Dinesh D’Souza has spent the last several years behind a camera making the case for conservative politics. Now the bestselling author, podcaster and filmmaker is turning to archaeology to make the case for the Bible itself.
“I have come away from reading, reflecting and studying with the exhilarating recognition that the events and people of the Bible are real,” D’Souza said in a statement announcing the book. “It’s all true. What I previously accepted on faith is now supported and corroborated by scientific fact.”
D’Souza’s new book, The Stones Cry Out: Biblical Archeology, Prophecy and the Last Days, arrives Oct. 13 from Charisma House. The Houston-based publisher announced the release July 9, pitching the book as an answer to a “growing skeptic debate” over whether the Bible holds up as reliable history.
The project traces back to a 2022 trip D’Souza took to Israel. He spent the following three years visiting excavation sites across the biblical world, gathering evidence he says vindicates events many people have treated as matters of faith alone.
In the book, D’Souza walks through discoveries and ongoing scholarly debates tied to King Solomon’s Temple and his reign, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Exodus and ancient Egypt, the collapsed walls of Jericho and the crucifixion, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Rather than simply describing the digs, each chapter includes video access meant to put readers at the excavation sites themselves. D’Souza then goes further, tying the archaeological record to the end-times prophecy of the book of Revelation and what he believes it means for the world’s future.
Movieguide® readers likely know D’Souza better from behind the camera than from the research desk. His documentaries dig into contested political territory, and Movieguide® has reviewed two of his more recent ones.
2000 MULES, D’Souza’s 2022 movie alleging illegal ballot harvesting in the 2020 election, earned a 4 out of 4 Quality Rating from Movieguide® and a +3 family content rating, with the review calling it “a shocking, disturbing exposé” that “makes an excellent case” for voter ID laws.
POLICE STATE, his 2023 documentary on federal law enforcement targeting political opponents, scored 3 out of 4 stars but landed a -1 family rating over scattered profanity and disturbing historical imagery. Movieguide®’s review said the movie “makes a powerful case” despite running about 10 minutes too long.
D’Souza has been named one of America’s most influential conservative thinkers by The New York Times Magazine, one of the nation’s 500 leading authorities on international issues by the World Affairs Council and one of the country’s most prominent Asian-Americans by Newsweek, according to the publisher’s announcement.
Whether readers come to The Stones Cry Out through his movies or his other bestsellers, D’Souza is betting the instinct that fuels his documentaries — chasing down evidence and following it — works just as well pointed at a 3,000-year-old dig site as it does at a ballot drop box.
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