"I'm Glad You Said That" - Jim Minnery Talks Faith & Politics

Did you know there was a Christian-centered baseball team competing in the Alaska Baseball League ?

The Eagle River/Chugiak Chinooks is a group of men's college players, most of whom attend and play baseball at Christian schools like Biola, The Masters College and Arizona Christian University.

They compete against the Anchorage Glacier Pilots, Anchorage Bucs, MatSu Miners and Kenai Peninsula Oilers. Those teams have some of the top college baseball players in the country.

My guest on Family Matters is Tim Barto who is the President of the Booster Club for the Chinooks. 

We'll chat about what it takes to put together a team, identify host families and how this group of young men influence and are influenced by their 2 month season in the Great Land. 

I invite you to tune in.

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Isn't it tiring how many aspects of our lives have been needlessly and blatantly politicized ? From "woke" American corporate Board rooms to national anthem kneeling in pro sports to mainstream media actively choosing sides in stories they sell to the public to LGBTQ activism and critical race theory being forced upon students at public schools.

It seems as if there is very little neutral ground anymore.

In today's Family Matters show, we'll show how this incessant "progressive" bias and agenda has exploded at the AARP - the largest interest group in America focused on issues for people over the age of fifty.  If you don't know already, AARP is aggressively liberal.

Thankfully, there is an alternative to AARP known as the Association of Mature Americans or AMAC. Robert Coulter heads up AMAC efforts in the Anchorage area and he is my guest today on Family Matters.

Tune in and learn how to stop supporting AARP (click HERE to do that now) and to learn more about a group that more closely aligns with your worldview.

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As Vice President of Strategy for Family Policy Alliance, our national partner, Autumn Leva is an attorney who has spent the last decade advocating for families at both the state and national levels of government—and from both within and outside government. She has a breadth of political experience with a heart for the Gospel.

On Family Matters today, Autumn and I will discuss the national discussion taking place now to protect women sports, the Equality Act and what is being called the Equality Act Light as well as how Alaska Family Council is connected to a vibrant, effective and pro-active network of advocacy groups that makes our mission successful.

I hope you can join Autumn and I on Family Matters today. 

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Corinthians Wiley is a big guy with a big laugh who loves everybody.

He is an intimidating presence and has served in the Department of Corrections where he monitored inmates and gained their respect because he believes every person has value. Wiley knows that every person makes mistakes and that each should be treated with dignity and respect.

He is also the newest State Director in Alaska of BLEXIT, a national movement started in 2018 by Candace Owens "to encourage African Americans (plus Latinos and other minorities) to abandon the Democratic Party and register as Republicans with the promise of freedom. At the time, 8% of Black Americans identified as Republicans. Blexit is the term created out of "Black" and "exit" which mimics Brexit, the word used to describe the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.

This will be a very interesting discussion and I hope you can join Corinthians and I on Family Matters today. 

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Rod Dreher describes himself as a Conservative, Orthodox Christian, Southerner, Europhile, and Eclecticist. 

He is a senior editor and blogger at The American Conservative and author of several books, including How Dante Can Save Your Life, The Benedict Option, and Live Not by Lies. He has written about religion, politics, film, and culture in National Review and National Review Online, The Weekly Standard, The Wall Street Journal, Touchstone, Men's Health, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications.

He was a film reviewer for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and chief film critic for the New York Post.

Rod is my guest on Family Matters today. Let's wake up and carpe diem my friends. For His glory. Hope you can join us.

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Kevin McGary grew up in the "hood" in San Francisco.

He has seen and experienced racism and yet the organization he founded, Every Black Life Matters, stands outside of the mainstream Black Life Matters movement that has taken our nation by storm.

As he has noted, "If we are complicit with precipitating foundations of injustice when life actually begins, it is impossible to assert we are for “justice” in any domain or instances throughout life."

Those kind of unapologetically pro-life statements have not made him popular in today's cancel culture. Neither has his blistering resistance to critical race theory, his belief that there is only one race or that he supports free markets and educational choice.

But Kevin McGary is not looking for endorsements from culture. He is looking to be an ambassador for Jesus.

I hope you can join us as I have the pleasure of speaking with Kevin today on Family Matters.

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Craig DeRoche knows what it means to nearly lose everything.

Except his relationship with Jesus Christ.

As the current President and CEO of Family Policy Alliance, Craig fell hard into the trap of addiction. His life story is a wonderful testimony to the power of the Gospel and of a God of mercy and reconciliation.

As the former Speaker of the House of the Michigan Legislature, Craig has served as the former President of the Justice Fellowship, founded by Chuck Colson. His book, Highly Functional, is a personal account of his "collision of addiction, justice and grace."

I'm honored to call Craig a colleague. I hope you can join us for today's episode of Family Matters.

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Emilie Kao is in the right place at the right time.

As Director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Religion & Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation, Kao is an attorney who has defended religious freedom for the last 14 years. She has worked on behalf of victims of religious freedom violations in East Asia, the Middle East, Europe and South Asia at the State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom and Becket Law.

Previously she worked at the United Nations and Latham & Watkins.

Kao also taught international human rights law at George Mason University Law School as an adjunct law professor.

She earned an A.B. degree in Near Eastern Civilizations and Languages at Harvard-Radcliffe College and a J.D. at Harvard Law School. She is a member of the Supreme Court Bar and the bar associations of California and the District of Columbia.

Today, she is serving as a critical buffer between the Biden Administration and fundamental rights of Americans like you and I. On today's episode of Family Matters, we'll talk with Emilie about the Equality Act and the response to it called the Promise to America's Children.

I hope you can join us.

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Kelly Tshibaka knows what it means to live in a tent when your family has no other option at the time and she knows what it means to hang out in the upper echelons of the Ivy League.

As a lifelong Alaskan, Tshibaka is a strong-willed, self-subscribed lover of efficiencies who serves as the Commissioner of the Department of Administration for Governor Dunleavy.

In addition to her Harvard Law degree, Tshibaka has a heart for ministry having experience in the community pregnancy resource arena as well as planting churches in D.C. 

Alaskans are fortunate to have her in a position to implement efficiencies in how State Government operates and steward public resources more wisely. 

She is my guest today on Family Matters and I hope you can join us.

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Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse is the founder of the Ruth Institute, a global non-profit organization that defends the family at home and in the public square and equips others to do the same.

In addition to writing numerous books, Dr. Morse earned her Ph.D. at the University of Rochester and taught economics at Yale and George Mason Universities.

I am honored to have her on the show today to discuss where the sexual revolution has brought us and how transgender activists have much more in mind than opening up bathrooms and locker rooms or allowing biological males to compete against women in sports.

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