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The recent suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain have renewed a national conversation about suicide and it’s causes. As a homicide detective, I...
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Alien Shock: Would First Century Christians Even Recognize Our Churches? (Podcast)
John 1 Destroyed My ‘Just-a-Prophet’ Jesus: A Cold-Case Detective Makes the Deity Case (Podcast)
Rethinking Love: Why Covenants, Not Contracts, Change Every Relationship – Married or Single (Podcast)
Trauma, Murder, and God’s Plan: Why Your Worldview Determines Your Wounds (Podcast)
Stop Chasing Platforms: Why Real Christian Service Isn’t About Ministries, Money, or Fame (Podcast)
Faith and Belief
Would first‑century Christians even recognize what we call “church” today? In this episode, J. Warner Wallace uses a simple “alien thought experiment” to examine...
The Bible
J. Warner applies forensic principles to the reliability of the Gospels, arguing that differences between eyewitness accounts are expected and actually validate rather than...
Christian Living
If you’re someone who’s taken your faith in Jesus seriously, there’s a good chance you’ve already been discipled by somebody. But often, that raises...
Jesus
This episode walks through John 1 verse by verse to show why the apostle John leaves no room for a “just-a-prophet” Jesus and instead...
Jesus
When I first opened the pages of the New Testament, I didn’t approach it as a believer—I came at it as a skeptic, a...
Christian Living
Christians often find themselves confronted by a popular misconception: that we should never judge others. I frequently hear variations of this sentiment—“Don’t judge me,”...
God / Theism
The universe is an incredibly complex, finely tuned environment—so precise that carbon-based life like ours can exist at all. This point isn’t just made...
Christian History
The significance of the first century is unmistakable, whether you approach it as a believer or, like I did for many years, as a...
Christianity
J. Warner responds to the claim that churches overly focus on homosexuality while neglecting adultery, noting that cultural trends shape which issues receive attention...
God's Existence
Christianity
This episode reframes how we think about love and relationships by contrasting fragile, contract-style arrangements with the resilient, biblical model of covenant. Drawing from marriage research,...
Christianity
This episode wrestles with trauma, murder, and suffering, and explains why the way you see the world—your worldview—largely determines how deeply you are wounded and...
Christianity
This episode challenges the modern obsession with platforms and “ministry success” and asks whether followers of Jesus have quietly replaced real service with a pursuit of...
Christianity
This episode looks at why humility is the one trait that can quietly destroy our obsession with celebrity, platform, and approval—and why it may be the...
Biblical Reliability
The authorship of Mark’s Gospel is of great importance to those of us making a case for the reliability of the New Testament. Mark...
Biblical Reliability
The authorship of the New Testament Gospels has become a point of contention for many skeptics who deny the traditional attributions of Mark, Matthew...
God's Existence
In this clip from J. Warner Wallace’s longer talk on the existence of God from cosmological evidence (based on his book, God’s Crime Scene),...
Culture
In the days following a recent school shooting (this one in Santa Fe, Texas), family members, friends and investigators found themselves searching for illusive answers....
Biblical Reliability
In the past, I’ve posted a number of scientific consistencies found in the Old Testament. While I think there are good reasons why God...
God’s Existence
In this blast from the past, J. Warner Wallace examines one aspect of the classic “Problem of Evil”. Why would an all-loving and all-powerful...
Christian Case Making
Every year at the CrossExamined Instructors Academy (CIA), dozens of students courageously offer their own “apologetics” presentations to those of us who had been...
Christian Living
God / Theism
Christian Living
God / Theism
Christian History
Christian Case Making
Belief / Faith
Evangelism and Case Making
Christian Living
God / Theism
Christian History
Christian Case Making
Belief / Faith