The Van Maren Show

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.”   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.