The Van Maren Show

Today’s episode of The Van Maren Show is a special episode in honor of Sir Roger Scruton, a writer, philosopher, and staunch defender of Western Civilization and its values.  He passed away yesterday, January 12th at 75 years of age after a battle with cancer. Sir Roger leaves behind a legacy of fighting for beauty, art, culture, and truth. Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the UK, has called him the “greatest modern conservative thinker.” Sir Roger became an intellectual freedom fighter in 1979, smuggling banned books behind the Iron Curtain in Europe. Even after the wall fell, he continued to communism through his writing. Over his career, he wrote over 50 books, including, How To Be A Conservative; The Soul of the World; The Aesthetic Understanding; Beauty. Jonathon Van Maren interviewed Sir Roger a few years ago and the two discussed the current state of culture, the need for true beauty in our art, and what we can do to revive our society.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It may sound surprising, but literature professor and pro-life activist Karen Swallow Prior tells Jonathon Van Maren how literature is going to help end abortion.In today's episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon Van Maren speaks with acclaimed author and professor Karen Swallow Prior. In addition to teaching, Swallow Prior is a well-known pro-life activist having been arrested, testifying before Congress and so much more.The Van Maren Show is hosted on numerous platforms, including Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube, iTunes, and Google Play.For a full listing of episodes, and to subscribe to various channels, visit our Pippa webpage here.To receive weekly emails when a new episode is uploaded, click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today’s episode of The Van Maren show, Jonathon Van Maren speaks with Gianna Jessen, a well known abortion survivor and pro-life advocate. Ms. Jessen has been mentioned in speeches by President George W Bush. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of Westminster have said that her story could impact the abortion debate. Jessen survived a saline abortion and now uses her story to show people what an abortion. “I am alive. Just by the miraculous power of Christ.”Jessen was born during a saline abortion in a Los Angeles abortion clinic at 29 weeks. Jessen was only 2.5 pounds when she was born, but she miraculously survived. She was born 18 hours into the saline abortion procedure, which burn, blind and suffocates babies who are born dead after 24 hours. Jessen allows people "to actually glimpse face to face the people that abortion has taken from us.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today’s episode of The Van Maren show, Jonathon Van Maren speaks with the editor of the National Review Rich Lowry about his latest book, The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free. Lowry has authored other books, including New York Times bestseller, Lincoln Unbound and Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years.  Van Maren and Lowry speak about Lowry’s book, where America is headed, “the age of Trump”, the rise of division in our political climate, and the need for maintaining culture in order to maintain a democracy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today’s episode of The Van Maren show, Jonathon Van Maren speaks with Dr. Matthew Harrison, one of the doctors who pioneered the abortion pill reversal method. RU-486 kills the growing baby by starving him or her of progesterone; however, Dr. Harrison and his colleagues discovered that progesterone injections could help save the baby.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today’s episode of The Van Maren show, Jonathon Van Maren speaks with David Bereit, the co-founder of 40 Days for Life. Bereit co-founded 40 Days for Life, an international campaign that aims to end abortion through local prayer and fasting, community outreach, and a peaceful all-day vigil in front of abortion businesses. Van Maren speaks with Bereit about how he turned a protest outside of a single clinic into a worldwide movement and the role prayer played and plays in the movement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today’s special episode of The Van Maren show, Jonathon Van Maren speaks with Covenant Eyes leader Dan Armstrong about Lamar Odom’s exclusive interview highlighting his pornography addiction. Odom spoke with Covenant Eyes about his severe addiction to pornography.  “I was definitely addicted to porn and drug,” Odom tells Covenant Eyes. Odom shares that he first saw porn when he was only 13 or 14 years old.To follow The Van Maren show sign-up here.To view the full video click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon Van Maren speaks with Dale Ahlquist, the President and co-founder of the American Chesterton Society. Ahlquist has written, edited, or contributed to an enormous number of books on the English author and philosopher G.K. Chesterton. He also runs a series of schools called Chesterton Academies that seeks to showcase Chesterton’s thinking.  