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Thursday, April 30, 2020
Today's jam packed show has our host, Kerby Anderson, bringing us an update on the top stories. He'll talk about getting America back to work & back to school with updates from local, state, & national news sources. In hour two, he welcomes editor & writer, John Zmirak. They'll be talking about Harvard's stance against Homeschooling. His next guest is Rod Bordelon, a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Rod and Kerby will talk about The Workplace Recovery Act. Kerby's guest in the final hour is Dr. Jim Denison from The Denison Forum. Please call us with your opinion at 800-351-1212 or contact us on facebook at facebook.com/pointofviewradio.
Today's jam packed show has our host, Kerby Anderson, bringing us an update on the top stories. He'll talk about getting America back to work & back to school with updates from local, state, & national news sources. In hour two, he welcomes editor & writer, John Zmirak. They'll be talking about Harvard's stance against Homeschooling. His next guest is Rod Bordelon, a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Rod and Kerby will talk about The Workplace Recovery Act. Kerby's guest in the final hour is Dr. Jim Denison from The Denison Forum. Please call us with your opinion at 800-351-1212 or contact us on facebook at facebook.com/pointofviewradio.

HOST

Kerby Anderson

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

John Zmirak

John Zmirak

Senior Editor — The Stream

John Zmirak is a Senior Editor of The Stream, and author of the new Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1986, then his M.F.A. in screenwriting and...

John Zmirak is a Senior Editor of The Stream, and author of the new Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1986, then his M.F.A. in screenwriting and fiction and his Ph.D. in English in 1996 from Louisiana State University. His focus was the English Renaissance, and the novels of Walker Percy. He taught composition at LSU and screenwriting at Tulane University, and has written screenplays for and with director Ronald Maxwell (Gods & Generals and Gettysburg). He was elected alternate delegate to the 1996 Republican Convention, representing Pat Buchanan. He has been Press Secretary to pro-life Louisiana Governor Mike Foster, and a reporter and editor at Success magazine and Investor’s Business Daily, among other publications. His essays, poems, and other works have appeared in First Things, The Weekly Standard, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, USA Today, FrontPage Magazine, The American Conservative, The South Carolina Review, Modern Age, The Intercollegiate Review, Commonweal, and The National Catholic Register, among other venues. He has contributed to American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia and The Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought. From 2000-2004 he served as Senior Editor of Faith & Family magazine and a reporter at The National Catholic Register. During 2012 he was editor of Crisis.

Rod Bordelon

Rod Bordelon

Senior Fellow — Texas Public Policy Foundation

Rod Bordelon is a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Rod Bordelon’s extensive experience leading major state regulatory agencies and implementing reforms includes over 30 years in...

Rod Bordelon is a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Rod Bordelon’s extensive experience leading major state regulatory agencies and implementing reforms includes over 30 years in insurance, workers’ compensation and legislative affairs. Rod specializes in government agency regulatory and legislative advocacy, legal analysis, coalition building, and public speaking. His work includes successfully adopting medical cost containment guidelines and pharmacy formularies in workers’ compensation, and advocating free market reforms in all lines of insurance. An eleven-term gubernatorial appointee, Rod was appointed as the Public Insurance Counsel by Governor George W. Bush and reappointed by Governor Rick Perry, and appointed as the Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation by Governor Perry. As Commissioner he implemented extensive reforms to the workers’ compensation system in Texas, resulting in significant market performance improvements and cost savings, a fifty percent drop in the rates of insurance premiums and increased performance within the regulatory agency. Rod is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, and South Texas College of Law in Houston.

Dr. Jim Denison

Dr. Jim Denison

CEO | Co-Founder — Denison Forum

Dr. Jim Denison, the founder and CEO of the Denison Forum, bridges faith and culture by engaging contemporary issues with biblical truth. Denison writes a free daily column that is distributed to m...

Dr. Jim Denison, the founder and CEO of the Denison Forum, bridges faith and culture by engaging contemporary issues with biblical truth. Denison writes a free daily column that is distributed to more than 114,000 subscribers in 203 countries. His thoughtful commentaries also are published by media outlets such as The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Dallas Morning News, Foxnews.com, The Huffington Post, TheBlaze and Religion News Service. He is the author of seven books, including his most recent, “Radical Islam: What You Need to Know.” Denison has taught philosophy of religion and apologetics for more than 30 years with four seminaries. He has spoken in China, Cuba, Brazil, Australia, Europe, Israel, Greece, Egypt, Bangladesh and Turkey. He leads frequent study tours in Israel, Greece and other countries in Europe. He has served on the boards of Baylor Health Care System, Dallas Baptist University, Mercer University, George W. Truett Theological Seminary, B. H. Carroll Theological Institute, Howard Payne University and the Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor University. He earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion and a Master of Divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and received a Doctor of Divinity degree from Dallas Baptist University. Before founding the Denison Forum in 2009, he served as pastor of four churches in Texas and Georgia. His wife, Janet, is a published author and speaker. They live in Dallas and have two adult sons.

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