The American Reformer Podcast

Political Mix: Post Election

Timon, Ben, and Mike provide post-election insights and discuss priorities for Trump’s next term. 
 
#DonaldTrump #Election #2024 #Inauguration #TrumpNews #News #MikeSabo #BenCrenshaw #TimonCline
 
Show Notes:
https://americanreformer.org/2024/12/year-end-editorial/
https://americanreformer.org/2024/01/announcement-mike-sabo-appointed-contributing-editor/
From Ben Crenshaw:
https://americanreformer.org/2025/01/justice-for-gang-rapists-and-their-enablers/
https://americanreformer.org/2025/01/on-the-need-for-citizen-militias/
 
Mike Sabo is a Contributing Editor of American Reformer and an Assistant Editor of The American Mind, the online journal of the Claremont Institute. His writing has appeared at RealClearPolitics, The Federalist, Public Discourse, and American Greatness, among other outlets. He lives with his wife and son in Cincinnati.
 
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https://americanreformer.org/author/mike-sabo/
 
Ben R. Crenshaw is a Visiting Fellow at American Reformer and Visiting Assistant Professor at the Declaration of Independence Center at the University of Mississippi. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Politics at the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship at Hillsdale College. You can follow him on Twitter at @benrcrenshaw.
 
Learn more about Ben Crenshaw's work:
https://americanreformer.org/author/bencrenshaw/
https://gradschool.hillsdale.edu/Profiles/Benjamin-Crenshaw/
 
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Reformed Resurgence (ft. Brad Vermurlen)

Brad Vermurlen, a social scientist and assistant professor of sociology at Calvin University, joins Timon to talk about the new calvinism and his book, Reformed Resurgence from Oxford University Press. 
 
#BradVermurlen #America #UnitedStates #Religion #Culture #Modernity #Calvin #Calvinism
 
Brad Vermurlen is a social scientist whose research centers on American religion, culture, and modernity. He is currently visiting assistant professor of sociology at Calvin University and an affiliated scholar with the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California.
 
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https://x.com/brad_vermurlen
 
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Against Worldview (ft. Simon Kennedy)

Simon Kennedy, research fellow at University of Queensland and fellow at the Danube Institute, joins Timon to talk about his new book, Against Worldview from Lexham Press. 
 
#SimonKennedy #AgainstWorldview #Christianity #Theology #Politics #Tradition #NaturalLaw #Ethics
 
Simon P. Kennedy is research fellow at the University of Queensland in Australia and a non-resident fellow at the Danube Institute in Budapest. He is associate editor of Quadrant magazine and teaches at a variety of institutions, including the Lachlan Macquarie Institute and Queensland Theological College.
 
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https://uq.academia.edu/SimonKennedy
 
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https://a.co/d/8WUajcU
 
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TheoBros (ft. Doug Wilson)

Doug Wilson joins Josh and Timon to talk about the recent profile of the “TheoBros” from Mother Jones and what building thick Christian communities looks like in negative world. 
 
#DouglasWilson #ChristKirk #ChristChurch #BlogMablog #MoscowIdaho #CREC #Trump #Government #Nominees #JDVance #America #Community
 
Douglas Wilson served in the submarine service of the U.S. Navy, then earned two B.A. degrees, one in Philosophy and one in Classical Studies, plus an M.A. in Philosophy; all three of his degrees were granted by the University of Idaho. He has been an Instructor at both the University of Idaho and Lewis & Clark State College, and is currently a Senior Fellow at New Saint Andrews College, where he has taught since its inception without compensation. He has served Christ Church, Moscow, as a pastor since 1977, and under his leadership it has founded New Saint Andrews College, Canon Press publishing house, the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, and many mission churches around the US and internationally. He has authored almost eighty books for a dozen different publishing houses. He is happily married to Nancy, coming up on 50 years, and has three kids and seventeen grandkids.
 
Learn more about Pastor Douglas Wilson's work at:
https://dougwils.com/
https://twitter.com/douglaswils
https://www.christkirk.com/
 
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Who Are We? (ft. Auron MacIntyre)

Auron MacIntyre joins the show to talk about American identity, the future prospects of the right, and how to handle disagreements within a movement. 
 
Show Notes: 
Purchase Auron MacIntyre's new book, The Total State
 
#AuronMacIntyre #TotalState #Politics #Identity #Nation #People #ConservativeMovement #Multiculturalism #Immigration #Diversity #Republic #Culture
 
Auron MacIntyre is the host of “The Auron MacIntyre Show” and a columnist for Blaze News. He offers thought-provoking and mold-breaking insights, drawing from the best political thinkers throughout history to make sense of our current political climate in a way that is easy to digest.
 
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https://www.theblaze.com/u/auronmacintyre
https://twitter.com/AuronMacintyre
 
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Evangelicals and Trump (ft. Sean Davis)

Sean Davis, CEO and Co-founder of the Federalist, joins the pod to discuss the future of evangelicals and the new Christian right in the second Trump term. 
 
