Joe Rogan, outstanding podcaster and frequent commentator on life’s biggest questions, is consistently “attending church,” Christian apologist Wesley Huff has revealed.
“I can let you know for a proven fact that he’s attending a church and that that has been a consistent thing,” Huff, who’s the Central Canada director for Apologetics Canada, said during a recent appearance on Apologetics Canada.
Huff, who joined Rogan’s show, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” for a three-hour discussion about Christianity and the Bible in January, said, “Joe Rogan and I actually have had on-and-off communication since then. I can let you know for a proven fact that he’s attending church and that has been a consistent thing.
“And so, you recognize, things are happening,” he continued. “And he’s a really inquisitive individual, and I believe for the higher in that he’s communicating with me and other people in his life who’re influences that may speak into, you recognize, these problems with reliability and trustworthiness and verisimilitude of something just like the pages of Scripture, and where he should and should not be on the lookout for the knowledge with regard to that.”
Huff said he’s “very encouraged” by his communications with Rogan over the previous few months, adding: “We’re seeing what I do not think is an exaggeration to say, somewhat of a resurgence in interest in these topics that we have been talking about, even the nitty gritty.”
The apologist, who also recently appeared on comedian Andrew Schulz’s podcast, cited examples of young people increasingly showing interest within the Bible.
“We had someone who reached out to us recently at Apologetics Canada, who might be the last bricks-and-mortar Christian bookstore that I’ve ever heard of. But they said, ‘We have people walking through our doors asking, young people, teenagers saying, I need a Bible. All my friends are reading this thing.’ So this the Bible is, you recognize, becoming popular with teenagers. Then yeah, something is occurring and the Lord is moving,” Huff said.
Huff’s comments come amid a latest Gallup report revealing that, after years of regular decline, the religious makeup of the U.S. has leveled off; the proportion of Americans identifying as Christian, unaffiliated or belonging to a different tradition has remained largely unchanged over the past five years.
Rogan, who has long used his platform to explore life’s big questions, recently expressed skepticism concerning the Big Bang theory and said he finds the resurrection of Jesus Christ more realistic than the assumption that the universe created itself out of nothing.
During a May 7 conversation with comedy podcast host Cody Tucker, Rogan said he’s “sticking with Jesus” relating to miraculous claims.
“It’s funny, because people can be incredulous concerning the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, but yet, they’re convinced that the complete universe was smaller than a head of a pin and that for no reason that anyone has adequately explained to me, instantaneously became every thing? OK,” Rogan said.
Rogan’s podcast consistently ranks at the highest of Spotify’s podcast charts and has been the No. 1 podcast on the platform since 2020. Raised Catholic, Rogan has called himself agnostic but has increasingly engaged in discussions about faith and Christianity on his podcast.
Discussing the origins of the universe, Rogan questioned whether the notion of “nothing” ever truly existing makes logical sense. “Wouldn’t or not it’s crazy if there wasn’t something at one cut-off date?” he said. “That seems even crazier than there has all the time been something. … There couldn’t be nothing, after which impulsively, every thing.”
Tucker suggested the universe may need required an outdoor force to set it in motion, prompting Rogan to reference the late ethnobotanist Terence McKenna. Rogan cited McKenna’s famous line, as quoted in Rupert Sheldrake’s book Morphic Resonance, that “modern science is predicated on the principle: ‘Give us one free miracle and we’ll explain the remaining.’”
“That’s McKenna’s great line,” Rogan said. “The difference between science and religion is that science only asks you to imagine in a single miracle — the Big Bang.”
“I’m sticking with Jesus on that one,” he added. “Jesus makes more sense. People have come back to life.”
Rogan’s interest in Christianity has surfaced repeatedly over the past 12 months.
In a conversation with musician Kid Rock in 2023, Rogan said, “I believe the concept of Jesus is totally amazing, and if Jesus got here here and desired to visit me, I could be psyched.”
In March, Rogan and former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines discussed Satan, Jesus, biblical prophecy and the role transgenderism plays within the moral decline of society.
Gaines told Rogan that while society is clearly in an ethical decline, she finds solace within the proven fact that, as a Christian, she’s confident within the “end result” and “knowing how this all ends.”
“Really trusting that, and having faith in that, and just knowing the battle is already won — that is definitely what keeps me grounded and keeps a smile on my face, and an incredibly light heart even when these crazy freaks at San Francisco are running at me,” she said.
“The very first thing I do is pray for them. I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, you look miserable and I can not imagine having that much hatred in my heart.’ So I believe all of those things are what possibly made me somewhat different. The combination of those things … set me other than a few of my peers.”