Van Maren and Ahlquist delve into Chesterton’s life, writings, and philosophies. They discuss how we can apply Chesterton’s writings to our everyday lives, while encouraging everyone to study his writings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today’s episode of The Van Maren show, Jonathon Van Maren speaks with Dr. Kathy Aultman, a former abortion provider. Dr. Aultman has testified on behalf of a wide range of pro-life laws across the United States. She has also testified before Congress about the horrors of the abortion industry that she has seen with her own eyes.You won't want to miss hearing about Aultman's conversion from abortionist to pro-life activist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jonathon Van Maren kicks off this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show by reminding his listeners that hundreds of babies born alive during abortion procedures are simply left on their own to die.Jill Stanek joins Van Maren to discuss these horrors as well as those mentioned at the Planned Parenthood baby body parts trial against David Daleiden. Stanek was a nurse in Illinois in 1999 when she discovered that babies born alive after failed abortions were purposefully neglected and left to die. While some of what they say is shocking and has lurid details, it is vital that every pro-lifer hears the truth, as the details she shares line up with what Center for Medical Progress, David Daleiden, and Sandra Merritt are trying to expose in the Planned Parenthood lawsuit they are currently facing. Watch or listen today, and share with your pro-life friends and family. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Millions of men have been impacted by abortion, just not everyone of them takes their experience and turns it into their life’s mission. Jason Jones, president and founder of Human Rights Education Organization and Movie to Movement and producer of the pro-life movie ‘Bella,’ experienced the heartbreaking tragedy of losing his first daughter to abortion. His high school girlfriend’s father took her to get an abortion while Jones was away at basic training. “I exploded!” Jones shares. He goes on to say that he didn’t even know abortion was legal until he found out he had lost his child to abortion.Van Maren and Jones dive deep into men in the pro-life movement, including the fact that porn addiction and the sexual revolution has contributed to the lack of men defending the unborn and feeling uncomfortable at pro-life events.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s not every day you see a young woman dressed in a pink wig, even pinker lipstick, and holding a giant, sparkly tube that she informs the viewer is supposed to represent the human birth canal (“Disclaimer: birth canal is not the actual size of a birth canal,” we’re helpfully told).The woman is Laura Klassen, the founder of CHOICE42, a one-of-a-kind pro-life organization that uses sarcasm, perfect comedic timing, and a healthy dose of truth to create viral pro-life videos designed to force even the most committed pro-choicers re-think their basic presuppositions.The “Magical Birth Canal” video, which lampoons the notion that babies suddenly gain human rights by passing through their mother’s birth canal, is the most popular of Klassen’s videos – with the English-langauge version racking up over 200,000 views on Youtube alone. Many of her other videos have earned tens of thousands of views, and been translated into multiple languages. In their wide- ranging interview, Van Maren and Klassen also discuss the failure of Christian churches to take abortion seriously, the creative process she follows in producing new videos, and a host of other topics.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Os Guinness joins Jonathon Van Maren on this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show. Guinness is an author and commentator who has written over 30 books that have had a profound impact on the American political conversation. And yes, he is the great, great, great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the famous Dublin Brewer. Van Maren and Guinness begin their discussion with talking about the notion of freedom, specifically in America. Guinness outlines the three challenges that freedom has, stating that the American Founders knew full-well these challenges. The first is winning freedom (The Revolution in 1776). The second is ordering it or giving it political framework (The Constitution in 1787). Finally, the third is sustaining it… Which has been the challenge of centuries. Guinness says the best way to achieve sustainable freedom is through, what he calls, the Golden Triangle of Freedom. This states that Freedom requires Virtue, Virtue requires Faith, and Faith then requires Freedom. Van Maren’s conversation with Os Guinness is an uplifting one while dealing with the current state of American politics, freedom, and culture. Guinness has wisdom from the decades of writing, research, and experience that needs to be shared far and wide. Be sure to listen to the episode and share with your friends and family.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon Van Maren speaks with Fr. Frank Pavone, the National Director of Priests for Life, the largest pro-life ministry in the Catholic Church. Van Maren speaks with Fr. Pavone about his experiences as a pro-life priest and leader. Fr. Pavone shares how his dedication to the pro-life movement starting in high-school and continuing while he was in seminary. After he was ordained a priest, he preached about abortion almost every weekend from the pulpit, leading to a profound impact on his parish.