The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, hosted by Dateline-featured cold-case homicide detective and former atheist J. Warner Wallace, examines the evidence for God's existence, the reliability of the Bible, and the truth of the Christian worldview. Drawing on decades of investigative experience, Wallace treats the New Testament documents like eyewitness case files, testing their claims with the same tools he used to solve real murders. Each episode tackles big questions about God, Jesus, Scripture, and culture, offering clear, accessible, and logically grounded case-making for Christians and skeptics alike. Topics include the historical evidence for Jesus, the resurrection, the problem of evil, the impact of Christianity on culture, and how to think biblically in an increasingly skeptical world. J. Warner also responds to common objections, interviews leading Christian thinkers, and equips listeners to share the truth of Christianity with confidence and grace. To explore more articles, videos, resources, and training materials, visit ColdCaseChristianity.com: https://www.coldcasechristianity.com.
Episodes
Why would the Gospel writers place women at the center of the Resurrection story if they were inventing the account? In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner Wallace investigates the historical significance of the women at the tomb through the lens of a cold-case homicide detective.
Mary Magdalene and the other women were not merely late-arriving observers. The Gospe...
Was Pontius Pilate real? And if the Gospels accurately describe Pilate, his Roman authority, and the execution of Jesus, what does that tell us about the historical reliability of the Gospel accounts?
In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner Wallace investigates Pontius Pilate the way a cold-case homicide detective would investigate a historical suspect. We examine t...
Prayer is often treated as a spiritual reflex—something we do before meals, during emergencies, or in public moments where religious language seems expected. But when we examine the biblical evidence, prayer is far more than a routine, performance, or attempt to give God information He ...
Is penal substitution a later theological invention—or does the Gospel testimony itself reveal that Jesus died in the place of guilty people?
In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner Wallace investigates the case from the Gospels alone. Rathe...
Were more of Jesus' twelve disciples connected than we realize?
In Matthew 10:2–4, the Gospel writer does more than list the names of the apostles. He appears to arrange the Twelve in pairs. Peter and Andrew are brothers. James and John are brothers. But what about the other pairings? Were Philip and Bartholomew friends before they followed Jesus? Is Bartholomew the Nathanael describe...
When Jesus was arrested, condemned, crucified, and buried, His most visible followers had scattered. Yet two unexpected men stepped forward to care for His body: Joseph of Arimathea, a wealthy and respected member of the Jewish council, and Nicodemus, the Pharisee who first came to Jesus under cover of night.
But were these men truly saved? Were they genuine followers of Jesus Chr...
Jesus is repeatedly portrayed in the Gospels through the lens of Moses and the Exodus—but the comparison is easy to miss if you are reading quickly.
In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner Wallace investigates the many ways Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John present Jesus as the new and greater Moses. Jesus is called out of Egypt, passes through water, enters the w...
Did Mary remain a perpetual virgin after Jesus was born? Or does the cumulative evidence of the New Testament indicate that Mary and Joseph later had a normal marriage and additional children?
In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner Wallace examines this important—but nonessential—Christian debate using the same kind of cumulative reasoning jurors use in...
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 early-church testimony. 📜
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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?
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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 Podcast, J. Warner Wallace explores the timing, culture, and communication realities that made biblical Christianity possible in the first ...
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 "the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world," he was doing something that flatly breaks the Old Testament lamb pattern.
Using the same cold-case, investigative approach&n...
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 contradictory? In this follow‑up episode, we build on the case from Part 1 and argue that Mark is not only rooted in Peter's preaching, but is also likely the earliest written Gospel that Matthew and Luke used as a framework.
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 Wallace (you) walks through the historical and forensic evidence that Mark's Gospel is rooted in the firsthand experiences of the apostle Peter. You'll discover why early Christian writers called Mark "Peter's interpreter," how Mark's roug...
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 an unsaved insider from the start? Drawing on a detective's methodology, J. Warner walks verse by verse through every major Judas passage, examines Judass remorse in Matthew 27, and weighs historic voices—from the Church Fathers to the Ref...
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 walks through the most popular claims about pre‑Turin relics—sudariums, veils, and rival "shrouds"—and explains why none of them close the chain‑of‑custody gap needed to treat the Turin cloth as first‑century evidence for Jes...
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 were crime scenes on a case board. Instead of treating these passages as isolated "nice healings," J. Warner stacks them side by side—Capernaum, the withered hand, Bethesda, the bent woman, the man with dropsy, the man bo...
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 works through the Gospel of John like a case file, pulling one key piece of evidence from each chapter (John 2–21) to test the viral claim, "Jesus never even said He was God." You'll see how titles, reactions, and "hidden in plain sight" de...
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 his background as a cold-case detective and Christian apologist, J. Warner explores how to separate facts from headlines, think biblically about justice, authority, and race, and model truth and hope in a culturally divided moment.
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 Christian apologist J. Warner Wallace examines the shroud the way he would any piece of evidence in a homicide trial, focusing on chain of custody, historical silence, and what the earliest Christians a...
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