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Kerby Anderson
Host — Point of View
Kerby Anderson is host of Point of View Radio Talk Show and also serves as the President of Probe Ministries. He holds masters degrees from Yale University (science) and Georgetown University (governm...
GUESTS
Merrill (Buddy) Matthews, PhD
Resident Scholar | Analyst | Writer — Institute for Policy Innovation
Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation, a research-based, public policy “think tank.” He is a health policy expert and weekly contributor at Forbes.com...
Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation, a research-based, public policy “think tank.” He is a health policy expert and weekly contributor at Forbes.com. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Texas Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Dr. Matthews is a past president of the Health Economics Roundtable for the National Association for Business Economics, the largest trade association of business economists. Dr. Matthews also served for 10 years as the medical ethicist for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Institutional Review Board for Human Experimentation, and has contributed chapters to several books, including Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate and The 21st Century Health Care Leader and, in 2009, Stop Paying the Crooks (on Medicare fraud). He has been published in numerous journals and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Barron’s, USA Today, Forbes magazine and the Washington Times. He was an award-winning political analyst for the USA Radio Network. Dr. Matthews received his Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Texas.
Kelly Shackelford
President and CEO — Liberty Institute
Kelly Shackelford, Esq., has been president and CEO of Liberty Institute since 1997. Mr. Shackelford is a constitutional scholar who has argued before the United States Supreme Court, testified bef...
Kelly Shackelford, Esq., has been president and CEO of Liberty Institute since 1997. Mr. Shackelford is a constitutional scholar who has argued before the United States Supreme Court, testified before the U.S. House and Senate on constitutional issues, and has won three state landmark First Amendment and religious liberty cases in the past few years alone. He was recently named one of the 25 greatest Texas lawyers of the past quarter century by Texas Lawyer, and is the recipient of the prestigious William Bentley Ball Award for Life and Religious Freedom Defense for his leadership and pioneering work protecting religious freedom.
Penna Dexter
Co-Host — Point of View
Point of View Co-Host, Penna Dexter frequently sits in as guest host for Kerby Anderson. Her weekly commentaries air on the Bott Radio Network. Penna’s heart is in educating and encouraging Christian...
Point of View Co-Host, Penna Dexter frequently sits in as guest host for Kerby Anderson. Her weekly commentaries air on the Bott Radio Network. Penna’s heart is in educating and encouraging Christians to influence the culture and politics. She worked as a consultant overseeing the launch and production of the Family Research Council’s nationally syndicated radio program, Washington Watch Weekly. For eight years she served as Marlin Maddoux’s co-host on Point of View and for two years she co-hosted a daily drive time live broadcast on the Dallas-based Criswell Radio Network. Penna served a term on the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. She served for three years as a Texas Area Director for Concerned Women for America and for ten years on the Executive Advisory Board for Golden Corridor Republican Women’s Club in Dallas, Texas. Penna’s interest in conservative politics and the issues that affect the family began when she was a child working on political campaigns with her parents. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in International Relations. She spent 8 years in the banking industry. She and her husband Todd have three children and nine grandchildren. They attend Christ Church in Plano, Texas. Penna serves on the church’s vestry.
Howard Goldthwaite
Writer | Speaker | Filmmaker | Senior Director of Creative Strategy — First Liberty Institute
Howard Goldthwaite is the Senior Director of Creative Strategy at First Liberty Institute, the nation’s largest nonprofit law firm exclusively dedicated to defending religious liberty. He spent man...
Howard Goldthwaite is the Senior Director of Creative Strategy at First Liberty Institute, the nation’s largest nonprofit law firm exclusively dedicated to defending religious liberty. He spent many years as a Creative Director, working at several large advertising agencies where he created national campaigns for brands like Samsung, GlaxoSmithKline, BMW, Nestlé, Denny’s, and many more. He’s a writer, speaker, and filmmaker, and teaches aspiring film students as an adjunct college professor. You can watch his TEDx talk on Youtube: “A Banjo Player Overcomes the PR Disaster of the Movie ‘Deliverance.’” As a lifetime doodler, he’s also is the creator of First Liberty’s own cartoon strip: “Jurisprunejuice.” Howard Goldthwaite is a prolific writer, with over a dozenbooks on Amazon. You can see several of his books on his Facebook page: QuietTime Well Spent.
His Tabernacle Family Church
No American should be forced to sacrifice one constitutionally protected freedom to enjoy another.
Religious Expression and the Defense Authorization Bill
Aggrieved atheists, annoyed agnostics and others troubled by a Nativity display, Hanukkah menorah or a poster celebrating Eid al-Fitr at a U.S. milita...
US Sanctions Other Countries for Doing What Colorado Just Did
GOP lawmakers are correct to say the US has sanctioned other countries for doing what the Colorado Supreme Court did to Donald Trump.
What Trump Can Learn from Switzerland
Switzerland recently announced it plans to eliminate tariffs on 95 percent of all imports. Donald Trump recently announced that as president he would...
A BDS Movement Conservatives Can Support
Conservatives have generally opposed the progressive left’s years-long effort to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) countries and companies the...
No Better Letter
The History Lesson Too Good to Miss The True Story of the Danbury Letter on the Separation of Church and State
Depopulation Memo
We rarely connect the dots between feminism and our current societal woes.
First Stories
First Liberty would like to share these two, beautifully illustrated children’s books as a free gift to all people of faith. These books are perfect f...
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Stunning Reversal
Penna Dexter Two years ago, I complained that: “Radical transgender directives just keep coming from the executive branch of the federal government.” There’s been a stunning reversal. States fought ba...
TV Dinners to Smartphones
Kerby Anderson Columnist Bob Greene noticed a connection between TV Dinners and smartphones. In fact, he says the 1950s meal was a gateway drug for screen addiction. He believes that our zombie-like a...
Political Fantasy
Kerby Anderson A recent poll of Americans conducted by NewsGuard and YouGov is disturbing on its face. It is even more concerning the deeper you delve into the data. The topline comment is that a siza...
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The abortion pill harms women and kills unborn children. Congress must act.
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