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon Van Maren speaks with Douglas Murray, British journalist, author, and political commentator. Murray has written numerous books, including the international bestseller, The Strange Death of Europe, a book Van Maren describes as, the “most insightful things written on the migrant crisis, on the identity crisis gripping Europe.”  Today, Van Maren and Murray discuss Murray’s newest book The Madness of Crowds, specifically what Murray calls the four biggest hot button issues in politics today: “gays, women, race, and trans.”   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon Van Maren discusses the future of conservatism with Dr. Patrick Deneen, a professor at Notre Dame University. Deneen has a background in Constitutional Studies and Political Theory. He was a speechwriter and special advisor to the Director of the United States Information Agency. He’s been an associate professor of Government at Georgetown University and Princeton University before joining the faculty at Notre Dame in 2012. He has written several books and a number of articles focusing on the history of American political thought. His 2018 book called, “Why Liberalism Failed” is all about these topics. The thesis of “Why Liberalism Failed” can be shoved into a nutshell of, “liberalism is failing because liberalism is succeeding.” Deneen provides clarity in the definitions of conservatism and liberalism. He explains that there’s been confusion in what we typically call conservatism in the United States. Deneen suggests that we might more appropriately call conservatives, “classical liberals.” He goes on to say that, “we need to understand there are two variants or versions of liberalism itself.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on The Van Maren Show, Jonathon Van Maren speaks with Mary Eberstadt about the sexual revolution. Eberstadt provides an incredibly influential, intellectual, precise commentary about current culture, philosophy, and the fate of the post-modern man. She has a recently released book titled “Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics,” but also wrote, “How the West Really Lost God” and “Adam and Eve after the Pill.”The sexual revolution is a topic that Van Maren has covered extensively on his blog on LifeSiteNews.com and in The Van Maren Show episodes. The sexual revolution has impacted our society from the so-called LGBT movement, the effects of pornography and sex-education, and attacks on freedoms of speech and religion.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today’s special report, Jonathon Van Maren speaks with Alessandra Bocchi, a journalist who just returned from Hong Kong, about the protests happening there. The extradition bill was rescinded today, but Bocchi doesn’t necessarily think this will completely quell the protestors.The Hong Kong protests started months ago as a peaceful demonstration against an extradition bill passed by the Hong Kong government. The people of Hong Kong are concerned the authoritarian government will use this extradition policy to bring individuals accused of political crimes back to mainland China. Amazingly, according to Bocchi, the protests aren’t organized by a single person, but were more of a spontaneous combustion. Extraordinarily, everyone has been, and continue to be, on the same page as the protests and demands develop.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jonathon Van Maren invited pro-life activist Lynn Mills to join him for this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show. Mills has been a pro-life activist since the early 80s, focusing mainly in her hometown of Detroit, Michigan. When it comes to pro-life activism, there’s really nothing she hasn’t done. She has done sidewalk counseling outside abortion clinics, forced abortionists out of their buildings, and participated in undercover investigations exposing the abortion industry. She also carried her pro-life investigative work into uncovering the evidence that shut down Dr. Jack Kevorkian, also known as Dr. Death, the doctor who is known as the euthanasia pioneer. Lynn Mills is an outstanding pro-life activist and it is absolutely worth the time to listen to this fascinating interview between her and Jonathon Van Maren. Mills is a true activist who has taken it upon herself to stand up and fight against the culture of death, wherever opportunities arise. To receive weekly emails when a new episode is uploaded, click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s episode of The Van Maren Show takes listeners into the pro-life movement with Mark Harrington, the leader of Created Equal. Harrington spent over a decade working full-time to save babies in the final days of the Operation Rescue Movement and continuing with the Genocide Awareness Project with the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform. That is to say, he’s been involved in varying degrees of the boots-on-the-ground pro-life movement. Van Maren starts off with his favorite question, “How did you get started in the pro-life movement?” Harrington tells the story of coming to Christ at 28 and then meeting his wife who was volunteering for a pregnancy resource center. It was her work with pregnant women, and her showing him a photo of an aborted baby that really changed the direction of his life. “You know, it was one of those things that you kind of feel the Holy Spirit just gripping your heart. And that changed my life. I mean, it was that quick; it was that immediate that I knew, at that point, I had to do something to stop the killing.