Culture, Faith and Politics with Pat Kahnke

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The MAGA Hydra: How Three Rival Theologies Built One Christian Nationalist Movement (with Mark Ramm)
23/05/2026 | 37 mins.
Journalist and Substack writer Mark Ramm joins Pat Kahnke to break down the architecture of the new Christian right: Catholic integralism, Reformed evangelical dominionism, and the Pentecostal New Apostolic Reformation -- three theologies that can't agree on baptism, eschatology, or church structure, but have built a shared infrastructure of funding, influence, and political power that is reshaping America.
After the Crisis: What Faith Looks Like On the Other Side (with Adam Swenson)
22/05/2026 | 1h 29 mins.
Adam Swenson and Pat Kahnke continue their series of discussions on deconstruction - of both religious and political faith. Using Brian McLaren's four stages of faith as a jumping off point, this conversation focuses on the final stage: Harmony. Desmond Tutu is an example we'll talk about today.
LIVE: Episode 25, Is this the Last Stand of the MAGA Cult?
20/05/2026 | 1h 35 mins.
Donald Trump now has a $1.776 billion settlement he plans to use to fund revenge for his political party. MAGA evangelicals held a MAGA cult worship service called Rededicate 250. Pat Kahnke discusses all this and more on Culture, Faith, and Politics live!
Rededicate 250: An Eyewitness Exposes the Theology Behind MAGA's Big Show (with Rick Pidcock)
19/05/2026 | 35 mins.
This weekend, the Trump administration spent millions in federal funds on a 9-hour worship rally on the National Mall. The event was organized by the same company that ran Trump's January 6 Ellipse rally — on a largely no-bid government contract. Eric Metaxas invoked the Sinai Covenant from the stage. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared to frame America's military posture in theological terms. And Trump sent a prerecorded Bible video.

Rick Pidcock, a journalist and theologian who attended Rededicate 250, joins Pat Kahnke for a full eyewitness account of how MAGA theology went national on America's 250th birthday.
Chaos and Cover-ups at America's 2nd Biggest Christian TV Network (with Amy Hawk)
16/05/2026 | 36 mins.
Joni Lamb, co-founder of Daystar Television Network — America's 2nd largest Christian TV network — died this week estranged from her own son. What he says happened inside that billion-dollar ministry is a disturbing story about modern Christian media. Pat Kahnke and Amy Hawk examine the Daystar story: a $3.9 million PPP loan used to buy a private jet, seven homes valued at $11.7 million, a honeymoon allegedly charged to ministry donors, and — most seriously — allegations that an abuse claim inside the Lamb family was pressured into silence. Daystar is classified as a church by the IRS. That means no financial disclosures. No accountability. And a billion-dollar operation that nobody is allowed to question. This is what the Fruit Test (Matthew 7:16) looks like when applied to Christian media empires.

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About Culture, Faith and Politics with Pat Kahnke

Pat Kahnke has written two books, from a pastoral perspective, to reject Donald Trump and his MAGA movement: A Christian Case Against Donald Trump (2024) MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience (2020) 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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