Culture, Faith and Politics with Pat Kahnke

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.

Was Charlie Kirk worse in context? After 6 years tracking Turning Point USA, Tim Whitaker says yes — more hateful, more bigoted, and more dehumanizing in context than in isolated clips. In this conversation, Pat and Tim walk through Kirk's own words and show why this isn't about a few "mean tweets," but about rhetoric in service to a movement and worldview.