S3E79 Year End 2022 Review

On this last day of the year, Ken gets sentimental. It's a retrospective of 2022, the political events, the podcast episodes, books, and movies that shaped Ken for good. He starts with a review of stats for The Beached White Male Podcast and gives special thanks to his series co-hosts, Betsey Newenhuyse, Ken Fong, and Osahon Obazuaye.

Ken Announces the Table Talk that begins on January 17 focussed on The 1619 Project, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and podcaster, Hannah Nicole Jones. 

Here's a link to learn more and register.

Here's Ken's list of references - 

Ken's Podcast Review:

• Brad Onishi - Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism--and What Comes Next
• Theon Hill on Emmett Till
• Suzie Lind/Kevin Dixon - Journey Church in Nashville - Teaching Pastor Mike Erre
• David Swanson - Chicago - Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity
• Dr. Brian Rush McDonald - The Long Surrender: A Memoir about Losing My Religion
• Martyn Whittock - UK - misuse of eschatology/Passing of Queen Elizabeth: The End Times, Again?: 2000 Years of the Use & Misuse of Biblical Prophecy
• Nate Manderson - SALON.com
• David Gushee - Christian Ethics/Changing My Mind
• Mark Chase - Associate Rector - All Saints, Pasadena
• Lisa Sharon Harper - Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World--and How to Repair It All
• Diana Butler Bass - Freeing Jesus
• Scott Young - Cinema - how to watch movies
• Jasmine Schupper - Greeenline Housing Foundation
• Julie Kratz - Corporate consultant - Diversity training 
• TRUTH QUEST SERIES
  • 17 interviews
  • Civil Rights Tour of the South... New Orleans>Birmingham

Books - 

1. A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel - Amor Towles
2. How We Love Matters: A Call to Practice Relentless Racial Reconciliation - Albert Tate
3. Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy - Jamie Raskin
4. All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope--and Hard Pills to Swallow--About Fighting for Black Lives - Andre Henry
5. Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned - Brian McLaren
6. Postcards from Babylon: The Church In American Exile - Brian Zahnd
7. The Brothers K - David James Duncan - Coming of Age Novel
8. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America - Maggie Haberman
9. After Jesus Before Christianity: A Historical Exploration of the First Two Centuries of Jesus Movement - Erin Vearncombe, Brandon Scott
10. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma - Bessel van der Kolk TRAUMA... 
11. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis - Adam Hochschild
12. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle - Jon Meacham
    • The  books Lincoln read - Thomas Paine and Ralph Waldo Emerson
      • Crisis of Faith
13. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe