The Beached White Male Podcast with Ken Kemp

Send us Fan Mail Ken and Carla reminisce over the impact of Simon and Garfunkel on their formative years. You'll hear Carla sing. The pressure on the Biden administration is growing on the Voting Rights legislation. Secretary Pete visits Southern California to review the supply chain backup. John MacArthur comes out with a troubling and surprising take on religious freedom . Lucy Lark brings...

Send us Fan Mail Kemp and Fong come together for the first Two Kens Podcast for the New Year. Ken Fong shares his adventures as a wildlife photographer and then his interviews with the stars and producer of the new FOX hit series, The Cleaning Lady , featuring AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) cast and crew. But the primary focus of the conversation was prompted by the discovery of a 72 m...

Send us Fan Mail Ken and Carla take their first Beach Talk for 2022 indoors - to a crackling fire for a Fireside Chat . They record this first conversation of the New Year on January 5, 2022, the day before the one year anniversary of the January 6 Insurrection of 2021. They share their thoughts. Players like Sean Hannity, Jamie Raskin, President Joe Biden and Secretary Pete among others are discu...

Send us Fan Mail For the first episode of Season 3, Ken brings back friend of the podcast, Dr. David Gushee. He has just released a new book  - Introducing Christian Ethics (release date - January 2022 ). David has just been named Senior Research Fellow at International Baptist Theological Study Centre at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.  David  will present a scholarly lecture entitled "Defendi...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year! Ken and Carla reflect on the year gone by. Last December, in their Christmas edition, they finished episode 15 - this is episode 64. They have developed a strong bond, coming together nearly every week to talk about how events have impacted them. This week, they consider how their Beach Talks have shaped them. Each identifies the TOP FIVE events, books, films or ha...

Send us Fan Mail This holiday week - a SPECIAL REBROADCAST from October 2020: one of Ken's all-time favorites. Ken met this remarkable octogenarian while Kayaking on Lake Superior.   Ed Kale , M .Div., 1963   professional kayaker , was a student at Yale Divinity School in 1961 when a generous professor funded his participation in a Freedom Ride to Jackson , MS. He was arrested, put in jail al...

Send us Fan Mail Ken and Carla connect just before Christmas Day , December 23, 2021, this time with a Fireside Chat . They reflect on a year of Beach Talks , this week touch on Beth Moore's connection to her new church, The Anglican Communion , and the reaction of her former SBC friends. The Beatles pull Ken and Carla out of the basement of political talk. There is good economic news as we c...

Send us Fan Mail Ken Fong (Asian America, the Ken Fong Podcast) and Ken Kemp explore the immensely popular Christianity Today podcast series, The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill . There are 12 episodes and nearly 15 hours of highly produced exploration to unpack. It's the story of the collapse of the megachurch in the Pacific Northwest led by Mark Driscoll . The two Kens discuss how narcissistic l...

Send us Fan Mail The tornadoes that hit the mid-west have left a swath of devastation. Carla complements California's Governor Gavin Newsom for leading the way for the rest of the nation. Liz Cheney outed Mark Meadows who continues to take his cues from the former President, hindering the work of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack. Fox News personalities ( Sean Hannity , Brian...

Send us Fan Mail Ken's guest is professor, author, musician and now podcaster, Japanese American R. Scott Okamoto . While teaching at a well-known, established Christian university, Scott finds himself deep in the private process  of deconstruction . His fervent evangelical faith began to crumble. He grew up in a high profile evangelical church in Pasadena where he followed in the footsteps o...

Send us Fan Mail Anticipation of the birth of Carl's first grandchild has her thinking about the need for good prenatal care . Not everyone has access in this country. Attacks on Planned Parenthood and the Affordable Care Act make adequate medical care out of reach for too many Americans. Attempts to get to the bottom of the causes and responsibility for the January 6 insurrection continue, w...

Send us Fan Mail Ken shares thoughts from the memorial for a good friend lost to Covid. He reminisces about a return to the church where he served as college pastor in the late seventies and early nineties. Carla identifies more complications relating to the Supreme Court's review of Roe v. Wade . Secretary Pete and V.P. Kamala Harris are getting noticed as potential presidential candidates. ...

