The Great Awokening Podcast

In this episode, I sit down with acclaimed creator Doug TenNapel to explore the intersection of Christianity and popular entertainment. From his iconic creation, Earthworm Jim, to his thought-provoking comics and animations, Doug has been a trailblazer in the industry for over three decades. We delve into Doug's unique perspective on how Christians should engage with and think about popular media. Drawing from his own experiences and insights, Doug offers valuable wisdom for creatives and consumers alike. Plus, we discuss Doug's recent appearance on Makers, available exclusively on Canon+, where he shares his journey as a creator and his thoughts on the creative process. Makers on Canon+ Doug in Exile Follow Doug on X ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to the YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@GreatAwokening --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/great-awokening/support

In this episode, I speak with William Wolfe about the battle for the Southern Baptist Convention and why it matters. Center for Baptist Leadership Follow William on X ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to the YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@GreatAwokening --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/great-awokening/support

Wade Stotts, host of The Wade Show with Wade, joins me to discuss the dissident right and how Christians should go about rethinking long-held beliefs. Subscribe to The Wade Show Follow Wade on X ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to the YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@GreatAwokening --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/great-awokening/support

Michael Foster joins me to discuss tone policing. Buy Michael's Book Follow Michael on X ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to the YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@GreatAwokening --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/great-awokening/support

In this episode, I speak with Alisa Childers about her new book on the deconstruction phenomenon. Alisa Childers, host of The Alisa Childers Podcast, is a wife, a mom, an author, a blogger, a speaker, and a worship leader. She was a member of the award-winning CCM recording group ZOEgirl. Purchase her books: The Deconstruction of Christianity Another Gospel Subscribe to her channel: https://www.youtube.com/@alisachilders ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to the YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@GreatAwokening --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/great-awokening/support

Joe Rigney and Samuel Parkison join me to discuss The Moscow Mood and Kevin DeYoung's critique of Doug Wilson's unique brand of cultural engagement. Kevin DeYoung's original article Joe Rigney's Response Samuel Parkison's Response to Joe⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to the YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@GreatAwokening --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/great-awokening/support

Journalist Brandon Showalter joins me to discuss gender ideology and its victims. Brandon M. Showalter is a journalist and podcaster with The Christian Post who has reported extensively on topics of theological interest in the Church; bioethics issues such as euthanasia, assisted suicide, artificial reproductive technology, and surrogacy; and the developments of the "gender identity" movement and transgender ideology. He has appeared in several documentaries on that issue, including the Tucker Carlson Originals "Transgressive: The Cult of Confusion" and "Dead Name" by Broken Hearted Films, which profiles three families fractured by gender ideology. He was first inspired to pursue a career in writing and journalism while mopping floors and scrubbing toilets as a church custodian in April 2015. He earned a Bachelor's degree in International Studies and Spanish from Bridgewater College of Virginia in 2007, a Master of Arts in Human Rights from The Catholic University of America in 2022, and is a fellow of the John Jay Institute for Faith, Society, & Law. His favorite thing to do in life is to sing. Generation Indoctrination Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/generation-indoctrination-inside-the-transgender-battle/id1648997407 Articles by Brandon: https://www.christianpost.com/voices/yes-trans-surgeries-are-being-done-on-minors-heres-proof.html https://www.christianpost.com/news/fathers-fight-to-save-son-in-trans-sanctuary-state-of-california.html https://www.christianpost.com/news/they-are-devouring-our-sons-moms-of-gender-confused-boys-detail.html Follow Brandon on X: https://twitter.com/BrandonMShow ⁠ Subscribe to the YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@GreatAwokening --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/great-awokening/support

In this episode, I discuss the ongoing empathy discourse with Joe Rigney. Dr. Joe Rigney serves as Fellow of Theology at New Saint Andrews College. He is the author of six books: Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in Lewis’s Chronicles (Eyes & Pen, 2013); The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts (Crossway, 2015); Lewis on the Christian Life: Becoming Truly Human in the Presence of God (Crossway, 2018); Strangely Bright: Can You Love God and Enjoy This World? (Crossway, 2020); More Than a Battle: Experiencing Victory, Freedom, and Healing from Lust (B&H, 2021), Courage: How the Gospel Creates Christian Fortitude (Crossway, 2023). Previously, Dr. Rigney served as a professor and president of Bethlehem College & Seminary in Minneapolis, a pastor at Cities Church in St. Paul, and a teacher at Desiring God. Joe is a teacher who can’t help but tell others about the things that fascinate him, and he is a generalist who is fascinated by a great many things. He loves to teach classes on biblical theology, C.S. Lewis, Shakespeare, English literature, political philosophy, and Jonathan Edwards. Beyond teaching, writing, and preaching, Joe loves to play baseball with his three sons and spend time with his lovely wife Jenny. Dr. Rigney's work on Empathy: https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/do-you-feel-my-pain https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-enticing-sin-of-empathy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i9a3Rfd7yI Leadership in an Age of Anxiety Follow Joe on X: https://twitter.com/joe_rigney Subscribe to the YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@GreatAwokening --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/great-awokening/support