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jonathon Van Maren speaks with Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri Schiavo, on this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show. Schindler advocates for the medically vulnerable and is a full-time advocate, speaker, and writer. He’s a member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and his writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Time Magazine, and many more. Schindler starts the conversation sharing what it was like to grow up with Terri; sharing the real happiness before the tragic story of her death. “Terri was always one that was always laughing in the house, whether it was at my dad’s corny jokes or just whatever.” It wasn’t long after the entire Schindler family relocated to Florida that things started to deteriorate. And then on February 25, 1990, Terri collapsed while home alone with Michael and Schindler was called by his dad to go check on her. Schindler then shares what was happening in the weeks and months following the initial collapse. Going quickly from the few months after the collapse, during which time they saw Terri improve, Schindler skips ahead to eight years later when Michael Schiavo really took the legal matters into his own hands and pushed to have Terri’s feeding tube removed, despite the fact that she was not considered to be in a “vegetative state.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jonathon Van Maren dives into one of the most serious issues our culture is facing today, which is pornography. We all know pornography is an issue, even within Christian communities, but what can we do to protect our families? Kristen Jenson answers this question during this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show. Jenson is the author of Good Pictures, Bad Pictures: Porn-Proofing Today’s Young Kids and Good Pictures, Bad Pictures Jr: A Simple Plan to Protect Young Minds. As the founder of Protect Young Minds and mother of three, she works to help parents porn-proof their homes and their children. Van Maren seeks to answer the many questions he’s received from parents on what they can be doing in their own homes, and Jenson provides some amazing information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s episode of The Van Maren Show gives us a deep look into the pro-life movement in Northern Ireland as it stands right now, and what the possibilities are moving forward. Jonathon Van Maren has an amazing conversation with Bernadette Smyth, founder of the largest pro-life group in Northern Ireland, Precious Life. She also founded Youth for Life, which is a project of Precious Life, whose aim is to equip the next generation with the skills needed to keep abortion illegal in Northern Ireland. Smyth shares with listeners how she got into the pro-life movement and then dives deep into how she was able to start Precious Life over 23 years ago, and how she’s been able to sustain and grow this organization over the years.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon Van Maren speaks with Dr. Judith Reisman, a research professor at Liberty University School of Law and Director of the Child Protection Institute. Dr. Reisman is a giant in the science and sexology community with many accolades and accomplishments. Today, he speaks with Reisman about her pioneering work in exposing the fraudulent sex ‘research’ work of Dr. Alfred Kinsey. For those unfamiliar, Dr. Kinsley’s science played a role in bringing the sexual revolution to America, in modern LGBT laws, inflated LGBT propaganda statistics, and in a way responsible for the overall acceptance of the LGBT movement. You can read more about Dr. Kinsey by searching for him in the LifeSiteNews.com search bar. Dr. Reisman got into this work in an effort to gain understanding after her own daughter was sexually abused by the boy upstairs. In her journey, she dove into Dr. Alfred Kinsey’s research and discovered the great fallacies actually being sold in it. She describes how Kinsey’s books essentially normalized deviant sexual behavior and led to the sexual revolution as we know it. The political power behind Kinsey included The Rockefeller Foundation and Playboy magazine, which owed its success to Kinsey. Reisman also discusses Kinsey’s own personal sexual deviance, includine pedophelia, a pornography and mastubation addiction, homosexuality, and so much more. The Van Maren Show is hosted on numerous platforms, including Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube, iTunes, and Google Play.For a full listing of episodes, and to subscribe to various channels, visit our Pippa webpage here.To receive weekly emails when a new episode is uploaded, click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

