Podcasts have found large Christian audiences as pastors discovered an inexpensive way to reach congregants and the wider public with biblical teachings.

In the US Christians are statistically on par with national norms when it comes to being plugged in to digital technologies and social networks, a late 2007 study showed. But the study also found that the country's faithful is even more in tune with podcasting than other adults are, as 38 percent of evangelicals and 31 percent of other born-again Christians had listened to a sermon or church teaching via podcasts compared to only 17 percent of other adults. Overall, 23 percent of all adults said they downloaded a church podcast in the past week. Protestants were more likely to listen to sermon podcasts than Catholics, the Barna study showed.