The Beached White Male Podcast with Ken Kemp

Send us Fan Mail REPRISE- The Orignal Round Table Discussion on Seeing White from August 28 2021 for April 2, 2021 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 generations - white people exploring "whiteness" together. In this episode of the BWM,...

Send us Fan Mail Ken and Carla review events in Egypt and the Suez Canal. Kristin Du Mez appeared with Shane Claiborne and spoke to issues of our time. Phyllis Schlafly, Mark Hatfield, Richard Halverson, Secretary Pete are in focus for this week's Beach talk along with Easter Sunday, coming up this week. Contact Ken Edition 88  Support the show Become a Patron  - Click on the link to learn ho...

Send us Fan Mail It's been a full year since Ken launched the Beach White Male podcast in March of 2020. In his episode, he reflects on an eventful twelve months. The podcast began just as the pandemic crisis changed the world. From his "man cave," he has interviewed an amazing collection of authors, thinkers, and influencers. He and Carla have brought their open and candid response...

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes Carla back after a week recovering from her second vaccine. Ken just got his - so they swap vaccine stories . It's been a brutal week with two tragic mass shootings - in Atlanta, Georgia and Boulder, Colorado . Ken and Carla talk about the fall-out that surrounds the awful events, including a push for gun control legislation. Several names come up: Ruth Graham of...

Send us Fan Mail REPRISE: Ken brings back his conversation with New York Times best-selling author, historian, podcaster, and thought leader, Jemar Tisby (see special links below). Jemar shares his background as an African American who became a Christian when he was invited to a primarily white high school youth group. At Notre Dame , as an undergraduate, he was introduced to Reformed theology - h...

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes Diana Butler Bass, an author, speaker, and independent scholar specializing in American religion and culture. They talk about her new book (to be released March 31, 2021) Freeing Jesus . Diana shares the background that took her from the East Coast to Arizona and Scottsdale Bible Church where she made a commitment to follow Jesus. It took her to Westmont College and G...

Send us Fan Mail Ken and Carla explore the relief plan just signed by President Biden this week - The American Rescue Plan . The stock market hits record highs. Jemar Tisby and Beth Moore announce their departure from the church they love. They remember the legacies of Howard Hendricks and Tom Skinner . The now former royals, Harry and Meghan , tell all to Oprah and Ken reminisces about his visit...

Send us Fan Mail The Two Kens come together again to talk about the increase of violence against Asian Americans as the battle against Covid rages. You'll hear from Author Activist Helen Zia and Sharon Kwan , Ken Fong's podcast guest, a licensed clinical therapist whose article on the subject recently went viral. They delve into the Trumpist vitriol , the history of violence against Asia...

Send us Fan Mail Ken and Carla share "Vaccine Joy" - including Dolly Parton , Sikhs and Alaskan Native Americans all getting the protection that comes from needle to arm. Bethany Christian Services has announced a change in policy regarding adoption eligibility for LGBTQ couples prompting Carla to share thoughts on privilege. Ken shares a story about families who deal with LGBTQ children...

Send us Fan Mail This Table Talk is the conversation that we all want to have but few of us get around to ... it's challenging; fear-inducing; lots of resistance - but richly rewarding. In the longest (and maybe best) BWM podcast, Ken and Osahon welcome six of the table talk participants. They all share the powerful impact of the five weeks we spent together working through the fourteen episo...

Send us Fan Mail Ken and Carla meet again on that imaginary deck in Newport Beach - this week to talk about Covid vaccines, the anti-vaxxers , conspiracy theories, and Ron DeSantis ' plan to lower Florida flags to half-mast in honor of Rush Limbaugh . The Supreme Court unanimously approved the release of the former President's tax returns to investigators, opening the door for Cyrus Vanc...

Send us Fan Mail REPRISE - Bradley Onishi is a Professor of Religion at Skidmore College in New York. His podcast, Straight White American Jesus, prompted Ken to request an interview. We talk about his journey, from Youth Pastor in an influential church in Orange County California during his undergraduate years to graduate studies at Oxford, on to Paris for post-graduate work, and then a Ph. D. fr...

