"I'm Glad You Said That" - Jim Minnery Talks Faith & Politics

Moms for Liberty has landed in the Great Land and they're on the show today. Their founders are former school board members, who witnessed how short-sighted and destructive policies directly hurt children and families. Now, with their growing organization, they're uniting parents across the country to fight those who stand in the way of liberty. Today, we'll chat with Melissa Wilkin...

One of the great realities often overlooked is how people and groups don't fit as nice and tidy together in perceived boxes as we think. Gays Against Groomers is a fairly accurate example of that. If you have a mindset that everyone in the LGBTQIA+ community is supportive of sexually charged curricula in public schools, Drag Queen Story hours and 13 year old girls getting double masectomies b...

The number 40 appears in the Bible over 150 times. Of those times, the words 40 days and 40 nights are found 24 times. Each time, they denote a significance for God and his people. The 40 Days for Life campaign, the world’s largest grassroots movement to end abortion, starts on Wednesday, September 27th and pro lifers across the globe, including here in Alaska, are gearing up. Mary Kemper, a local...

With nearly 350,000 followers on X (formerly Twitter) Chris Elston, now known internationally as Billboard Chris , has made quite a splash. A Canadian from Vancouver, BC, Chris simply calls himself a " Father of two girls. Traveling the world to expose gender ideology and why children cannot consent to medical transition. " On "I'm Glad You Said That" today, I get the priv...

Ari DeWolf describes himself as somewhat of a "Unicorn" being gay, black and Jewish while leading the effort to expose "gender affirming" health care as fraudulent and harmful. Ari cut his political teeth through ten years of battling the Chicago political machine, first as an outspoken student activist and then as a lobbyist in the state legislature.  For a season, he was an e...

It is always a big-time treat to chat with my good friend Suzanne Downing with MustRead Alaska . Her insight, wisdom and clarity are a blessing to the Great Land. Today, we'll chat on everything from Chloe Cole to Riley Gaines to Ben Carson. All with a common theme.  Keep speaking truth and never give up. Support the show

Dig deep on Dr. Jay Richards bio and your eyes keep widening. He's written more than a dozen books covering everything from physics to fasting to money to The Hobbit. He has produced multiple documentaries including The Call of the Entrepreneur, The Birth of Freedom, and The Privileged Planet. In addition to his current role as William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundatio...

Priscilla likes to say God saved her three times. As a Christ follower, she knows that your soul is saved once and for all but her story is different than most. She is a survivor of an attempted abortion, with her twin sister dying in the process. She had two abortions herself and while working at an abortion clinic in Southern California, was in a horrific car accident that should have killed her...

Dr. Jim Garlow is a good friend and is my guest today on " I'm Glad You Said That. " In addition to writing 15 books, including the New York Times best-seller Cracking DaVinci's Code, Dr. Garlow is a former Senior Pastor at Skyline Church in La Mesa, California and is founder of Well Versed , an international ministry that brings biblical principles of governance to government...

Pat Trompeter is Director of Advancement of Regent University School of Law . That means he meets with people of influence every day to connect them with his school's mission. He is passionate about the fact that at Regent School of Law, they are serious about Christ. From their website, Regent's " commitment to faith-law integration is woven into our curriculum, as our faculty, ded...

Katie Faust is one of those humans that when I first met her, it felt like she was the sister I never had. She is brilliant. Hilarious. Bold. Scattered. Deep. And so relevant. The ministry she founded and runs, Them Before Us , says this on their website. " There’s nothing exceptional about the people behind Them Before Us. We aren’t professional writers or pedigreed activists. We are just pe...

Maybe it's because he's from Texas where quiet confidence reigns. Maybe it's because he's a Principal in Golovin, an Inupiat Eskimo village on the Seward Peninsula where respect for elders is generational. Whatever the reason, Alan Davis, Principal of Martin L. Olson School in Golovin, has given a desperately needed boost of confidence in the public school system by recently co...

