The Eagle Has Risen is a historical investigation into the claim of Jesus’ resurrection through the mirror of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, holding the Resurrection up to the Moon landing as a mirror—not to convert, not to debunk, but to ask one honest question:
“Are we evaluating the Resurrection with the same openness and rigor we would bring to any other historical claim—or have we already decided the answer in advance?”
The Book’s Premise
We have all heard of amazing events from the past. Stories of heroes, great conquests, and empires. Life and death struggles that mirror the events of modern times. But how do we know any of it actually happened?
What about the Apollo Moon landing—an event so astonishing that even some today have a hard time believing it. And yet we still have eyewitnesses with us.
But imagine looking back on it from the next century, after the evidence has started to fade.
Deepfakes are even more rampant than today. Visual media is deeply distrusted. All who experienced that “one small step” firsthand are long gone. The historical evidence is no longer as pristine.
Could we still know that humans walked on the Moon?
Of course. But how would we know?
We would have to do what historians have always done: examine the surviving evidence, consider its sources, weigh competing explanations, and ask what conclusions the evidence can actually support.
Watching the launch of Apollo 11, I never considered that question. Like millions of others, I was in awe as humans began a journey that had previously belonged only to science fiction. The Moon landing helped spark a love of science and shaped the way I would approach problems for the rest of my life.
But history also became a lifelong fascination—not as a collection of sterile dates and facts, but as lived experiences. When we view the past through the eyes of those who witnessed it, something closer to the truth can emerge.
Eventually, I approached the life, death, and Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth with this mindset.
I thought, “If we can historically investigate one extraordinary event—the Moon landing, then why can’t we look at another, the Resurrection—using that same methodology?”
If it happened, the evidence should be capable of supporting it.
Not because these events are equivalent. They clearly are not. One occurred in the modern age and was documented extensively; the other occurred two thousand years ago and describes something that, by its very nature, defies ordinary experience.
But time is the great equalizer, and the Moon program is already fading into history. Eventually, every extraordinary event—no matter how thoroughly documented—must be examined through the evidence that survives it.
So we reach back through decades, centuries, and millennia toward the discovery of the truth of what happened.
Just as we might examine the Moon landing from a more distant future, we will use the same historical methods to investigate the Resurrection of Jesus—an event from the more distant past whose effects are still reverberating across time and space and into our world today.
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