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Crosswalk Talk: Celebrity Christian Interviews
by Crosswalk Talk: Celebrity Christian Interviews
Join us each week on Crosswalk Talk where we interview your favorite Christian celebrities. Hear how famous Christian figures keep their faith a priority in Hollywood and discover the best Christian movies, books, television, and other entertainment.Some of our favorite interviews include:⭐️ Chrissy Metz and Bradley Collins Discuss Their Heartwarming Children's Book on Prayer⭐️ Patricia Heaton and David Hunt Talk Faith, Life and Their Adoption Film Unexpected⭐️ Willie and Korie Robertson Open Up About The Blind and the Generational Impact of Faith⭐️ Phil Wickham Talks New Album, Songwriting, and the Deconstruction MovementLet us know what famous Christian celebrities you want us to interview for the show!
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Natalie Layne Never Had the Dramatic Testimony and That Is the Point
Natalie Layne grew up with worship leader parents, was playing keys in church by age 12, and gave her life to Jesus at 13. She never had the dramatic testimony — no alley moment, no rock bottom, no radical rescue story. For a long time she thought that made her story less powerful. Her new EP…
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Monster Has 4 Billion Streams and John Cooper Is Still Shocked
John Cooper, lead singer of Skillet, wrote Scream during one of the hardest seasons of his life — betrayal, slander, and the kind of disorientation that comes when the rug is pulled out from under everything you trusted. The song is raw, reaching, and ends with a cry to God: come pull me out from...
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Mena Massoud Went From Aladdin to the Book of Daniel
Mena Massoud grew up doing church plays and Stations of the Cross as a Coptic Christian, the son of Egyptian parents who moved to Canada when he was three and a half. He went to the University of Toronto for neuroscience, auditioned for theater school on a leap of faith, got one of the thirty...
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Teaching Kids to Do It Afraid Is the Only Courage That Lasts | Montell & Kristin Jordan
Kristin Jordan was trying to get her three-year-old son to sleep when he started talking about the monster under his bed. Instead of dismissing the fear, the Holy Spirit gave her a thought — what if the monster is more afraid of you than you are of him? That became the seed of Shilo and the Not…
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He Was Spared on 9/11 and He Has Never Stopped Asking Why
Sujo John arrived in America from India in February 2001 with $60 in his wallet and two bags full of dreams. By September he was on the 81st floor of the North Tower, his pregnant wife was on the 71st floor of the South Tower, and the morning of September 11 he sent an email to a friend at 7:32AM...
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The NFL Fullback Who Became a Psychiatric Nurse
Patrick Hill was a fullback at the University of Miami, had stints with the Titans, Broncos, and Texans, and when football doors stopped opening he asked God to lead him somewhere else. That somewhere else turned out to be a nursing program at UCLA, and eventually a career as an inpatient...
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Darlene Zschech Wrote Shout to the Lord in 20 Minutes and Almost Hid It
Darlene Zschech was singing commercial jingles to pay the bills, her husband's business was struggling, they had two small children, and the dream of full-time ministry felt impossibly far away. She sat down at her piano, opened her Bible, and prayed. Twenty minutes later she had Shout to the…
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Grammy Winner DOE on Shiloh and the Wealth Only the Gospel Can Give
DOE, Grammy-winning singer and founding member of Forever Jones, has been leading worship her whole life. But her third solo album Shiloh, releasing August 28, is different from anything she has made before. Her mother is singing on it. Three of her siblings are in the videos. And the central...
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What the Data Says About Pastors and AI in the Church Today
Nick Skytland, Vice President of AI Research at GLOO, has been tracking how pastors use AI for a year through a joint research initiative with Barna. The headline finding will surprise people: 87% of pastors are using AI in some form. Only 13% say they do not use it at all. But how they are using...
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How Nathan Gamble Found Jesus at 19
Nathan Gamble grew up in church. He knew the creed, got confirmed, got baptized as an infant, and showed up every Sunday. He knew every rhythm of the Christian life — and had nothing in his heart for any of it. Then at 18 he moved to LA by himself, worked a lot, had no friends, hit rock bottom…
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They Flew to Brazil to Teach Filmmaking and Came Home With a Movie
Alex Kendrick and his brother Stephen went to Brazil to train 65 young Christian filmmakers. They came home with a Sony-funded feature film shot in Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro, starring a husband and wife who got pregnant during production and welcomed their baby two weeks before this interview....
