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The Beached White Male Podcast with Ken Kemp

Religion and Politics - subjects we avoid in polite society. But not here. Stories and people who challenge our assumptions and blaze new trails. Inspiring. Challenging. Out of the box. For Blog and Official BWM site, go to www.thebeachedwhitemale.com.

S7E11 Democracy, Decline, Dementia, and the Urgency of Now

42 mins; March 30, 2026

S7E10 From Backlash to Breakthrough: David Gushee’s Decade of Courage

62 hours 35 mins; March 22, 2026

S7E9 Lisa Sharon Harper: Fortune - How Race Broke My Family and the World

64 hours 34 mins; March 16, 2026

S7E8 Holy Icons and Racial Myths: A Conversation with Dr. Jessica Wong

49 mins; March 07, 2026

Randall Balmer on the Scopes Trial and the Separation of Church and State

67 hours 41 mins; February 28, 2026

S7E6 The Anti-Greed Gospel with author Malcolm Foley

63 hours 12 mins; February 17, 2026

S7E5 Two Kens: Epstein, Melania, and the Fracturing of MAGA

41 mins; February 07, 2026

S7E4 Sacred Wounds: Religious Trauma, Grief, and the Path to Resilience with Susan Reedy, MFT

61 hours 59 mins; January 30, 2026

S7E3 When ICE Comes to Town: Minneapolis on the Edge with Darcy McKenzie

51 mins; January 21, 2026

S7E2 Beach Talk - The Politics of Force and Fear

48 mins; January 16, 2026

Welcome to The Beached White Male Podcast 2026

11 mins; January 07, 2026

S6E61 Two Kens: A Year to Remember—A Future to Protect

47 mins; December 30, 2025

S6E60 Christmas Beach Talk with Betsey - Hope Still Sings

44 mins; December 23, 2025

S6E59 Reclaiming Christianity from MAGA Evangelicalism with Nate Manderson

60 hours 57 mins; December 20, 2025

S6E58 From Backlash to Breakthrough: David Gushee’s Decade of Courage

61 hours 30 mins; December 11, 2025

S6E57 A Beautiful Year: Diana Butler Bass on Time, Empire, and Advent Hope

66 hours 8 mins; December 01, 2025

S6E56 Thanksgiving Beach Talk with Betsey Newenhuyse

49 mins; November 26, 2025

S6E55 The Two Kens on Rental Family, the MAGA California Gubernatorial Candidate, and Wicked

61 hours 32 mins; November 22, 2025

S6E54 The President’s Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

44 mins; November 10, 2025

S6E53 Katherine Stewart: Money, Lies and God - Inside the Christian Nationalist Agenda

62 hours 53 mins; November 03, 2025

S6E52 Grace, Grit, and the Power of Song with Lindy Boone-Michaelis

62 hours 42 mins; October 29, 2025

S6E51 Finding Voice, Living Justice: The Work of Inés Velásquez-McBryde

64 hours 16 mins; October 23, 2025

S6E50 Awakening or Warning? What the Charlie Kirk Movement Reveals with the TWO KENS

47 mins; October 18, 2025

S6E49 Beach Talk: The Streets of Chicago and the Gathering of Generals

46 mins; October 10, 2025

S6E48 Charlie Kirk’s Legacy: Civil Discourse or Culture War?

57 mins; October 02, 2025

S6E47 Don’t Give Up on the Truth with Washington Insider Pete Wehner (REPRISE)

65 hours 55 mins; September 24, 2025

S6E46 Beach Talk #137 - Protests, Power Plays, and Parenting

49 mins; September 17, 2025

When the News Stops - A Pause for Reflection

6 mins; September 10, 2025

S6E44 Two Kens: From Focus on the Family to Culture Wars - The Dobson Legacy

52 mins; September 01, 2025

S6E43 Breaking the Silence: Black Experience in Evangelical Institutions

66 hours 50 mins; August 26, 2025

S6E42 Randall Balmer on the Scopes Trial and the Separation of Church and State

67 hours 1 min; August 20, 2025

S6E41 2 Kens: Dis-Aggregation - The Illusive Ideal of E Pluribus Unum

51 mins; August 14, 2025

S6E40 Summer for the Gods: Edward Larson on the Scopes Trial and America’s Culture Wars

