The Church's Best
Bible Study Voices

Reagan Schrock, Marlin Sommers, Kyle Stoltzfus, and guests

A podcast, blog, and YouTube channel examining conservative and classical Anabaptist life and thought. Produced by an independent Anabaptist team drawing contributors from Mennonite, Brethren, Hutterite, and related conservative traditions, it covers discipleship, church life, theology, missions, nonresistance, suffering, technology, and contemporary questions. The show does not represent a single denomination but identifies with the historic Anabaptist tradition and its call to costly discipleship.

Amber D. Noel and contributors, The Living Church

Produced by The Living Church — the oldest continuously published Anglican journal in America, publishing since 1878 — this podcast brings theological commentary on Scripture, liturgy, and doctrine from ordained ministers, scholars, and bishops. It reflects the broad-church Anglican intellectual tradition at a level appropriate for clergy and serious lay students.

Derek Rishmawy, Alastair Roberts, Andrew Wilson, and guests

A theologically rigorous roundtable discussion podcast drawing on evangelical-Anglican and Reformed Baptist sensibilities. Hosts include credentialed scholars and published authors: Wilson (King's Church London) holds a PhD from King's College London; Roberts holds a PhD and teaches at Westminster Seminary California. The show engages seriously with Scripture and the history of interpretation without becoming academic to the point of inaccessibility.

David Platt, Radical

A Scripture-saturated daily prayer podcast in which Dr. David Platt reads a passage of Scripture and prays through it. Platt holds a PhD from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and is a former president of the International Mission Board (SBC). The format is brief but theologically grounded — a model for how serious engagement with a text can be both academic and devotional.

Tim Mackie and Jon Collins, BibleProject

Deep-dive conversations into the literary structure, themes, and theology of the Bible from Tim Mackie — a PhD in Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and professor at Western Seminary — and communicator Jon Collins. The podcast accompanies BibleProject's animated video series and explores Hebrew and Greek word studies, biblical theology, and narrative arc across both Testaments. Accessible to lay listeners without sacrificing scholarly rigor.

Fr. Mike Schmitz, Ascension Press

Walks through the entire Bible in 365 episodes using the Great Adventure Bible study method developed by Jeff Cavins. Fr. Schmitz is the University of Minnesota-Duluth Catholic campus minister and a recognized communicator; the show draws on the full Catholic interpretive tradition including typology, covenant structure, and Magisterial teaching. Voted top Religion & Spirituality podcast at the People's Choice Podcast Awards (2021).

Scott Hahn, St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology

Dr. Scott Hahn is a former Presbyterian minister who converted to Catholicism and holds a PhD in systematic theology from Marquette University. The Road to Emmaus explores the deeply biblical roots of Catholic teaching and practice — typology, covenant theology, and the canonical unity of Scripture — making serious Catholic scholarship accessible to educated lay audiences. New episodes publish weekly.

Dr. Matthew Petrusek and Bishop Robert Barron, Word on Fire

A weekly deep-dive into faith and culture hosted by Dr. Matthew Petrusek (senior director of the Word on Fire Institute) with Bishop Robert Barron. The show engages Scripture and the Catholic intellectual tradition — Aquinas, von Balthasar, and the Church Fathers — alongside contemporary theological and cultural commentary. Barron holds a doctorate in sacred theology from the Institut Catholique de Paris.

Fr. Josiah Trenham, Patristic Nectar Publications

The flagship podcast of Patristic Nectar Publications, featuring Sunday sermons and theological lectures by Fr. Josiah Trenham delivered from St. Andrew Orthodox Church in Riverside, California. Fr. Trenham is an Antiochian Orthodox priest who holds a PhD from the University of Durham, England; his patristic series on Romans, the Gospel of John, and Revelation draw explicitly on the Church Fathers as living interpreters. Over 800 episodes spanning more than a decade of teaching.

Todd Wilken, Lutheran Public Radio / LCMS

A widely respected confessional Lutheran podcast, Issues, Etc. is long-form talk radio turned podcast featuring interviews with scholars, pastors, and theologians from a rigorously Lutheran and explicitly Scripture-and-theology-focused perspective. The host and guests consistently hold the Law/Gospel distinction as the central hermeneutical lens.

Faculty of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

The podcast hub of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis — the flagship institution of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod — featuring two shows: Lectionary Kickstart, in which homiletics faculty discuss the weekly lectionary texts for preachers and teachers, and Tangible, which explores how Lutheran theology permeates everyday life through faculty conversations. Academic-level content made accessible.

Craig S. Keener, Asbury Theological Seminary

A podcast from Craig Keener — F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary and one of the most prolific NT commentators in the charismatic-evangelical world. Keener holds a PhD from Duke University and is best known for his four-volume commentary on Acts (Baker Academic), widely regarded as the definitive English-language academic treatment of that book. The podcast explores the historical, cultural, and literary backgrounds behind the biblical text, drawing on Keener's deep command of Second Temple Judaism, Greco-Roman context, and the social world of early Christianity. Season 1 (spring 2022) addressed hermeneutics, historical reliability, and interpretive method.

R.C. Sproul / Ligonier Ministries

A flagship Reformed teaching broadcast featuring R.C. Sproul's verse-by-verse and doctrinal series drawn from decades of classroom lectures. Ligonier Ministries has been the foremost popular-level Reformed educational institution since 1971, and the podcast preserves Sproul's full lecture catalog alongside current teacher contributions.

Camden Bucey and guests

Weekly academic-level discussions on biblical theology, confessional Reformed hermeneutics, and exegesis. Camden Bucey holds a PhD in Historical and Theological Studies from Westminster Theological Seminary and serves as a pastor in the OPC. Recurring guests include seminary faculty, church historians, and ordained ministers — making it among the most academically credentialed Reformed podcasts available.

John Piper, Desiring God

Pastoral Q&A grounded directly in biblical text from John Piper, a published theologian and long-running Reformed Baptist voice. Piper's answers consistently begin with "what does the Bible say" and work outward — making it useful for verse-level and doctrinal questions alike. Over 1,900 episodes covering an enormous range of biblical and theological topics.

J.D. Walt, Seedbed

A daily lectio-style engagement with the biblical text from a Wesleyan theological framework. J.D. Walt is a graduate of Asbury Theological Seminary and the founding publisher of Seedbed, a movement-building ministry associated with the Wesleyan-holiness tradition. Each episode moves through a specific text with prayer, reflection, and theological grounding.

Nathan Foster, Renovaré

Rooted in the Wesleyan-holiness and spiritual formation tradition founded by Richard Foster (Celebration of Discipline), this podcast features Nathan Foster in conversation with theologians, spiritual directors, and scholars committed to Scripture and the life of discipleship. It brings a distinctively Arminian and formation-oriented perspective to biblical engagement.