Krisan Marotta is the creator and teacher of Wednesday in the Word, the longest-running Bible study podcast in the world, and the podcast about what the Bible means and how we know. Since 2011 she has taught through Scripture verse by verse in more than 480 episodes, for about 50,000 listeners a year in 157 countries. She is the author of Start Strong: A New Believer's Guide to Christianity, a Stanford journalism graduate, and an enthusiastic clog dancer in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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From the Wednesday in the Word intro: "I'm Krisan Marotta…"

Most Bible teaching has to fit a time slot: a 30-minute sermon, a 12-week series. That leaves little room for the background that makes a hard passage make sense. Many Christians walk away knowing what a teacher said a verse means, but not how anyone knows.

Krisan has the luxury of time, and she uses it. If a verse needs Old Testament background, historical context, or a look at how the church has read it over the centuries, she goes there. Then she shows her work, without Christian jargon, so listeners learn to study the text for themselves.

She learned to love this kind of teaching early. Krisan Marotta became a Christian in 1977, and her faith grew under verse-by-verse teaching at Peninsula Bible Church during her years at Stanford University. After graduating with distinction in Communication/Journalism, she completed three years of master's-level study in biblical exegesis at the McKenzie Study Center. She has taught the Bible for more than 35 years. From 1994 to 2014 she led a weekly women's Bible study as Women's Ministry Director at Trinity Presbyterian Church, and that study laid the groundwork for this podcast. In 2019 she stepped back from in-person teaching to focus on the podcast.

Her conviction hasn't changed: "The knowledge you gain is useless unless you let it change your life."

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