Meet the Voices Behind HypeChurch Studio B & HISOM University

Dr. Apollos Sterling

“People do not get rattled because their conviction is wrong—they get rattled because they express it as an emotion instead of a formal implication (P → Q).”

Born in East Baltimore to a tool-and-die machinist father and a high-school mathematics teacher mother, Apollos Sterling enrolled in college thinking introductory Philosophy Logic would sharpen his mind—only to drop the class in frustration when he realized humanities professors taught logic as a blurry list of informal opinions. Two semesters later, he took Discrete Mathematics in the engineering department. Watching Boolean truth tables, Modus Ponens, Modus Tollens, and De Morgan's Laws click into place on the chalkboard changed his life forever. He realized that the prophets, Christ in Matthew 12, and the Apostle Paul argued with mathematical precision. After earning his doctorate in Philosophical Logic and spending a decade training trial attorneys and church leaders how to never let a hostile adversary flip (P → Q) into (Q → P), Dr. Sterling became the Lead Course Professor at HISOM University, where he teaches every 42-minute Main Blackboard Lecture across all 13 courses.

Dr. Naomi Vance

“Modern culture trades eternal covenant for five minutes of cheap digital validation. True intellect and true honor never extract—they cover and build.”

Raised in a secular academic household in New England, Naomi Vance spent her twenties researching cognitive dissonance and moral psychology at tier-one research universities. While writing her doctoral dissertation on Alvin Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism and the Euthyphro Dilemma, she confronted an inescapable reality: reductive materialism cannot ground human dignity, moral duty, or the reliability of human reason itself. That intellectual breakthrough led her straight to the Logos of John 1. Today, Dr. Vance co-chairs the 18-minute Faculty Panel Breakaway at HISOM University alongside Prof. Damien Cross and serves as the piercing female lens on the HypeChurch Podcast—cutting through performative church clichés to speak with unvarnished honesty about marriage, feminine dignity, masculine honor, and why real truth requires real effort.

Prof. Damien Cross

“When you have hardcore documented evidence in the record, a procedural delay is never a defeat—it is just the setup for Modus Tollens.”

Before joining the faculty of HISOM University, Damien Cross spent sixteen years in high-stakes commercial litigation, distressed-asset restructuring, and forensic evidentiary audits along the D.C.–Baltimore corridor. Having sat across the table from hostile institutional counsel, corporate boards, and federal mediators, Cross saw firsthand how ordinary people with truth on their side get steamrolled when they react emotionally instead of locking their exhibits into a formal deductive record. In HISOM University's 18-minute Panel Breakaways, Professor Cross plays the relentless cross-examiner—stress-testing every student's grasp of De Morgan's Law, the Ancient Documents Rule, and Natural Law jurisprudence so they can walk into any courtroom, boardroom, or cultural arena completely unshakeable.

Jordan Cole

“People hiding in the trenches will always mock the person who actually walks onto the field with a sling and five smooth stones.”

Jordan Cole grew up working third-shift warehouse docks and driving I-95 delivery routes between Baltimore, Rosedale, Joppatowne, and Aberdeen before launching HypeChurch Studio B. He knows the exact mindset of the man or woman who would never set foot inside a stiff, judgmental Sunday morning church building—because for ten years, he was that person. As the lead host of 'The Artisan's Sling,' Jordan brings high-voltage storytelling, raw humor, and street-level biblical clarity to the mic, unpacking why 17-year-old David refused King Saul's heavy bronze armor and why God consistently uses authentic outsiders to shatter entrenched giants.

Maya Rivera

“Worship and truth shouldn't sound like a museum—they should hit your chest with the warmth, motion, and clarity of a live studio board.”

A conservatory-trained acoustic engineer who cut her teeth mixing independent hip-hop, soul, and cinematic scores, Maya Rivera is the sonic architect behind HypeChurch Studio B and the 15-track Original Worship & Parable Music Library. After burning out in the commercial music industry where artists were treated as disposable commodities, Maya found real restoration through the unfiltered parables of Christ. On the HypeChurch Podcast, she runs the live mixing board, drops original tracks between dramatic acts, and co-hosts with sharp, grounded questions that keep every conversation anchored in real life.

Elena Mercer

“Scripture never hides the brokenness of powerful men—it exposes the rooftop and the torn robe of Tamar so the voiceless know God sees every tear.”

A family-systems counselor and cultural essayist, Elena Mercer joined the HypeChurch Podcast cast to give voice to the conversations traditional churches are too afraid to touch: church hurt, the difference between counterfeit infatuation and covenant love, and why the Hebrew Bible refuses to whitewash King David's rooftop failure or Amnon's betrayal of Princess Tamar in 2 Samuel 13. Her essays and broadcast commentary have resonated deeply with women and parents searching for a faith community that protects the vulnerable and tells the whole truth.

Liam Callahan

“Every ten minutes in Scripture you encounter a behavioral or neurobiological law that modern science took three thousand years to measure.”

Liam Callahan spent seven years building behavioral prediction models and studying prefrontal-cortex decision-making before walking into HypeChurch Studio B as a self-described skeptic. When challenged to audit the biblical narrative of Joseph in Egypt (Genesis 39) versus David in Jerusalem (2 Samuel 11) through behavioral game theory and Dacher Keltner's 'Power Paradox' neurobiology, Liam discovered that the ancient biblical text modeled humandopaminergic surplus, hubris, and moral collapse with terrifying empirical accuracy. Now a full-time cast member and HISOM research fellow, Liam brings peer-reviewed neuroscience, information theory, and statistical forensics to every episode.

Dr. Daniel Ezra

“When you read the Hebrew consonants of Qumran Scroll 4QSam^a or the Greek papyri of John, you are not reading myth—you are touching first-century eyewitness history.”

Fluent in Biblical Hebrew, Imperial Aramaic, and Koine Greek, Dr. Daniel Ezra has spent twenty-two years examining Dead Sea Scroll fragments (including the Great Isaiah Scroll 1QIsa^a and 4QSam^a) and early New Testament papyri (P52, P46, P66, P75). On the HypeChurch Podcast and in HISOM University's Textual Criticism seminars, Dr. Ezra brings the ancient Near Eastern world to life—explaining why Potiphar's title Sar HaTabachim literally means 'Chief of the Executioners,' why the Ketonet Passim robe appears only on Joseph and Princess Tamar in the entire Hebrew Bible, and why the 1 Corinthians 15 creed dates within 36 months of the Crucifixion.