Culture, Faith and Politics with Pat Kahnke

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Do We Dare Hope for Better Politics? Yes — Here's Why (LIVE with Adam Swenson)
31/07/2026 | 1h 43 mins.
In the midst of such an ugly timeline, here are a few rays of hope in American politics: Raphael Warnock's faith-informed brand of politics, James Talarico’s clear contrast with Ken Paxton in Texas, Jon Ossoff’s unmatched communication as he fights for reelection in Georgia, and Pete Buttigieg taking his case straight to Fox News. Pat Kahnke is joined by Adam Swenson to talk about the hopeful messages that are actually resonating with the American people — and why each of these matters right now.
CFP LIVE, Episode 35: The Problematic Legacy of Senator Lindsey Graham | The Woke Odyssey
29/07/2026 | 1h 23 mins.
Pat and Ken discuss all of this, and more, on this week's episode of Culture, Faith, and Politics, LIVE!
ESSAY: Amazing New Ossoff Speech! “This broken man and his ruined presidency.”
28/07/2026 | 15 mins.
Senator Jon Ossoff’s speech at Berean Christian Church uses the biblical story of King Ahab, Jezebel, Naboth’s vineyard, and the prophet Micaiah to confront corruption, political power, and the danger of surrounding a ruler with people willing to lie for him.

I examine why Ossoff’s argument about the rule of law, false prophets, voting rights, and reckless war carries such theological weight.

The episode considers how Scripture can challenge authoritarianism rather than excuse it—and why the story of Ahab remains a warning about corruption, political sycophants, leaders who silence dissent, and the abuse of religious authority.
ESSAY: Can I Follow Jesus Without Believing in the Rapture?
27/07/2026 | 32 mins.
Can you be a Christian and reject the Rapture? In this second episode of our Rapture series, I explain what I personally believe about Jesus, the resurrection, the return of Christ, and the detailed end-times systems often called Rapture theology. We will also consider how dispensational theology and Christian nationalism have been used to support MAGA politics, why certainty can be politically powerful, and how teachers such as John Hagee have connected prophetic theology to contemporary political movements.
ESSAY: Did Trump’s Pentagon Drop Four Soldiers to Hide the Cost of His War?
25/07/2026 | 11 mins.
The Pentagon first reported that 18 American service members had been killed in the Iran war. One day later, the official casualty count dropped to 14—after four soldiers killed in Jordan and Iraq were removed from the public list.

This episode examines what happened to Lt. Tyler James Feehan, Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, Sgt. Angel Rampersad, and Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, and asks why the Trump administration and the Department of Defense changed the public accounting of American war dead. It also places the controversy in the larger history of Donald Trump’s comments and conduct involving military service members, including Trump’s “suckers and losers” remarks about fallen soldiers.

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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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