He has had public debates with Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Steven Pinker, Roger Cohen, Richard Dawkins, Matt Ridley, Bishop Barron,[10][11][12][13] and Indian yogi and mystic Sadhguru, among others.

[citation needed] Wolpe is the model for Jacob Kappelmacher, the rabbi detective in J. M. Appel's best-selling mystery novel, Wedding Wipeout (2012).

It's neither new nor shocking to most of us that the earth is round or that the Torah isn't a history book dictated to Moses by God on Mount Sinai.

"[20] Wolpe asserted that he was arguing that the historicity of the events should not matter, since he believes faith is not determined by the same criteria as empirical truth.

In March 2010, Wolpe expounded on his views saying that it was possible that a small group of people left Egypt, came to Canaan, and influenced the native Canaanites with their traditions.

He added that the controversy of 2001 stemmed from the fact that Conservative Jewish congregations have been slow to accept and embrace biblical criticism.

[22] The article was widely criticized on social media and in online publications for its lack of both historical and present-day knowledge of non-monotheistic religions, as well as its claim that "there's something a little pagan" about self-identified Christian Donald Trump.

[22] The lack of historical knowledge of non-monotheistic religions is stressed in an article posted to Patheos,[23] while an editorial in The Wildhunt focused on a "lack of familiarity… glaring in the article", contending that Wolpe presents no first-hand knowledge about, or research into, present-day Pagans, instead "commingl[ing] Paganism with wealth and greed while also conflating it with the actions of former U.S. President Donald Trump and ubiquitous billionaire Elon Musk".

[25] Scholars who study Paganism also published a response in the form of an Open Letter, noting that "the main message of his article is that 'paganism,' not monotheism, is mostly responsible for the faults of the contemporary West" despite "the cultural dominance of monotheism over the past two thousand years" and precisely in relation to the trends that he condemns.