WARNING: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT NOT SUITED FOR CHILDREN. In this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show, former porn star Deanna Spangler shares how she rose to fame in the pornography industry and why she finally got out.Van Maren and Spangler speak about her difficult childhood, which included her parents introducing her to pornography when she was just six years old. Spangler explains that after her early exposure to pornography and the death of her mother when she was 10, she began engaging in prostitution. She easily slid into pornography from there, she tells Van Maren. They discuss the close connection between prostitution and pornography, and the degradation and shame women feel that keeps them trapped in this spiral.  Spangler also discusses truly horrific things – including assault and abuse – and the rise in violent pornography due to television becoming more and more graphic. After a dramatic encounter with a man addicted to pornography that ended with him taking his own life, she eventually left the industry. Spangler then went to a Christian seminary and now helps men and women addicted to pornography. This shocking episode exposes the dehumanizing and trapping effects of the pornography industry on women, and the great evils swirling all around the evil of pornography. To receive weekly emails when a new episode is uploaded, click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jonathon Van Maren speaks with Dr. Daniel K. Williams, author of two books published by the Oxford University Press. The first, “God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right” and also, “Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe v. Wade.” This week’s episode of The Van Maren Show and the second book are absolutely filled with information that everyone in the pro-life movement needs to know about.There is a broad understanding that the pro-life movement was simply a reactionary movement to Roe v. Wade being legalized in the United States in 1973. In reality, this is not the case. History shows that some of the first pro-life laws were passed in the 1800’s in response to the discovery by doctors that life began long before “quickening,” which is when the mother could first feel the baby in the womb. These Protestant doctors stated that these human beings in the womb deserve protection under the law. It's also important to note that it wasn't until much later during the pro-life movement that abortion became associated with the right-wing beliefs.'To receive weekly emails when a new episode is uploaded, click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jonathon Van Maren discusses the pro-life movement with Jason Jones on this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show. Jones began working in the pro-life movement while attending the University of Hawaii. His work within the movement progressed from forming the Pro-Life Student Union to include Director of Hawaii Right to Life and Public Relations Director for Human Life International. He is the president and founder of HumanRights Education Organization and Movie to Movement; both organizations promote the dignity and beauty of the human person.The Van Maren Show is hosted on numerous platforms, including Spotify,SoundCloud, YouTube, iTunes, and Google Play.For a full listing of episodes, and to subscribe to various channels, visit our Pippa webpage here.To receive weekly emails when a new episode is uploaded, click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on The Van Maren Show, John Zmirak gives a rundown of what he calls, the official war between Conservatives. Listen now!Van Maren and Zmirak givelisteners a look inside the Conservative civil war that’s been going on for several weeks or months. Van Maren mentions that, in reality, this civil war started with the election of President Donald Trump. The show starts off with a brief history of the beginnings of this internal clash before moving to Van Maren’s conversation with John Zmirak.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A social conservative professor who was raised by his mom and her lesbian partner and who openly admits that he's bisexual is warning Americans that the Equality Act is a trojan horse that will "nullify" pro-life laws passed in various states and contains language that could lead to the abolishment of all sex-segregated bathrooms.Robert Oscar Lopez is a professor of Humanities at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He’s become most well-known for his article, published in 2012, on what it was like to be raised by homosexual parents. Most recently, Lopez spoke out against the Equality Act. To donate to LifeSite's Summer Fundraising Campaign and help them reach their minimum goal of $275,000, click here.The Van Maren Show is hosted on numerous platforms, including Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube, iTunes, and Google Play.For a full listing of episodes, and to subscribe to various channels, visit our Pippa webpage here.To receive weekly emails when a new episode is uploaded, click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of The Van Maren Show, Ekeocha and Van Maren begin by discussing her rise within the pro-life movement and move into drastic differences between African culture as a whole and Western culture. The Van Maren Show is hosted on numerous platforms, including Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube, iTunes, and