Culture, Faith and Politics with Pat Kahnke

Topics for this episode of the Thursday morning live stream included: James Talarico answering the people of Texas on CNN, and Adam Swenson remembers his father, Dr. Richard Swenson, on his passing.

Trump's new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is darker than we knew. Amy Hawk joins Pat Kahnke to expose Zacharia's lawyer-bar controversy, deleted conspiracy tweets, childlike facade, and record at DHS with Kristi Noem. In her first briefing Zacharia made clear she's working for Donald Trump, not the American people, fawning over Trump while pushing cruelty behind a Christian mask.

The Markwayne Mullin-led Department of Homeland Security has gone after one of Donald Trump's most vocal adversaries -- Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Homeland Security Investigators raided her DC-area house under the guise of an "investigation" into her immigration status. It's fascism in real time and must be discussed. Plus, right-wing voices tried to sell lies about James Talarico's mental health, and Robert Jeffress wants you to watch a live execution. Pat Kahnke and Ken Napzok discuss all this and more on Culture, Faith, and Politics live!

Does Pete Hegseth want you for his crusade if you're not a Christian? In part 3 of this conversation with retired pastor, Pat Kahnke, Dr. Brad Onishi, author of American Caesar: How Theocrats and Tech Lords Are Turning America into a Monarchy, argues Pete Hegseth is the prototype for what theocrats want to do to the rest of the country.

Brad Onishi joins Pat Kahnke to explain why MAGA Christians and Christian nationalist leaders now say democracy is the problem and America must save Western civilization with a strongman king. Featuring Doug Wilson, Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel and JD Vance, this is Part 2 of our interview on the rise of Western Christian civilizationalism.

Pete Hegseth announced plans to livestream the Fort Hood shooter execution by firing squad. Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling condemns the death penalty spectacle as depravity and war porn, and former pastor Pat Kahnke responds with a Christian critique of militant Christian nationalism.

Brad Onishi exposes the coming MAGA civil war over who controls Jesus' Kingdom in his new book American Caesar: How Theocrats and Tech Lords are Turning America Into a Monarchy. In part 1 of this conversation, Pat Kahnke and Brad Onishi break down Christian nationalism, the New Apostolic Reformation, and the fight for Trump's movement.

Christians are the death penalty's biggest supporters, yet capital punishment is cruel, ineffective and beneath the teachings of Jesus. Pat Kahnke talks with Tihomir Kukolja about Krista Pike's botched execution, what the Bible really says about the death penalty, and how to find wisdom for these difficult issues.

Ken Paxton's corruption is next level, but that might not stop Texas GOP voters from putting him in the Senate. Paxton is the best example of everything wrong with the Republican Party. The GOP playbook is to run absolute creeps and cretins in the primaries, and the worst people in America vote for them, forcing GOP voters into having to vote for that horrible candidate in the general election. It's then sold as a binary choice, and we'll lose our country if you don't vote against the Democrats. And it all keeps working. Plus, Pete Hegseth is continuing his religious war with his new Office of Religious Affairs, Trump wants us to say Super Intelligence, and who is Beni Rae Harmony? Pat Kahnke and Ken Napzok discuss all this and more on Culture, Faith, and Politics live!

Former evangelical pastor Pat Kahnke on Jon Ossoff, Christian nationalism, white evangelicals and Donald Trump — why despair is a luxury we can't afford in this MAGA politics marathon one month before the midterms.