The Beached White Male Podcast with Ken Kemp
Episodes
490 episodes
S7E36 Dr. Theon Hill - See Something, Say Something
REPRIS - Ken welcomes his good friend of the podcast, Dr. Theon Hill. Just recently, Christianity Today published Dr. Hill's review of the recent full-length feature film that's getting high marks and a great rev...
S7E35 Dr. Peter Enns: Curve-ball - When Your Faith Strikes Out
REPRISE - Dr. Peter Enns returns to the podcast to discuss his brand new book Curve-ball - When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming* or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God. Pete admits it's the long...
S7E33 Feminists Gloria Steinem and Dolly Parton: What We Left Behind and What’s Ahead - Beach Talk with Betsey Newenhuyse
Today’s Beach Talk begins with a review of the loss of feminist champion Gloria Steinem. Betsey recalls her non-religious college years, when feminism was opening new possibilities for women and challenging assumptions about marriage, work, and...
S7E33 Why Religion Went Obsolete: A Conversation with Sociologist Christian Smith, Ph. D.
REPRISE: Today, we welcome a conversation with Dr. Christian Smith, one of America’s leading sociologists of religion. He studied at Wheaton and Gordon College, earned an M.A. and PhD at Harvard, and currently serves as the William R. Kenan Jr....
S7E32: 9/11 at 25: What Have We Become? - the Two Kens
Twenty-five years ago, we woke up to a terrible tragedy.We remember the images. The first plane. The second plane. The towers collapsing. The Pentagon burning. The field in Pennsylvania. We remember the smoke, the sirens, the stunned fac...
S7E31 A Life Guided by Curiosity with Scott Chesebro Part 2
In Part One of my conversation with Scott Chesebro, we talked about a life shaped by curiosity - by people, places, questions, and a willingness to look beyond the boundaries of his own religious and cultural experience. Scott has never underst...
S7E30 What I Want My Grandchildren to Know with Scott Chesebro PART 1
There are some conversations we know we will remember for the rest of our lives. This is one of them.My longtime friend Scott Chesebro and I share a history that stretches back decades - our education, our years in Chicago, our careers, ...
S7E29 Faith, Power & Politics: A Professor’s Story with Julia Inglis, Ph.D.
What happens when you take a position at a university because you believe it will honor your faith—only to discover that the institution you trusted is not what you imagined? That’s the story of my guest, Julia E. Inglis, Ph.D., MPH...
S7E28 Beach Talk with Betsey: A Little Adventure. A Little Outrage. A Lot of Hope.
Today, we begin by looking ahead to Betsey Newenhuyse's upcoming three-week adventure in Costa Rica, where she'll explore the rainforest and indulge her family’s passion for birding. I also share highlights from four memorable days in Park City...
S7E27 TWO KENS - The Myth of Being Colorblind: What We Refuse to See and Why It Matters
Welcome back to Two Kens with my good friend, Ken Fong.Every so often we record a conversation that challenges us as much as it challenges our listeners. This is one of those episodes.We begin with a hilarious - but surpr...
S7E26 The Gospel According to Theo
Every once in a while I read a book that stays with me long after I've turned the final page. That's exactly what happened when I discovered Theo of Golden by Allen Levi. In fact, I was so moved that I immediately read it a second time...
S7E25 Ben Cremer: Myths We Believe (Reprise)
This week, I’m reaching back into the archive to reprise the most popular episode in the history of my podcast.The Rev. Ben Cremer has built a significant and growing social media presence—one that caught my attention when I stumbled acr...
S7E24 Caleb Campbell Part II - Christian Nationalism, Turning Point and Loving My Neighbor
NEW EPISODE: This is where our conversation takes an even deeper turn.Caleb shares the story of his personal confrontation with Christian nationalism—how an invitation to participate with Turning Point USA forced h...
S7E23 White Grievance and the Common Good - The Two Kens
In this new episode of the Two Kens, Ken Fong and I explore a growing movement that claims white Americans have become an "unprotected class" in modern America. Sparked by the ideas of author and Claremont Institute fellow Jeremy Carl,...
S7E22 From Neo-Nazi to Lead Pastor: Caleb Campbell's Extraordinary Journey PART 1
NEW EPISODE: Today I have the privilege of talking with an author, a pastor, and an influencer whose journey is as compelling as it is timely. Dr. Caleb Campbell is the lead pastor of Desert Springs Bible Church in Phoenix, Arizona, the author ...
S7E21 Beach Talk - America at 250: Patriotism Without Illusion
What We Love, What We Fear, What Comes NextAs America approaches its 250th birthday, Betsey Newenhuyse and I take some time on Beach Talk to reflect on what we love most about this remarkable and complicated nation. We talk about the ide...
S7E20 Fighting the Darkness: Dalaina May on Human Trafficking, Hope, and Global Change
NEW! I’m delighted to welcome back a familiar guest and friend of the podcast, Dalaina May. This is Dalaina’s third appearance with us, and every conversation leaves me challenged, inspired, and more aware of realities that most of us rarely se...
S7E19 David Dark Part II - We Become What We Normalize
Ken welcomes back professor, author, and activist Dr. David Dark to discuss his new book, We Become What We Normalize. David shares the recent tragedy on Belmont University's campus in the shooting of the popular freshman, accom...
S7E18 David Dark: Life's Too Short to Pretend You Aren't Religious Part I
REPRISE - When Wheaton College released it's anticipated Report on Race, there was a glaring omission. A comprehensive self-study over the history of the college had an arbitraty cut-off date of the year 2000. While it was an attempt to be tran...
S7E17 Peter Wehner on Pete Hegseth’s Troubled Soul
NEW EPISODE - I'm so pleased to welcome back my friend Peter Wehner — political thinker, former White House speechwriter, regular contributor to The Atlantic and The New York Times, and one of the most thoughtful Christian...
S7E16 LIVE EVENT: Fong, Onishi and Kemp on the J6 Insurrection and More
Live Event - We're Talkin' 2021! Podcasters Brad Onishi (Straight White American Jesus), Ken Fong (Asian America - The Ken Fong Podcast) and Ken Kemp (The Beached White Male...
S7E15 Fifty Years Later: Faith, Friendship, and What Remains with Rick Axtell and Brad Thompson
This episode is something special. Imagine reconnecting with two young men from your youth group… fifty years later. That’s exactly what happened when Brad Thompson and Rick Axtell and I found our way back into each other’s lives after five dec...
S7E14 Beach Talk: Grief, Grace, and a World on Edge
This week, an original Beach Talk with Betsey Newenhuyse. We sit down for one of those conversations that moves from the deeply personal to the profoundly global.Seven years after losing her husband Fritz, Betsey reflects on gri...
S7E13 Exvangelical and Beyond with Blake Chastain
(REPRISE) Ken welcomes back to the podcast the originator of the hashtag that launched a movement: #exvangelical, Blake Chastain. They discuss his new book, Exvangelical and Beyond: How American Christianity Went Radical and the Mo...
S7E12 Jesse Curtis, Ph.D. - The Myth of Colorblind Christians
REPRISE - When Ken researched his Bible School classmate, Melvin Warren, he stumbled across Dr. Curtis’ book. It referenced a familiar, legendary press conference. In 1970, at the famed Arch entrance at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Mel...