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Man Is Never as Tall as When He Kneels
Bear Grylls has built a career taking people into the places where the real conversations happen — not the two-minute chat show slot where nobody asks about faith, but the mountaintop at sunset, the canyon at dusk, the forest trail where walls come down and people start talking about what…
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What the Tower of Babel and AI Have in Common
Ben Peterson, founder of Engage Your Destiny and former military chaplain's assistant, has led more than 8,000 sailors, airmen, marines, and soldiers to Christ in the last three years. He works with the most faithless generation in American history — only 3% of Gen Z holds a fully biblical...
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The Newsboys Singer Who Stopped Singing for 30 Years
John James was the voice of Shine, Breakfast, Take Me to Your Leader, and Not Ashamed — the songs that defined the Newsboys' most creative era and introduced a generation to Christian music that was quirky, bold, and unlike anything else on the radio. He spent 16 years with the band. Then his…
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The Gatekeepers Are the Problem, Willie and Korie Robertson on EKKL
Willie and Korie Robertson have been watching how entertainment shapes culture since Duck Dynasty first aired on cable. They have seen cable give way to streaming, watched the iPads appear in their grandchildren's hands, and decided that the answer to bad content is not just criticism — it is a...
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Until Now, No Modern Film Had Ever Been Made About George Washington
Jon Erwin has been dreaming about the story of George Washington for over a decade. He read approximately 30 books, brought in historians obsessed with the subject, and set out not to photograph history but to paint an accurate portrait of a young man raging against an unfair world who decided to...
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Can We Just Be Grateful? Steven Curtis Chapman on America at 250
Steven Curtis Chapman grew up watching his grandfather Ruble Rudd — a Purple Heart World War II veteran who came home with shrapnel permanently lodged in his leg, the only survivor of his platoon — live out a quiet, grateful patriotism that never left him. That legacy is at the heart of a new…
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Tenroc Was Driving a Church Van When God Told Him to Make an Album
Tenroc has spent his life making hits for other people. Grammy nominated producer and songwriter, he has worked with Rihanna, Jonas Brothers, Julia Michaels, Renee Rapp, and others — building songs, polishing them, handing them off, and going back to do it again. He never wanted to be the one out...
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The Warfare Between Science and God Was Always a Myth
Dr. Jay Richards, philosopher, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, and vice president at the Heritage Foundation, has spent his career dismantling one of the most persistent myths in modern culture — that science and Christianity have always been at war. The founders of almost every...
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The 24-Year-Old Who Ditched Her Smartphone and Never Looked Back
Anne Wilson is 24 years old, has a K-LOVE Award for Hey Girl, a debut country album called Rebel, a new book by the same name, and no social media on her phone. In 2023 she bought a flip phone, used it for a year, and has not looked back. She is one of the boldest Christian voices in country…
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Why Leanna Crawford Is Thankful for Every No God Ever Gave Her
Leanna Crawford writes songs the way other people write journal entries — because she needs them first. Her sophomore album Thank God, releasing July 26, is the most personal thing she has made, built around gratitude for unanswered prayers, the freedom that comes from forgiveness, and the simple...
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Perpetua Died at 22, What Her Story Says to Christians Today
Todd Nettleton has spent more than two decades working with Voice of the Martyrs, and he has sat with enough persecuted Christians around the world to know that what happened in a Roman coliseum in 203 AD is still happening today — just in different arenas. On this year's Day of the Christian...
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Bella Taylor Smith, The Voice Australia Winner Who Chose Ministry
Bella Taylor Smith was 17 when she got saved at a summer camp during a worship service and realized that singing was not just something she could do — it was what she was made for. Years later, when a Voice Australia application popped up on her computer during Covid lockdowns, she felt the Lord...
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Bethany Wohrle Lost Her Niece and Wrote an Album About the Goodness of God
Bethany Wohrle has been with Bethel Music since she was 17 years old. Her voice is on All Hail King Jesus and Living Hope, songs with tens of millions of streams that have been sung in churches around the world. But when her niece Junie died unexpectedly at 18 months old in February 2023, Bethany...
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She Said Yes to God and He Made Her a Missionary Through Music
Anike grew up with a Muslim father, a conviction that some of the music she was listening to was wrong, and no idea she would one day be the first female artist signed to Reach Records. She looked up Christian remixes, found Lecrae, convinced her family to let her go to a church summer camp by...
