Paul has been a talk host on Christian radio in Detroit since February 2002. His guests have included politicians, theologians, musicians, ethicists, and many more of todays influencers and critical thinkers. Paul majored in church history, attending Baptist Bible College in Springfield, MO and Grace College & Seminary in Winona Lake, IN. He has been in ministry full-time as a pastor since 1989. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:41:09 GMT Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:41:09 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Randall Balmer is Professor of American Religious History at Barnard College, Columbia University. He has written several books which explore the development of political activism by people of faith, specifically... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2010/02/10/making_up_evangelical_history 44621cbb-dbca-46b5-9cd1-5dce35102537 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:41:09 GMT The terror "event" over Detroit on Christmas Day hits closer to home for me than it may for many other people around the country. I live in Detroit. The house I grew up in-the house my 81-year- old mother still lives... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2010/01/07/its_time_to_lead,_mr_president fe3e8a3a-e90a-4949-bc06-892c83cdb05c Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:16:50 GMT Prior to this recent series of revelations, there wasn't a man on the planet who in some sense didn't want to be Tiger Woods. Tiger is good looking. He's physically fit. He's a world-class athlete. He has a beautiful... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2009/12/08/the_tiger_in_you 627bdbbc-384d-4ced-b4aa-7323ea441dd2 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:31:32 GMT We should certainly pray for the president. We should pray for wisdom for him, for strength for him, for protection for him and his family. But where his plans clearly oppose righteousness, we should pray they fail.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2009/03/13/how_im_praying_for_the_president bff22871-1ab8-4804-9b67-191e02a55446 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:39:35 GMT I'm not sure how helpful it is for conservative commentators to join the chorus of mainstream media voices piling on Rush Limbaugh. The most recent columns by Rod Dreher of the Dallas Morning News and David Frum of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2009/03/10/pay_no_attention_to_the_man_behind_the_microphone f11ca1a9-4f71-4cee-8f0b-663719d782d0 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:17:53 GMT Consider these facts: Barack Obama is the first president in history to directly address the Muslim world in an inaugural address. His first phone call to a foreign head of state was to the Palestinian Authority's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2009/01/29/obama_and_the_arabs 6256fe40-219d-4b40-8023-3b0144a6da4f Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:50:49 GMT When John Adams left the White House for the final time in March of 1801 he did so on a public stagecoach at 4:00 a.m.-eight hours prior to his successor's inauguration. Most of his political enemies and many of his... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2009/01/22/bush_at_home 0c3016c2-356b-4691-b97b-1738401b39ad Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:32:50 GMT Les Standiford is the director of the Creative Writing program at Florida International University. He has written an intriguing back story to Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol in his book "The Man Who Invented... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2008/12/18/did_dickens_really_rescue_christmas 0ee497f2-226a-4c7c-9a09-d0ef8424d010 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:04:35 GMT The mainstream media's covering for Barack Obama on his relationship with Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is predictable, laughable and tragic. The only reporter really doing any kind of investigative journalism on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2008/12/11/covering_up_obama 55fcc529-27d3-43b2-8417-8e3635508e67 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:52:15 GMT It used to be that a "confessing church" was a church known for its adherence to the great theological confessions from church history. Not any more. Kensington Community Church, a seeker megachurch in suburban Detroit,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2008/10/23/the_new_confessing_church 62f8ee93-c1b7-46b8-b8e6-597c5b5aac04 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:31:25 GMT In his cover story for the October 13, 2008 issue of Newsweek, managing editor Jon Meacham continues the media's relentless personal attacks on Governor Palin, characterizing her as the equivalent of the fourth century... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2008/10/17/jon_meachams_palin_problem aedb497f-aee8-408c-b61b-5102ba9a8c73 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:02:18 GMT Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has produced a compelling essay for the current issue of Foreign Affairs which addresses the "new realities" which inform the Bush Administration's foreign policy, specifically as it... