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Pat Kahnke is the author of the book ”MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience,” which was published before the 2020 election. He was an evangelical church planter and pastor for twenty years before retiring from church ministry in 2016. Planted a church in the inner city of St. Paul, MN - part of the Baptist General Conference (Converge) and Alliance for Renewal Churches. A lifelong conservative Republican until the party left him in 2016. Now a political independent, he has written off the Republican party until it completes 40 years in the wilderness for its capitulation to the MAGA movement. This podcast contains political and social commentary related to issues at the intersection of culture, faith, and politics.
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Tuesday Mar 25, 2025
Guest Adam Swenson: Fighting back against the echo chambers.
Tuesday Mar 25, 2025
Tuesday Mar 25, 2025
Adam Swenson writes at https://substack.com/@friendlyneighborhoodphilosopher
Pat Kahnke's books are available on Amazon: "A Christian Case Against Donald Trump" (2024): https://a.co/d/iVSTqny
"MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience" (2020): https://a.co/d/1KNX3uQ

Monday Mar 24, 2025
Monday Mar 24, 2025
Adam Swenson writes at https://substack.com/@friendlyneighborhoodphilosopher
Pat Kahnke's books are available on Amazon: "A Christian Case Against Donald Trump" (2024): https://a.co/d/iVSTqny
"MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience" (2020): https://a.co/d/1KNX3uQ

Sunday Mar 23, 2025
Sunday Mar 23, 2025
Adam Swenson and Pat Kahnke discuss a mutual friend who FINALLY rejected Trump - we discuss his reasons, and how we can help others in that process.
Subscribe to Adam Swenson's Substack https://substack.com/@friendlyneighborhoodphilosopher
Read his article "What Might Cause the MAGA Faithful to Lose Faith in Trump?" https://substack.com/home/post/p-158437597
Pat Kahnke's books are available on Amazon: "A Christian Case Against Donald Trump" (2024): https://a.co/d/iVSTqny
"MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience" (2020): https://a.co/d/1KNX3uQ

Saturday Mar 22, 2025
Saturday Mar 22, 2025
Charlie Sykes joins Pat Kahnke on the podcast today to discuss his former life as a conservative talk radio host, the poisoning of the culture under Trump, and Trump's war against Christianity.
Follow Charlie's podcast and newsletter, "To the Contrary", on Substack at: https://charliesykes.substack.com/
Charlie's book "How the Right Lost Its Mind" is available here: https://a.co/d/1htfxOO
Pat Kahnke's books are available on Amazon:
"A Christian Case Against Donald Trump" (2024): https://a.co/d/iVSTqny
"MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience" (2020): https://a.co/d/1KNX3uQ

Saturday Nov 02, 2024
Saturday Nov 02, 2024
CHAPTER FOUR: The Way of Justice vs the Way of the Oppressor. A Christian Case Against Donald Trump (Available on Amazon at https://a.co/d/61dLfJ0)

Saturday Oct 19, 2024
Saturday Oct 19, 2024
CHAPTER THREE: The Way of Truth vs the Way of the Deceiver. A Christian Case Against Donald Trump (Available on Amazon at https://a.co/d/61dLfJ0)

Sunday Oct 13, 2024
Sunday Oct 13, 2024
CHAPTER TWO: The Way of Peace vs the Way of the Demagogue. A Christian Case Against Donald Trump (Available on Amazon at https://a.co/d/61dLfJ0)

Saturday Sep 21, 2024
Saturday Sep 21, 2024
CHAPTER ONE: The Way of Jesus vs the Way of the World. A Christian Case Against Donald Trump (Available on Amazon at https://a.co/d/cEwG5v8)

Monday Sep 16, 2024
FULL PROLOGUE: A Christian Case Against Donald Trump (Available on Amazon)
Monday Sep 16, 2024
Monday Sep 16, 2024
Audio version of the prologue to my new book "A Christian Case Against Donald Trump," which is available on Amazon.

Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Chapter 8: Discussing Tim Alberta's book "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory"
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
The "David Barton's False American Gospel" episode.
Dave Johnson and Pat Kahnke continue their discussion of Tim Alberta's new book "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism." In this episode we discuss Alberta's visit to David Barton and Chad Connelly's "American Restoration Tour", where churches are encouraged to get more political in order to save the nation from destruction.