September 2, 2026
God Will Use What You Read in the Bible
This episode is strongest when it gives pastoral advice, explains ordinary textual-criticism distinctions, and tries to reduce unnecessary anxiety around ministry titles. It is weakest when…
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Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast
Greg Koukl and STR
The five most recent public critiques from the Stand to Reason corpus. Full transcripts remain in the separated private podcast assets.
August 28, 2026
Will Both Christians and Non-Christians Stand in the Judgment?
The episode gives several careful pastoral distinctions, especially between visitor and member, condemnation and reward, and charitable concession and tactical surrender. Those distinctions…
August 26, 2026
Jeremiah 31:35–36 and the State of Israel
This episode is strongest when Koukl slows down and admits limits: he does not pretend to have empirical evidence that physics changed at the fall, and his relational advice for engaging a…
August 21, 2026
AI Will Never Be a Person
The episode contains several defensible cautions, especially about AI companionship, family responsibility, and real doctrinal differences between religions. But its most confident…
August 19, 2026
Interview: Stephen Driscoll – God, Artificial Intelligence, and You
The episode gives a useful introductory tour of AI risks, especially anthropomorphism, companionship, privacy, and identity disruption. Its weakest moves occur when plausible technological…
I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST
Frank Turek
The five most recent public critiques from the CrossExamined corpus, rendered through the same critique workflow and display system.
September 4, 2026
Is Everyone Oppressed Now? Why Satan Loves Marxism with Phoenix Hayes
This episode offers a sweeping Christian-conservative diagnosis of contemporary cultural conflict: Marxism allegedly mutates into identity politics, identity politics allegedly turns…
September 1, 2026
What America Forgot About George Washington with Eric Metaxas
This episode is most charitably heard as a patriotic devotional history: Washington is honored, revolutionary sacrifice is celebrated, and Christian language in the founding era is treated…
August 28, 2026
The Bible: A Book of “Stories” or Historical Accounts? with Dinesh D’Souza
This episode has a real strength: it invites Christians to care about public evidence rather than treating biblical claims as sealed-off devotional material. Its central weakness is that it…
August 25, 2026
The #1 Thing That Will Prevent You From Being Deceived feat. the Women of Apologetics
This episode is strongest when it urges listeners to practice logic, resist personality-driven persuasion, and distinguish emotional comfort from truth. It becomes weakest when that same…
August 21, 2026
17-Year-Old Tech Prodigy Explains What Every Christian Needs to Know About AI with Nathan & Natasha Crain
This episode is strongest when it treats AI as a fallible tool that can hallucinate, flatter users, facilitate cheating, and require verification. It becomes weakest when those valid…
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- The #1 Most Dangerous Place to Live in America with Phoenix Hayes
- The Biggest Challenge That Has Tested Greg’s Faith
- Addictions? Generational Curses? How to Break Free with Allen Parr & Bobby Conway
- Problems with Using Autonomy as Your Guiding Moral Principle
- “Hearing” the Voice of God – Is It Biblical? with Greg Koukl
- How to Recover TRUTH in a World That Celebrates LIES with Phoenix Hayes
- How Can God’s Voice Be Unmistakable in Light of These Passages?
- When One Person Is Equipped, Thousands More Are Impacted
- Are Open Borders Biblical? with John Ferrer & Jason Jimenez
- Does Age Always Match the Appearance of Age?
- 3 BIG Reasons Why Every Christian Should Care About Israel + Immigration with John Ferrer & Jason Jimenez
- Find a Good Bible Translation and Stick with It
- Is America on Stolen Land? Debunking More Historical Myths with Tim Barton
- Rewriting History – Debunking the Lies You’ve Always Been Told About America with Tim Barton
- Questions for Someone Who Casually Refers to Karma
- What About Baptism for the Dead?
- Anything But Christianity? Answering College Students’ Toughest Objections with Cliffe & Stuart Knechtle
- Inclusivism Gives People False Hope
- How to Demolish Your Christian Doubts with Cliffe & Stuart Knechtle
- We Have an Obligation to Help the Poor
- “HELP! Conspiracy Theories Are Ruining My Marriage!” 37 Questions to Consider
- What Are the Reasons?
- Bible Expert Reveals Who REALLY Wrote the Gospels?
- Faith Is Not Opposed to Knowledge
- Frank Addresses Candace Owens’ Conspiracy Theories
- What Happened to the 56 Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence? with Bill Federer
- Cultivating a “Big Enough” Worldview in Students
- Deist or Christian: Who Were the 56 Men Who Founded America? with Bill Federer
- How to Detect Heresy: The Gospel of James Talarico with Ryan Crews
- Who Are the “Least of These”?
- The Outrageous Lies Americans Are Being Told About Reality with Nick Freitas
- Mic-Drop Wisdom About Marriage, Manhood, Lawn Care, Elon Musk, & American Prosperity from Nick Freitas
- Why Would We Matter to God?
