The Crossway Podcast

Samuel James, a Crossway editor and author of Scroll Less, Live More, explores how parents can help teens develop healthier tech habits. He discusses turning technology regret into meaningful change, grounding screen-time decisions in wisdom, and navigating AI’s effects on relationships, learning, and personhood. He also highlights friendship, accountability, embodied community, and the grace that makes lasting transformation possible.

Colleen Searcy, Bible teacher and creator of the Meet Me in the Bible series, shares seven practical principles for leading meaningful Bible studies. She explores crafting a clear vision, setting expectations, preparing diligently, inviting quieter voices, fostering honest questions, building relationships around Scripture, and connecting biblical learning to real-world action.

Andrew Walker, a Southern Baptist theologian and author of Prodigal Culture, examines a society detached from God. He explores loneliness, declining marriage, nihilism, technology’s inability to create meaning, and the exhaustion of borrowed Christian morals. The conversation considers creation order, human dignity, counterfeit pleasures, and whether cultural despair may open a door for the gospel.

Jen Oshman, an author, speaker, missionary, and church-planting veteran, explores why cookies, wealth, achievement, technology, self-improvement, and relationships cannot deliver lasting happiness. She discusses how Christians can turn good things into idols, why we keep chasing temporary pleasure, and how joy can coexist with suffering. The conversation points toward an unexpected, upside-down path to durable happiness.

Andrew Davis, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Durham and founder of Two Journeys Ministry, presents a practical guide to memorizing an entire Bible book. He explores why whole-book memorization matters, how context guards against misinterpretation, and why prayer and humility are essential. He also discusses choosing a manageable starting point, planning a realistic pace, and persevering to the finish.

Kevin DeYoung, a pastor, theologian, author, and church historian, explores why church history matters to every Christian. He discusses Jesus’s faithfulness through the centuries, why ordinary churches often vanish from the record, and how biography makes the past accessible. He also considers monasticism, Constantine, historical bias, and learning from Christians who lived in very different worlds.

Nancy Guthrie, a Bible teacher and author, explores how every part of Scripture points to Jesus. She discusses Old Testament patterns involving prophets, priests, and kings, why Bible reading can become moralistic, and how Jesus and the apostles interpreted Scripture. She also introduces Beholding Christ, a yearlong guide and companion podcast for reading the Bible with Christ-centered understanding.

Mark Vroegop, president of The Gospel Coalition, pastor, and author of *Waiting Isn’t a Waste*, explores how to wait on God faithfully. He examines anger, anxiety, and apathy as responses to uncertainty, the hidden desire for control beneath them, and how recognizing these patterns can reshape seasons of waiting into opportunities for trust, hope, and deeper dependence.

Dane Ortlund, senior pastor and author of Finally Home and Gentle and Lowly, explores how Christians should think about heaven. He tackles misconceptions about the afterlife, the hope of resurrected bodies and a vibrant new creation, and why Jesus is heaven’s central joy. He also discusses suffering, heavenly-mindedness, and experiencing Christ before heaven.

Carl Trueman, a church historian and professor at Grove City College, explores why classical theology still matters. He defines its roots in creeds and confessions, addresses biblical sufficiency and theological language, and examines modern therapeutic culture’s influence on faith. The conversation also covers the Reformers’ inheritance, tradition, worship, mystery, and approachable ways to read the church fathers.