Google Play.For a full listing of episodes, and to subscribe to various channels, visit our Pippa.io webpage here.To receive weekly emails when a new episode is uploaded, click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ten years ago Mark Bauerlein warned against the dangers of technology in his book,The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30). The thesis of his work was the rise of technology and the elimination of reading books has made our culture stupid.Bauerlein is currently an English professor at Emory University and the senior editor of First Things, a conservative, religious academic journal. In this episode of The Van Maren Show, Van Maren and Bauerlein discuss The Dumbest Generation, the worsening effects of technology and the deterioration of society it is causing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

According to the mainstream media, people like Jeffrey McCall don’t exist. The mainstream media insists people don’t leave the LGBT lifestyle. However, McCall is one of many who are standing up to share their stories of leaving that life behind and moving ahead in the grace of God. In episode 19 of The Van Maren Show, McCall talks about the moment he decided to literally throw his transgender identity into a dumpster and walk away forever. The Van Maren Show is hosted on numerous platforms, including Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube, iTunes, and Google Play.  For a full listing of episodes, and to subscribe to various channels, visit our Pippa.io webpage here. To receive weekly emails when a new episode is uploaded, click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Van Maren starts the conversation by asking about how Ruse got involved in the pro-life movement many years ago. The conversation moves into what exactly C-Fam does within the United Nations when policies are drafted. “You know, you get the document, you read the document. You identify bad language; you talk to delegations to try to get bad language out. You try to get good language in… And that’s pretty much what we do.”If you are interested in this topic, C-Fam puts out Friday Fax, which is the only weekly source for what’s going on at U.N. headquarters on life and family matters. The Van Maren Show is hosted on numerous platforms, including Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube, iTunesand Google Play. For a full listing of episodes, and to subscribe via various channels, visit our Pippa.io webpage here. To receive an email when a new episode is uploaded, click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lord Conrad Black is most well-known for being the former publisher of The London Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Jerusalem Post, and the founder of Canada’s National Post. Aa commentator on both TV and radio, he has been one of the primary defenders of President Donald Trump.  In addition to his recent biography of Trump, he’s written authoritative biographies on Franklin Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, who he also knew personally.  In this episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon van Maren and Black have a conversation specifically about Donald Trump, starting with the most obvious question, “What made you write a biography about President Donald J. Trump?”  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Barros is a 64-year-old man. He’s had cancer and recently suffered a stroke. But none of that has stopped him from standing outside an abortion clinic in Orlando, Florida for the last 9 years. His presence has helped saved thousands of babies from abortion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Operation Rescue president Troy Newman explains why the pro-life movement has to focus on shutting down abortion centers. Involved in the pro-life cause since 1991, Newman, now 53, says, “the only way we can determine whether or not we're closer to ending this holocaust of our time is the number of babies being saved and the number of abortion mills closing down." He tells Jonathon Van Maren, “I can't wait for that glorious day when every child is protected under the law.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Monica Miller, founder and director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, speaks with Jonathon Van Maren about her start in the pro-life movement in the 1970s as a graduate student under the tutelage of Joe Scheidler. She also talks about the impact taking photographs of aborted babies and showing them to the public has had on awakening people to the horrors of abortion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Political science professor Darel Paul discusses how the upper tier of American society evolved over time to support and then push gay 'marriage.' Author of "From Tolerance to Equality: How Elites Brought America to Same-Sex Marriage," Dr. Paul argues that liberals don't have to sacrifice much to let gays and lesbians into their elite circles. It's "kind of a painless, nearly cost free way of promoting their own righteousness," he tells Jonathon Van Maren. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

