The Beached White Male Podcast with Ken Kemp

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...

Send us Fan Mail In this first episode of 2021, Ken introduces his newly released little book, My Creed, on Amazon . It's a book about authentic belief - and takes on the traditional evangelical statement of faith. Ken reviews Season 1 and the 65 episodes he created during the covid crisis - since the podcast launch in March of 2020. A major question addressed for the year by many of his gues...

Send us Fan Mail Recorded December 28, 2020, there's a special surprise as the Two Ken's (Ken Kemp and Ken Fong) collaborate on the final podcast of the year. The two podcasters reflect on the depth and meaning some of their favorite interviews in 2020, with special focus on Life Coach Nancy Seng and then the recent Disney+ release: the movie SOUL . They review two of their unique emphas...

Send us Fan Mail REPRISE - In this episode, we revisit a very special edition of the podcast. It is the second most downloaded podcast to date from June of 2020 . Ken presents four passionate, timely voices: recent interviews with and challenges from John Williams, Adiana Vega, Osahon Obazuaye, and Albert Tate . Albert, John, and Osahon are African American men who have become sought-after spokesp...

Send us Fan Mail REPRISE : The Most Downloaded of all (60 episodes) Beached White Male Podcast (Originally aired July 7, 2020) Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Ph. D. , has just released her new book: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation . In two episodes, she discusses her meticulously researched book in which she follows the development of white evangelicali...

Send us Fan Mail Carla and Ken wrap up their final episode for 2020 - Christmas time by the fire. This time, there is hope in the air - Republicans are coming around to affirm the election results. They talk about the Supreme Court , and new justices who have asserted their independence. Mayor Pete has been selected as a member of Biden's cabinet. The Wall Street Journal opined that Jill Bide...

Send us Fan Mail Angela Lee is a featured and popular Presenter at the Center for Racial Reconciliation where Ken is a Facilitator. Ken and Angela talk about Angela's growing up years and her first awareness of race. Her father is African American and her mother is Puerto Rican. After her graduation from the University of Delaware , she worked as a director and grant writer for the Boys and G...

Send us Fan Mail Ken and Carla connect, this time by the fire instead of the beach. They talk about Advent and Christmas plans in the Year of Covid ; then on to politics, religion, and books; Safe Harbor Day , more Metaxas, D'Souza, and vaccinations . In spite of the wrecking ball, democracy stands strong. The President-Elect is inheriting a major mess, but assembling a powerfully competent t...

Send us Fan Mail Ethicist Dr. Gushee returns to the podcast and continues the discussion of his most recent book, After Evangelicalism, The Path to a New Christianity . We talk about the election, the Biden victory, and the 70 million voters who embrace the Trumpian version of reality. He calls it a moral crisis .  Gushee remembers Rachel Held Evans , and gives honorable mention to Blake Chastain...

Send us Fan Mail This time it's egg nog for Ken and hot cider for Carla as the two friends catch up on the post-Thanksgiving news . POTUS , as they meet, remains recalcitrant, denying the election results and crying foul. Eric Metaxas joins in the all-too-popular denial of reality. Carl Berstein outs 21 Senators who have remained silent. They talk about Republicans who have, in contrast to th...

Send us Fan Mail Ken welcomes fellow podcaster Ken Fong , host of the Asian America Podcast . They launch what will become a periodic series called The Two Kens as they reflect on current events, and a common journey. In this episode, they talk about Ken Fong's artistic skill as a professional photographer ; then on to the Presidential transition and the final havoc the current POTUS wreaks o...

Send us Fan Mail In this twelfth episode of Beach Talks, Ken (the Beached White Male) and Carla (The Bleached Blonde Female) find a spot on the bluff overlooking their imaginary coastline, just above the beach. They reflect on this time of turmoil as President-Elect Biden transitions, without the acknowledgment or co-operation of the White House . The country is battling a pandemic and severe econ...