The librarian quickly got back to me, asking when he taught there?

That seemed odd. I thought they would know all that.

But I replied:

James Maloney claims to have been a student there in the 70's.

He then claims that he was a teacher there. I am assuming he earned a degree or 2 there?

He also claims that miracles were performed in his class that covered such topics, The Theology of Healings and Miracles. 200 students attended this class at times, he says. He tells the story of a time when God told him there were 30 students in the class with deformities. All were healed. No date is given. I'm sure that an incident like that would have made the headlines, at least at your school, if not nationwide.

In the library where you work (I presume) another incident occurred. 50-60 men met in that library all night. At 4 am the room "swooned". all were slain in the Spirit. They lay as dead for 20 minutes. Someone is walking up the steps to the room (You are not on a ground floor?) Hears the flopping of sandals. It is Jesus, and his garments cover various men before He leaves. Again, this is an event that must have shaken the campus, and been recorded somewhere.

If it happened.

He first arrived in 1973, I believe, as a student. That is the only date given in his book "The Dancing Hand of God." He mentions CFNI multiple times. He now is called Dr. Maloney, but it is not plain in the book where the doctorate came from.

I am not a skeptic or an unbeliever. I am in fact a licensed minister and truly believe in miracles for today. But there was something about this book that started the red flags flying, if you know what I mean.

Whatever you find will be so very helpful. Thanks!

March 4

The librarian now assures me that her staff will help her look up some more info.

She was especially interested in the incident about the Holy Spirit falling in the library, "especially since I am the librarian."

I thanked her and waited for the next installment.

March 5

Next, she had to let me know that she had had to pass the assignment on to the student records officer, since the library would not have that sort of information.

So, the records officer writes, and I am told once more, "It is not our policy to release such information..." If you want to know about him, just contact him at his website. Which she kindly supplied.

Oh, fine. So now it's back to square one. But not before I send her this note:

One of the reasons I am doing research on James Maloney is that he makes such fantastic claims in his book and in public.

I have contacted his office regarding documentation of miracles and was told that he simply does not supply that sort of information.

Now you tell me that you cannot supply information about his work at CFNI

Where can I go to verify his information if not to the one institution that knew him at his beginnings and evidently knows him still?

My curiosity grows about this man, and about why his stories simply cannot be verified.

Is there no one there willing to stand behind James Maloney?

About this time a general note comes from the librarian asking

if there is anything else they can do.

I'm not sure she is aware of the records person's response to me,

so I share my frustration in the following note to her:

Actually I am very disappointed.

I have had a serious problem with acceptance of some of the stories Mr. Maloney tells. I wanted to do a deep research into his history, to confirm that the factual information he gives is reliable.

I already wrote to his organization and was informed that he supplies no information in terms of documentation of miracles! Now his home school cannot confirm when he was a student there, and if/when he was a teacher there, and some of the miraculous events that surely should have rocked CFNI if they truly happened.

I am led only to one conclusion so far, and it is not a happy one. I do hope that someone will step forward who can speak favorably of this man. Not his character or personality, but his actual performance of miracles and such. If there is no one, what am I to believe?

I know this is not your fault, but since you asked...

Then, yet another response from the librarian. She had found something after all! Strange. In some old yearbooks, " after spending quite some time looking at them, we found a student named James Maloney listed in the 1975 CFNI Yearbook."

And in the 1998 CFNI Yearbook, there was actually an instructor named James Maloney. His title was Instructor, Director of Prophetic Ministries.

In the yearbooks in 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002, he is listed as Dr. James Maloney, Instructor, Director of Prophetic Ministries.

So there it was! Somewhere in there he had received a Doctorate. He did teach there. Why such a difficult path to finding it out? And I was still left with the question of where those other college degrees originated. All of them, actually.

I decided to make one more attempt for release of info from the Maloney people. I wrote:

I am Bob, the one who requested information about James Maloney ' s miracles before.

I read that James has a number of degrees. PhD, DD, THD, to name a few. Could you tell me from what institutions these degrees were earned, and when?

Thanks,

Then it was that the Maloney camp lowered the boom on me. Nicely, though.