#SeanDavis #Federalist #Election #2024 #Trump #Evangelicals #Vote #USA #Politics
 
Sean Davis is CEO and co-founder of The Federalist. He previously worked as an economic policy adviser to Gov. Rick Perry, as CFO of Daily Caller, and as chief investigator for Sen. Tom Coburn. He was named by The Hill as one of the top congressional staffers under the age of 35 for his role in spearheading the enactment of the law that created USASpending.gov. Sean received a BBA in finance from Texas Tech University and an MBA in finance and entrepreneurial management from the Wharton School. He can be reached via e-mail at sean@thefederalist.com.
 
Learn more about Sean Davis's work:
https://thefederalist.com/author/seandavis/
 
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Cold Warrior Nationalism (ft. John Wilsey)

John Wilsey, professor of church history at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, discusses his biography of John Foster Dulles with Josh and Timon. 
 
#JohnWilsey #ChurchHistory #SBTS #Christianity #Government #Politics #Dulles #JohnFosterDulles #History #Biography #ColdWar
 
Dr. John Wilsey is Professor of Church History and Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Church History and Historical Theology. He also serves as Book Review Editor of The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology. Prior to coming to Southern, Wilsey taught elementary, middle, and high school students in history and Bible for eleven years in North Carolina and Virginia. He also has served Southern Baptist churches, as an associate pastor in Charlottesville, Virginia for eight years and interim pastor for three years in Spring, Texas. Between 2011 and 2017, he taught history and philosophy at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, with most of his teaching load in a fully accredited baccalaureate program in a maximum-security unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
 
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https://www.sbts.edu/faculty/john-d-wilsey/
 
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Finding a Faithful College

Executive Director of the Center for Academic Faithfulness & Flourishing (CAFF), Dr. P. Jesse Rine, joins Josh to discuss why many religiously founded colleges in America have secularized over time and what CAFF is doing to support Christian colleges that are swimming against the cultural tide. Jesse and Josh explore a new online resource, the CAFF College Guide, which presents objective institutional profiles for over 250 authentically Christian colleges and universities across the country.
 
#CAFF #PJesseRine #Religious #Christian #Faithful #College #Education #Evangelical #HigherEd
 
Show Notes:
* https://www.faithfulcolleges.org/
* https://www.christiancollegeguide.com/
 
P. Jesse Rine is the Executive Director of American Reformer's Center for Academic Faithfulness & Flourishing. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Christian Higher Education Journal. He previously served as Professor & Director of the Ed.D. Program in Educational Leadership at North Greenville University and Associate Professor & Director of the M.S. Program in Higher Education Administration at Duquesne University. Learn more about P. Jesse Rine's work: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pjesserine/
 
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/pjesserine/
 
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Powers to the Prince (ft. Adam Carrington)

Professor of politics at Ashland University, Adam Carrington, comes on to talk about James Ussher and political theology. 
 
#AdamCarrington #AshlandUniversity #PoliticalScience #JamesUssher #PoliticalTheology #Politics #Power #England #Government #Law #Romans13
 
Read Adam Carrington's latest at American Reformer:
https://americanreformer.org/2024/10/the-political-theology-of-americas-first-book-of-common-prayer/
https://americanreformer.org/2024/09/who-is-the-sovereign/
 
Adam is an associate professor of political science at Ashland University, where he holds the Bob and Jan Archer Position in American History & Politics. He is also a co-director of the Ashbrook Center, where he serves as chaplain. His book on the jurisprudence of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Field was published by Lexington Books in 2017. In addition to scholarly publications, his writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Examiner, and National Review.
 
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https://wng.org/authors/adam-m-carrington
 
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Dangerous Memes (ft. Douglas Mackey)

Douglas Mackey (aka Ricky Vaughn) faces months in prison for tweeting satirical memes during the 2016 section. Josh and Timon talk to him about his case and what a Trump victory in 2024 means. 
 
#DouglasMackey #RickyVaughn #Meme #Twitter #FreeSpeech #Censorship #Biden #FBI #Court #Justice
 
On January 26, 2021–six days after Joe Biden was inaugurated– eight FBI and other law enforcement agents showed up at Douglass Mackey’s home and arrested him on felony charges with a ten-year maximum sentence. His crime: posting a Twitter meme, which mocked Hillary Clinton supporters he posted almost five years earlier. Mackey had run the pro-Trump twitter account @RickyVaughn99. The government claimed his satirical posts joking about “texting to vote” constituted a conspiracy on "social media to spread disinformation relevant to the impending 2016 Presidential Election." Specifically, the government was concerned that "disinformation spread by these individuals often took the form of 'memes.'"
 
Despite living in Florida, Mackey was prosecuted in the Eastern District of New York before two liberal judges and was convicted. He was sentenced to seven months in federal prison on October 18, and ordered to report federal prison on January 8, 2024. He will appeal the case. Reversing this conviction is essential not just to protect his own freedom, but to prevent politically motivated suppression of free speech for all Americans.
 
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https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-ricky-vaughn-witch-hunt/
 
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