After serving as an associate pastor in Des Moines, Iowa, Eliason was ordained in a non-denominational church, in October 1957.

[6] Soon after the ministry had expanded to a full broadcast day, resulting in 1970 in VCY purchasing WBON for $315,000 and renaming it WVCY-FM.

Crosstalk, the network's nationally broadcast weekday afternoon public affairs program, airs live on over 125 stations and is rebroadcast weekday evenings on the VCY Radio Network; one of those broadcasts is also replayed at noon (CDT) on Saturday as Best of Crosstalk.

[15] Topics range from "the economy, the political scene, the continuing moral collapse of our nation, legislation that affects the family, or the state of evangelicalism.".

He then began a national campaign that resulted in Brienza's employment being terminated in April 1990 because "she had improperly used UPI equipment to do personal freelance work unrelated to her job with the wire service".

[20] Later in 1990, Brienza filed a US$12.75 million lawsuit against UPI and Eliason for "unlawful job termination" based on her sexual orientation.

Eliason was the recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Laws degree given at the 74th Annual Commencement exercises of Bob Jones University in May 2001.