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About Mike Poteet

Mike Poteet is an ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He has served as a pastor, and currently serves the larger church as a freelance writer of Christian education resources for Cokesbury and Abingdon Press. An unrepentant Trekkie since 1984, he is proud to have sold a professional Star Trek short story to Pocket Books’ Strange New Worlds II in 1999. He lives near Philadelphia, PA.

“I Don’t Want Any More Cracks About The Book!”: Insights for Interpreting Sacred Texts from Star Trek

September 3, 20200

Sacred books and texts loom large in human civilizations, past and present. Yet such books and texts are scarce in…

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Trektember: Lethe | Star Trek: Discovery

September 11, 20181

As I watched “Lethe,” I couldn’t help but think about how the author of Ephesians (let’s acknowledge scholarly dispute over…

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Trektember: The Vulcan Hello | Star Trek: Discovery

September 1, 20184

What struck me most as I watched the debut episode of Star Trek: Discovery was its use of the eye…

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