65 hours 6 mins; August 07, 2025

S6E39 Faith, Films, and Finding Common Ground – with Matt Mikalatos

60 hours 17 mins; July 30, 2025

S6E38 Exploring The Weight of Loyalty with Author Mike Mizrahi

59 mins; July 23, 2025

S6E37 The Tragedy of Indifference: Peter Wehner on Faith, Politics, and AIDS Relief

53 mins; July 19, 2025

S6E36 - THE TWO KENS: Why So Many Americans Cheer Cruelty

46 mins; July 14, 2025

S6E35 Green Street in Black and White: A Chicago Story with author Dave Larsen

55 mins; July 09, 2025

S6E34 BEACH TALK: No Kings, No Cages: Reclaiming the American Story

53 mins; July 04, 2025

S6E33 The Mist Trail: Digital Detox and Yosemite's Rewards

17 mins; June 29, 2025

S6E32 Why Religion Went Obsolete: A Conversation with Sociologist Christian Smith, Ph. D.

57 mins; June 23, 2025

S6E31 Happy Juneteenth - The Civil Rights Tour of the South with John Williams

32 mins; June 19, 2025

S6E30 No Kings: Peace, Protests, Power, and the Politics of Spectacle

48 mins; June 12, 2025

S5E29 Brad Onishi - Preparing for War

62 hours 16 mins; June 10, 2025

S6E28 Philip Yancey: Where the Light Fell

57 mins; June 06, 2025

Ben S6E27 Cremer - Into The Gray: "Real Christians," Total Depravity and Lament

59 mins; June 02, 2025

S6E26 Box-Checking Faith, Science Denial, and Democracy in Peril - Beach Talk with Betsey Newenhuyse

51 mins; May 29, 2025

S6E25 Tracey Gee: The Magic of Knowing What You Want

53 mins; May 23, 2025

S6E24 Vikings in the East: Martyn Whittock on the Ancient Roots of Putin’s Holy War

59 mins; May 20, 2025

S6E23 Katherine Stewart: Money, Lies and God - Inside the Christian Nationalist Agenda

62 hours 25 mins; May 15, 2025

S6E22 Beach Talk #134 - 100 Days of Flooding the Zone

56 mins; May 09, 2025

S6E21 Don’t Give Up on the Truth with Pete Wehner (REPRISE)

65 hours 59 mins; May 03, 2025

S6E20 Dissecting the film CONCLAVE - with the Two Kens (REPRISE)

58 mins; April 28, 2025

From Athlete to Advocate: Dr. Phil Allen on Healing, History, and Hope

61 hours 49 mins; April 25, 2025

S6E18 Holy Icons and Racial Myths: A Conversation with Dr. Jessica Wong

49 mins; April 19, 2025

S6E17 Beach Talk #133 - Faith, Firings & Freefall

54 mins; April 10, 2025

S6E16 Breaking the Cycle: Dameon Wroe’s Fight for Justice

64 hours 9 mins; April 03, 2025

Podcast Sound Track Repaired - S6E15 with filmmaker Claudia Katayanagi is Ready to Go

56 secs; March 28, 2025

S6E15: Echoes of Internment: Filmmaker Claudia Katayanagi on History, Justice, and Resistance

58 mins; March 27, 2025

S6E14 Baseball in Tokyo, Democracy in Peril, and Elon Musk’s Chainsaw - Beach Talk #132

50 mins; March 22, 2025

S6E13: The Two Kens - Let’s Talk About Patrimonialism

41 mins; March 17, 2025

S6E12 Keeping the Spark Alive: Staying Engaged in Tough Times with Darcy McKenzie

