Ben Haden

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Ben Haden is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America. He became internationally known through the medium of one of the most successful of the twentieth century religious broadcasts, Changed Lives. Originating from the services of the First Presbyterian Church in Chattanooga, Tennessees, Haden drew the attention of television audiences all over America and the world through his unique communication style and evangelical Biblical truths aimed, in a non combative and even incarnational approach at doubters, those who had given up on the church, and secularists. With his background as an attorney, his pulpit approach was sometimes described as arguing a case before a jury. With his background in the CIA and as a CEO for a daily newspaper, Haden leveraged his highly secular background and his keen Biblical insights to speak to the hearts of men and women living in the modern world. Ben Haden was also the speaker on the Radio Bible Study Hour, succeeding Dr. Donald Gray Barnhouse.

Educated at Washington and Lee University, University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia Theological Seminary, Ben Haden pastored Key Biscayne Presbyterian Church in Miami, FL before moving to become the 11th pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1968. Haden followed The Reverend Dr. James L. Fowle, a legendary figure in the Chattanooga community and was succeeded in that pastorate by The Reverend Dr. Michael A. Milton in 2001. Haden served the church in Chattanooga for 31 years before resigning in 1998 to pursue Changed Lives.org, an internet streaming video and audio on demand ministry.