By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor
Evangelical YouTuber and Bible teacher Mike Winger is urging Christians to donate toward relocating fellow content creator Michael Jones to a safer home, saying Jones and his family face credible threats, stalking and doxing tied to Jones’ online work opposing Islam.
Winger made the appeal in a post on X, where he called Jones his friend and said Jones needed to move to a different house because of the danger.
He asked people who had benefited from Jones’ content on the YouTube channel InspiringPhilosophy, or who simply wanted to help, to consider giving.
Winger characterized those threatening Jones as Muslims who go after Christians they view as effective in drawing fellow Muslims toward Christianity.
Jones, who founded and runs InspiringPhilosophy Ministries, has launched a GoFundMe fundraiser with a stated goal of $200,000. He said the figure is meant to cover the added cost of a security-related move and not his ordinary expenses.
Running the ministry is his full-time job, Jones said, and the salary he takes covers routine living costs without leaving room to absorb an unexpected relocation.
In his fundraiser text and an accompanying YouTube video, Jones said his family had been threatened, that his personal information had been posted online, and that people had tried to find where he lives.
He said one person told him, “Your front door is next.”
According to Jones, those targeting him shared his phone number and an address they claimed was his, and made threats of physical violence as well as threats of sexual violence against his wife, who is expecting the couple’s second child.
Jones said he and his wife sought safety guidance and concluded that relocating was the responsible course.
For security reasons, he said, the family will not disclose the new home’s location, photographs or identifying details. In the video, Jones said they had found a reasonably priced home in a gated community far from where they currently live.
Jones said his apologetics work draws hundreds of thousands of viewers a week and reaches into the millions monthly, and that he has aimed much of that audience toward rebutting Islamic apologetics, which he said many Christians run into online.
His output, he said, has included videos, debates with Muslim apologists, and livestreamed call-in shows contrasting Christian and Islamic belief.
Jones also said that when he was in Los Angeles, a man he called the ring leader of the group harassing him followed him to a church where he was scheduled to speak and claimed to be carrying a weapon.
Jones added that on an earlier occasion, an FBI agent came to his home and told him he was being targeted by a Middle East-based terrorist group, labeling him a “kafir” and treating him as a threat.
Jones said he intends to continue his online ministry and his work responding to Islamic apologetics while moving his family to a location he considers safer.