Radio show host will not be allowed back

John Munro is not returning to the Back to the Bible radio broadcast, despite the fact his megachurch has decided his suspension from the pulpit was unwarrented. That's the report of the Christian Post. Read the full story here.

Prophecy Preacher dies

Harold Camping has died. The end times preacher who made a splash in 2011 for predicting Judgment Day would take place in May of that year was 92 years old. He changed his date from May 21 to Oct 21 when he was proven wrong. Camping did the same thing in 1994. Camping fell at his home last month and never recovered from his injuries. Camping helped to found Family Radio, a Christian radio network based in Oakland, which was severely hurt financially by Camping's mistaken proclamations.

Getting to Know.. James Dobson

• MINISTRY - Founder of Focus on the Family, his show ended in February 2010, now with a new radio program no affiliated with Focus called Family Talk 
• AGE - 77 years old 
• HEALTH - heart attack in 1990 
• DEGREE - Ph.D. in child development 
• TEACHING - former professor at the University of Southern California School of Medicine 
• WIFE - married more than 40 years to Shirley Dobson who chairs the National Day of Prayer 
• FATHER - ordained Nazarene minister. So was Dobson’s grandfather and great-grandfather 
• BOOKS - has written more than 25 books starting with Dare to Discipline in 1970

U2's Bono on Christian Radio program

Bono will be interviewed on the Focus on the Family radio program today by president Jim Daly. They will discuss music, activism, and particularly how Bono's work with HIV/AIDS and poverty is driven by his faith. The U2 singer said

during the pre-recorded interview Insecurity is your best security if you're an artist. You write out of that hole, that void.. They call it "the God-shaped hole" but music fills it, Bono. And what's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being Gospel and praise. songs of praise, they are also the Blues."

Christian Radio network in financial trouble

Family Radio could be going out of business. The Oakland, California network made national headlines which the man who runs the network, Harold Camping, announced a date for the end of the world. Then updated it when it didn't happen. Family Radio sold its three largest radio stations because of the financial trouble. Camping suffered a stroke two years ago.

Reaching the Globe with the Good News

A look at the work of Trans World Radio here.

Radio Hosts Sued

Science Friday is suing Robert Enyart and Fred Williams who co-host a Christian radio program on a Colorado AM station called Real Science Friday. Science Friday says the name is a trademark infringement on the show it puts together for NPR.

Focus on Family Refocuses

An interview with the head of Focus on the Family on a change in direction for the radio ministry here in the Huffington Post.

Salem Suit

A concert promoter is suing the largest Christian radio broadcasting company. LMG Concerts out of Vancouver, Washington (near Portland) claims Salem Communications has a monopoly that restricts competition in the religious media market. Salem has 4 Christian radio stations in the Portland area. Salem's Fish Concerts is a competitor of LMG. The suit says all the major Christian artists have switched from LMG to Fish Concerts.

Christian Radio Station expands

KSBJ radio in Houston is buying another station in the market for more than $2 million. The noncommercial Christian station is taking over KNTE at 96.9 on the FM dial, which currently carries a Spanish contemporary format. KSBJ already owns six FMs and has the construction permit for another.

Pirate Station Interfering with Christian Radio in NY

The Educational Media Foundation - better known as the K-Love Contemporary Christian Music network has complained to the FCC about a pirate radio station interfering with its signal in New York. WKLV was purchased the former WCTZ from Cox Broadcasting for $15.5 million. The station is licensed to Port Chester, New York at 96.7. The pirate station is located in New Jersey and even has a Facebook page dedicated to it. It refers to the pirate station as “New Jersey’s #1 hottest Jamaican radio show on 96.7 FM.”

Radio Network Sale

An Ohio University is selling its radio network to California's Educational Media Foundation. The deal still needs FCC approval, but the 13 frequencies will switch from Cedarville University's Bible teaching format to the EMF's Contemporary Christian music format branded as K-Love.

Camping Ends Radio Ministry

Harold Camping is going off the air. The radio evangelist who predicted the rapture would take place in May, will stop airing his radio program at the end of the month. The 89-year-old suffered a stroke just days afterward, leaving him hospitalized in Oakland, California.

Camping Has Stroke

The man who claimed the rapture would take place on May 21st is in the hospital after suffering a stroke at his home in Alameda, California. Harold Camping, 89, leads the Family Radio ministry, which spent millions of dollars on billboards and other advertisements around the country to warn people about the coming judgment. After the event did not happen, Camping claimed it came spiritually and not physically and that the rapture would now take place on October 21.

Preacher Makes New Rature Prediction

Radio evangelist Howard Camping now says the rapture will take place October 21. The 89-year-old says his prediction that it would take place this past Saturday was off by five months. Camping says after his prediction did not come true, he left his home with his wife and went to a hotel, away from the media.

Chuck Smith Stirs Controversy Over Abortion

Chuck Smith, founder of Calvary Chapel, is being criticized by some anti-abortion activists for his advice to a pregnant women during his Pastor's Perspective call-in radio program. Doctors told her that she has conjoined twins who are not likely to survive. Smith advised her to consider an abortion. He told the listening audience: "I am totally opposed to abortion. I believe it is a great sin. I do believe that the 50-plus million children that have been aborted in the United State since the Roe verses Wade is one of the greatest sins of America, and I think that we're going to be judged for it. I do not believe in abortion as it is being practiced today. However, there can be extenuating circumstances.." Operation rescue immediately released a press release criticizing Smith. There is a link to the call here.

Rapture Prediction

Radio Evangelist Harold Camping says the Bible predicts that the end of the world is just months away. The 89-year-old heads Family Radio Worldwide, based out of California and says May 21st is the day the Christian church will be raptured. This isn't the first time he's predicted this happening. Read more about his prediction for this year here.

The False Gospel of Glenn Beck

A new radio ad accuses Glenn Beck of preaching a false gospel. Produced by an online Christian social-justice group called Faithful America, the ad will be aired in cities in which Beck is speaking this summer. The ad says:

Would you support a leader who said Jesus' teachings can lead to Naziism? Or who attacks Christian pastors for preaching the full gospel? Then why do so many Christians tune into Glenn Beck? By deriding pastors who preach the justice taught by Jesus and the prophets, Glenn Beck has urged listeners to follow his piecemeal gospel. Scripture teaches that the tongue can be like a small fire that sets a whole forest ablaze, and Christians are cautioned not to praise God in one breath while cursing those made in God's likeness in the next....

Beck has told listeners to leave their churches if the pastor supports social-justice views associated with liberal theology. Beck says he was an alcoholic who converted to Mormonism at age 35.

Contemporary Christian Radio... by the Numbers

The US has 946 contemporary Christian music formatted stations, according to Inside Radio. That's second only to country music’s 2,006 stations. The number of CCM stations has shot up 72% in the last decade.

Tangle & GodTube Bought

Salem has acquired tangle.com and GodTube.com. Tangle is a leading Christian social networking website, and GodTube is a Christian video website. Together, the two sites reach well over 1 million unique visitors a month, with millions of page views and maintains over 800,000 registered users. For its part, Salem Communications owns 96 radio stations and provides programming for approximately 2,000 affiliated radio stations.