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The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

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

The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

ColdCaseChristianity.com

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

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. Together they explore evidence, doubt, and the reliability of the Gospels, offering practical help for anyone wrestling with whether Christianity is really true.

Watch more from Finding Something Real with Janelle Wood on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@FindingSomethingReal

Learn more in Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels:
https://amzn.to/42XtJhu

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Cold Case Christianity podcast, where a veteran Cold Case homicide detective investigates the truth of the Christian worldview.

0:08.5

Jay Warner Wallace is a Dateline featured detective, Christian apologist, and bestselling author.

0:13.3

This weekly show applies real investigative tools to the claims of Christianity.

0:20.2

Thanks so much for joining us to the Cold Case Christianity Podcast.

0:23.7

I'm Jay Warner Wallace. This week, we're going to take a look at something I kind of hold

0:29.3

on to in a folder on my desktop and my computer here. I often will hang on to interviews that I've

0:35.4

done with people who either, they're on a small platform.

0:38.5

Maybe nobody else heard him and I thought, wow, at the time I did the interview, I came away thinking,

0:44.1

oh, that was really worth the time. Look, sometimes people will, well, email me and they wanted me to do

0:50.6

an interview on their podcast platform, which, and I very seldom will say no, just because people extended that grace to me.

1:00.5

When I first, you know, contacted people who are part of the Christian apologetics world.

1:06.1

I felt like, wow, if I ever have the chance to help somebody else out who just wants to do an interview,

1:10.6

I'll do my best to try to do that. And I do. And there are times when I, it, I feel like,

1:16.4

well, they're going to ask the same kinds of questions that I've probably been asked and

1:20.5

answer before. And we talk about those things here on our podcast, but we're trying more and more

1:25.6

just to find the little nooks and crannies of really

1:27.7

that kind of issues and topics that are adjacent to the kind of criminal investigation I might

1:33.5

conduct and it will hopefully give you some insight by applying this skill set to that topic.

1:39.6

But sometimes you do an interview and you go, okay, that was worth the time because it felt like we

1:45.2

really rabbit trailed into some areas that I don't typically talk about or that we did it in a way

1:51.6

that it's different than we've ever done it before. So today, I want to do something with you

1:57.6

that is definitely in that category. This is a young lady who named Janelle Wood,

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