Stay ConnectedEvery week, The Van Maren Show will try to get a handle on what is really going on in our culture today. It can be difficult to find news sources and storytellers that accurately reflect a Christian, socially conservative, pro-life, pro-family worldview. Join me on Wednesdays as we head to the front lines of the culture war.
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On this week's episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon interviews Diana West, former columnist and author of the 2013 book American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character, where she exposes the "massive incursion" of leftists and communist agents working on behalf of the Soviet Union into the Franklin Roosevelt administration, and explains how this censored part of history continues to shape our world today.
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On this week's episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon talks with Romanian pro-life activists Alexandra Nadane and Teodora Paul about the fast-growing pro-life movement in their country, the challenges of defending the unborn in a formerly communist country, and how they recruit young people to help build a culture of life.
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On this week's episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon shares an urgent warning about the encroachment of state-sponsored physical and moral destruction of children, specifically the very real horrors of "gender transitions" and the proposed idea of assisted suicide for "mature minors" in Canada. If you're a parent, you will want to tune in to this episode.
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On this week's episode of The Van Maren Show, Les Landry shares with Jonathon his story about why he applied for assisted suicide under Canada's medical assistance in dying law (MAID), as well as what the government should do to help people like him who don't want to die but increasingly see it as their only option.
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On this week's episode of The Van Maren Show, Andrew Lawton joins Jonathon to give his take on the recent ruling that backed Justin Trudeau's invocation of the Emergencies Act against the Freedom Convoy. The two discuss why the ruling shouldn't surprise us, the problems with "pandemic amnesty," and developments related to the Freedom Convoy protests we should continue to watch for in 2023.
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On this week's episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon interviews Jacob Valk and John-Michael Bout, producers of the anti-porn documentary "Into the Light." The group discusses the tendency to "over-spiritualize" the issue of porn addiction, whether you should consider cutting out mainstream entertainment and social media to help you avoid porn, and the shocking extent to which even Christian marriages can be damaged by "porn-shaped brains."
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On this week's episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon sits down with the former chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II. Gavin Ashenden, who has since converted to Catholicism, describes what the position and the Royal Family were like, the role of faith in their public and private lives, and whether the royal title "Defender of the Faith" even means anything now in this post-Christian era.
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On this week's episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon sits down with evangelical Christian author and retired pastor Erwin Lutzer to discuss his new book, No Reason to Hide: Standing for Christ in a Collapsing Culture, and how Christians should fight the culture war begun by the left.
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On this week's episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon interviews Päivi Räsänen, a Finnish Member of Parliament who's been targeted for years by a pro-LGBT prosecutor over her outspoken Christian beliefs on homosexuality and marriage.
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On this week's episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon interviews British social media influencer and detransitioner Oli London about how he came to "identify" as a Korean woman, the role of social media in the transgender craze, what made him eventually regret his "transition," and what he's doing to discourage gender mutilation and the transgender lifestyle, especially among teenagers.
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