The Beached White Male Podcast with Ken Kemp

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...

Send us Fan Mail In this second installment of Ken's special series, TRUTH QUEST - Exploring the History of Race in America , we launch the Civil Rights tour of the South in New Orleans.  The Whitney Plantation in St. John the Baptist Parish is a non-profit dedicated to preserving the history and legacy of slavery in Louisiana. You'll hear an in-depth description of the exhibits, display...

Send us Fan Mail TRUTH QUEST brings Ken's participation on the Civil Rights Tour of the South to his podcast. This is the first of five episodes, bringing sixteen voices (of 39 travelers) to the microphone. Each will share what motivated them to join the tour, how the history and sites impacted them, and the commitments that emerge from this quest. In future episodes, we'll visit the ico...

Send us Fan Mail Ken takes ten minutes to catch his valued listeners up on what's been happening in his world and what's coming up in the podcast. He's been busy putting together a five-part series on the Civil Rights Tour. It's intended to counter the current attack on racial history in America, where CRT has been demonized and talk about race has been silenced in schools, lib...

Send us Fan Mail There is a heaviness in the air - Betsey and Ken have personal connections to Highland Park, Illinois. The review events of July 4th and the horrific shooting by yet another 18-year-old with powerful weapons, legally obtained. America's obsession with guns is nothing new. The dark web is a place that glamorizes and glorifies violence. Ken talks about two California friends wh...

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes back Nate Manderson , the guest who became one of Ken's most popular interviews. An outspoken and deeply committed Christian, Nate writes regularly for Salon.com .  He's a fierce critic of the brand of conservative evangelicalism that lines up behind the former President and (his) Supreme Court. According to Nate, many evangelicals have become modern-day Pha...

Send us Fan Mail After a break, Betsey Newenhuyse is back for Beach Talk. Ken reviews his experience on the Civil Rights Tour of the South . The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the Capitol called a special meeting, introducing Cassidy Hutchinson , top aid to Mark Meadows , White House Chief of Staff to the former President. Her testimony takes us into the White House as the...

Send us Fan Mail Ken marks a major milestone: 200 episodes since the podcast was launched in April of 2020. He reflects on the journey that has transformed his life, cemented his friendships and broadened his horizons. A good number of Ken's listeners. partners and friends check in, including Ken's life partner Carolyn who makes her debut appearance sharing her perspective on her husband...

Send us Fan Mail NEW EPISODE - Ken Kemp is back! He shares his nine-day Civil Rights Tour of the South with Ken Fong and his plans to create a series of podcasts unpacking the high impact of the trip with 38 other pilgrims. Recorded just hours after the Roe V. Wade decision was announced, the two Kens take a deep dive into the issues. Justices Alito and Thomas write disturbing opinions relative to...

Send us Fan Mail While Ken is out of town, we are bringing back the BEST OF the Beached White Male Podcast. In Part II, Ken and Brian pick up where they left off in Part I, beginning with a discussion of the "persecution complex" so common in the world of religion. Brian unpacks the way in which religious beliefs can be weaponized, often causing harm. They talk in-depth about Brian'...

Send us Fan Mail While Ken is traveling on the Civil Rights Tour, he's replaying some of his top podcasts. He's also asking you to check in with your thoughts on the celebration of his 200th Episode. Ken welcomes author, speaker, activist, and public theologian, BRIAN McLAREN to the podcast. It's a rich conversation, worthy of two parts. In Part I, Ken and Brian explore the early ye...

Send us Fan Mail While Ken is traveling on the Civil Rights Tour, he's replaying some of his top podcasts. He's also asking you to check in with your thoughts on the celebration of his 200th Episode. For five weeks, Ken Kemp facilitated a virtual discussion around the Scene On Radio Podcast series, Seeing White - all 14 episodes. All ten participants were white and represented several ge...

Send us Fan Mail While Ken is traveling on the Civil Rights Tour, he's replaying some of his top podcasts. He's also asking you to check in with your thoughts on the celebration of his 200th Episode. Ken welcomes back his friend John Williams, the Director of the Center for Racial Reconciliation . Recorded on January 13, after the insurrection and before the inauguration, Ken and John ta...

Send us Fan Mail While Ken is traveling on the Civil Rights Tour, he's replaying some of his top podcasts. He's also asking you to check in with your thoughts on the celebration of his 200th Episode. d Kale , M .Div., 1963   professional kayaker , was a student at Yale Divinity School in 1961 when a generous professor funded is participation in a Freedom Ride to Jackson , MS. He was arre...

Send us Fan Mail Ken tells the story of the CIVIL RIGHTS TOUR , June 2022 - Episode 200 is coming! 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 them...

Send us Fan Mail REPRISE : The first episode of Season 3, Ken brought back friend of the podcast, Dr. David Gushee. He had 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 "...

Send us Fan Mail Ken releases his Beach Talk with Betsey from his quarantine in the BWM Studios.  It's been one more heartbreaking week... tragedy upon tragedy.  The shooting in Ulvade begs the question of gun laws - an 18-year-old purchases two AR 15s , with the capacity to kill scores of people in minutes.  The shooting in Buffalo begs the question of race and white supremacy. Politicians w...

Send us Fan Mail Ken and Osahon Obazuaye talk about hip-hop and one of rap's biggest names: Kanye West , who just won Billboard's top honors as a "Christian artist." Ken remembers Bob Dylan's conversion to Christianity and his classic album, Slow Train Coming (1979). Osahon names Kanye's first and favorite album - College Drop Out as the one that captured his imaginat...

Send us Fan Mail Ken and Betsey bid farewell to Carla. They celebrate Chicago's wonders. Tragically, Buffalo was the scene of yet another deadly shooting, perpetrated by a  young assailant, heavily armed, with evil intent. His reasons were disturbingly clear - his manifesto rooted in white supremacy . The same weekend, there was a fatal shooting in Geneva Presbyterian Church in Orange County,...

Send us Fan Mail Ken Kemp (the Beached White Male) joins Ken Fong (Asian American - the Ken Fong Podcast) in the wake of yet another horrific hate crime in Buffalo, New York . The shooter, Payton Gendron , left a long manifesto that centered on " replacement theory," a basic tenet of white supremacy . For the shooter, it justified his crime. This tragic event begs the question: what are...

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes the newly appointed Associate Rector of the historic All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena . Ken got to know "Chase" (his preferred name) at the Center for Racial Reconciliation. They open with a discussion of his first sermon at the church - a powerful, high-energy, prophetic word. A graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary, Chase has thought deeply about...

Send us Fan Mail Betsey attended a speech by Secretary Pete live and in person at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics with David Axelrod . From the third row seated next to Lucy Lark's mom, she gives a first-person account of Pete Buttigieg's performance. Betsey makes the case for a presidential run. A leaked Supreme Court draft of the ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade do...

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes long-time friend of the podcast, Dr. Theon Hill . Dr. Hill is a professor at Wheaton College , an Aspen Civil Society Fellow and emerging social intellectual. The two reminisce over the first episode of the BWM podcast where Dr. Hill was Ken's very first guest. Then, they have a lively reaction to the Grove City College report that condemns Critical Race Theory a...

Send us Fan Mail REPRISE Philip Yancey's courageous and penetrating new book, his memoir - Where the Light Fell - will be released on October 5. There's a big audience for Philip's story. There are over 100 million claim to have experienced Christian fundamentalism and 25 million more identify as " exvangelicals ." Brother Marshall , a musical prodigy, had perfect pitch. P...