The Beached White Male Podcast with Ken Kemp

Send us Fan Mail Christmas is here. Ken and Betsey banter over the challenge of finding just the right gift. Ken shares his plans to visit a remote camp where migrants found a gap in the Big Beautiful Wall (designed to KEEP THEM OUT) that separates the U.S. from Mexico. Kate Cox , the pregnant woman forced to file a lawsuit to get the health care she needs in a state that has some of the most seve...

Send us Fan Mail The two Kens celebrate the news that Ken F has rediscovered his high school sweetheart. On a recent episode of Asian America the Ken Fong Podcast , Fong shared his budding affection for Doreen with his audience. Kemp shares in the celebration and happiness as Ken and Doreen begin their sweet courtship.  As we approach the holiday season, Fong asks Kemp to read his most recent Subs...

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes author, pastor, professor, and advocate Dr. Troy Jackson to talk about his new book Living Undivided : Loving Courageously for Racial Healing and Justice (To be released January 2024).  Along with Co-Author  Chuck Mingo , Dr. Jackson tells the story of an initiative designed to "bring people together to learn from each other with honesty, integrity, and vulnerabi...

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes blogger, musician, and author Jamin Coller. In his soon-to-be-released book, Dear Evangelical, Letters From A Reluctant Deconstructionist , Jamin leaves no stone unturned. Raised in a fundamentalist church pastored by his father, Jamin was in church his entire life. It was naturally expected that he become a career pastor and worship leader. Plagued by private doubts...

Send us Fan Mail Betsey loved the two episodes with David Dark - and the heart of an activist. Betsey comments on the embarrassing confession that both Dr. Dark and Ken went through a Rush Limbaugh phase. The two of them made an exception and tuned into Fox News (which generally is off-limits) to take in some of the "debate" between Ron DeSantis (Florida) and Gavin Newsom (California). T...

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes back professor, author, and activist Dr. David Dark to discuss his new book, We Become What We Normalize . David shares the recent tragedy on Belmont University's campus in the shooting of the popular freshman, accomplished musician  Jillian Ludwig  . He tells us about the impact of this horrible incident on his students. The entire nation took note - raising the...

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes Judy Peterson, also known as "The Walking Pastor." In 2019, Judy's eleven-year tenure as Campus Pastor at a highly respected Christian university (North Park U. in Chicago) came to an unwelcome end. She was terminated because she officiated a same-sex wedding. Earlier in her working career, while she tended bar in a popular tavern, she had a powerful sp...

Send us Fan Mail Next week, we celebrate Thanksgiving. Ken and Betsey share what they are grateful for, including over one hundred Beach Talks. They return to their conversation around the Israeli/Palestinian War - noting the speech by Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) on the floor of the Senate. The Jewish politician captures the tension between the rights of Israel to engage terrorism and the plight of...

Send us Fan Mail Today Ken reads an essay he posted on his new Substack Account. "OK. So I’m admitting it right from the top. I loved this movie. It’s got the same title as this post, but it’s not Ken - it’s Margaret. Based on the beloved 1970s novel by Judy Blume, well, the film got me. I’ve watched it twice. Maybe I’ll watch it again. Maybe you’ve read the book.  I know, I know. I’m a sappy...

Send us Fan Mail Ethicist, author and professor, Dr. David Gushee returns to the podcast to talk about his new book: Defending Democracy from its Christian Enemies.  They begin talking about what many have called "the Nones," but Gushee calls Conscientious Objectors like Tim Whitaker and Pete Briscoe. (Ken includes himself.) Many of those "Nones" - those who claim to have no re...

Send us Fan Mail Join Ken and Betsey in a review of current headlines. Betsey begins with a review of  Ken's compelling conversation with David Dark. Congress finally has a Speaker of the House. Fears that Jim Jordan might get the gavel left them relieved when Jordan was defeated after grueling three votes. But the new Republican Speaker of the House, a relative unknown up until now, may appe...

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes back author, journalist, and poet, Rick Pidcock. Recently, Andy Stanley sponsored an event called the Unconditional Conference designed specifically for parents whose children "come out" as Queer or LGBTQ. He expressed his deep concern for the ways in which the church has been complicit in creating family conflict that causes parents to choose their church a...