After disappointing election results in Ohio where abortion was enshrined as a right in the state constitution, I sit down with Austin Beigel, President of End Abortion Ohio, to discuss what went wrong and what other states can learn from Ohio's unsuccessful opposition to Issue 1. Austin Beigel first saw an image of what abortion looked like in 2013 and has been involved in anti-abortion activism ever since. He worked full-time in a pro-life ministry for years until he became an abortion Abolitionist after seeing the corrupt inner workings behind the Ohio Heartbeat Bill. He is now the President of End Abortion Ohio and lobbies for Equal Protection under the law for our preborn neighbors in this state. He is also running as a candidate for House District 73 in the Ohio House of Representatives. He lives with his wife, Maria, and their three children in Pickerington. Follow Austin on X: https://twitter.com/acbagel To support his campaign for State Representative: https://www.austinbeigel.com/ Subscribe to the YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@GreatAwokening --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/great-awokening/support

In this episode, Daily Wire reporter Megan Basham joins me to discuss her work investigating organizations that are actively working to change evangelical beliefs regarding Biblical sexuality. Megan Basham is a culture reporter with the Daily Wire where she contributes regularly to the top-ten news podcast, Morning Wire. For 13 years, she wrote for World Magazine, where she rose from film critic to entertainment editor and co-host of its flagship daily news podcast, The World and Everything In It. Her work has also appeared in such outlets as The Wall Street Journal, First Things, and National Review, among others.She has appeared as a commentator on FOX News, MSNBC, BBC, CBN, The Today Show, Newsmax, and NewsNation, as well as numerous regional TV and radio news broadcasts.She was previously a Novak Journalism Fellow and a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. She is the author of Beside Every Successful Man (Penguin Random House, 2008) and the forthcoming Bad Shepherds: How Evangelical Leaders Smuggled Leftism into the Church. She lives in Charlotte, NC with her husband Brian and their two daughters. Follow Megan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/megbasham Subscribe to the YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@GreatAwokening --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/great-awokening/support

In this episode, I speak with Rosaria Butterfield about her latest book, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age. We also discuss the recent Andy Stanley controversy surrounding the Unconditional Conference. Dr. Rosaria Butterfield is an author, speaker, pastor's wife, homeschool mom, and former professor of English and women's studies at Syracuse University.  She is the author of several books, including The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert (Crown and Covenant, 2012), Openness Unhindered (Crown and Covenant, 2015), The Gospel Comes with a Housekey (Crossway, 2018), and Five Lies of our Anti-Christian Age (Crossway, 2023). Buy Rosaria's Books: Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age - https://amzn.to/46QYO84 The Gospel Comes with a House Key - https://amzn.to/46uDLZe Subscribe to the YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@GreatAwokening --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/great-awokening/support

In this episode, I read my debut piece for American Reformer. Christian Nationalism: A Primer for the Layman - https://americanreformer.org/2023/10/christian-nationalism-a-primer-for-the-layman/ Subscribe to the YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@GreatAwokening --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/great-awokening/support

In this episode, I discuss the collapse of the gospel-centered movement with Jamie Bambrick. Jamie Bambrick is the Associate Pastor of an evangelical Church of Ireland congregation in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, as well as a husband, father of two boys, and above all else, follower of Jesus Christ. Though he vehemently rejects the label ‘YouTuber’, he happens to make some Youtube videos in his spare time, some of which people actually watch. Why The Gospel-Centered Movement Collapsed www.youtube.com/@jamie.bambrickwww.twitter.com/j_bambrickwww.wearecontramundum.com Subscribe to the YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@GreatAwokening --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/great-awokening/support

Mark David Hall is a Professor in Regent University’s Robertson School of Government and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy. His most recent books are: Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land: How Christianity Has Advanced Freedom and Equality for All Citizens Did America Have A Christian Founding? Subscribe to the YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@GreatAwokening --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/great-awokening/support

In this episode, I speak with Pastor Dusty Deevers about his recently announced candidacy for Oklahoma State Senate and his work in the Abortion Abolitionist movement. Dusty Deevers is a pastor at Grace Community Church of Elgin, OK. He and his wife, Christina, have six children. https://www.deevers2023.com/ Subscribe to the YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@GreatAwokening --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/great-awokening/support

