Chasing Elephants Podcast

Chasing Elephants Podcast is a Christian leadership show for people who live near the overlap of ministry, theology, students, and culture. It favors roomy conversations over tight interviews. Episodes often open with banter, travel notes, or a vivid ministry story, then turn toward the heavier question underneath. What keeps a youth pastor in one place for decades? What kind of friendship can handle weakness without turning it into a performance? What happens when a Christian leader lets doubt become a teacher instead of an exit door? The show keeps returning to those formation questions. Jeff Wallace is a steady presence in the excerpts, bringing warmth, humor, and a direct pastoral register. Brent appears in friendship conversations where biblical history, leadership pressure, and personal vulnerability get braided together. Guests broaden the frame without pulling the show away from its core. Jody Livingston speaks into longevity and staying power in youth ministry. Shane Pruitt presses the importance of getting Jesus right, especially when cultural or social-media versions of Jesus flatten repentance and discipleship. Pastor Todd Mullins discusses doubt, leadership growth, and the choice to lean toward correction rather than shrink from it. Megan Fate Marshman brings a lighter, relational interview energy around Jesus, ministry, and the idea of rest. Dr. Bill Brown appears in a Scholar-in-Residence context for worldview, ethics, morality, pronouns, and same-sex wedding questions. The show assumes Christian categories without apologizing for them. It is also more conversational than academic. Its theology comes through stories, Scripture references, leadership examples, and ministry-room language. The pacing can be loose, but the throughline is clear: faithful leadership requires conviction, friendship, humility, and a willingness to have hard conversations out loud.