Christianity Today magazine called Point of View America's "most popular live Christian call-in show."  After 35 years of being on the cutting edge of talk radio, Point of View has proven they are brave enough to take on the tough issues and experienced enough to handle them.

Mission Statement
 

Our mission is to use the powerful tool of live, daily, national talk radio to defend a Biblical Christian worldview and to proclaim Christian solutions for the problems of America. Point of View aims to restore the greatness of Christian thought and values to every area of American Life.

Penna Dexter is a radio commentator and columnist for various Christian conservative outlets. She is a frequent commentator and guest host for Point of View Radio Talk Show with Kerby Anderson. Her weekly commentaries air on the Moody Broadcasting Network and the Bott Radio Network. Penna’s columns appear at Baptist Press and the Christian Post blog page. As a consultant for KMA Direct Communications, she provides expertise and input for various radio projects, including the launch and production for 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’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 who are in their twenties. They are members of Trinity Presbyterian Church.

Penna recently served a term on the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. She served on the Southern Baptist Convention’s Resolutions Committee in 2003, 2004, and 2005. She served for three years as a Texas Area Director for Concerned Women for America. She serves on the Executive Advisory Board for Golden Corridor Republican Women’s Club in Dallas, Texas.

Marlin's Vision...a Look Back

Mr. Maddoux was Founder and Host of Point of View radio talk show, which began in 1972.   Marlin was a pioneer in the talk radio industry with Point of View’s hard-hitting issues-oriented talk format. For more than thirty years he led Point of View to cover the full spectrum of issues and current events that affect our homes, beliefs, schools, government, churches and basic freedoms from a Christian perspective. In 1986, Maddoux was given the National Religious Broadcasters Award of Merit. In 1994 Christianity Today magazine called Point of View America's "most popular live Christian call-in show." And his most recent award, in 2007 he was inducted in to the NRB Hall of fame.

In 1985, Maddoux founded USA Radio Network, a for-profit company, which grew to be carried on more than 1,300 affiliated radio stations across the nation. In 1994, the National Religious Broadcasters awarded the USA Radio Network its "Program Producer of the Year" Award.

Maddoux was a guest on national television and radio broadcasts including, "CBS Morning News," ABC's "Nightline," ABC's "Good Morning America," "CNN," "Focus on the Family," and many others. He has been an invited guest at the White House on several occasions, having met with both President Ronald Reagan and President George Bush. He is the author of several books, including “America Betrayed”, “What Worries Parents Most”, “The Gay Deception”,  “Free Speech or Propaganda?” and “A Christian Agenda: Game Plan for a New Era”, and his first novel, “Seal of Gaia”, published by Word.  Marlin had finished his book on public education just prior to his death, titled "Public Education Against America".