After yesterday's election results confirmed that Anchorage would be continuing down the road toward higher taxes, more rampant crime, homelessness and disgrace, I began wondering if I needed counseling. Suzanne Downing came to mind. As someone who always can put a smile on my face, I'm honored to have Suzanne on "I 'm Glad You Said That " today to digest the Anchorage ele...

Zach Young is a life long Alaska with strong roots in conservative politics. He enjoys being involved with political activism all over Alaska. As the president of the Anchorage Young Republicans , Zach is uniquely equipped to help conservatives refine their messaging to attract young skulls full of mush to see how Government needs to be reigned in. As a local Anchorage Realtor, he knows the town l...

Join us on "I'm Glad You Said That" today for a chat with Spencer Moore who is running for Anchorage Assembly in District 5 . As you likely know, although supposedly a "non-partisan" body, the Assembly is dominated by progressives with only two of the eleven members even remotely conservative. Much of that has to do with anemic voter turnout. Will we be able to recapture a...

Tune in today for " I'm Glad You Said That " to learn about the Help Not Harm movement ! "A young girl who feels she is a boy – or a boy who feels he is a girl – may feel that way for any number of reasons. Perhaps she feels she doesn’t fit in socially with other girls, and would fit in better if she were a boy. Perhaps she is generally uncomfortable in her body or with the cha...

Many of us in the conservative movement in Alaska were surprised when the Alaska State House was finally able to organize around the Republican majority that had been elected. For too many legislative sessions, members of the Grand Old Party were not able to play in the sandbox together. Usually, that meant giving the power to the Democrats who then sat in the powerful positions determining what b...

If you know Kelly Tshibaka, you know it wasn't going to take long for her to rebound from her loss to Lisa Murkowski and get back in the fight. For liberty-minded, small government conservatives in the Great Land, that is a positive. In addition to raising her family, she is advancing a movement across the country to stop the cancer of ranked choice voting from metastasizing into other states...

Bethany Marcum is a fierce defender of school choice. As the leader of Alaska Policy Forum , (APF) her steadfast voice has fought for freedom on many fronts. But today, the battle before her and others like her is defending the rights of parents and kids to choose the school option that is most suitable for their needs. Scott Kendall, who brought us ranked choice voting, has teamed up with the NEA...

Joel Davidson is very gifted at speaking and writing and he has a lot to say about politics in Alaska and what the lay of the land is.  Support the show

Parental rights are under attack across the country. In Indiana, my friend and colleague Ryan McCann with the Indiana Family Institute , is at the tip of the spear in what is turning into an almost unbelievable violation of the State into the inherent right of a parent to, well, parent, their children. Ryan is introducing legislation that strengthens parental rights by stating in clear language th...

Growing up in Seldovia, a tiny hamlet across from Homer in Kachemak Bay, Ron Hoffman suffered tragedy early with the loss of both his parents at a young age. Coming to Anchorage and being raised by a family friend, Hoffman became part of the community of Anchorage Baptist Temple. As teacher, administrator and eventually as lead pastor when Dr. Jerry Prevo left to take the helm of Liberty Universit...

At Regent University, Alexandra McPhee was the Executive Director of the Law Review and President of the Hispanic Law Students Association. Following work as the Director of Religious Freedom Advocacy at Family Research Council and Legislative Counsel for U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO),McPhee now serves as the Director of Government Relations for Concerned Women for America . On today's "...

Senator Dan Sullivan, along with 11 other Republican Senators, voted recently to enshrine same-sex "marriage" into Federal law. The consequences are real and forthcoming. As my guest today on "I'm Glad You Said That", Travis Weber, has described what Sullivan and others like him did in terms of a giant boulder and a few pebbles. Republicans who claim they were protecting p...

Ken Breivik loves the quote from Charles Spurgeon that says " The Word of God is like a lion. You don’t have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself. ” As National Executive Director of School Ministries , Ken has done a lot of unleashing over the past several decades. The program creates opportunities for public school students to spend par...