Send us Fan Mail Carla's got a snowstorm outside, so in their imaginations, they return to Newport Beach and the deck overlooking the blue Pacific to catch up on the week's news. McConnell's mixed messages apparently influenced John Thune the week that Rush Limbaugh succumbs to lung cancer. The two reflect on the Limbaugh legacy , Roger Ailes and The Fairness Doctrine . Texas faces...

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes James Ross , Educator, Professional Trainer trainer to Public School  Administrators and teachers. His specialty: diversity training. James has a long and productive career in the classroom, then as a principal and finally a trainer in Los Angeles and LA County schools. He reflects on his growing up years in South Central LA , then off to UCSB and UCLA and on to crede...

Send us Fan Mail Live Event - We're Talkin' 2021! Podcasters Brad Onishi (Straight White American Jesus), Ken Fong (Asian America - The Ken Fong Podcast) and Ken Kemp (The Beached White Male) join forces on Wednesday, February 10, 2021. A good group gathered to join is for a conversation about the New Year that brought serious crises: an insurrection, the denial of an election result, a...

Send us Fan Mail Ken and Carla compare weather notes - Carla's 24 inches of snow make the Newport Beach wicker chairs the place to be for open conversation - the impeachment, the strong case that's ignored by Republicans who doodle in the back row as the nation contemplates the horrors of January 6. Ken shares Letter #6 to Senator John Thune. Ken and Carla speculate over continued suppor...

Send us Fan Mail Join Ken Fong, Brad Onishi, and Ken Kemp for a LIVE EVENT, Tuesday, Feb 10 at 5 PM - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER . || Learn more . Ken and Carla reconvene on their imaginary deck overlooking Newport Harbor and pick up where they left off last week. They banter over vaccine woes and then they turn to the overwhelming confirmation of Mayor Pete as Secretary of Transportation . The Republ...

Send us Fan Mail Join Ken Fong, Brad Onishi and Ken Kemp  for a LIVE EVENT, Tuesday Feb 10 at 5 PM - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER . 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...

Send us Fan Mail Join Ken Fong, Brad Onishi, and Ken Kemp for a LIVE EVENT, Tuesday, Feb 10 at 5 PM - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER . || Learn more . Ken and Carla meet again on the deck of the Newport Beach house.  They agree this is a spiritual journey - they talk about what "the Kingdom" is about and the need to take a break from the "outrage factory."  Topics include the second im...

Send us Fan Mail Join Ken Fong, Brad Onishi, and Ken Kemp for a LIVE EVENT, Tuesday, Feb 10 at 5 PM - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER . In this 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 years that informed Brian's pursuit of books, theology, the Jes...

Send us Fan Mail Ken and Carla find their wicker chairs out on the deck overlooking the blue pacific and review the events of the week - there were threats of more violence in all the nation's state capitols; but the guardians were ready. The inauguration found the Capitol Building in Washington DC in stark contrast to the scenes of January 6. ready to hear the swearing-in of a new President...

Send us Fan Mail 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 talk about the assault on the Capitol. John's work at the Center has put him in a position to counsel some 200 pastors, most of them white pastors with predominantly white congregations, all...

Send us Fan Mail In their second Beach Talk of Season two, Carla and Ken get caught up on the week's developments: the impeachment vote , reflections on the disturbing revelations about the insurrection at the Capitol that have come to light in images, videos, and sound. They talk about Ken's conversation with Mark Galli , and then they talk about Christian nationalism , Josh Hawley, Mik...

Send us Fan Mail EPISODE 66 - Ken welcomes retired Chief Editor of Christianity Today (CT), Mark Galli . Mark made headlines in December 2019, just as the House of Representatives voted to impeach the sitting President. In a CT Editorial, Galli and the editorial board called for the removal of Donald Trump by the Senate . As an evangelical coming out against the President, Mark's editorial we...

Send us Fan Mail In Beach Talk #16, Ken and Carla find themselves next to a natural gas fire pit on the deck of a decadent house in Newport Beach overlooking the blue Pacific. They review a wonderful/terrible week in the headlines - Presidential conversations with the Georgia Secretary of State , the run-off election that resulted in the Wornach and Ossoff victories, and then the day (Wednesday, J...