Robert J. Pacienza,[4] Truths That Transform airs nationwide on four cable networks and seeks to give a “biblical perspective” on “moral and cultural controversies.”[5] The program includes interviews, news segments, and video excerpts from sermons preached by D. James Kennedy (1930–2007), the former senior minister of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
[9] At Kennedy’s direction, the ministry produced and broadcast Who Is This Jesus?, a one-hour television special aired on CBS affiliates at Christmas 2001.
The program, co-hosted by Kennedy with actor Dean Jones, reached a claimed 20 million viewers, with its Easter follow-up, Who Is This Jesus: Is He Risen?
Associated Press religion writer Richard Ostling contrasted the broadcast to the 2000 Peter Jennings-hosted ABC News documentary, The Search for Jesus, contending the program “achieved more journalistic success than Jennings at one point” by providing a broader cross-section of experts.
Speakers included former vice president Dan Quayle, then-Sen. John Ashcroft, House Majority Leader Dick Armey, Jerry Falwell, and Judge Roy Moore.
[16] Pacienza, who was mentored by Kennedy, is Senior Pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church (CRPC) and served on the DJKM Board of Directors prior to being named president and chief executive officer (CEO) in June 2022.
[19] On February 21, 2018, a federal magistrate judge recommended that the suit be dismissed with prejudice, concluding that D. James Kennedy Ministries could not show that it had been libeled.
[22] In response, SPLC president J. Richard Cohen, said the lawsuit is "meritless" and that the ministry’s Bible-based views are not immune from criticism.