PERSON: Erick Stakelbeck

Trinity Broadcasting Network

News Director

Erick Stakelbeck (born January 21, 1976) is an American television host and presenter of Stakelbeck Tonight on TBN and The Watchman Newscast on YouTube. As a Christian Zionist, his previous The Watchman show was sponsored by Christians United for Israel, Stakelbeck being the director of its Watchman Project. Stakelbeck has also been noted as an investigative reporter and author on radical Islam, and is TBN’s news director.

Stakelbeck had a working-class upbringing in Philadelphia, with his father, who was a factory electrician by trade, also being “an autodidact who loved to study biblical history.” Growing up in the Fox Chase neighborhood, Stakelbeck graduated from the Holy Family University in the same city. While a long-time supporter of Israel, he also became increasingly drawn to studying the roots of Islamic terrorism after the September 11 attacks, and began writing articles for FrontPage Magazine.

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