Doctrine-tested clarity for contested Christian questions.
The Alisa Childers Podcast frames current cultural and theological flashpoints through a historic Christian lens. Episodes move from TikTok theology and college faith challenges to suffering, occult practices, spiritual abuse, forgiveness, origins, IVF, and family ethics.
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The Alisa Childers Podcast is Christian apologetics with a strong discernment instinct. Its center of gravity is historic Christianity, biblical authority, and the ability to recognize counterfeits that borrow Christian language while changing Christian claims. The show often starts where many believers are already encountering pressure: TikTok clips, college classrooms, public-school pronoun debates, church corruption, therapeutic definitions of forgiveness, New Age spirituality, and arguments about Genesis. It moves quickly from the cultural surface to the theological foundation. Short claims get slowed down. Words are defined. Assumptions are tested. The show is at its most characteristic when it asks what a Christian with a Bible should make of a popular idea that sounds compassionate, enlightened, or spiritually exciting. Some episodes are highly practical. A college-focused conversation with Jonathan Morrow names challenges facing students in a hyper-personalized culture. A discussion with Clay Jones and Jeannie Jones approaches suffering through cancer, evil, trials, and suffering. Jac Marino’s episode traces occult and New Age involvement, including ritual magic and The Order of the Golden Dawn, while speaking to parents about prevention. Naomi Wright’s conversation addresses spiritual abuse, cult-like environments, Bethel, and cover-up culture. Teasi Cannon’s episode argues over forgiveness, repentance, abuse, and relational restoration. The show can be blunt. It is also explicitly practical, returning often to clarity, kindness, truth, a sharp mind, a soft heart, and a thick skin. Listeners looking for neutral interfaith survey work will not find that posture here. The point of view is openly Christian and doctrinally guarded. The appeal is for people who want help answering progressive Christianity, skeptical objections, and morally charged public debates without surrendering biblical categories. Its best fit is the Christian listener who wants cultural awareness joined to theological firmness.
Made for: The show suits Christians, parents, and students who want a biblical framework for progressive theology, deconstruction, social-media claims, and cultural pressure. It is especially aimed at listeners who prefer clear doctrinal boundaries over neutral commentary.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the combination of apologetics, discernment, and practical application across volatile topics. The show treats online claims, church controversies, suffering, abuse, origins, and family ethics as connected tests of biblical authority rather than isolated culture-war headlines.
Helping you answer Progressive Christianity and skeptical claims against the gospel from a biblical worldview
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Alisa Childers connects biblical argument to contested questions about doctrine, family life and public culture with unusual practical specificity.
Alisa Childers builds episodes around disputed questions within Christianity, usually through focused conversations with guests. The approach is openly biblical and argumentative: claims are tested against scripture, theological terms are clarified, and practical consequences…
Alisa Childers brings an open Bible to TikTok theology, with no algorithm getting the last word.
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Childers and her guests talk through progressive TikToks with Bibles close at hand.
Elisa Childers talks with Monique Dusson and Phoenix Hayes about progressive theology claims circulating on TikTok. Their aim is practical: to show how ordinary Christians with Bibles might work through claims they meet on social media.
TC Canon considers repentance, forgiveness, and the judgment needed when trust has been damaged.
Forgiveness can mean an inward release from a wrong, but TC Canon presses on what it means between people. Canon describes "I forgive you" as a promise to stop using the wrong against the person who committed it. That gives repentance a place in the conversation.
Questions about Adam's ancestry lead to Christian claims about sin and salvation.
Dr. J.R. Miller joins the host for a discussion of what Christians mean when they call Adam a historical person. The host does not feel bound to defend a particular age for the earth, but she does hold that Adam was a literal person and that Genesis records history.
A Christian discussion of children's rights, same-sex parenthood, IVF and parenthood law.
Katie Fowler and the host ask what marriage and parenthood owe to children. Fowler argues that parenthood law has moved away from biological ties, and she brings that concern to same-sex parents.
A Christian conversation about teaching young children about sex without making them ashamed of their bodies.
How can parents explain sex to a young child without teaching shame about their body? Elizabeth and the host take up that question from a Christian view of sex as good within marriage. Elizabeth pushes back on the fear that a simple explanation will cost a child their innocence.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Catholic arguments with pint-table warmth.
Daily headlines under Christian judgment.
Serious Bible questions, patiently reasoned.
Catholic homilies for the next faithful step.
Catholic teaching for ordinary discipleship.
Elisa Childers interviews Kirk Cameron about his journey from Hollywood actor to Christian advocate, discussing the culture war and the need for Christians to stand firm in truth.
Elisa Childers and guests Monique Duson and Phoenix Hayes react to progressive and deconstruction TikToks, modeling how Christians can critically engage with social media claims.
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Jac Marino shares her journey out of occult ritual magic and New Age practices, promoting her new book 'Ensnared' and offering practical advice for parents.
Naomi Wright discusses her escape from a cult and the healing process after spiritual abuse, focusing on the fallout from Bethel Church scandals.
Alisa Childers and Teasi Cannon contrast the "therapeutic model" of forgiveness with a biblical definition rooted in repentance and relationship.
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Katy Faust joins The Alisa Childers Podcast to present the Greater Than campaign, which seeks to end same-sex marriage by placing children's rights to their mother and father at the center of marriage law.
Elizabeth Urbanowicz, founder of Foundation Worldview Curriculum, says parents can begin sexuality conversations around age four and keep them age-appropriate through the early years.
Elisa Childers interviews Abbie Halberstadt about pushing back against victimhood culture in motherhood and trusting in God as a just judge.
Alisa Childers and Krista Bontrager discuss the progressive drift at Biola University and its impact on Christian families.
Frank Turek discusses the distinction between political/cultural engagement and the social gospel, addressing issues like abortion, same-sex marriage, and vaccines, while sharing his experience after Charlie Kirk's assassination.
Elisa Childers and Jon Root discuss the need for biblical discernment in the church, warning against the errors of 3rd Wayism and the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) that threaten true revival.