Culture, Faith and Politics with Pat Kahnke

The viral clip is everywhere — Sean Duffy telling his daughter that Harvard would "corrupt her mind," and that "me and mom can say no." It's been shared as a parenting joke. But it's only half the story. Sean Duffy isn't just a reality-TV dad with cameras following his family down the highway. He's the Secretary of Transportation — and while America laughs at the clip, he's using that office to advance a very specific vision of Christian nationalism, one truck route and one immigrant trucker at a time.

Adam Swenson and Pat Kahnke contrast Lasso’s “no enemies, only not-yet-friends” and “be a goldfish” with Metaxas’s dark view of power, loyalty tests, and permanent political enemies. Adam’s thesis: adults still change based on who they absorb. Metaxas is the warning — change is real, and it’s not guaranteed to go toward Christ.

When Christian nationalist leaders frame worship as territorial conquest, a public act of prayer becomes a provocation. Rick Pidcock — author of Weapons of Worship — and I break down the theology behind Feucht's Chicago march: what "spiritual warfare" language really does, how evangelical worship music is being weaponized for political ends, and what this tells us about the direction of Christian nationalism in America.

Jon Ossoff continues to go after Donald Trump. What is the truth of the USS Abraham Lincoln? More on Eric Metaxas. A special annoucement for the live show! Pat Kahnke discusses all this and more on Culture, Faith, and Politics live!

Eric Metaxas says the political left has become "satanic wickedness." A viral airplane evangelist turns a captive cabin into her personal stage. Both moments look like bold Christian witness — but Amy Hawk and I argue they're something else entirely: performance.