Observations About the Ravi Zacharias Scandal One Year Later
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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🗓️ 30 March 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
It's been over a year since the final report about Ravi Zacharias was released. What can we learn from the scandal? What can we do to prevent others from falling in a similar way? J. Warner and Jimmy Wallace discuss recent news articles in this episode of the NRBtv Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast.
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| 0:00.0 | What lessons can we learn from the Ravi Zacharias scandal? |
| 0:03.0 | Let's talk about that on this week's episode. |
| 0:09.0 | J. Warner Wallace is a cold-case homicide detective who's been investigating cold-case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade. |
| 0:15.0 | His work has been featured on Fox News, The Dateline, and Core TV. |
| 0:19.0 | Now, we join him as he applies his investigative skills to making a case for Christian. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to the cold-case Christian broadcast. I'm Jimmy Wallace. |
| 0:35.0 | And I'm J. Warner Wallace. |
| 0:37.0 | And let's get right to the point. What are we talking about in today's episode? |
| 0:40.0 | Well, look, it's been well over a year since the investigation was completed, related to Ravi Zacharias, let alone the first allegations. |
| 0:48.0 | And I have not said anything about it publicly, but today what we want to do is give you some simple takeaways to protect yourself, not only if you're a public speaker or a public Christian. |
| 1:00.0 | But even if you're just a regular person who doesn't even think that we're going to be on YouTube, there are still some challenges. |
| 1:06.0 | And we want to address those today. |
| 1:08.0 | Now, before we start, go ahead, Jimmy. |
| 1:10.0 | No, I was just going to say, I'm sure there's some people out there who, even though Ravi Zacharias was such a big name, he had such a wide reach. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm sure there's some people who didn't, may not even know who he was, or certainly weren't familiar with this scandal. Can you kind of give us a little background into what happened? |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, you're right. I should have thought about that because that's true. I mean, not everyone has the familiar, we're apologetics geeks, right? |
| 1:32.0 | We are reading apologetics or writing about something in Christian apologetics. |
| 1:36.0 | But Ravi, for a number of years, was the guy that got to go to. |
| 1:39.0 | He was the one that everyone knew internationally who was defending Christianity from all kinds of stages. |
| 1:45.0 | Kind of came up to a system where he was either part evangelist, part defender of the faith, born in India. |
| 1:53.0 | I'm not sure he's born in India, but of Indian descent. |
| 1:56.0 | His parents for certainly were. |
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