In this episode, I speak with Christopher Rufo about his new book, America's Cultural Revolution: How The Radical Left Conquered Everything. For decades, left-wing radicals patiently built a revolution in the shadows. Then suddenly, after the death of George Floyd, their ideas exploded into American life. Corporations denounced the United States as a “system of white supremacy.” Universities pushed racially segregated programs that forced students to address their racial and sexual “privilege.” And schools injected critical race theory in the classroom, dividing children into “oppressor” and “oppressed.” In this stunning new book, Christopher F. Rufo exposes the inner history of the left-wing intellectuals and militants who slowly and methodically captured America’s institutions, with the goal of subverting them from within. With profiles of Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis, Paulo Freire, and Derrick Bell, Rufo shows how activists have profoundly influenced American culture with an insidious mix of Marxism and racialist ideology. They’ve replaced “equality” with “equity,” subverted individual rights in favor of group identity, and convinced millions of Americans that racism is endemic in all of society. Their ultimate goal? To replace the constitution with a race-based redistribution regime, administered by “diversity and inclusion” commissars within the bureaucracy. America's Cultural Revolution is the definitive account of the radical Left’s long march through the institutions. Through deep historical research, Rufo shows how the ideas first formulated in the pamphlets of the Weather Underground, Black Panther Party, and Black Liberation Army have been sanitized and adopted as the official ideology of America’s prestige institutions, from the Ivy League universities to the boardrooms of Wal-Mart, Disney, and Bank of America. But his book is not just an exposé. It is a meticulously-researched and passionate refutation of the arguments of CRT—and a roadmap for the counter-revolution to come. Purchase the book Subscribe to the YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@GreatAwokening --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/great-awokening/support

In this episode, I'm joined by Pastor Chris Bolt to discuss the new Amazon Prime docuseries, "Shiny Happy People," about the reality TV star family, the Duggars, and the cult belief system they are a part of. Chris explains the unbiblical teachings of Bill Gothard and Michael & Debbie Pearl. Chris Bolt is Pastor-Teacher at Elkton Baptist Church, Elkton, Tennessee, and Professor of Apologetics at Birmingham Theological Seminary, Birmingham, Alabama. He earned his PhD in Christian Philosophy from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Bolt has written for American Reformer and Founders Ministries, and is the author of The World in His Hands: A Christian Account of Scientific Law and its Antithetical Competitors (Wipf and Stock, 2019). The Kingdom of the Cults by Walter Martin - https://amzn.to/3N54W4k (How Not) To Train Up A Child by Tim Challies - https://www.challies.com/book-reviews/how-not-to-train-up-a-child/ Subscribe to the YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@GreatAwokening --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/great-awokening/support

In this episode, I speak with Peachy Keenan about Target, Bud Light, and the war on normies. Peachy Keenan is the pseudonym for a writer and mother living deep behind enemy lines. She identifies as a husbosexual, which means she is only attracted to people who identify as her husband. Peachy gave up a career writing for corporate behemoths so she could devote herself to her family, post on Twitter, and let her freak flag fly as a contributing editor and regular essayist for The American Mind, a publication of The Claremont Institute. A convert to Catholicism from secular nothingness and liberal feminism, Mrs. Keenan resides in Southern California, her ancestral homeland. She shares a home with her husband and children, who remain her toughest audience. You can find her on Twitter @keenanpeachy, at least until she is cancelled. Buy her book: https://amzn.to/3Ne1fdZ Subscribe to her Substack: https://peachykeenan.substack.com/ Follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KeenanPeachy Subscribe to the YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@GreatAwokening --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/great-awokening/support

In this episode, I talk with Senator Josh Hawley about the crisis of manhood in America and how the right can regain the will to govern from a Christian moral framework. Josh Hawley, the author of the bestselling The Tyranny of Big Tech, represents Missouri in the U.S. Senate, where he is known for defending the unsung heroes in America who go to work, raise a family, and deserve a fair chance to get ahead. Before his election to the Senate in 2018, he worked as a First Amendment lawyer and law professor and served as the attorney general of Missouri. Hawley and his wife, Erin, met while clerking on the Supreme Court. They live in Ozark, Missouri, and have three children, Elijah, Blaise, and Abigail. Follow Senator Hawley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HawleyMO Buy his book “Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs ” here: https://amzn.to/3Mns6ST Subscribe to the YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@GreatAwokening --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/great-awokening/support

In this episode, I am joined by Auron MacIntyre, host of The Auron MacIntyre Show, to discuss living in an increasingly evil and anti-Christian society that has led to a tragic shooting that took place in Nashville at a Christian school, where three children and three adults lost their lives. Auron MacIntyre is a host and columnist for The Blaze and offers insightful cultural and political analysis on Twitter. YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AuronMacIntyre Twitter: https://twitter.com/AuronMacintyre Subscribe to the YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@GreatAwokening --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/great-awokening/support