25 Discerning the fruit of online ministries 33:49 Biblical exposure ministry done right 43:08 Defamation series against Dan Duval 50:41 Watchman calling & checks in the spirit 57:27 Trusting God's guidance & 80/20 theologyResources and Connect Faith on the Fringe: Substack: https://faithonthefringe.substack.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithonthefringepodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithonthefringepodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FaithontheFringe Email: help@faithonthefringepodcast.com People and Ministries Referenced Taylor Welch. Host of The Deep End podcast and founder of The Wealthy Consultant. Cited as a pioneer in the supernatural-Bible space and the subject of the public rebuke discussed. Michael Cocchini. Pastor of ALTARED who returned to the online scene and posted a public rebuke of his church, then of Taylor Welch. Leah and Malaine say they are praying for him as a brother in Christ. Mike Winger. Former pastor who runs BibleThinker and is known for documented discernment work. Cited as the model for biblical exposure done with a solution and a willingness to repent. Dan Duval. Founder of BRIDE Ministries International and its School of Inner Healing and Deliverance, host of Discovering Truth with Dan Duval, working with survivors of SRA and DID. Malaine studies in his school. Honored on-air and named as the target of a separate defamation series. Greg Locke. Pastor of Global Vision Bible Church in Lebanon, Tennessee, who recently lost his 20-year-old son Evan. Cited for publicly repenting and honoring a former friend. Marcus Rogers. Online minister cited as carrying a genuine watchman calling whose track record has borne fruit over time. John Bevere. Referenced for a story about an evangelist who called God's exposure of his financial sin a gift that restored his fear of the Lord. Scriptures for Further Study Matthew 18:15-17. The process for confronting a brother: privately first, then with witnesses, then before the church. Matthew 5:23-24. Leave your gift at the altar and be reconciled to your brother first. Psalm 139:23-24. Search me and see if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Proverbs 6:16-19. The things the Lord hates, including the one who sows discord among brothers. Matthew 22:37-39. Love the Lord your God, and love your neighbor as ...
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  • Everything You Were Taught About Satan Isn't In The Bible
    2026/06/21
    The demons tormenting people aren't fallen angels. They're the ghosts of dead giants. And that's the least shocking thing in this episode. This is Part 1 of a four-part series where Leah and Malaine dive deep into who is really running the kingdom of darkness and who the enemy actually is. It opens with the question of where the kingdom of darkness even came from, and the answer is messier than anything you were preached. They show that Lucifer is a Latin word for the morning star that the Bible also uses for Christ, that Satan is a title and not a personal name, and that the pride-fall origin story most Christians believe was assembled from texts outside the canon. Then they walk seven competing Jewish accounts of the fall, from 1 Enoch and the Watchers to Jubilees, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Testament of Solomon, and ask why one fourth-century bishop named Augustine got to pick the version we all inherited. JOIN THE FRINGE ON FACEBOOK HERE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefringeonfb (Leah is dropping her full 52-page research paper from this episode in the group.) "The whole shining one fell from heaven mythology that we've been taught is actually just a translation artifact." -Leah Steele Barnett Key Takeaways Lucifer appears once in the Protestant Bible, in Isaiah 14:12, and the Hebrew behind it means morning star, the same title Revelation 22:16 gives to Christ.Satan in the Hebrew Bible is almost always ha-satan, the accuser, a title and job description rather than a personal name, a point even Michael Heiser concedes.The Bible is uncharacteristically quiet on the origin of evil, and the Second Temple Jewish world filled that silence with at least seven contradicting accounts.The pride-fall story preached for 1600 years was the minority position, elevated to orthodoxy by Augustine in the fourth century and carried through Aquinas, Milton, Luther, and Calvin.What counts as evidence shifts by tradition: the Catholic canon names the devil directly in Tobit and Wisdom of Solomon, where the Protestant canon does not. Featured Scripture Proverbs 25:2 "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the honor of kings is to search out a matter." Application: the silence of Scripture on the origin of evil is not a gap to fear, it is an invitation to dig. This whole episode is that search.Timestamps 02:00 - Isaiah 14 Names the King of Babylon 20:20 - Four Questions the Church Won't Answer 27:53 - Lucifer Appears Once in the Bible 31:24 - Lucifer Is Also a Name for Christ 36:27 - Satan Means Accuser, Not a Name 44:38 - Revelation 12:9 Merges the Names 48:53 - 1 Enoch, the Watchers, Mount Hermon 57:41 - Satan Refuses to Bow in Adam and Eve 1:01:29 - Jubilees: Demons Are Dead Nephilim 1:04:17 - Belial in the Dead Sea Scrolls 1:14:10 - Why Augustine's Minority View Won1:17:30 - The Catholic Canon Changes Everything Resources and Connect Some links below are affiliate links. We may earn a small commission at no cost to you. Books mentioned, all in the Exploring Faith & Jesus section of Leah's Amazon shop: https://amzn.to/3WscgNe The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch). Leah says go get a copy and read it. Troy Brewer, "Looking Up." Michael Heiser, "The Unseen Realm," "Supernatural," and "Demons: What the Bible Really Says About the Powers of Darkness." Michael Heiser, the "Demons" documentary (Faithlife Original, the one Leah watched): https://faithlifetv.com/demons The Bible Project, "The Satan and Demons" (the short explainer Malaine points to; Michael Heiser consulted on the series): https://bibleproject.com/videos/satan-demons/ The Bible Project, full "Spiritual Beings" series: https://bibleproject.com/explore/category/spiritual-beings-series/ Mount Hermon blog (Faith on the Fringe Substack), referenced at story six: https://faithonthefringe.substack.com/p/mount-hermon-is-the-most-important Faith on the Fringe: Substack: https://faithonthefringe.substack.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithonthefringepodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithonthefringepodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FaithontheFringe Email: help@faithonthefringepodcast.com Historical and Theological References Augustine of Hippo (354 to 430 AD). North African bishop, ex-Manichaean, systematized the pride-fall of Satan and pushed the Watchers out of the canon. Source of the Sethite view. Manichaeism. Persian dualist religion Augustine followed for nine years before converting to Christianity. Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, and Milton. Carried Augustine's pride-fall view forward. Luther was an Augustinian monk, Calvin built directly on Augustine, and Milton's Paradise Lost dramatized it in the 1600s. Jerome and the Latin Vulgate (around 400 AD). Translated Isaiah 14:12 with the Latin word Lucifer, meaning the morning star, and used the same word for Christ in 2 Peter 1:19. Syriac Peshitta. Eastern translation that read the Hebrew word as a verb, to howl or wail, not as a name. 1 Enoch (third century BC). 200 Watchers ...
