Gary T. McDonald in conversation with Dr. Tina Rae Collins

Gary T. McDonald is a practicing Buddhist and an award-winning playwright and filmmaker with a life-long interest in the origins of Christianity. His latest film is The Fourth Noble Truth (winner of the Audience Award at the Sonoma International Film Festival). 'The Gospel of Thomas (the Younger)' is his first novel and is the basis for his forthcoming historical epic 'The Blood of Men and Angels..' Tina Rae Collins is an internationally known, award-winning author who has published twenty-three books, including a novel, nine juvenile novels, a fable, two poetry books, a religious book for women and one for children, a collection of religious articles, a doctrinal book about the end times (The Gathering in the Last Days), a biography of her deceased son Aaron (Aaron Collins Did That), her Masters thesis (Snow White: The Story of Eve's Redemption), her doctoral dissertation (We Are Emmanuel: How Man Became God), and, after leaving Christianity, her books The Judaeo-Christian Myth, Yahweh on Trial, and The Truth Is a Funny Thing (written for young people whose parents are atheist/agnostic). She received a bachelors degree in English from Pikeville College and a Masters degree in Theology and PhD in Biblical Studies from Northwestern Theological Seminary. She resides in Lexington, Kentucky, and spends her free time enjoying her two daughters and six grandchildren who live nearby and visiting her older son in China.