David R. Parsons is an author, attorney, journalist, ordained minister, and Middle East specialist who serves as Vice President and Senior Spokesman for the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem. Based in Jerusalem for the past twenty years, Parsons has been responsible for the Christian Embassy's public relations and media contacts with the Israeli and foreign press corps, as well as for managing and editing its various publications, among other duties. Parsons earned a bachelor's degree in history and a Juris Doctor degree from Wake Forest University. He also received an honorary ordination from the Liberty Christian Fellowship ministerial association of Dallas, Texas. Parsons's commentaries and other writings have been published in newspapers and journals worldwide. He also served for eight years as coeditor of the monthly magazine The Jerusalem Post Christian Edition, and ten years producing and cohosting Front Page Jerusalem, the premier Christian radio talk show out of Israel. Originally from the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Parsons lives in Jerusalem with his wife, Josepha, and son, Yonathan Amos.