World renowned author and philosopher Gabriele Kuby talks with Jonathon Van Maren about her upbringing in Germany, her conversion to the Catholic faith, and reflects on her book, "The Global Sexual Revolution: Destruction of Freedom in the Name of Freedom." Pope Benedict XVI once called her "a brave warrior against ideologies that ultimately result in the destruction of man." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Scott Klusendorf is a veteran of the pro-life movement. In this episode, he tells Jonathon Van Maren that the “seamless garment" approach is “a threat to the survival of the pro-life movement" and that "I will fight it with everything that's in me.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ryan Bomberger, an internationally recognized pro-life speaker, shares his unique upbringing as an adopted child in a family of 15. He also discusses social justice and where the civil rights movement went wrong on abortion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of The Van Maren Show, Nancy Pearcey and Jonathon Van Maren discuss the deeply-rooted philosophical arguments underpinning the transgender movement, how it exploded in less than a decade, and the dangers it poses to our society. Nancy Pearcey has been called America’s "preeminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual" and she's the author of "Love Thy Body." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Johnson says that she "essentially coerced women into making a decision for abortion that was sacrificing their children. And I knew that that was incredibly unjust. And I thought, here I am working for this organization that says we're here to fight for justice for women. But at what cost? I mean there's no justice when we're having to sacrifice the rights of someone else.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

91-year-old Joe Scheidler tells Jonathon Van Maren that it was during a speech he attended by Senator Henry Hyde in Chicago in the early 1970s that he became interested in the pro-life fight. “I listened very carefully to Henry's talk and then I started studying the whole pro-life issue of fetal development,” he says. “I thought this was going to destroy our country because we are taking protection away from the most helpless — the unborn.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The first 45 years of Walt Heyer’s life were destroyed by transgenderism thanks to his grandmother’s “fun” little decision to put him in a purple chiffon dress and tell him he looked cute when he was just four-years-old. Now, he speaks out against the dangers of the LGBT movement, transgenderism and sex reassignment surgery. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Speaking with host Jonathon Van Maren, veteran anti-porn activist Matt Fradd exposes the real damage porn consumption does not just to the men and especially young boys who watch it but to romantic relationships, marriages, and families. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Some politicians seem to think the only people impacted by abortion are the doctor and the woman who chooses to get one. The truth of the matter is that far more lives are affected by abortion.In a new episode of The Van Maren Show, podcast host Jonathon Van Maren speaks with Melissa Ohden, a survivor of a saline abortion in 1977 that lasted over five days.Melissa’s moving story begins when her maternal grandmother, a nurse, forced her then-19-year-old biological mom, an unmarried college student, to get a secret abortion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Carol Everett, now one of the top pro-life activists in the United States, spent 6 years in the abortion industry before coming to Jesus Christ. Having had an abortion just 2 weeks after Roe v. Wade in 1973, because she and her second husband simply didn’t want any more children. Everett got involved in and soon revolutionized the way the abortion industry operates.Listen this week on The Van Maren Show about how God answered this abortion manager’s prayer for a sign that she was supposed to leave the industry.Check out more stories like this here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/all/today Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jessica Neely was raised in a conservative Christian home. The daughter of a pastor who spent her youth involved in a myriad of extracurricular and pro-family activities, her life took a turn for the worse when, in the early 2000s, she was raped at the age of 23. Unsure of how to deal with the trauma of her experience, Neely, an abstinence missionary at the time, was intent on getting revenge.Neely and Van Maren discuss her decade-long dive into the world of pornography and her eventual escape from it in this explicit but revealing conversation about the evils of the porn industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this the inaugural episode of The Van Maren Show, Canadian pro-life activist Jonathan Van Maren sits down with Anthony Esolen, accomplished writer, speaker, and teaching fellow at Thomas More College in New Hampshire. Dr. Esolen has authored more than 15 books on a wide range of topics, including literature, the humanities, and the family. Some of Professor Esolen’s most well-known works include The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child, and Out of the Ashes: Restoring American Culture, which he and Van Maren talk about, at length, in this episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.