NASHVILLE, TN (ANS) -- In a recent Washington Times article, talk show host Janet Parshall revealed her decision to leave Janet Parshall’s America to pursue an opportunity with Moody Radio.

Janet Parshall addresses the Moody Radio reception at this week's NRB Convention (Photo: Peter Wooding).

Moody Radio has brought Parshall on board to be part of their radio family beginning May 3, 2010. Parshall will host an afternoon program on the Moody Radio network from 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm CST.

Janet Parshall’s new live, weekday, drive-time radio program will be named In the Market with Janet Parshall, Moody Radio announced today. The program, set for a May 3 launch, will highlight the day’s headline issues, analyze them through the lens of Scripture and offer compelling commentary with guests and live call-ins.

Janet Parshall’s America was nominated for the National Religious Broadcasters Talk Show of the Year in 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2002. The program was also nominated for National Religious Broadcasters Best Produced Radio Program of the Year in 1998.

In 1998, Parshall was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Religious Broadcasters, and has been elected to service on the Executive Board since 2001.

Parshall has been nominated on numerous occasions for her talk show program and as host of the year awards by the American Women in Radio and Television Commendation Award and the Achievement in Radio (A.I.R.). Parshall has also been profiled as one of the top 100 talkers in TALKERS magazine every year since 1998.

“Moody Radio is and always has been about providing insight into the living Word of God so people can apply it in real ways to their own lives,” said Janet.

“As we look at the headlines of the day through the lens of Scripture, In the Market with Janet Parshall will encourage listeners to develop a biblical worldview.”

According to a news release, In the Market with Janet Parshall is breaking new ground for Moody Radio. The show will boldly tackle the issues of the day and the issues being talked about in the marketplace of ideas. The program is designed to help Christians, and those searching for answers, to dig deeper; find biblical answers; sharpen their rationale for the Christian faith; defend their faith against objections; and expose the flaws of other worldviews.

“Janet remains steadfast behind Moody Radio’s mission to first and foremost proclaim the Word, and will continue to do so in her programming as she unveils how the Bible relates to news and events, and how Christians should respond,” said Collin Lambert, manager of Moody Radio Chicago programming team.

The news release says the inspiration driving In the Market with Janet Parshall was the apostle Paul, the New Testament church leader.

It says: "Throughout his ministry, Paul looked for the places where great ideas were being discussed, and then he engaged his audience in discussion, responding confidently with the truth of Christ. With each discussion topic, Janet will draw out the moral underpinnings so that listeners can be prepared to offer God’s truth in tomorrow’s conversation around the water-cooler."

“Truth be told, if you don’t have a biblical perspective, the issues of the day can be overwhelming and sometimes, just plain frightening,” said Parshall.

“My goal through this program is to help listeners learn to discern, so they can boldly walk into the marketplace of ideas and be prepared to speak the truth in a loving fashion.”

Throughout her career, Parshall has been a devoted advocate of the principles and policies that strengthen the family. As a radio and television commentator, author, and advocate for the family, Parshall speaks nationwide on public policy issues that impact family preservation and promotion. She has appeared on numerous national television and radio programs, including Crossfire, Hardball, Nightline, Larry King Live, Donahue, The 700 Club, Hannity & Colmes and NewsNight with Aaron Brown, and has also appeared on various other programs on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, CBN, PBS, the BBC and NPR. Parshall has also been featured in People magazine.

Moody Radio is one of the largest Christian radio networks in the country. Located in downtown Chicago, Moody Radio has 35 owned and operated stations and more than 1,000 outlets that carry all or part of its programming. For more information, please visit www.whereyouturn. org .

International journalist and author Dan Wooding caught up with Parshall at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention at the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, TN, this week.

Wooding asked Parshall why she's making the switch from the radio station in Washington to Moody Radio?

"I was at that station for fifteen years," said Parshall, "and it was a wonderful experience, but I have to tell you two-and-a-half years ago I started a Saturday program for Moody, and what I love about Moody -- believe it or not -- is the liberty I have to proclaim the whole counsel of God on an ongoing basis.

"So when my contract came up for renewal it was mutually agreed upon that I wanted to go a different direction. So Moody and I decided that we'd go into a deeper partnership, and I couldn't be more excited about it."

How will the program differ from what she's been doing?

"The program will differ in that, rather than talking about politics, we're going to talk about issues, public policy from a biblical perspective, and it isn't about the politics --in the end it's about the issues. To quote Francis Schaeffer, there's a great way for non-believers to take them from the outside of the culture and move them into the core center till hopefully Lord willing with His enabling we bring them to the foot of the Cross."

Is Parshall nervous about, excited, or both?

"Oh, I'm so nervous," said Parshall. "And let me tell you why, because I can do nothing -- my weakness is so ever before me -- but His strength will be manifest I believe through my weakness and I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me."

Parshall said the new program will be, "one hundred percent live, and the caller aspect is going to be one of the definers of the program. We want interaction and dialog in this market place."

Parshall told Wooding she will "pick right from the headlines of the day, find the best apologists pro (and) con on an issue, and then get the audience to sound off."

Wooding also asked Parshall how she met her husband of nearly forty years. Parshall is married to NRB Senior Vice-President and General Counsel and author, Craig Parshall, and the couple has written five books together.

"He is my high-school sweetheart and what's interesting is I came to know the Lord when I was six. He was not saved -- he was everything my church said stay away from. So I knew I couldn't date him, but I found him so fascinating.

"So here's what I said to him. I said we won't date, but you can come to my house and sit on the front step of my house. This is the absolute truth, and so he would come and I didn't realize that he was a brilliant man, and that's certainly his gifting from the Lord. He was reading Jean Paul Sartre and he was studying existentialism and nihilism and I didn't know how to spell that stuff let alone what it meant. So he'd talk and then he'd say what do you believe? And I gave him a copy of Campus Crusade's The Four Spiritual Laws. So he read it and he said ooh that's good, have you got any more. So I have to find somebody who's smart at his level, so I gave him Mere Christianity by CS Lewis and he read that and gobbled it up and he said do you have any more? So I gave him every Lewis book we had in our family library. And when it was all said and done he said well I'll believe in this Jesus of yours if I can talk to someone who's communicated with the dead.

"Well my best friends were New Tribes missionaries and they'd been in Venezuela and they had been in New Guinea and they'd met the occult and the shaman on the mission field and then when the Light of the World was introduced them, 'old things passed away and all things became new.' So I said why don't you go up to New Tribes, I bet somebody can answer your question up there. So he drove up one Saturday and he asked the head of the missions school all the questions he had, and being a great and mature saint and when it was all said and the man who led him to the Lord said now the question for you Craig where are you going to go when you die? Craig was at the end of himself -- Jean Paul Sartre didn't have the answer, Friedrich Nietzsche didn't have the answer: but Jesus was the answer. So he asked the Lord into his life, and then I came home and I thought now I can date him. So that was the beginning."

She said they were married in 1971.

Regarding the new radio show with Moody, Parshall asked for prayer, "for discernment, discernment, discernment.

"There's so much stuff out there that masquerades as Christianity that's anything but biblical, and I don't ever want to give a platform to anything but that which we know to be Absolute Truth. So discernment is always my biggest prayer."

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