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Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?
Dr. Thomas Kidd, professor at Midwestern Seminary and author of biographies on Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, and George Whitefield, has spent his career at the intersection of American history and Christian faith. He is one of the most careful historians working on the...
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The Lie Depression Tells and What Sam Eaton Did to Fight Back
Sam Eaton grew up hiding under tables in kindergarten because he was afraid of the world. His father's alcoholism left deep roots of trauma, and years later, after watching four people in his school community die by suicide, he could no longer stay silent about the pain he had carried alone for...
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What 45,000 Students Lining Up at 3am Says About This Generation
Kristian Stanfill has been part of Passion Music for over 20 years. He has seen a lot. But what he is witnessing right now among Gen Z, he says, is different. Not hype. Not emotional. Students showing up at Globe Life Field in Arlington at 3am, lining up around the building with their physical...
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The More Science Knows, the More It Points to God
Dr. Michael Behe, biochemist and professor at Lehigh University, has spent his career making a case that most scientists would rather not hear. The concept he became famous for, irreducible complexity, argues that the molecular machinery inside living cells is so intricately assembled that…
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Why Shae Robins Let Go of Broadway and How God Opened Every Door
Shae Robins had one dream her entire life — Broadway. She worked the hours, joined the union, had friends performing on tour, and was ready to make the move to New York. Then, driving to work one morning past red rock canyons in Utah, God gave her a peace she wasn't looking for, and she let go.…
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From Combat Pilot to Hollywood Icon, the Untold Story of Jimmy Stewart
Aaron Burns, director of the upcoming film Jimmy, had always loved Jimmy Stewart the way most people do — through the movies. It was a Guideposts article, written by Stewart himself, that stopped him cold. The man who played George Bailey had flown 20 combat missions against the Nazis, left...
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Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle Unpack Apologetics on College Campuses
Cliffe Knechtle has been standing on college campuses answering skeptics for 46 years. His son Stuart joined him, bringing a background in psychology and mental health that turns hard arguments into something people can actually feel healed by. Together they have written Demolishing Doubt, a book...
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Dan Darling on Biblical Wisdom for IVF, Gambling, and Cohabitation
Dan Darling, Director of the Land Center for Cultural Engagement at Southwestern Seminary and Assistant Professor of Faith and Culture at Texas Baptist College, has spent years watching Christians navigate some of the hardest personal decisions of their lives without much help from the pulpit.…
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Why Holiness Is Not a Checklist or a Ladder but a Lifelong Journey | Matt Chandler
Matt Chandler, Senior Pastor of The Village Church in Texas and author of the new book Becoming Like Jesus, has been pastoring the same congregation for nearly 25 years. He has watched 20-year-olds from the Dallas party scene get radically saved, get married, lose children, walk through divorce,...
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Why Alexander Pappas Came Back to Church Music
Alexander Pappas, founding member of the Grammy-nominated group Hillsong Young and Free, has spent 15 years writing songs that congregations around the world sing without always knowing his name. Alive, Real Love, Echo, A Great Awakening — his fingerprints are on some of the most-played worship...
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Kyle Idleman on The Missing Messiah and the Jesus We've Redefined
Kyle Idleman, Senior Pastor of Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Kentucky, has watched a generation fall in love with Jesus without ever submitting to Him. The Missing Messiah, co-authored with Mark E. Moore, starts with a Michael Jordan illustration that says it all: millions feel...
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What Joseph's Story Taught a Mother and Daughter About God's Unchanging Purpose
Anne Graham Lotz and her daughter Rachel-Ruth Lotz Wright, co-authors of God Won't Leave You There, came to Joseph's story the hard way. Anne survived breast cancer, lost her husband of 49 years after finding him unresponsive in their pool, and has walked through decades of suffering with a faith...
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How We Can Raise Our Children To Love Faith, Freedom, And Our Country
Ainsley Earhardt, co-host of Fox and Friends and host of Fox Nation's Ainsley's Bible Study, has written a children's book timed to one of the biggest moments in American history. America, I'm So Glad You Were Born releases June 2 through Zondervan Kids, illustrated by Ken Barnes, and it was born...
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What If the Science Points to God? Brian Bird on The Story of Everything
Brian Bird, producer of The Story of Everything and co-creator of When Calls the Heart, has spent his career telling stories that point people toward hope. His latest project, a documentary six years in the making, takes a different kind of swing — not with Scripture, but with science itself,...
