Crosswalk Talk: Celebrity Christian Interviews

Michael Foust

Lee Strobel on The Story of Everything and Evidence for God

April 7, 2026 ● 12 min

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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 brightest scientific minds to examine the evidence for a designer behind the universe. Lee shares why he got behind this film, what he hopes it does for young believers sitting in skeptical classrooms, and why he believes the evidence is more than enough to put your trust in.

Scientific evidence, faith under fire, and the God who matches the data: Lee walks through his go-to argument for the existence of God, why he believes most skepticism is personal before it is intellectual, and what he found when he investigated Christianity as a Yale-trained atheist and legal journalist. He also opens up about why fatherlessness and atheism are more connected than people realize, and what he wants both skeptics and Christians to walk away with after seeing this film.

Highlights

Why science, when done right, points powerfully toward the God of the Bible
How Lee's high school science classes were a major step in his journey toward atheism
The cosmological argument and what it reveals about the nature of the creator
Why most rejection of God is personal before it is philosophical or scientific
The surprising connection between fatherlessness and the rise of atheism in America
What the film says to someone who wants to believe but worries the evidence isn't there
Lee's own story, from Yale-trained atheist and Chicago Tribune journalist to follower of Christ

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