In this powerful two-guest episode of Disturbing the Peace, Stephen Davis sits in for John Amanchukwu to host two of the sharpest Christian voices in conservative discipleship today.
First, Virgil Walker — teaching pastor at Redeemer Bible Church in Gilbert, Arizona, co-host of the Just Thinking podcast with Darryl Harrison, regular commentator on Fearless with Jason Whitlock on Blaze Media, contributor to the Standing for Freedom Center and TPUSA Faith, and author of Just Thinking About Ethnicity and Just Thinking About the State. Virgil unpacks 1 Corinthians 13:11 — “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man, I put away those childish things” — and walks through what biblical maturity actually requires of men in a culture that has allowed feminism to fill the vacuum left by abdicating Christian fathers.
Virgil’s framework is the Three P’s of biblical manhood: Protection, Provision, and Prophetic Voice in the culture. He explains why the hyper-masculine Red Pill movement — the Andrew Tate version of manhood — is fundamentally reactionary rather than foundational. It’s not a counter to feminism so much as a different deformation of the same problem: men shaped by what they’re against rather than by who they’re called to be.
Then Ryan Helfenbein joins. Ryan is the Vice President of Communications and Public Engagement at Liberty University, founding executive director of the Standing for Freedom Center, host of the Give Me Liberty podcast, regular commentator on Fox News, Newsmax, and Real America’s Voice, and former adviser to the 62nd Governor of Kentucky, Matt Bevin. Ryan brings the cultural battlefield perspective from one of the largest Christian universities in America.
Ryan closes with the bigger question — are Christians winning or losing the culture war right now? His answer is unexpectedly hopeful. The pro-life argument is gaining ground. Age verification laws are advancing. The next generation of pastors emerging from former porn-industry backgrounds and other deep-rooted struggles is real. “We’re persecuted but not abandoned. We’re struck down but not destroyed. The Kingdom of God continues to march. The truth of God continues to advance.”
