Bryce Crawford wore his point of view across his chest before Howie Mandel asked about psychics: a black T-shirt emblazoned with I HATE SATAN.
“I would say it’s a demonic spirit trying to confuse us,” the 22-year-old Christian evangelist told the comedian and television host during the Aug. 25, 2026, episode of “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast.
The exchange began when Mandel told Crawford that celebrity medium Tyler Henry recently visited the podcast, then asked how he felt about psychics.
“I don’t think that they’re talking to people that used to live, like dead, deceased family members,” Crawford replied.
Henry hosts the Netflix series LIVE FROM THE OTHER SIDE WITH TYLER HENRY, which features him giving celebrities emotional readings that he and Netflix frame as messages from deceased loved ones. Netflix describes Henry as a medium who began communicating with the dead at age 10.
Mandel then pressed him: How could a psychic reveal personal details that a perfect stranger should not know? Crawford did not reject the supernatural itself; instead, he drew a hard line between the Holy Spirit and every other spirit.
“I believe in a supernatural God. So I believe that there is a supernatural realm,” he said.
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Crawford’s answer did not come out of nowhere. Bryce Crawford Ministries says salvation comes by God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ and that the Bible guides faith and conduct; Crawford repeatedly told Mandel that good deeds flow from knowing Jesus rather than earning salvation.
The conversation soon moved from doctrine to Crawford’s own life. He said he had considered suicide before Christmas Day 2020, when a difficult morning deepened the crisis until he decided he would act on those thoughts.
Crawford, then 17, went to a crowded Waffle House for what he expected to be his last meal. He declined to disclose private family details about that morning.
A stranger joined his table and told Crawford that he loved his wife, but she did not love him back. Crawford said the man’s lament broke through his bitterness toward God, an encounter ChurchLeaders revisited in January.
“Jesus, if you’re real, take away my anxiety and depression,” Crawford recalled praying in his car. He testified that he felt the burden lift and decided to give Jesus a chance, while Mandel suggested that Crawford should also recognize his own role in surviving that night.
Crawford would not take the credit. He said reading Scripture changed what he wanted, how he treated people and where he looked for hope, though he acknowledged that he still wrestles with doubt and temptation.
“An experience isn’t enough to sustain a belief system,” he said, explaining that his Waffle House encounter opened the door, but Scripture and the resurrection of Jesus grounded his faith.
His warning about psychics also reflects a plain biblical boundary. Deuteronomy 18:10-12 warns God’s people against divination, mediums, spiritists and consulting the dead, practices that can look comforting while pulling people away from the Lord.
Crawford kept returning to that distinction throughout the friendly but pointed conversation. He insisted that disagreeing with a person’s practice does not cancel Christian love; for him, love means telling the truth without treating anyone as less valuable.
“If He could do it for me, He can sure as heck do it for anyone else,” Crawford said of the change he credits to Jesus.
If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, call or text 988 or learn more through SAMHSA’s 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
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