30 Best Religious Podcasts

1. Elevation with Steven Furtick

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Welcome to the weekly podcast of Elevation Church led by Pastor Steven Furtick. To learn more visit our website at http://elevationchurch.org or download the Elevation App. To support this ministry and help us continue to reach people all around the world click here: http://ele.vc/TI55jRMORE Host Steven Furtick
Producer/Network iHeartPodcasts
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 20KFacebook 3.2MTwitter 322.5KInstagram 1.9M Avg Length 49 min Format Long form Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. Joyce Meyer Enjoying Everyday Life® Radio Podcast

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Welcome to the Enjoying Everyday Life radio podcast with Joyce Meyer. To learn more, visit our website at joycemeyer.org or download the Joyce Meyer Ministries App. By supporting Joyce Meyer Ministries, you can help us reach hurting people around the world. To find out more, go to joycemeyer.org/donateMORE Host Joyce Meyer
Producer/Network Joyce Meyer
Email ****@joycemeyer.org
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 9.2KFacebook 12MTwitter 6.2MInstagram 5M Avg Length 15 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

3. BibleProject

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The creators of BibleProject have in-depth conversations about the Bible and theology. A companion podcast to BibleProject videos found at bibleproject.com
Hosts Tim Mackie, Jonathan Collins
Producer/Network BibleProject Podcast
Email ****@jointhebibleproject.com
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 21.4KFacebook 595.9KTwitter 78.9KInstagram 1.3M Avg Length 52 min Format Long form Since Oct 2015 Get Email Contact

4. Greg Laurie Podcast

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Greg Laurie delivers compelling, practical insights on faith, culture, and current events—with an emphasis on the saving power of the gospel message. He is the founding pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship, main speaker of the Harvest Crusades, and host of the daily program, A New Beginning. For over 40 years, Pastor Greg and Harvest Ministries have been committed to knowing God and making Him known. Learn more at https://harvest.org/.MORE Host Greg Laurie
Producer/Network Greg Laurie
Email ****@harvest.org
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 3.6KFacebook 1.6MTwitter 304.6KInstagram 480.3K Avg Length 28 min Format Medium form Since Jan 2007 Get Email Contact

5. Banned Books

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Welcome to Banned Books, where we read and converse with the rebel children, the holy mischief-makers of God, who fight against the kind of useless religious, spiritual, and moral methods of life improvement that seeks to smother the glory of God in Jesus Christ. We want to introduce you to those who forgot everything except Jesus Christ and him crucified...MORE Hosts Christopher Gillespie, Donavon Riley
Producer/Network 1517 Podcast Network
Email ****@1517.org
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 258Facebook 95.7KInstagram 18.2K Avg Length 161 min Format Extended Get Email Contact

6. Unbelievable?

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Unbelievable? offers a weekly podcast, blog, and video series hosted by Ruth Jackson and a team of thinkers and Christian apologists.
Host Ruth Jackson
Producer/Network Premier Unbelievable?
Email ****@premier.org.uk
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 3.1KTwitter 979 Avg Length 66 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

7. Radical with David Platt

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Radical with David Platt is a podcast that highlights sermons weekly from teacher, author, and pastor David Platt.
Host David Platt
Producer/Network David Platt
Email ****@radical.net
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 1.6KFacebook 248.1KTwitter 359.9KInstagram 74.1K Avg Length 46 min Format Long form Since Nov 2014 Get Email Contact

8. Soul Search

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Soul Search explores contemporary religion and spirituality from the inside out — what we believe, how we express it, and the difference it makes in our lives
Host Dr Meredith Lake
Producer/Network ABC listen
Email ****@abc.net.au
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Apple Rating 4.4/5Apple Reviews 231Facebook 1.2MTwitter 133.9KInstagram 485.2K Avg Length 54 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

9. Y Religion

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Each year, religion professors at Brigham Young University (BYU) produce hundreds of publications on subjects related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This podcast brings this research into one place to enlighten the everyday seeker of truth. Interviewing the author, we discuss why the study was done, why it matters, and why the professor chooses to be both a scholar, and a disciple. This is Y Religion.MORE Host John Hilton
Producer/Network BYU Religious Education
Email ****@byu.edu
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 1.8KFacebook 4.9KTwitter 983Instagram 4.1K Avg Length 56 min Format Long form Since Feb 2020 Get Email Contact

10. Krishna's Mercy

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Articles about bhakti yoga, devotion to God
Host Krishnas Mercy
Producer/Network Krishna's Mercy
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 26Facebook 833.1KTwitter 96 Avg Length 10 min Format Bite size Since May 2010 Get Email Contact

