KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has announced a partnership with apologist Wes Huff, which will feature a series of interviews between Huff and members of the Midwestern faculty.
“Wes’s online presence and influence for Christ is encouraging, and I’m grateful to see how the Lord is using him to advance His kingdom,” said MBTS President Jason Allen. “I’m also grateful that some of our professors will get to join Huff in seeking to make the truth of Christ known in the church and beyond.”
Huff has become an influential apologist, with a growing YouTube audience and more than 600,000 followers on Instagram. His January 2025 appearance on the popular Joe Rogan podcast has garnered more than 3 million views.
The interviews in the MBTS partnership will explore topics ranging from biblical studies and theology to church history and textual criticism. These conversations will be released through Huff’s YouTube channel and will also include exclusive giveaways for his listeners, providing added opportunities for engagement with trusted theological resources.
This collaboration reflects a shared commitment between Midwestern Seminary and Huff to communicate serious scholarship with clarity and conviction, without sacrificing depth or accessibility.
Huff has built his audience by addressing questions of Christian theology, apologetics and biblical reliability with both intellectual honesty and pastoral concern. Central to his appreciation for Midwestern Seminary is the way its faculty model scholarly excellence that serves the Church rather than remaining isolated in the academy.
Speaking of two faculty members who will be featured on his channel, Huff said, “John Meade and Peter Gurry communicate exemplary academic depth while still being engagingly understandable. I take pride in my ability to be a popularizer of relatively complex ideas to a more general audience, and the clarity that Drs. Meade and Gurry communicate with is a great example of how those in Christian apologetics don’t need to compromise depth for simplicity.”
Huff pointed specifically to the book “Scribes and Scripture,” co-authored by Meade and Gurry, as a model for this kind of communication. “It’s a test case in how material that could easily become overly technical is instead made accessible,” he said.
The Midwestern Seminary faculty interviews to be featured on the Wes Huff channel will highlight precisely this kind of work, helping listeners understand why disciplines such as biblical studies and textual criticism matter for everyday Christian faith. Huff emphasized that these conversations come at a moment of renewed interest in Christian theology and Scripture.
“We find ourselves in a particularly noteworthy time where people seem to be hungry and excited about Christian topics,” Huff said. “The need for biblical studies and theology to gain a more general audience is so needed right now. I’m looking forward to chatting with the excellent faculty at Midwestern Seminary on a variety of issues – from theology to history and philosophy – that more and more people are genuinely looking for answers on.”
One of the central themes of the partnership will be the importance of textual criticism for the life of the Church. While often viewed as a narrow or highly specialized field, Huff noted that its significance reaches far beyond the academy.
“Textual criticism can feel like a very specialist discipline – probably because it is,” he said. “But its presence is vital for the foundation of having a text of the Bible to begin with.”
Huff explained that the work of textual critics undergirds every other aspect of biblical interpretation and application. “It is by virtue of the leg-work done by the textual critic that the biblical scholar can explicate the text, the exegete can bring out the author’s intention, the theologian can elucidate biblical wisdom, the historian can comment on context, the pastor can stand before the congregation, and the average faithful believer can apply Scripture practically to their life.”
By illuminating the history of the biblical text – from ancient manuscripts and devoted scribes to modern translations – these conversations aim to strengthen confidence in Scripture and deepen appreciation for God’s providential preservation of His Word.
Peter Gurry, MBTS associate professor of New Testament, said, “I hope listeners gain more appreciation for the Bible and its rich history. I hope they see it not as a book of outdated myths and fables but a living Word from God that confronts us as sinners.
“My hope is that this series with Wes Huff is an encouragement to those who already love the Bible and provides that final push to actually pick up the Bible and read it for those who are curious about it.”
Details about upcoming interviews and exclusive giveaways will be announced through Wes Huff’s channels and Midwestern Seminary’s communications.
To watch Wes Huff’s first conversation with Midwestern Seminary professor John Meade, visit https://www.youtube.com/@WesHuff/videos.
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