Why are Christian Celebrities Abandoning the Faith?
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, J. Warner moderates a panel discussion on the topic of why are Christian 'celebrities' leaving the faith or deconstructing their beliefs. The panelists are Alisa Childers, a former singer of ZOEgirl and an author of Another Gospel, John Cooper, the lead singer of Skillet and an author of Awake and Alive to Truth, and Dave Stovall, a former musician of Waverly and Audio Adrenaline and a worship leader at Journey Church. They share their insights and experiences on how to deal with doubt, how to discern truth from error, how to respond to cultural pressure, and how to stay faithful to the historic Christian faith. This podcast was created from a session at the 2022 National Conference on Christian Apologetics hosted by Southern Evangelical Seminary.
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| 0:00.0 | J. Warner Wallace is a cold-case homicide detective who's been investigating cold-case murders |
| 0:07.2 | in Los Angeles County for over a decade. |
| 0:09.4 | His work has been featured on Fox News, Dateline, and Core TV. |
| 0:12.6 | Now, we join him as he applies his investigative skills to making a case for Christianity. |
| 0:17.4 | Well, thanks for joining us at the Cold Case Christianity podcast. |
| 0:22.3 | I am J. Warner Wallace. |
| 0:24.2 | This week, I'm going to play the audio version of a presentation that we did a year ago. |
| 0:29.6 | It was actually an interview, a panel interview at the Southern Evangelical Seminary Annual |
| 0:36.0 | Conference in Christian Apologetics, which is called the National Conference in Christian |
| 0:40.0 | Apologetics. |
| 0:41.0 | It's in North Carolina. |
| 0:43.3 | And this particular year, I was asked to host or to moderate a panel involving Alisa |
| 0:50.4 | Childers, who, as you know, is an author and an apologist. |
| 0:53.8 | And she was the former singer of Zoe Girl, a contemporary Christian music group that |
| 1:03.0 | was really popular when I was a youth pastor, and I might remember using her years before |
| 1:07.9 | I ever met her. |
| 1:09.6 | Also in this panel was John Cooper, the lead singer of Skillet, and Dave Stovall, who |
| 1:15.9 | was a musician with audio adrenaline, and is now a worship leader. |
| 1:21.4 | And so these three Christian artists were asked to come up at this Apologetics conference |
| 1:27.4 | and talk about why so many Christian celebrities are deconstructing and abandoning the faith. |
| 1:33.5 | And so it was really an interesting opportunity to hear from these three artists, talk about |
| 1:38.1 | what they think is motivating this kind of deconstruction. |
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