Disturbing The Peace with John Amanchukwu

Pastor John Amanchukwu welcomes Elder Jude T. Albert — a native of New Orleans, Louisiana; retired United States Army Master Sergeant with 30 years of honorable service and two combat deployments to Afghanistan; recipient of the Bronze Star Medal; ordained elder in the Church of God in Christ under the leadership of Bishop Patrick Lane Wooden Sr. at Upper Room COGIC; Chief of Staff to the Chairman...

"God never called a man to leave his family a fundraiser. He called him to leave them a legacy." That's the opening line Pastor John Amanchukwu delivers as he introduces today's guest — and it's the entire thesis of one of the most substantive Christian financial stewardship conversations on Disturbing the Peace this year.   Today's guest: Dr. Christopher A. Stone — senior pastor and founder of Un...

Pastor Kwame Kilpatrick was the youngest mayor ever elected in Detroit, Michigan. He served seven years of a twenty-eight-year federal prison sentence for corruption. President Donald Trump commuted the remaining twenty-one years. Today he pastors Move Mental Ministries in Detroit — not as a politician, not as a Democrat, not as a Republican, but as (in his own words) "a blood-washed, born-again s...

When a pastor named Lauren Livingston stood in his pulpit recently and told his congregation that "there has never been a Christian nation. You don't live in one now. It has never been a Christian nation, and never will be" — the clip went viral across Christian social media. Livingston's argument rested on America's undeniable historical sins: the displacement and killing of Native Americans, cha...

Tinashe Peter — Zimbabwean-American digital creator, conservative cultural commentator, and host of one of the fastest-growing YouTube channels in Christian commentary — joins Pastor John Amanchukwu on Disturbing the Peace for a wide-ranging conversation on some of the most talked-about cultural moments of the past week in Black American life. The episode opens with India. Arie's viral commentary...

Two decades ago, Superintendent William H. Cooper II sat down to write a book he did not particularly want to write. God had impressed on him one thing: the Body of Christ in America had a commitment problem. The internet was becoming universal. Facebook and Twitter were arriving. Cell phones were becoming the norm. The homosexual tolerance movement was taking hold of the culture. And too many Ame...

"A nation doesn't collapse overnight. It collapses when its people stop recognizing the warning signs." That's how Pastor John Amanchukwu opens today's episode of Disturbing the Peace. His guest is Guy Paul Nora — Lebanese-American entrepreneur, Silicon Valley venture capitalist in life sciences, war veteran, former gubernatorial candidate, and author of the memoir Not on Our Watch. Guy Paul was f...

On a recent Sunday, Chicago Pastor Charlie Dates stood in his pulpit at Progressive Baptist Church and referred to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as "Uncle Clarence Thomas" — invoking one of the most weighted racial slurs used to describe Black conservatives, from the pulpit of a historic Black church, in the middle of a sermon comparing Justice Thomas to Egyptians who wanted to "go back to...

Pastor John Amanchukwu is back from a week and a half of strategic filming in New York City — and the news cycle did not pause while he was off. The Supreme Court of the United States has just handed down one of its most consequential rulings on biological reality in modern American jurisprudence. Senator Raphael Warnock has gone viral for preaching that calling transphobia an offense to the glory...

Pastor James David Manning joins Disturbing the Peace to deliver an raw, unfiltered look at the spiritual crisis facing families.   In this explosive sit-down interview, Pastor John Amanchukwu Sr. goes one-on-one with the legendary and unapologetic Pastor James David Manning of ATLAH World Missionary Church. Together, they strip away the modern political illusions and cultural lies that have paral...

In this episode of Disturbing the Peace, Stephen Davis sits in for John Amanchukwu to host two of the most fearless Black conservative voices in America today. First, Robin [verify spelling] — pastor, bestselling author of How the Democrats Won the Blacks, and one of the most unapologetic Black conservative commentators in this country who wants all the smoke. Robin walks through the now-viral sit...

In this powerful two-guest episode of Disturbing the Peace, Stephen Davis sits in for John Amanchukwu to host two of the sharpest Christian voices in conservative discipleship today.   First, Virgil Walker — teaching pastor at Redeemer Bible Church in Gilbert, Arizona, co-host of the Just Thinking podcast with Darryl Harrison, regular commentator on Fearless with Jason Whitlock on Blaze Media, con...

