Top 10 Apologetics Podcasts
Since I’m trying to do some new things with the blog, I thought I’d start with a ‘Top 10’ list. This list is mainly for apologetics while later ones may have other themes. Enjoy!
10. Around the world with AiG’s Ken Ham
Since moving to America in 1987, Australian Ken Ham—president and founder of Answers in Genesis-U.S. and the highly acclaimed Creation Museum—has become one of the most in-demand Christian conference speakers and talk show guests. Each year Ken gives numerous faith-building talks to tens of thousands of children and adults on such topics as the reliability of the Bible, how compromise over biblical authority has undermined society and Genesis (witnessing more effectively, dinosaurs, “races”) etc.
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Length: 1min 32seconds
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9. Skeptical Christian
Kyle Deming started the website skepticalChristian.com, during his junior year in high school (2003). He’s now filtered that ministry out into a bi-monthly, 30min podcast.
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Length: 30min
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8. Think it Thru with Randall Niles
A prideful skeptic by nature, Randall Niles returned his life to Christ after nearly 20 years of running from anything “religious.” Today, he serves the Ministry in areas of operations, finance and content. Randall is a former corporate attorney, who served as a VP in a public telecom company. He also served as managing partner of a law firm he founded to represent technology-oriented companies.
Randall has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration/Finance from Georgetown University, a Certificate in Comparative Business Policy from Oxford University, and a Juris Doctor from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Randall currently teaches business, law and philosophy at Colorado Christian University.
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Length: 25mins
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7. ID: The Future
Casey Luskin is an attorney with a B.S. and M.S. in Earth Sciences from the University of California, San Diego. His Law Degree is from the University of San Diego. He is co-founder of the Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness (IDEA) Center. For his work with IDEA, the Intelligent Design and Undergraduate Research Center named an award honoring college graduates for excellence in student advocacy of intelligent design the “Casey Luskin Graduate Award.” He formerly conducted geological research at Scripps Institution for Oceanography (1997-2002).
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Length: 12mins
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6. Come Let Us Reason
Lenny Esposito has authored over 100 articles dealing with intellectually strenuous topics such as the existence of God, theology, philosophy, social issues and Biblical difficulties. Guest panelist of the KKLA radio call-in show “Apolgetics.com”. Lenny is an in-demand speaker, teaching at conferences, churches and group studies. His articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times and the Southern California Christian Times as well as international publications.
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Length: 15mins
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5. Bible Answer Man
Widely considered to be one of the world’s leading Christian apologists, Hank Hanegraaff is deeply committed to equipping Christians to be so familiar with truth that when counterfeits loom on the horizon they recognize them instantaneously.
Through his live call-in radio broadcast, Hanegraaff equips Christians to read the Bible for all it’s worth; answers questions on the basis of careful research and sound reasoning; and interviews today’s most significant leaders, apologists, and thinkers.
Hanegraaff is the author of award-winning best-sellers, including The Prayer of Jesus, Christianity in Crisis, and Resurrection, the latter providing a stirring and persuasive defense of the central event in Christianity.
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Length: 54mins
Download link (Note: Free registration required)
4. John Ankerberg Show
Ankerberg holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from Luther Rice Seminary and is an ordained Baptist minister. He is the author or co-author of numerous books including Darwin’s Leap of Faith: Exposing the False Religion of Evolution (Harvest House, 1998), and The Secret Teachings of the Masonic Lodge: A Christian Perspective (Moody, 1990).
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Length:25mins
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3. Reasonable Faith
Dr. William Lane Craig pursued his undergraduate studies at Wheaton College (B.A. 1971) and graduate studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.A. 1974; M.A. 1975), the University of Birmingham (Ph.D. 1977), and the University of Munich (D.Theol. 1984). From 1980-86 he taught Philosophy of Religion at Trinity. In 1987 him and his family moved to Brussels, Belgium, where Dr. Craig pursued research at the University of Louvain until assuming his position at Talbot in 1994.
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Length: 22mins
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2. Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast (Greg Koukl)
Gregory Koukl is the founder and president of Stand To Reason, an website devoted to defending the faith and that seeks to “equip Christian ambassadors with knowledge, wisdom, and character”. He has a Masters in Christian Apologetics from Simon Greenleaf University and a Masters In Philosophy of Religion and Ethics from Talbot School of Theology. He is currently adjunct professor of Christian Apologetics at Biola University.
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Length: 2 Hours
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1. Just Thinking & Let My People Think
For thirty-four years Ravi Zacharias has spoken all over the world and in numerous universities, notably Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford University. He has addressed writers of the peace accord in South Africa, the president’s cabinet and parliament in Peru, and military officers at the Lenin Military Academy and the Center for Geopolitical Strategy in Moscow. He has been privileged to bring the main address at the National Day of Prayer in Washington, DC, an event endorsed and co-hosted by President George W. Bush, and at the Pentagon. Additionally, Mr. Zacharias has spoken twice at the Annual Prayer Breakfast at the United Nations in New York, which marks the beginning of the UN session each year, and at the invitation of the President of Nigeria, he addressed the delegates at the First Annual Prayer Breakfast for African Leaders, held in Mozambique.
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Length: 13mins, 26mins
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apologetiks 
Don’t forget William Lane Craig’s Reasonable Faith podcast… it’s one of the best. For more, see this link:
http://apologetics315.blogspot.com/2007/10/16-best-apologetics-podcasts.html
See #3 😉
(IF you’re referring to his ‘Defenders’ Podcast, I decided not to include that one because of poor audio quality.)
William Lane Craig does have a lower-quality audio podcast that is called “Defenders.” However, there is a high-quality podcast called, “Reasonable Faith” which is excellent. It is more of a dialogue style. Very good. Both can be found here:
http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/PageServer?pagename=podcasting_main
Did you see #3 on my list?
“3. Reasonable Faith
Dr. William Lane Craig pursued his undergraduate studies at Wheaton College (B.A. 1971) and graduate studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.A. 1974; M.A. 1975), the University of Birmingham (Ph.D. 1977), and the University of Munich (D.Theol. 1984). From 1980-86 he taught Philosophy of Religion at Trinity. In 1987 him and his family moved to Brussels, Belgium, where Dr. Craig pursued research at the University of Louvain until assuming his position at Talbot in 1994.”
Great list–I’m always glad to find new stuff. Beats me how Ravi Zacharias tops Stand To Reason though. Ravi’s podcasts just rehash his speaking circuit. Traveling speakers have the liberty of giving the same speech over and over for different audiences; unfortunately this doesn’t translate well to a podcast where most listeners hear every episode. Ravi has about 12 stories that he tells over and over. Listen for a month and then unsubscribe. Glen Koukl at Stand To Reason on the other hand is thoughtful, personal, and original every week. Most importantly, STR is dialogic rather than monologic.
I think (about the RZIM comment) that’s partially true, but only too a point. Sometimes he has old stories and sometimes new. The podcast also has other of his itinerant speakers if you don’t want to hear him.
Nevertheless, this was never a be-all end-all list. Many of the podcasts listed are of pretty equal value to me. When I made this list, it was practically the same as: “Ok, I love Chocolate and Strawberry icecream equally. Which one is better?”
Take no offense if your (not just you, FitzelPlink) podcast isn’t #1. The fact that I was able to gather together 10 great podcasts should be enough happiness for everyone.
Besides, these are the TOP 10. You’re not limited to one choice. Choose them all!
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