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Television personality Jack Osbourne said he is “Christ curious” during a recent episode of the “Trying Not to Die” podcast with evangelical street preacher Bryce Crawford, opening a candid conversation about belief, miracles and the search for truth.
“I’m Christ curious,” Osbourne said.
The episode was published Sept. 1, 2026, and Apple Podcasts describes it as a discussion about Christianity, faith, suffering and the search for truth. The YouTube episode description also names Christian hypocrisy, mental health, politics and the afterlife among the subjects Osbourne and Crawford explored.
Osbourne said he still wrestles with parts of Christianity, particularly its miraculous claims. At the same time, he said his own experiences make it difficult to dismiss the supernatural as something that can always be explained away.
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“I’ve seen miracles. I’ve seen things happen that I can’t explain that defy logic,” Osbourne said, adding that he has continued to circle Christianity without finding what he called the right fit.
Crawford, 22, said he grew up in Georgia’s Bible Belt and attended a private Christian school but became disillusioned after seeing hypocrisy among people who claimed to follow Jesus. The official biography for Crawford’s Jesus in the Street ministry similarly describes a childhood shaped by church, followed by years of anxiety, depression and spiritual struggle.
When Crawford was 17, he said he reached a breaking point and planned to take his life because he believed it was the only way to make the pain stop. He said he prayed for Jesus to take away his anxiety and depression and then experienced what he described as immediate relief.
“That was my foot in the door with Jesus,” Crawford said, explaining why he has devoted himself to Christian evangelism. He later summarized the motivation behind his street preaching in another short line: “If He can do it for me, He can do it for them.”
Crawford said his faith did not make him blind to the church’s failures. “I’ve seen the good, I’ve seen the bad, I’ve seen the ugly,” he said but added that those failures had not made him waver from Jesus.
The conversation also turned to the Bible’s reliability, suffering, paranormal experiences and the difference between pursuing Christ and merely assuming that religious activity is enough. Crawford urged people who are genuinely curious about Jesus to seek Him actively through Scripture, prayer, church and honest examination rather than forming an opinion only from other people’s failures.
Osbourne said the search itself matters. He described faith as something people must pursue rather than passively expect to appear, while Crawford said there is “a beauty in pursuit of God.”
The exchange remained open-ended. Osbourne did not announce a conversion, but he spoke plainly about believing in God, wrestling with questions and remaining open to experiences he cannot explain; Crawford, meanwhile, presented his own testimony as the reason he keeps taking Christian conversations into public spaces, podcasts and campus events.
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