Why do so many Americans now hate America — and yet refuse to leave?   In this episode of Disturbing the Peace, Stephen Davis sits in for John Amanchukwu to host one of the most credentialed conservative legal voices in America. Ron Coleman is a New York and New Jersey-based litigation attorney with more than three decades of experience in federal and state courts. He is among the most prominent c...

"Don't be surprised when you send your kids to Caesar and they come back as Romans." If you're paying $20,000 a year per student in the American public school system — that's 60% more than the average private school tuition — and getting reading and math scores that have declined for decades, somebody is making out at your expense. Corey DeAngelis has spent his career documenting exactly who.   In...

Dr. Carol M. Swain went from rural Virginia poverty and dropping out of high school to earning five college degrees, becoming a tenured professor at both Princeton and Vanderbilt, authoring 13 books, and receiving the 2025 Frederick Douglass Lifetime Achievement Award. Today she is one of the most credentialed and fearless critics of critical race theory in America. Her book Black Eye for America:...

John is back behind the mic on Disturbing the Peace with two guests who deliver substantive conversation across the full week's news cycle. First, Samara Brown — Senior Policy Advisor at the Center for Renewing America, eight-year Capitol Hill veteran, formerly Domestic Policy Advisor to Senator Ted Cruz — joins from Washington with the latest on the Trump-Iran 60-day ceasefire MOU, the Save Ameri...

Why do some people maximize their God-given potential while others spend decades stuck? Why do believers who've been in church for ten or more years still struggle with the same things they wrestled with a decade ago? And why has comfort culture become one of the biggest obstacles to spiritual growth in the American church? In this episode of Disturbing the Peace, Minister Tommy Arbuckle sits in f...

Bishop Wooden saw his biological father only twice in his entire life. The first time, in a yellow Camaro with arms full of tattoos and a cigar a mile long. The second time, years later, the muscles were gone but the suit was sharp — heroin had taken its toll. Both times, Bishop Wooden didn't even feel safe enough to say "that's my dad." Today, Bishop Wooden is John Amanchukwu's father-in-law. He'...

An apostle walked into a witch's home in Orangeburg, South Carolina. He found a black skillet, dripping candles, a blanket nailed across the hallway — and when he prayed for the woman who lived there, she opened her eyes and said, "All my powers are gone." I n this powerful episode of Disturbing the Peace, Minister Tommy Arbuckle steps in for John to sit down with Apostle Shane Wall — senior pasto...

Dan Burmawi was born in Jordan in 1988, raised as a devout Muslim, and converted to Christianity at 19 — a decision that forced him to leave his homeland. He spent the next 14 years in Lebanon, founded the Ideological Defense Institute, wrote Islam, Israel, and the West, and now travels the world warning the West about realities most Christians and most politicians have completely failed to unders...

Richie McGinniss was 13 minutes behind Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha when the shots went off. He tried to save Joseph Rosenbaum's life on the way to the hospital. He was at January 6th, hearing pistols cocked on the other side of the House chamber doors. He published a book called Riot Diet about all of it. And now the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled him a "Christian supremacist." In this fu...

Pastor Shane Idleman is still preaching at Westside Christian Fellowship. He went on an hour-long bike ride yesterday. He swam laps with his daughter at the park. And he's doing all of it while battling Stage 3 cancer — without conventional chemotherapy or radiation. In this powerful episode of Disturbing the Peace, John sits down with Pastor Shane Idleman — founder and lead pastor of Westside Chr...

MARIEN RICHARDSON did not hold back. First: Louisiana rapper Lil Boosie posted on X announcing that transgender women are not welcome at his upcoming topless pool party. He said his team will be "checking Adam's apples." The internet melted down. Boosie doubled down. Mary Ann Richardson  conservative commentator, cultural analyst, mother, and unapologetically pro-Black voice — calls him "an Americ...

Phillip Harding spent eight years building a company that's worked in 30 countries and reached 2 million people. Through that company's data, he learned something about the rising generation that floored him — and it wasn't the loneliness epidemic everyone talks about. Now he's running for Congress in Virginia to do something about it.   In this full episode of Disturbing the Peace, John sits down...

New York is about to pass a law that would replace the word "mother" with "gestating parent" in state family law. Governor Hochul — who proudly calls herself New York's "first mom governor" — has the bill on her desk. Stacy Washington has thoughts.   In this full episode of Disturbing the Peace, John sits down with Stacy Washington — Air Force veteran, Emmy-nominated TV personality, Sirius XM Patr...