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The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast is hosted by J. Warner Wallace. J. Warner is a Dateline featured cold-case homicide detective, Senior Fellow at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, adjunct professor of apologetics at Biola University and a faculty member at Summit Ministries. The Cold-Case Christianity podcast explores the evidence for God's existence, the reliability of the Bible and the truth of the Christian worldview. Please visit our website at www.ColdCaseChristianity.com.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
Christian apologetics with an investigative frame, strongest when it turns doctrine, Scripture, and daily life into arguments for Christian belief.
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast sits squarely in the apologetics lane of Religion & Spirituality. Christian belief is treated as something to examine, argue, and carry into ordinary life.
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A careful apologetics episode on flood stories, evidence, and what shared memory might mean.
Jay Warner Wallace treats the flood and Noah as a question of comparison rather than quick verdict. He spends most of the episode weighing the Noah story against other flood traditions, then asking what survives that comparison.
A patient apologetics lesson on Nicodemus, identity, and what it means to be grounded in Christ.
Jay Warner Wallace uses Nicodemus to press on a stubborn question: what happens when a respectable religious life becomes the place a person looks for identity?
A clear warning against mistaking Christian service for self-promotion.
J. Warner Wallace returns to humility and uses it to press on a sharper question: what is really driving Christian service when audience, reward, and the pull of platform growth start to matter.
A patient apologetic case for Scripture as one unified theme.
The episode makes a steady case for a single thread running through Scripture, moving through the histories to show human failure, divine patience, and restoration.
A calm apologetics piece that weighs Christianity like a case, not a slogan.
Wallace treats Christianity as something to be weighed, not waved through, and the argument keeps coming back to witness, burden of proof, and reasonable doubt.
A steady case for Christians to live as a distinct people in the world.
Jim Wallace builds a clear argument for the church by moving from doctrine and creeds into seven early marks of Christian self-understanding. He starts with core truth claims, then contrasts believers as people in the world but not of it, using that tension to argue for a church…
A practical case for marriage, grounded in Scripture, child outcomes, and the two-parent ideal.
Jay Warner Wallace builds a practical case for marriage before he ever gets to Scripture, and he leans on his own work with couples in trouble to give it weight.
A scripture-led apologetics case for Jesus' deity, built by revisiting the same claim from several angles.
Jay Warner Wallace makes his case for Jesus' deity by moving through Colossians 1 and the logic of the incarnation. He slows down on what fullness means, then draws the passage to a plain conclusion: the one who reconciles all things is the one who created all things, so the…
Careful Christian thought under pressure.
Christian apologetics under courtroom pressure.
Jay Warner Wallace turns to Nicodemus to ask where identity really comes from.
Jay Warner Wallace uses a cold-case murder from his work to argue that trauma is shaped by worldview, not just by the event itself.
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The episode makes the case for Christianity the way a lawyer might build a case in court.
Jim Wallace closes a series on essential Christian truth claims by turning to the church.
The host takes up the claim that Scripture has a single theme.
Jim Wallace pauses his series on Bible reliability and turns to a different question: what Christianity has done in the world.
Jay Warner Wallace starts a bit stuffy and says he will power through because he wants to make the case for marriage.
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Jay Warner Wallace uses the “problem of evil” to argue that Epicurus’ dilemma only works if God is merely all-powerful and all-loving, not also all-knowing.
Jay Warner Wallace revisits the flood story and asks what the evidence really supports.
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Jay Warner Wallace says 1 Corinthians 15 makes the resurrection central, because Paul says believers are “to be pitied” if Jesus was not raised.
Jay Warner Wallace opens The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast by framing the problem of evil as both an intellectual objection to theism and an emotional experience for grieving people.
Jay Warner Wallace asks whether synthetic biology can answer the origin-of-life question, using a Washington Post article by Seth Borenstein titled “Artificial Life Likely in Three to Five Years.” He cites Mark Baddow of Proto-Life, Jack Szostak of Harvard Medical School, and Steve Benner of the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution while summarizing three hurdles for life: a membrane, a genetic system, and a metabolism.
Jay Warner Wallace treats John 1 as a cumulative case.
Jim Wallace uses a discussion of the Biola debate between William Lane Craig and Christopher Hitchens to argue that public debates often reward tactics more than content.
Jim Wallace addresses whether Christians are too biased to be trusted, comparing the evidential claims of Christianity and Mormonism, arguing that laws of logic point to God, and critiquing secular scientific bias through forensic detective analogies.
Jay Warner Wallace opens by revisiting the questions he gets asked most often and turns them toward fame and character.
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Jay Warner Wallace frames this Cold Case Christianity episode around two more parts of his cumulative case for evil: evil drawing people to God and evil fitting God’s justice.
Jay Warner Wallace continues his series on the problem of evil by saying Christians need more than a one-line answer when people ask why an all-loving, all-powerful God allows suffering.
Jay Warner Wallace closes out his series on the nature and historicity of Jesus by looking at what Islam says about him.
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A cold-case detective presents a series on evidence for God's existence from a Christian perspective.
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