60 hours 45 mins; March 07, 2025

S6E11 Beach Talk #131 - It is Well with my Soul

55 mins; March 01, 2025

S5E10 - The Anti-Greed Gospel with author Malcolm Foley

62 hours 57 mins; February 23, 2025

S6E9 Immigration - Between Borders with Stelio Savante

54 mins; February 20, 2025

S6E8 Super Bowl Half-Time Show Review with Osahon Obazuaye and Grant Young

68 hours 33 mins; February 16, 2025

S6E7 TWO KENS - Three Weeks of Flooding the Zone

49 mins; February 12, 2025

S6E6 Episode #400 - a Milestone Celebration

53 mins; February 05, 2025

S6E5 Jesse Curtis, Ph.D. - The Myth of Colorblind Christians

58 mins; January 30, 2025

S6E4 Don’t Give Up on the Truth with Washington Insider Pete Wehner

64 hours 52 mins; January 22, 2025

S6E3 The Two Kens - The Palisades and Eaton Fires

45 mins; January 15, 2025

S6E2 Remembering Jimmy Carter PART II with Dr. Randall Balmer and Dr. Dave Peters

46 mins; January 12, 2025

S6E1 The New Year Begins: Remembering Jimmy Carter PART I with Randall Balmer and Betsey Newenhuyse

55 mins; January 04, 2025

S5E76 Year-End Review with Nate Manderson: How the Left Can Get Its Mojo Back

40 mins; December 28, 2024

S5E75 Christmas Beach Talk: The Nativity - Beauty, Wonder and Mystery

36 mins; December 20, 2024

S5E74 Notre Dame - What The World Needs Now

13 mins; December 14, 2024

S5E73 Beach Talk: Late, Great, Planet Earth - Really?

47 mins; December 09, 2024

S5E72 David Dark - We Become What We Normalize (Reprise)

58 mins; December 04, 2024

S5E71 Dissecting the Cogent Message of the film CONCLAVE - with the Two Kens

57 mins; November 30, 2024

S5E70 A Thanksgiving Reflection

13 mins; November 27, 2024

S5E69 Farewell Tony Campolo, Gone Too Soon

51 mins; November 24, 2024

S5E68 Exvangelical and Beyond with Blake Chastain

64 hours 48 mins; November 15, 2024

S5E67 The Two Kens - A Post Mortem the Morning After

34 mins; November 08, 2024

S5E66 BEST OF... Nate Manderson: Working Class Voters and Camino de Santiago (Spain)

56 mins; November 07, 2024

S5E65 BEST OF... Jim Wallis - The False White Gospel

67 hours 53 mins; November 02, 2024

S5E64 BEST OF... How A Trump Victory Will Impact The World with historian Martyn Whittock

55 mins; October 29, 2024

S5E63 BEST OF... Ben Cremer - Into The Gray: "Real Christians," Total Depravity and Lament

59 mins; October 24, 2024

S5E62 The Sanctuary Movement in America with Lloyd Barba, Ph.D.

53 mins; October 19, 2024

S5E61 The Two Kens - High Anxiety as Election Day Approaches

47 mins; October 15, 2024

S5E60 Neelam Warren-Pal - The Grandfather She Never Met

53 mins; October 08, 2024

S5E59 Beach Talk #126 The VP Debate in Review

46 mins; October 05, 2024

S5E58 1946 - The Mistranslation that Shifted Culture with Ed Oxford

58 mins; October 01, 2024

S5E57 Queering the Church in the Heartland with Tom Wasssink, M.D.

57 mins; September 24, 2024

S5E56 David Gushee - The Moral Teachings of Jesus Part II

48 mins; September 20, 2024

S5E55 BONUS - Philip Yancey and His Brother Marshall with Mark Bodnarczuk

36 mins; September 17, 2024

S5E54: The Two Kens: Debate Review - "They are Eating the Dogs"?

36 mins; September 14, 2024

S5E53 - Grace and Forgiveness in the Age of Fentanyl Poisoning with Mark Bodnarczuk

49 mins; September 12, 2024

S5E52 David Gushee, Ph.D. - The Moral Teachings of Jesus Part I

55 mins; September 04, 2024

S5E51 Darcy McKenzie: Tim Walz Watch Party Gets TV Coverage

52 mins; August 30, 2024

S5E50 Two Kens - The Better Angels Our Nature

46 mins; August 26, 2024

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