- Did the Universe REALLY Have a Beginning? Unpacking the “Battle for the Big Bang” with Dr. Stephen C. Meyer
- What a Good Young Man Looks Like
- From Extreme Depression to Street Preacher: How God Saved His Life with Bryce Crawford
- Greg Announces Stand to Reason’s New President-Elect
- God the Artist: What You Never Knew About David & Goliath
- What No One Ever Told You About the American Revolution with Eric Metaxas
- How Could One Reconcile Death Before the Fall with Romans 5 and 8?
- Be Worthy of the Bullet That Charlie Kirk Took For You — Why Independence Day? with Steve Deace PLUS Q&A
- How Could a Good God Send a Lying Spirit?
- Why Weren’t We Made Sinless in the First Place?
- Why Does Jesus List Heart, Soul, and Mind Separately?
- Will We Be Held Responsible for Not Warning Non-Believers of the Coming Judgment?
- Has God Always Been Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?
- Objections to Last Week’s Shows on Antisemitism
- Interview: Scott Keith – Being Family
- How Should Christians View and Treat the Jews?
- A Response to the Rising Antisemitism
- Your Salvation Doesn’t Depend on Following the Old Testament Laws
- Interview: Stephen Meyer – The Story of Everything
- An April Fools’ Day Story
- Is Morality Just Limited to God’s Say-So?
- Does Hebrews 10 Teach That You Can Lose Your Salvation?
- Interview: Jon Noyes – Noyes on the Streets
- What Happens to People Who Never Heard the Gospel?
- Where’s the Proof for God?
- Reasons for and Against Converting to Christianity
- Just Tell Them the Truth
- Atheist Michael Ruse’s Confused Argument for Morality
- Is God a Bad Father?
- Arguments for the A-Theory of Time
- A Three-Point Response to the Problem of Evil
- How Do We Dive into Controversial Conversations in a Sensible Way?
- The Continental Divide in Worldviews
- Waiting Is a Normal Part of the Christian Life
- Two Historical Films Worth Watching
- How Different Will Our Resurrected Bodies Be?
- Is This Similar to Learning to Hear God’s Voice?
- A Legitimate Slippery Slope
- Is This a Flaw in the Moral Argument?
- Two Types of Legalism
- One True Reality
- The Intersectionality Wheel of Privilege
- Descriptive vs. Prescriptive
- Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder?
- We Can’t Both Be Christian
- If Jesus Is the Firstborn, Does That Mean He’s Part of Creation?
- Are All Values and Duties Subjective Since They Only Exist in Minds?
- Thoughts on Annihilationism
- Are We Able to Get an Objective Meaning from the Text?
- Greg Clarifies His View on Altar Calls and the Gospel
- What Suggestions Do You Have for a First-Time Pastor?
- Didn’t Jesus Teach That We Were Supposed to Love and Accept One Another?
- Are We Obliged to Pray Only to the Father?
- How Can I Become a Better Thinker?
- Should I Attend an Unmarried Woman’s Baby Shower?
- Even Christians Are Becoming Culturally Velocitized
- What Did Jesus Think About Homosexuality?
- Thoughts on a Podcast Discussion with Former Christians
- Interview: Alisa Childers – Another Gospel for Students
- What Does It Mean to Be Made in God’s Image?
- How Do We Know Objective Values Aren’t a Delusion?
- What If a Darwinist Denies There’s Something Wrong with the World?
- Beauty Is Real
- Christianity Can Anchor Your Life Because It’s True
- Can Evolution Explain Our Sense of Meaning?
- Which Worldview Best Explains Meaning and Purpose?
- Are These My Thoughts, or Is God Speaking to Me?
- Why an Emotivist Can’t Use Suffering to Argue Against the Existence of God
- Greg’s Experience on The Diary of a CEO Podcast
- How Would You Make a Case for the Christian God?
- The Assassination of Charlie Kirk
- Interview: John Stonestreet – Truth Rising
- It’s Okay to Quote a Single Verse...If You Understand the Context
- Man’s Free Will Doesn’t Determine the Course of the Universe
- Why Does God Limit Our Opportunity to Repent and Believe to This Lifetime?
- Challenges to Greg’s View That God’s Voice Can’t Be Missed
- We Have a Relationship with God on His Terms, Not on Ours
- How Can I Believe in God or Anything Supernatural?
- Alan Shlemon on the Topics of Jesus’ Deity in the Gospels and Transgenderism
- Thoughts on the Transcendental Argument
- Objections to Greg’s View on Hearing the Voice of God
- What Miracles Have You Witnessed?
- How AI and Social Media are Making Us Dumber
- Is It Normal for a Believer to Struggle with Doubt?
- Do Demons Still Have a Chance to Be Saved?