Send us Fan Mail When Wheaton College released it's anticipated Report on Race, there was a glaring omission. A comprehensive self-study over the history of the college had an arbitraty cut-off date of the year 2000. While it was an attempt to be transparent, vulnerable, and forthright over past mistakes, the report failed to address the painful departure of the first African American woman t...

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes author and advocate Liz Cooledge Jenkins to talk about her new book: Nice Churchy Patriarchy: Reclaiming Women’s Humanity from Evangelicalism . When Liz went off to Stanford University , she connected with a group of "Jesus Followers" who were part of an evangelical global campus ministry. In time, she believed she was "called" to pastoral ministry...

Send us Fan Mail Just this week. the two Kens both encountered church-related, disconcerting setbacks.  Kemp learned via an official, public email blast that the lead and founding pastor of the church that gave birth to the Center for Racial Reconciliation has been put on immediate leave of absence for "inappropriate texting." Just after recording this conversation, Fong uncovered some u...

Send us Fan Mail I feel the need to clarify some of the things you'll find in my recent Beach Talk with Betsey Newenhuyse. Many of you have already listened in. We had a heartfelt and meaningful conversation around Indigenous Peoples' Day, the congressional predicament over the crippling absence of a Speaker of the House, and the crisis in Israel - the unanticipated and monstrous attack...

Send us Fan Mail Ken is back from his travels. He and Betsey Newenhuyse connect for another Beach Talk. Just a few days before this recording, the world turned its attention to the Middle East and the vicious, surprise attack of Hamas on Israel. Betsey shares that she has extended family living in Tel Aviv. Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, who has been the focus of nationwide protests, takes interna...

Send us Fan Mail Ken returns from a month of travel and shares an essay he wrote for his new Substack Page entitled Woke Pride. The article got great responses - indicating that many are reacting to the current anti-woke crusade.  In this short episode, he reflects on the series Truth Quest aired this month, and shares plans for upcoming interviews. He encourages his listeners to call out the crit...

Send us Fan Mail In this final episode of the summer series TRUTH QUEST , our travelers make their way to Selma and the Edmund Pettus Bridge . In March of 1965, civil rights protesters were met by a lineup of armed police (many on horseback) with attack dogs and billy clubs who ordered them to turn back. When the marchers refused, they were brutally attacked on a day that became known as Bloody Su...

Send us Fan Mail Our exploration of the history of race in America takes us to Montgomery, Alabama . Harvard Attorney Bryan Stevenson opened the offices of the Equal Justice Initiative in the city where Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat on a public bus and where a young Dr. Martin Luther King became pastor of Dexter Street Baptist Church . The best-selling book which became a full-length featur...

Send us Fan Mail Ken invites John Williams back to the podcast, this time to talk about the summer series, TRUTH QUEST . John and Ken review the origins of the Civil Rights (C.R.) Tour of the South , and John's journey from his law practice to his first C.R. Tour. His experience became a catalyst for leaving his law practice behind. A vision was born to introduce others to the history of race...

Send us Fan Mail After a travel break, Ken and Betsey reconnect to catch up on the headlines. Mitt Romney's announcement that he will not seek another Senatorial term included his opnion that "it's time for a new generation of leaders" to take the stage. It puts the spotlight on both the current President (80) and the former President (77) and other hangers on like Mitch McConn...

Send us Fan Mail Historian and prolific author Martyn Whittock re-joins Ken to discuss his soon-to-be-released (November 7, 2023) book,  American Vikings - How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America from  his study in the U.K. Martyn has appeared several times on the podcast - with conversations about the use and misuse of eschatology throughout history, the passing of Queen E...

Send us Fan Mail The tour bus delivers our travelers for two days in historic Memphis, Tennessee . The National Civil Rights Museum rests on the site of the Lorraine Motel , where Dr. Martin Luther King lost his life to an assassin's bullet while standing on the balcony with his trusted friends, Jesse Jackson , Ralph Abernathy, and Andrew Young . The Museum is housed in a comprehensive series...

Send us Fan Mail In this installment of Ken's TRUTH QUEST series,  we continue to relive the Civil Rights Tour of the South. Dr. John Perkins , author of 17 books, founder of Voice of Calvary and Harambee, and Christian activist in the Civil Rights movement welcomes our thirty-nine travelers in Jackson Mississippi. At age 92, he brings a Sunday morning message, entertains questions, and signs...