Measured Christian teaching for thoughtful discipleship.
The Crossway Podcast is a steady, book-centered forum for Christian reflection on theology, Scripture, and discipleship. Recent episodes move from critical theory and repentance to resurrection hope, end-times doctrine, biblical wisdom, and Harriet Tubman’s faithfulness.
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The Crossway Podcast is a Christian teaching show shaped by author interviews, biblical explanation, and occasional audio essays. It favors clarity over speed. Recent episodes show its range: critical theory, repentance, resurrection, end-times doctrine, false teaching, wisdom, Bible reading, and the faithfulness of Harriet Tubman. The show usually treats a topic as something to be defined before it is debated or applied. That gives the conversations a steady structure. A guest may explain how critical theory offers a rival account of the world, or how repentance involves confession, grief, joy, and concrete change. Another episode may shift into a more formal essay, tracing myths about the end times or patterns followed by false teachers in 2 Peter and Jude. The pacing stays measured even when the subject is charged. Race, family, final judgment, slavery, AI, church life, and biblical interpretation are handled through an explicitly Christian frame rather than as general-interest commentary. The show is most alive when abstract theology is translated into ordinary life: impatience with a spouse, people coming to church on Easter Sunday, a home repair helped by AI, or a reader trying to see Scripture as one story without flattening its variety. It is reverent, but not remote. Interviews often move by summary, follow-up, and practical implication, while audio essays bring a more polished teaching cadence. The recurring center is not personality-driven chatter. It is books, doctrine, Scripture, and discipleship. Listeners looking for quick takes may find it deliberate. Listeners who want careful Christian teaching will find a stable guide through questions that touch belief, worship, history, ethics, and daily faithfulness.
Made for: The show is for Christians who want patient, book-informed conversations about Scripture, theology, doctrine, and practical faith. It especially suits pastors, church leaders, Bible teachers, parents, and readers who prefer careful explanation to fast commentary.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the combination of author access, patient pacing, and doctrinal precision. The feed can move from interview to audio essay while keeping the same steady concern: helping Christian ideas become clearer, weightier, and more livable.
This is The Crossway Podcast, a show where we sit down with authors each week for thoughtful interviews about the Bible, theology, church history, and the Christian life.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Careful interviews connect Christian doctrine and biblical interpretation with the songs, stories, and practices families pass to children.
The Crossway Podcast takes a proposition about Christian belief and keeps questioning it until the interpretive stakes come into view. The host gives guests room to define their terms, then presses on the difficult hinge points: how Romans connects Adam and Christ, why the…
Romans gets a close reading, then Harriet Tubman widens your sense of faithful courage.
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A patient Christian reading of critical theory and its family critique.
Brad Green, professor of theological studies at Union University and author of What is Critical Theory? A Concise Christian Analysis, treats critical theory as a rival account of the world, the problem, and the answer in this Crossway conversation.
A careful look at repentance as grief, return, confession, and grace beneath everyday selfishness.
Repentance is treated as a real about-face, not a vague mood or a bid to earn favor. The prodigal son frames the movement well: grief is seen in the father's face, yet the return ends in welcome and celebration.
Harriet Tubman is presented as a story of quiet faithfulness, freedom work, and God's wider purposes.
Char Walker's The Story of Harriet Tubman, The Trailblazer Who Led Many to Freedom follows Tubman's escape, her family rescue, and the Underground Railroad as a web of people guided by signals, song, sayings, and safe houses.
A measured case for reading scripture as a single story without flattening its variety.
Greg Gilbert argues for reading the Bible as one story by beginning with ordinary life, where a day can move from money to kids to friends and family.
Romans 5 is handled closely, with Adam, Christ, faith, and the law kept in view.
Brian Rosner treats Romans with close attention to the chapter's logic, especially the pairing of Adam and Christ in Romans 5. The conversation keeps pressing into the harder edges of the passage, including verse 17, verse 18, and the question of what Paul means by sin before…
A bedtime song can become family prayer and Scripture memory.
Kristen Getty makes a steady case for singing in the home, especially at bedtime. She points to a favorite page in We Sing with a daddy on the floor, half asleep, and ties that image to her own nights with Keith and their children, where humming or playing songs helped bring…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Kristyn Getty discusses her new picture book 'We Sing' and the importance of family singing beyond Sunday worship.
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New Testament scholar Brian Rosner discusses four confusing and controversial passages in Romans.
Carl Trueman tells Crossway's Matt that classical theology, found in the Nicene, Athanasian and Chalcedonian creeds, is "the theology the church has always believed." He explains why evangelicals distrust it: scripture-alone commitments, non-biblical terms like "Usia," and a therapeutic Western mindset that shapes prayer requests around bodily health.
Chris Brauns uses a hypothetical bank robbery in Stillman Valley to distinguish forgiveness from consequences: a repentant pastor could be forgiven yet lose his role at Red Brick Church.
Gunnar Gundersen says preaching brings God's word through a pastor who knows a congregation's particular burdens, not merely through private Bible reading.
Brad Green opens with a theological claim.
Joel Beeke refutes five common myths about the end times, including the ideas that they were a failed promise, entirely fulfilled in the first century, that God will save everyone, annihilate the wicked, or that people will live only as heavenly spirits.
The Crossway Podcast episode "What Is Repentance and Am I Doing It Right?
The Crossway Podcast interviews Patrick Schreiner about the historical, cosmic, and existential evidence for Jesus’s resurrection.
Matthew Harmon outlines three patterns of false teachers based on 2 Peter and Jude, emphasizing the link between right belief and right living.
Char Walker joins the host to talk about her book on Harriet Tubman.
Matt Harmon discusses the distinction between knowledge and wisdom, emphasizing that true wisdom is found in Jesus Christ.
Greg Gilbert joins The Crossway Podcast to talk about reading the Bible as one story.
Uche Anizor discusses revitalizing scripture reading by viewing it as God's gracious presence rather than a duty.
Beth Broom discusses how to talk to children about suffering by connecting with their experience and then sharing biblical truth.
Brian Rosner discusses why the book of Romans is so influential and studied, highlighting its historical impact and comprehensive presentation of the gospel.