The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

Who Wrote Hebrews? The Bible's Greatest Cold Case

Who wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews? The author never identifies himself—yet the letter leaves behind a compelling trail of internal clues, manuscript evidence, and earl

Who Decided What's In Your Bible? (And Were They Right?)

How did 27 specific books end up in your New Testament out of hundreds of early Christian writings—and how can you be confident the church didn't just invent the Bible?

The Overlooked Factor That Shaped All of Christianity

What if one overlooked factor quietly shaped all of Christian history—and still shapes the way you see Jesus today? 🤔 In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcas

This Is NOT How Lambs Work: The Shocking Old Testament Clue Everyone Misses About Jesus

In this episode, J. Warner Wallace takes you into the forensic details of the Bible's sacrificial system to examine a stunning claim: when John the Baptist called Jesus "

Unmasking the Gospels: Is Mark the Original Jesus Report?

If Mark really preserves Peter's eyewitness testimony, what does that mean for the other Gospels—and for skeptical claims that the New Testament is late, legendary, and c

Eyewitness or Legend? The Truth About Mark's Gospel

Was the Gospel of Mark built on real eyewitness testimony—or is it just another religious legend? In this episode, cold‑case detective and Christian apologist J. Warner W

Deconstructing Judas: Saved, Lost, or Something Far Worse?

In this episode, cold-case detective and Christian apologist J. Warner Wallace reopens "the Judas file" and asks a blunt question: Was Judas ever truly saved, or was he a

Can ANYONE Close the Missing Centuries of the Shroud of Turin?

How do you investigate the "missing centuries" of the Shroud of Turin like a real cold-case detective? In this third episode on the Shroud of Turin, J. Warner Wallace wal

Why Jesus Kept 'Poking the Bear' on the Sabbath—and What It Proves

In this extended episode, cold-case detective and Christian apologist J. Warner Wallace investigates every one of Jesus' Sabbath miracles and controversies as if they wer

21 Clues Everyone Misses About Jesus' Deity in John's Gospel

Is Jesus really God, or did the church just make that up later? In this episode of Cold-Case Christianity, homicide detective and Christian apologist J. Warner Wallace wo

How Should Christians Respond When The World Is On Fire?

In this episode, J. Warner Wallace joins The Bill Arnold Show to discuss how followers of Jesus can thoughtfully respond to the recent events in Minneapolis. Drawing on h

What 1,300 Years of SILENCE Says About the Shroud of Turin

Is the Shroud of Turin a genuine relic of Jesus, a medieval hoax, or something else entirely? In this second episode on the Shroud of Turin, cold-case detective and Chris

Did We Make Up God… or Superheroes? A Cold-Case Detective Investigates

Are our favorite superheroes just modern myths—or are they clues that we were made for something more? In this episode, cold-case detective and Christian apologist J. War

If the Gospel Is So Powerful, Why Bother Persuading Anyone?

Many Christians say, "Just preach the gospel—God will do the rest." But Scripture paints a richer picture: the gospel is the power of God for salvation, and God still cal

Deconstruction vs. Truth: A Detective Looks at the New Doubt Movement

In this conversation, J. Warner Wallace joins Janelle Wood from Finding Something Real to examine the case for Christianity through the lens of a cold-case detective. Tog

Does God Exist? A Cold‑Case Detective Reacts to TikTok Atheists

In this episode, J. Warner Wallace — cold-case detective, Christian apologist, and author of God's Crime Scene — reacts to the most viral atheist claims circulating on Ti

Jesus on Trial: Investigating 5 Difficult Verses in the Gospels

In this episode, I put five of Jesus' hardest sayings under the investigative spotlight. As a cold-case homicide detective, I've spent my career testing witness statement

The Most Dangerous Kind of Faith in the Church Today

Faith is not supposed to be blind, reckless, or detached from reality. In this episode, J. Warner Wallace (cold-case detective and Christian apologist) takes a hard look

What If Jesus Is Just One More Myth? Inside a Homicide Detective's Spiritual Crime Scene

In this episode, cold-case homicide detective and Christian apologist J. Warner Wallace walks through the "spiritual crime scene" of his own journey from skeptical natura

My Most Requested Case Ever: Investigating the Shroud of Turin

In this episode, cold-case homicide detective and Christian apologist J. Warner Wallace finally turns his investigative lens on one of the most talked-about religious art