11. 5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

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This weekly podcast provides an informal and informative look at church history. Join us each week as we take a brief break from the present to go exploring the past. Travel back in time as we look at the people, events, and even the places that have shaped the story of Christianity. Each episode offers an easily digestible glimpse of how the eternal, unchangeable God has worked in the church over prior generations and how this can encourage us today. This is our story—our family history.MORE Host Stephen Nichols
Producer/Network Ligonier Ministries
Email ****@ligonier.org
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 2KFacebook 13KTwitter 18.9K Avg Length 5 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

12. Lead Stories Podcast

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Jo Saxton and Pastor Steph O'Brien are both leaders in Minneapolis. Jo is an author and speaker who has opportunities to teach around the world in various contexts. She is passionate about empowering women to realize their potential and purpose. Steph is a church planter and pastor of a church plant in the city. She coaches leaders and pastors around the country and is a professor at Bethel University. Passionate about investing in the next generation, Steph, blogs and speaks in order to equip people to live their every day life on mission for the Kingdom of God...MORE Hosts Pastor Steph OBrien, Jo Saxton
Producer/Network Jo Saxton and Pastor Steph Williams O'Brien
Email ****@leadstoriesmedia.com
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 252Facebook 3.1KTwitter 680Instagram 4.1K Avg Length 30 min Format Medium form Since Dec 2015 Get Email Contact

13. The Way Home Podcast

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Author, Pastor, Speaker
Host Daniel Darling
Producer/Network Dan Darling
Email ****@swbts.edu
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 115Twitter 28.7KInstagram 2.6K Avg Length 38 min Format Medium form Since Sep 2016 Get Email Contact

14. The Classical Ideas Podcast

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Simply stated, religion matters. Religion matters not only for personal reasons, but also for social, economic, political, and military purposes. Unfortunately, studies suggest that religious knowledge and cultural literacy for any religious tradition is either in decline or is non-existent in the United States, despite being one of the most religiously diverse nation on earth. Today, religion is implicated in nearly every major national and international issue. The public arena is awash in religious explanations and arguments for nearly every issue...MORE Host Gregory Soden
Producer/Network Gregory Soden
Email ****@outlook.com
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 104Twitter 2.8K Avg Length 38 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

15. Transformation Church Sermons

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Transformation Church (TC) was started in 2010 and is led by Pastor Derwin L. Gray. We want to join God in His mission by embodying our vision to be a multiethnic, multigenerational, mission-shaped community that loves God completely (Upward), ourselves correctly (Inward), and our neighbors compassionately (Outward). We hope this podcast will be a tool in which the life-transforming love of Jesus Christ reaches the lives of many!MORE Host Dr. Derwin L. Gray
Producer/Network Transformation Church
Email ****@transformationchurch.tc
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 202 Avg Length 41 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

16. Orville R. Beckford Ministries Podcast: 'GRACE WITHOUT BORDERS!'

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'GRACE WITHOUT BORDERS!' is the weekly podcast from Orville R. Beckford Ministries. The theme in itself is explanatory, stating that God's grace has no borders, which means, everyone has access to it and can come boldly to the throne of grace. The reason that grace is without borders are based fundamentally on the Apostle Paul's conclusion 'Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound'...MORE Host Orville Beckford
Producer/Network Orville Beckford
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 19Twitter 2.3K Avg Length 33 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

17. Religion Unmuted

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Religion Unmuted is the podcast where we explore how religion is lived. We aim to amplify voices that are not often heard in public conversations about religion. Join us for research-driven dialogue as we look for religion in unexpected spaces—such as the workplace, the lab, or on the campaign trail—and in everyday life.MORE Hosts Elaine Howard Ecklund, Rachel Schneider
Producer/Network Boniuk Institute and Religion and Public Life Center
Email ****@rice.edu
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 30Facebook 548Twitter 2.4K Avg Length 28 min Format Medium form Since Sep 2020 Get Email Contact

18. Good God

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Good God, the podcast, will attempt to refasten the ties that bind neighbor to neighbor. Through conversations on matters of faith and public life, the host, Dr. George Mason, will attempt to move people toward one another and restore confidence in God's purposeful activity in all things. 'Only God is good,' Jesus said. Which means that all goodness is found in reference to God, including public good.MORE Host Dr. George Mason
Producer/Network Dr. George Mason
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 48Facebook 1.2KTwitter 293Instagram 678 Avg Length 27 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

19. In Our Time: Religion

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Discussion of religious movements and the theories and individuals behind them.
Host Melvyn Bragg
Producer/Network BBC Radio 4
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 619Facebook 4.7KTwitter 512.1K Avg Length 47 min Format Long form Since May 2011 Get Email Contact