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes long-time listener, Darcy McKenzie . She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, not far from George Floyd Square , where Derek Chauvin pressed his knee on his victim's neck resulting in a death viewed by millions around the world. Darcy shares her experience, which includes a Prayer Tent on the site of the square providing space for people to come together from all wal...

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes you to the podcast. It replaces the original welcome - so much has changed in over eighteen months and one-hundred-fifty episodes. He shares the saga of the podcast's beginnings just as Covid isolated us in our homes, bringing "normal life" to a sudden halt. It's been a steep learning curve for Ken, addressing issues of race, politics, and religion...

Send us Fan Mail On this Thanksgiving week, and on the occasion of the release of WHOLEHEARTED FAITH , we re-release Ken's conversation with Peter Held. When Rachel died in May of 2019, she left behind a nearly finished manuscript. This month, with Jeff Chu's able assistance, that book has been released. On this podcast,  Ken has the honor of a long talk with Professor Peter Held , Rache...

Send us Fan Mail Ken and Carla reconvene for their weekly Beach Talk. Thanksgiving is coming. Carla shares her perspective on the signing ceremony at the White House making the bi-partisan Infrastructure legislation the law of the land. Along with some 800 mayors, governors and legislators standing close to the President is Secretary of Transportation , Pete Buttigieg . On Carla's recommendat...

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes theologian, professor, former pastor, Bible teacher, and Co-Founder of THE PUBLIC , an organization that promotes anti-racism through education, advocacy, and action. It's purpose: so that their community will experience healing, equity, and justice for all its residents. A fellow graduate of the Moody Bible Institute , the two talk about backlash throughout hist...

Send us Fan Mail From their beach chairs, Ken and Carla raise a glass as the Infrastructure is passed . They talk about how the "sausage got made." It's a long-awaited win for President Joe Biden , and a huge responsibility for Secretary Pete to show what he can do. Adam Kinzinger becomes more and more effective as an influential Republican. They reflect on the two big trials in the...

Send us Fan Mail Ken Fong and Ken Kemp review Fong's powerful conversation with Dr. Russell Jeung , named one of the Top 100 Global Influencers by TIME Magazine. Dr. Jeung is co-founder of Stop AAPI-HATE (Asian American hate). Conservative author, Jennifer Rubin's Washington Post article suggests that Evangelicals can never get what they really want. The recent Virginia election (Republi...

Send us Fan Mail This week's Beach Talk start with a visit to an Alpaca Farm ,  and then Gus Buttigieg in the hospital in his Halloween outfit with his two dads. After last week's prediction of victory for Democrats, the two move into post-mortem mode, unpacking the election results. In Virginia, Republican Glenn Youngkin had the advantage, Democrat Terry McCauliff took a beating. They t...

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes author, activist and pastor Nathaniel Manderson . After reading Nate's article on Salon.com (" Evangelical Theology Is What Made the Texas Abortion Outrage Possible "), Ken reached out to learn more. Nate agreed to a podcast interview. We learn that Nate, an ordained Baptist minister , is, like Ken, a seminary graduate (M. Div., Gordon-Conwell Theologic...

Send us Fan Mail Carla is on a roll after listening to a conversation between Joe Scarborough and Lawrence O'Donnell who inspire her to action.  She's been engaged in working the Virginia gubernatorial election ,  where Republican candidate, Glenn Youngkin complains that Toni Morrison's Beloved was read by a high school senior who objected - she claimed - because he was traumatized...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Greer, Licensed Clinical Social Worker , joins Ken for a conversation about redemption, recovery and living well . Ken and Chris's friendship began over a decade ago in a small town in California's Central Valley where Ken was interim pastor in a local church. About 5 years after Chris suffered a serious auto accident at age eighteen. Chris shared the harrowing sto...

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes author, spiritual director, activist, and preaching minister at the University Church of Christ (Pepperdine),  Eric Wilson . The two met at a spiritual retreat for the facilitators of the Center for Racial Reconciliation where Eric led a day of refreshment and restoration around the theme of Brush Arbor . "It's soul work," Eric says. The two take us bac...

Send us Fan Mail The 2 Ken's pick up where they left off. In the last 2 KENS podcast editions, Ken Fong and Ken Kemp discussed the first four editions of Mike Flanagan's Netflix drama, Midnight Madness .  They both went back to Netflix and took in the remaining three episodes. SPOILER ALRT : We cover the entire series, all seven episodes. They talk about characters and scenes and relate...