Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast and the Hank Unplugged podcast, can’t get Afghanistan off his mind. In 635, three years after Muhammad died, Damascus (the city toward which Paul was advancing when he experienced a dramatic conversion to Christ) fell to invading Muslims. Two years later, Antioch, where followers of Christ were first called Christians, fell. Shortly thereafter it was the tragic task of the Patriarch of Jerusalem to hand over the city to conquering Muslims. And so for fourteen centuries, the advance of Islam has continued not by word but by sword—as we see in Afghanistan today. Will Christians again be martyred? Certainly. As contrast is the conduit to clarity, compare Muhammad and Christ.

Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast and the Hank Unplugged podcast, recalls Hitler’s statement with respect to amnesia—he had given orders to his death units to exterminate the Polish and said, after all, “who remembers the extermination of the Armenians?” Hitler banked on collective amnesia. And the same thing is happening with Islam. Prior to the recent takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban, it was already the second most dangerous place in the world to be a Christian. We as Christians must exercise the power of prayer and do all that is permissible to stay the insidious rise of Sharia in western regions—and pray for our persecuted brothers and sisters, particularly as Afghanistan still remains on our radar.

Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast and the Hank Unplugged podcast, laments that it’s easy to blame a rapidly devolving culture on pagans, but the real problem is not pagans—it’s Christians ceasing to be salt and light in a lost and searching world. When Christian leaders are not willing publicly to call abortion sin, it is a severe warning to us all—for Christ said, “If the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled by men.”

Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast and the Hank Unplugged podcast, reflects on the relegation of Christians to the margins of society—not merely as wrong but dangerous. In doing so, it will become much easier for society to persecute them. As Nazis relegated Jewish people to the margins, it became easier to persecute and murder them.

Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast and the Hank Unplugged podcast, shares part of a missive from his sister Jobje, expressing love and gratitude for prayers as she battles cancer. She writes that her mind is riveted upon the truths and promises of God—particularly riveted on the lyrics of a hymn by Rev. Henry Francis Lyte (1793–1847), titled “Abide with Me,” a hymn he wrote as he himself was dying of Tuberculosis.

Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast and the Hank Unplugged podcast, reflects on the devastating implications of America’s ill-conceived withdrawal from Afghanistan—as we simultaneously attempt to export progressive American values, such as encapsulated in a recent headline: “Academy of Breast Feeding Medicine Includes Chest Feeding and Father’s Milk in New Guidelines.” The U. S. withdrawal is symbolic of the discombobulation of a government and people. The only hope for Western Civilization is Christians being salt and light in a lost and searching world.

Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast and the Hank Unplugged podcast, reflects on what happened over the weekend in Afghanistan (Aug. 2021). The Taliban represent an Islamic juggernaut bent on the enforcement of Islamic law not only in Afghanistan but beyond.

Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast and the Hank Unplugged podcast, reflects on G. K. Chesterton’s quip that “When a man stops believing in God, he doesn’t believe in nothing; he believes in anything.” While other countries are reversing course, America is doing irreversible harm to children by trying to transition them from male to female with draconian drug treatments—treatments that will impact them for the rest of their lives. Science, like truth, is being subjectively politicized.

Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the Bible Answer Man Broadcast and the Hank Unplugged Podcast, observes that Eastern European countries such as Hungary and Poland have retained their inherited identities and the ideologies that have made Western civilization the greatest civilization in the history of the world—including a great Christian mission sending force. They have seen the horror of communism and reject the empty promises of neo-socialist influences. Contrast this with the path America is heading—a path that will ultimately lead to ruin.

Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the Bible Answer Man Broadcast and the Hank Unplugged Podcast, wonders how many of us today are men and women of conviction. John the Baptist was not like a reed shaking in the wind—not one to change according to popular opinion—but was a man of conviction willing to stand for truth no matter the cost. If ever there was a time when such conviction was necessary, that time has come.