Fares Abraham Podcast

Dr. Martin Accad joins the podcast from Beirut to help Christians understand Lebanon, Islam, justice, and peace through the eyes of a Lebanese Christian theologian. The conversation works through what the West gets wrong about Islam, why justice sits at the center of the gospel, and how Christians can love their Muslim neighbors without compromising their faith. Martin Accad is President of the Ne...

Daniel Klein grew up in Efrat — an Israeli settlement a few miles from Bethlehem — inside a religious Zionist world that told him Palestinians didn't exist. This episode traces how that worldview collapsed: the structural violence of Israel's settlement enterprise, the erasure of the Nakba from Jewish consciousness, how Christian Zionism has functioned as financial and theological cover fo...

Fares Abraham sits down with Edwin Keshish-Abnous — an Iranian-American Christian born in pre-revolution Tehran — for a conversation on the explosive growth of the church in Iran, how theology and geopolitics shape each other in dangerous ways, and what faithful Christian witness looks like when both their homelands are in active conflict. They discuss the cost of discipleship under an Islamic reg...

Nabil Habiby joins The Fares Abraham Podcast to discuss the challenges facing Christians in Lebanon and across the Middle East, including war, migration, and the long-term future of the church in the region. Nabil Habiby is a Lebanese theologian, youth pastor, and lecturer in New Testament. He serves as Dean of Students at the Nazarene School in Beirut, teaches at the Arab Nazarene Bible College,...

Urbana25 hosted a panel on Palestine and Israel, giving students a space to talk about what their response to the conflict should look like today. It was a profound honor to stand on the stage, not alone, but alongside my brother Aaron Abramson from Jews for Jesus. In a world demanding we pick sides, we gathered to talk about a third way: the way of Jesus. My prayer is that this conversation helps...

Dr. Anne Zaki joins The Fares Abraham Podcast to discuss the indigenous church of the Middle East and why Christianity’s place of origin matters for how the global Church understands Scripture today. Anne Zaki is Professor of Preaching and Practical Theology at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo and holds a PhD in preaching from Fuller Theological Seminary. She has served the Egyptian e...

Brian Heerwagen joins The Fares Abraham Podcast to discuss mission in the Middle East, gospel-centered partnership, and why mission is not reserved for a spiritual elite. Brian Heerwagen is CEO of MissionWorks and has spent decades equipping churches, leaders, and mission organizations for effective service. He has served in missions leadership since the 1980s and has helped shape training and sta...

Pastor Edward Awabdeh joins The Fares Abraham Podcast to discuss the state of the church in Syria following the fall of the Assad regime in late 2024 and what it means to lead a congregation in Damascus through violence, fear, and instability. Edward Awabdeh is pastor of the Alliance Church of Damascus and president of the Christian and Missionary Alliance churches in Syria and Lebanon. He comes f...

As a Palestinian-American originally from the West Bank, Fares Abraham speaks with firsthand experience of the suffering, displacement, and cruelty that mark daily life for many in the land of Jesus. In this message from the Church at the Crossroads conference (September 11–13, 2025, Glen Ellyn, Illinois), he challenges the global Church to consider how the credibility of the gospel in Palestine a...

In this episode, Fares sits down with Greg Stier to talk about why the American church is losing young people — and what it would take to reverse that trend. They discuss the widening gap between teenagers who are curious about Jesus and those who actually follow him, the strategic importance of youth ministry that most churches underinvest in, and what relational evangelism looks like in restrict...

What does it cost to tell the truth about Palestine? For Daoud Kuttab, the answer involves prison cells on both sides of the conflict. In this episode, Kuttab joins Fares Abraham to examine the Palestinian Christian presence in the Holy Land, the battle over narrative in Western media and the church, and what that demands of Christians engaging the conflict from a distance. The conversation covers...

Can the gospel truly thrive in a region marked by conflict, complexity, and misunderstanding? In this powerful episode, New York Times bestselling author and historian Stephen Mansfield joins The Fares Abraham Podcast to share why the Middle East is not just a place of crisis — but a land dear to God’s heart, full of spiritual hunger and gospel potential. Fares and Stephen unpack the untold story...

Violent extremism is one of the greatest threats in our world today— but is it also one of the greatest gospel opportunities? In this thought-provoking episode, Middle East advisor and theologian Scott Gustafson joins The Fares Abraham Podcast to share real-life stories of former ISIS and Al-Qaeda members who encountered something they never expected from Christians: kindness. Scott and Fares expl...

Christian Men’s Network president Paul Louis Cole joins The Fares Abraham Podcast for a powerful conversation on why the crisis of manhood is one of the most urgent—and overlooked—challenges facing the Church today. Together, Paul and Fares explore how toxic masculinity, fatherlessness, and spiritual apathy are breaking families and weakening churches across the globe, especially in the Middle Eas...

Global church leader Steve Murrell, founder of Every Nation Churches & Ministries, joins The Fares Abraham Podcast for a powerful conversation on how student discipleship and campus ministry are transforming lives — from the U.S. to the Middle East. Together, they unpack why equipping students is one of the most strategic ways to reach the next generation and how international students are bec...

New Testament scholar Dr. Gary M. Burge, author of Whose Land? Whose Promise?, joins The Fares Abraham Podcast for a conversation that will deepen your understanding of Scripture and challenge you to see Israel and Palestine through a truly biblical lens. Together, they unpack why understanding Jesus' Middle Eastern context is essential for grasping the gospel and how biblical land theology sp...