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The 7 Best Bible Study Podcasts in 2026

Updated June 2026 · by the Episode Club team

There are more Bible podcasts than anyone could listen to, and most of them blur together. These seven don't. Some walk you through Scripture a chapter at a time, so a reading plan you'd normally abandon in February actually gets finished. Others slow way down — a single Hebrew word, a first-century dinner table, an argument scholars have been having for two hundred years — and let you sit with it. We checked every show on this list against its feed in June 2026, so each one is still making new episodes, not coasting on an old archive. A few are names you likely know already; a couple are quieter shows we think deserve a spot next to them. Pick the two or three that fit how you read, or follow all seven. And if keeping up sounds like one more thing, Episode Club can watch these feeds for you and send what's new — with short summaries — in one calm weekly email.

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BibleProject
BibleProject Podcast
Tim Mackie and Jon Collins trace big themes — covenant, sabbath, the satan — across the whole Bible in long, unhurried conversations. Mackie brings the Hebrew and Greek; Collins asks the questions you were already thinking.
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The Bible Recap
Tara-Leigh Cobble
Tara-Leigh Cobble follows a one-year chronological reading plan, then spends about eight minutes untangling what you just read — hard names, odd laws, where God shows up. Millions have finished the whole Bible with her keeping pace.
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The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
Fr. Mike Schmitz reads the day's passages aloud, then offers a short, warm reflection — about twenty minutes, every single day. It has topped Apple's charts for years because it makes the whole Bible feel walkable.
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The BEMA Podcast
BEMA Discipleship
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings reread Scripture in its Eastern, first-century context — what a parable sounded like in Galilee, why Leviticus is structured the way it is. Five hundred episodes in, listeners still take notes.
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Knowing Faith
Kyle Worley, JT English, Jen Wilkin
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley talk theology and the biblical text like three friends who did the homework — serious about doctrine, quick to laugh, and convinced that ordinary people can handle deep things.
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OnScript
Matthew Bates, Matthew Lynch, Erin Heim, Dru Johnson, Amy Brown Hughes, & Chris Tilling
Hosts including Matthew Bates and Matthew Lynch interview biblical scholars about their new books — N.T. Wright one month, a Leviticus specialist the next. The closest thing to auditing a friendly seminary seminar from your kitchen table.
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Biblical Time Machine
Helen Bond & Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
New Testament historian Helen Bond and ancient-world scholar Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones dig into one question per episode — what did Jesus actually look like? who wrote the Gospels? — with real scholarship and zero stuffiness.