20. Heart and Soul

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Heart and Soul is a weekly half-hour programme that has the scope and understanding to explore different experiences of spirituality from around the world. Whether examining religious faith or any other belief-system, the programme talks to believers and non-believers, and tries to get beyond superficial notions of spirituality and religion.MORE Producer/Network BBC World Service
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 144Facebook 9MTwitter 561.5K Avg Length 27 min Format Medium form Since Jul 2016 Get Email Contact

21. The Zal

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What did the Chassidic Rabbi say to the Jewish guy who grew up with Matzo and Easter eggs? The Zal is an informal conversation on (usually?) profound ideas found in and beyond Jewish life and traditions. Tune in with Adam Valen Levinson, Sociology Fellow at Yale, and Dovid Grossbaum, Rabbi at Chabad of Indiana. The Zal is sponsored in part by grants from The Bananaschewitz Foundation and Schmendl's Herring Deodorant.MORE Hosts Dovid Grossbaum, Adam Valen Levinson
Producer/Network Jewish Profundity (Sometimes)
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 48 Avg Length 35 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

22. Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das

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Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das is a podcast that illuminates many aspects of the spiritual path via dharma talks and interviews with Surya Das' fellow spiritual teachers and peers. Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars, one of the main interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, and a leading spokesperson for the emerging American Buddhism. The Dalai Lama affectionately calls him 'The Western Lama.'MORE Host Lama Surya Das
Producer/Network Be Here Now Network
Email ****@surya.org
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 137Facebook 23KTwitter 67.9KInstagram 82.8K Avg Length 47 min Format Long form Since Apr 2015 Get Email Contact

23. Interfaith Voices Podcast (hour-long version)

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Interfaith Voices is the nation's only public radio show exclusively about religion. We were born just three days after 9/11, when a feisty nun got the idea to host a multi-faith panel on religion and terrorism, live on the radio. The phones rang off the hook, and it became clear that listeners were hungry for informed, respectful dialogue on religion in the public square. We carry on that mission today with our free, weekly podcast...led by our host Amber Khan.MORE Host Amber Khan
Producer/Network Interfaith Voices
Email ****@interfaithradio.org
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 150Facebook 4.1KTwitter 17 Avg Length 24 min Format Medium form Since Dec 2008 Get Email Contact

24. Religion Today

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Issues of faith and spirituality that matter to LDS, Mormons, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Host Martin Tanner
Producer/Network KSL Newsradio
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 66Facebook 253.1KTwitter 35.6KInstagram 56.6K Avg Length 22 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

25. Keeping It 101: A Killjoy's Introduction to Religion Podcast

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Keeping it 101 is the podcast that helps our nerdy listeners make sense of religion. Why religion? Well, if you read the news, have a body, exist in public, or think about race, gender, class, ability, or sexuality, you likely also think about religion — even if you don't know it yet. Let us show you why religion is both a lot more important and a little easier to understand than you might think. Put us in your earholes and let us show you why religion isn't done with you — even if you're done with religion.MORE Hosts Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, Megan Goodwin
Producer/Network Profs. Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst and Megan Goodwin
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 132Twitter 2.3KInstagram 823 Avg Length 43 min Format Long form Since Jan 2020 Get Email Contact

26. Weird Religion

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Weird Religion is a podcast for people who think religion is weird but love it anyway. Your hosts, Leah Payne and Brian Doak, are both professors, authors, and pop culture aficionados, whose interests range from archaeology and history and linguistics to LARPing and The Walking Dead. Episodes tackle some piece of media highlighting the wonderful weirdness of religious experience—a documentary, a television show, a Twitter scandal—and use that as a 'thread' on which to hang reflections on a wide variety of topics. Cults. The perils of fame within the evangelical world. Church attendance...MORE Hosts Brian Doak, Leah Payne
Producer/Network Brian Doak and Leah Payne
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 95Facebook 1.6KTwitter 894Instagram 794 Avg Length 30 min Format Medium form Since Aug 2018 Get Email Contact

27. The Religious Studies Project

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The Religious Studies Project (RSP) features weekly conversations with leading scholars of Religious Studies and related fields. Our aim is to provide engaging, concise, and reliable accounts of the most important concepts, traditions, scholars, and methodologies in the contemporary study of religion. Episodes are produced by The Religious Studies Project Association (SCIO), a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (charity number SC047750).RSP material is disseminated under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3...MORE Producer/Network The Religious Studies Project
Email ****@religiousstudiesproject.com
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Apple Rating 4.4/5Apple Reviews 159Facebook 6.7KTwitter 7.8K Avg Length 44 min Format Long form Since Jan 2012 Get Email Contact

28. The Life You Were Meant to Live

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Rick Warren is an innovative pastor, renowned author, and global influencer.
Host Rick Warren
Email ****@saddleback.com
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Facebook 7.9MTwitter 2.2MInstagram 1.1M Since Nov 2018 Get Email Contact