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Barry "Butch" Wilmore on 286 Days in Space and the Starliner Mission
Butch Wilmore, retired NASA astronaut, US Navy test pilot, and one of only two people to have flown five different spacecraft, boarded Boeing's Starliner for what was supposed to be an eight-day test mission to the International Space Station. It lasted 286 days. His new book, Stuck: An…
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Billy Hallowell on Angels, Demons, and Investigating the Supernatural
Billy Hallowell, journalist and host of a new CBN documentary, has spent years covering faith and the supernatural, but it wasn't until he started investigating firsthand accounts of angels and demons that his own skepticism was put to the test. Angels and Demons is the follow-up to his earlier...
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Stephen Meyer on The Story of Everything and the Case for a Designer
Stephen Meyer, author, philosopher of science, and senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, has spent decades making the case that the universe points unmistakably to a designing mind. The Story of Everything is the cinematic adaptation of his book Return of the God Hypothesis, four years in the...
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René Echevarria on The Faithful and Seeing Genesis Through Women's Eyes
René Echevarria, award-winning television writer and producer known for his work on Star Trek and CSI, spent years wanting to make something he could share with his church. The Faithful: Women of the Bible is that project, a series premiering on Fox that tells the stories of Sarah, Hagar…
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Jay Lowder on Campus Revival and 500 Salvations at Stephen F. Austin University
Jay Lowder, evangelist and founder of Jay Lowder Harvest Ministries, has spent over 20 years doing one thing — full time evangelism. Recently he headlined a campus wide event at Stephen F. Austin University in Texas where more than 500 students made public decisions for Christ, so many that those...
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Tim Timmons on I Can Only Imagine 2 and Living with Cancer
Tim Timmons was given five years to live 25 years ago. Diagnosed with stage four incurable cancer, with tumors still on his liver today, he woke up again this morning. Featured in the new I Am Second film and at the heart of I Can Only Imagine 2, Tim shares what it has looked like to hold onto...
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Tommee Profitt on The Resurrection of a King and Reimagining Hymns
Tommee Profitt, award-winning composer and producer, has spent years making cinematic music for movie trailers, TV shows, and artists like NF and TobyMac. Now he is turning that same epic, orchestral sound toward something deeply personal. The Resurrection of a King is a 19-song album that...
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Lee Strobel on The Story of Everything and Evidence for God
Lee Strobel, author and Christian apologist, is executive producer of a compelling new documentary that makes the case that science and faith are not at odds — they never were. The Story of Everything, based on Stephen Meyer's book Return of the God Hypothesis, brings together some of the world's...
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Bryce Crawford on Gen Z Revival, and Street Evangelism
Bryce Crawford, evangelist, podcaster, and host of the Bryce Crawford Podcast, has built a life and ministry around one thing — taking the love of Jesus to the streets, literally. From his Jesus in the Street ministry to the I Love Jesus Tour currently taking him across the country, Bryce carries…
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Chris Tomlin on The First Hymn, Early Church, and Worship
Chris Tomlin, award-winning worship artist and songwriter, is stepping into one of the most meaningful projects of his career. The First Hymn is a new film built around the discovery of what many scholars believe is the oldest known Christian hymn, nearly 1,800 years old, found on a torn piece of...
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David Pollack on Every Day Counts, NFL Injury, and Faith
David Pollack, college football Hall of Famer and former NFL player, shares how life-altering adversity—including a career-ending injury—reshaped his faith, purpose, and perspective. From losing everything he worked for in a single moment to rebuilding with intention, David opens up about how God...
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Join us each week on Crosswalk Talk where we interview your favorite Christian celebrities. Hear how famous Christian figures keep their faith a priority in Hollywood and discover the best Christian movies, books, television, and other entertainment.Some of our favorite interviews include:⭐️ Chrissy Metz and Bradley Collins Discuss Their Heartwarming Children's Book on Prayer⭐️ Patricia Heaton and David Hunt Talk Faith, Life and Their Adoption Film Unexpected⭐️ Willie and Korie Robertson Open Up About The Blind and the Generational Impact of Faith⭐️ Phil Wickham Talks New Album, Songwriting, and the Deconstruction MovementLet us know what famous Christian celebrities you want us to interview for the show!
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