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In the Market with Janet Parshall
August 12, 2026
Hour 1: Life and Liberty
This hour we take a look at some of the stories making headlines before talking with Clare Ath of the Human Coalition, who gives us an update on where the fight for abortion funding stands and what Massachusetts did that is stunning the country. Then Wesley Smith will discuss why The Lancet declares wildfires the next health crisis and what just happened to a Kentucky organ procurement organization. Get ready to think critically and biblically.
Hour 2: Conversation Therapy – The New Silencing Tool
This hour we take a look at the global movement to silence Christian counselors, pastors and believers from sharing the real love of Christ with people who struggle with their sexual identity. Wayne Blakely joins us to discuss his new documentary that exposes the assaults on free speech and religious liberty that come in the form of legal and legislative attempts to “outlaw conversation therapy”. Join us as we discuss the lies, myths and movements being used to silence the Gospel.
IN THIS EPISODE
Dr. Clare Ath
Clare Anne Ath is the senior policy analyst for Human Coalition, bringing expertise in policy development and legislative analysis. She previously served as a county commissioner for Jefferson County, West Virginia, and was an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation. She holds a doctorate from Liberty University and has held roles at the National Review Institute, First Liberty Institute and the office of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz.
Wesley Smith
Wesley J. Smith is Chair and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. Wesley is a contributor to National Review and is the author of 14 books, in recent years focusing on human dignity, liberty, and equality. Wesley has been recognized as one of America’s premier public intellectuals on bioethics by National Journal and has been honored by the Human Life Foundation as a “Great Defender of Life” for his work against suicide and euthanasia. Wesley’s most recent book is Culture of Death: The Age of “Do Harm” Medicine, a warning about the dangers to patients of the modern bioethics movement.
Wayne Blakely
Wayne Blakely is the Director of Know His Love Ministries, founded in 2010. Raised Christian, but due to the church’s silence on same-sex attraction, he left God and the church and lived in the LGBTQ community for forty years. Upon his return to faith in2009, he recognized that God’s call on us is to develop an intimate relationship with Him, not with the desires of our flesh. He speaks and writes internationally. Wayne is the Executive Producer of FREEDOM, a just- completed feature documentary on the criminalization of so-called “Conversation Therapy” - the only documentary of its kind in the United States.
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Janet Parshall
Janet Parshall has been broadcasting from the nation's capital for over three decades. Her passion is to "equip the saints" through intelligent conversation based on biblical truth. When she is not behind her microphone, Janet is speaking across the country on issues impacting Christians. She has authored several books. Parshall and her husband, Craig, live in Virginia and have four children and six grandchildren.
In the Market with Janet Parshall
In the Market with Janet Parshall, challenges listeners to examine major news stories and issues being debated in the marketplace of ideas and speaks to them with the Word of God.
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