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  • UFO Disclosure or Demonic Deception? An Exorcist Got Removed for Asking (Part3 of UFO Disclosure Series)
    2026/06/15
    aliens.gov redirects to an immigration dashboard. Welcome to controlled disclosure. Some links below are affiliate links. We may earn a small commission at no cost to you. In Part 3 of the UFO Disclosure series, Leah, Malaine, and Apostle Jenny Embrey dig into what the government, the military, and the Vatican are doing with non-human intelligence behind closed doors: private vaults, strategic file drops, and the systematic removal of anyone who names the spiritual reality behind it. David Grusch told Congress there are multiple kinds of non-human intelligence. The AARO says there is no evidence. A 19-year exorcist called UFO encounters demonic and was removed in five days. This episode maps seven rooms where nobody agrees. They unpack the PURSUE program's second file batch, MITRE's compliance with a 10-page congressional demand for records back to 1930, Lue Elizondo buried at the back of a Chris Cuomo broadcast, and the death of Melissa Casias at Los Alamos. Jenny brings the fear of the Lord. Leah closes with Colossians 1: whatever is in those files, visible and invisible, it answers to Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Learn More ABout The Supernatural Bible Sessions (Monthly Bible Study with Leah and Jenny): https://www.supernaturalbible.live JOIN THE FRINGE ON FACEBOOK HERE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefringeonfb "If you are a Christian, if you are a believer and you are just getting up every day, taking your kids to football practice, going to work, coming home and going to bed and saying, I love Jesus, you're not cutting it." -Apostle Jenny Embrey Key Takeaways Why David Grusch's Congressional testimony about multiple kinds of non-human intelligence matters and what it means that government insiders are now openly categorizing beings Scripture has always named.How the PURSUE program's strategic file drops and AARO's contradictions reveal seven different rooms saying seven different things about what is real, and why none of them agree.Why Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, a 19-year exorcist with 148,000 Instagram followers, was removed by Cardinal Robert McElroy within five days of publicly calling UFO encounters demonic.How FFRDCs like MITRE and RAND function as private vaults that dodge congressional oversight, and what Rep. Eric Burlison's 10-page demand for records back to 1930 reveals about what has been hidden.Why the St. Anne's Parish lecture on UFOs was a local parish event that media outlets inflated into "the Vatican opens to UFOs," and what that kind of framing does to believers who are genuinely trying to discern. Featured Scripture Hosea 4:6 "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." Application: God already gave His people the framework. Principalities, powers, thrones, dominions, visible and invisible beings created by Christ and for Christ. The categories are in the text. The passages are in the Bible. Most believers were simply never taught to read them seriously, and the institutions that should be equipping them are actively silencing the people who do. That is what Hosea 4:6 looks like in 2025. Timestamps 00:52 - David Grusch's Capitol Hill Bombshell05:07 - Aliens.gov: ICE Dashboard Bait and Switch08:24 - Hosea 4:6 & Spiritual Discernment11:15 - End Times Propaganda & Cognitive Dissonance14:45 - Pursue Program: Strategic UAP File Drops21:18 - Desensitization: The Numbing of Believers27:04 - AARO: No Extraterrestrial Evidence Found33:14 - FFRDCs: Who's Hiding Crash Evidence?37:32 - Melissa Cassis: Missing Scientist Found Dead43:47 - Spiritual Warfare Behind the Cover-Up50:59 - Vatican: The Parish Lecture That Wasn't1:16:37 - Rossetti Silenced by Cardinal McElroy Resources and Connect - (Some links listed are affiliate links. We may earn a small commission at no cost to you.) Owen Benjamin, "How to Slay a Wizard" (also available on Audible): https://amzn.to/3QE554m Owen Benjamin on Tucker Carlson: https://youtu.be/sDJmvLrWcRc Guy Consolmagno, "Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?": https://amzn.to/4uBwBO4 AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office): https://www.aaro.mil PURSUE Program UAP File Releases: https://war.gov/UFO Vatican Observatory, "Are UFOs a Substitute Religion?" (May 11): https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/press/are-ufos-a-substitute-religion-the-vatican-astronomer-on-aliens-space-and-the-crisis-of-meaning/ Faith on the Fringe: Substack: https://faithonthefringe.substack.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithonthefringepodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithonthefringepodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FaithontheFringe Email: help@faithonthefringepodcast.com Leah Steele Barnett: The Cul✞ure Cast Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-culture-cast/id1797035500 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theleahsteele Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leah_steele_barnett Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leahsteeleofficial Malaine Lea Butler: Kingdom Talk Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/...
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