Ben Kinchlow is an African-American evangelist best known for being co-host of The 700 Club

The 700 Club

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 from 1975 to 1988 and again from 1992 to 1996. He also hosted other shows on the Christian Broadcasting Network

Christian Broadcasting Network

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 such as Straight Talk

Straight Talk

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 and a radio talk show, Taking It To The Streets. Kinchlow, the son of a Methodist minister, came to Christianity in the 1970s after a period as a Black Nationalist influenced by Malcolm X

Malcolm X

Malcolm X , born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz , was an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its...

 and the Black Muslims

Nation of Islam

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.

He served in the United States Air Force

United States Air Force

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 for thirteen years and earned his MBA, later becoming a Christian and being ordained an African Methodist Episcopal Church

African Methodist Episcopal Church

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 minister in 1971.

Kinchlow became the executive director of a Christian drug and rehabilitation center and appeared as a guest on The 700 Club in order to speak about the people he saw coming to Christ through the center. He was asked back to host the show while Robertson was in Israel and later became The 700 Clubs Director of Counseling in 1975, as well as 700 Club co-host and Christian Broadcasting Network

Christian Broadcasting Network

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vice-president for domestic ministries in 1982, then was promoted to executive vice-president in 1985. He left CBN and the 700 Club in 1996 to pursue an independent ministry.

Kinchlow is founder of Americans for Israel and the co-host of the Front Page Jerusalem radio show.