A couple of ladies came up to me (totally individually, these ladies do not know each other) and said they had heard the show and thought she was trying muzzle Ken at at least one point. Yes, I think she was. The point was where Ken mentioned Billy Graham and Christianity Today and Billy's failure to renounce humanism.
And an even odder thing happened to the downloadable version of the show, which I linked to above. I am not sure if the rebroadcast was the same as the downloaded version or the original (the former is my guess). That segment where she tried to silence him has disappeared. (it would have been between 38:50 and 38:59 on the podcast linked to above). When Ken comes back in with "my point is" -- that is immediately after the edit).
Is Jan now censoring even the guests she AGREES with because she fears offending certain segments of her audience? Does she not care about offending the guests with which she has fellowship and agreement? Or the audience members who believe her when she says they speak the truth without compromise? Makes you wonder how much else was conveniently snipped out. Oddly enough, she did leave in the part where Ken suggested Mother Teresa wasn't a Christian. I would think that would warrant editing too if she is worried about getting flak.
I seem to remember her objecting quite loudly to TBN's 'censorship' of Hal Lindsey when they cancelled his show. I agree it was wrong of TBN to object to Hal speaking the truth about radical Islam because of the fear of offending some people. But there seems to be a LOT worse to object to on TBN than their termination of Hal's show, which is only a symptom of a deeper issue there. I also seem to remember she didn't criticize but rather made nice comments about TBN overall (I saved the show for posterity because I was so shocked, and figured it might come in handy, and for which disappointment in her we were threatened by her for namelessly mentioning on this blog). It was only after she tried to escalate the argument that I came out and named her.
I think Jan needs a lot of prayer for freedom from this fear of man. If she's not careful she'll end up doing that show all alone. People she interviews aren't going to want to be censored like that, once they find out she does it. And she ought not to promote herself as being on that 'steep cutting edge' and 'speaking the truth' and other such exaggerations, unless she is willing to bear the reproach of Christ/the Truth without flinching.