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2008/07/16/the_bush_doctrine_can_we_effectively_impose_democracy b6084624-3beb-43ef-8849-4a36cef45380 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:58:07 GMT The lead character in the Pixar film "WALL-E" is both an acronym (Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Earth class) and a lonely robot with a personality. While Pixar has mastered the art of animation, it is the implicit... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2008/07/02/wall-es_indictment_of_liberalism 6833f810-f3ef-40eb-87b1-7d72cc856c3d Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:58:42 GMT At the conclusion of his Father's Day Sermon at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago on Sunday, June 15 Senator Barack Obama made the point that his life revolves around his two little girls, and he fears for his... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2008/06/19/barack_obamas_america 14aff0f4-e8f5-47ab-9ff4-352982a7d273 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:56:05 GMT Just how low do presidential candidates have to go to win votes? Is there historical precedent for debasing oneself in pursuit of the nation's highest office? I only ask the question while wondering aloud why... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2008/05/28/john_mccain's_disappointing_defense_of_marriage 412a99b7-d813-492f-8c79-896eacd08f94 Wed, 28 May 2008 16:10:00 GMT The unveiling of "An Evangelical Manifesto," drafted by theologian and social critic Os Guinness with the affirmation of a nine-person steering committee, nearly all of whom we might readily identify with the religious... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2008/05/16/an_evangelical_manifesto_timely_or_timeless cce88fb6-cb7f-44fe-b5f4-0be894acb4d1 Fri, 16 May 2008 21:23:03 GMT Senator Obama's "A More Perfect Union" speech was political rhetoric at its finest. While skillfully denouncing the words of his pastor and spiritual mentor, Barack Obama left intact a tacit endorsement of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2008/03/19/senator_obama,_its_about_far_more_than_rhetoric c380d580-a3c5-4af5-9642-8f0a16f0cb64 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:22:19 GMT After having seen "There Will Be Blood" three times in packed theatres there is no question it deserved its seven Oscar nominations-and perhaps should have received the Academy Award for best picture on Sunday night... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2008/02/25/seeing_the_need_for_gospel_in_there_will_be_blood 42518f08-8aec-457b-a700-a27a9cd49f42 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:01:32 GMT The Religious Left is successfully redefining what it means to be a conservative evangelical by misrepresenting what it means to be a conservative evangelical. In a recent conference call hosted by Faith in Public Life,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2008/02/12/defining_evangelicalism_down 9001a3be-cfab-4796-ba89-8ed1bcda3252 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:03:28 GMT Since about the time the Moral Majority coalesced in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Republican establishment has welcomed social conservatives to help get their candidates elected so long as they let their concern... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2007/12/25/social_conservatives_are_"mad_as_hell" 098c2fb0-12ea-4af3-ad78-d033471d10be Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:51:35 GMT MSNBC political analyst Lawrence O'Donnell was recently cross examined by syndicated radio host and blogger Hugh Hewitt regarding statements O'Donnell made about Mormonism as a panelist on The McLaughlin Group. Here's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2007/12/13/question_mormonism_and_youre_a_bigot db4e57ab-b7c0-462f-aea3-fba3355a4751 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:25:27 GMT The problem is not that Rick and Kay Warren invited Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to be the keynote speaker at their third annual Global Summit on AIDS and the Church at Saddleback Church. The problem is that Rick... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2007/12/11/hillarys_home-run_for_the_purpose-driven_left efbcf451-d11e-44c7-a9cf-49a56b1876cf Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:18:36 GMT In a 2001 interview with the Washington Post, Philip Pullman, author of "The Golden Compass," is quoted as saying, "I want to undermine the basis of Christian belief." But in more recent interviews... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2007/12/06/nothing_golden_about_the_compass fc4e00e5-6864-416e-87c4-47004de5c4b6 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:03:00 GMT "The Golden Compass" is Book One of a fantasy trilogy written by English author Philip Pullman in the late 1990s called "His Dark Materials." Philip Pullman is an unapologetic militant atheist. For example, in a 2001... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2007/11/27/whos_afraid_of_the_golden_compass 83e0a006-ac6f-4e1b-b3bd-fbd6d73019cf Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:29:06 GMT Paul Edwards, host of "The Paul Edwards Program" on WLQV in Detroit, interviewed the president of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, Ken Behr, about the recent Senate Finance Committee... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2007/11/16/are_riches_a_blessing_or_a_crime a6bcaf14-89ab-4153-8ff1-91e526a66aac Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:01:00 GMT Joel Belz, in the current issue of World magazine, compiles a list of "big problems facing our society"-a list, perhaps, not unlike one you and I might compile: When I asked a group of friends a few days ago what... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2007/10/31/the_coming_us_drought_is_here 85e4b8c5-1518-42b0-99f4-f53a65ba9743 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:47:37 GMT "I try to leave them better off than they were before," is how Joel Osteen defined the endgame for his multi-million dollar ministry of self-help and empowerment during a recent twelve minute segment on CBS' "60... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2007/10/17/for_joel_osteen,_theology_is_optional f8b8a73b-4620-4abe-bd8a-d3134a340702 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:08:36 GMT Church Without Walls International in Tampa, Florida is one of the largest evangelical mega-churches in America. It boasts a weekly attendance in the thousands and a $40 million annual budget. The church and its pastors... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2007/10/16/paula_whites_desperate_moment 43ef50c2-9b79-4d44-9997-10f3801f10d0 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:19:53 GMT Outreach Magazine is out with its list of the 100 Largest U.S. Churches for 2007. Of course, no such list appears anywhere in scripture. While it certainly could be argued that numbers mattered to the New Testament... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2007/10/08/who_makes_christians c6834a24-1561-449e-a0a2-451d844dd232 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:44:25 GMT That Monday is widely considered to be the first day of the week-and Sunday the last-is confirmation of the triumph of the secular over the sacred. That most people dread Monday is confirmation of the seculars'... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2007/10/02/dreading_monday_take_a_fresh_look_at_sunday eaabd6ea-1d58-47c7-955f-30fa6965b9ea Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:20:32 GMT Upon the September 5 passing of veteran broadcaster and Christian statesman, Dr. D. James Kennedy (1930-2007), the Christian community lost another key leader as Dr. Kennedy labored tirelessly to transform individual... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2007/09/09/the_homegoing_of_dr_d_james_kennedy b8a8539d-8a37-4cce-b45b-47a9911cb752 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:01:00 GMT "If anyone is in heaven, there is no question Mother Teresa is there," is a sentiment shared by millions of Americans, believers and non-believers alike. Yet her own words suggest it was a sentiment Mother Teresa... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2007/09/06/mother_teresa's_dark_night bfd4300b-a3e2-4f6e-888d-1ec2bc2d71e4 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:01:00 GMT The mainstream media wants you to believe that a conservative evangelical church deep in the Bible belt has refused to bury a Gulf War veteran because he was gay. Some in the Christian media want you to believe that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2007/08/16/the_truth_about_high_point_church_and_the_gay_gulf_war_veteran 02875cc9-6cd5-431e-b8c5-515874c064ff Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:51:36 GMT In life, Tammy Faye Bakker was made a laughing-stock by the mainstream media. Her overly mascara-ed face, her ditzy monologues, and her twangy, southern-style hymn singing were held up by the media as the prototypical... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2007/08/05/why_tammy_faye_over_falwell 59c67f11-9363-485a-81d2-cd70104824f0 Sun, 05 Aug 2007 04:00:00 GMT One of the most prolific writers on the subject of the Democratic Party and religion is Amy Sullivan, an editor with the Washington Monthly. TIME magazine recently posted two essays by Ms. Sullivan that are must-reads... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2007/07/22/hillarys_faith_goes_only_so_far 2dac1a4d-24c2-4a81-8c09-a5dd4884ee6d Sun, 22 Jul 2007 04:00:00 GMT I'm a bit confused. Just a few weeks ago James Dobson, a leading voice among social conservatives, published a widely distributed op-ed in which he clearly stated his objections to a Giuliani candidacy: "I cannot, and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2007/06/01/rudy's_popularity_problem 07660085-7ce9-4e7e-ac22-a4d1c66ca2f1 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:23:08 GMT Watching intently as Larry King interviewed guest after guest on his program the night Jerry Falwell died no man's words intrigued me more than those of the Rev. Dr. Mel White, the man once hired by Jerry Falwell to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulEdwards/2007/05/25/jerry_falwell_was_a_theophobe 96641447-e81a-419b-b49c-b751737afbb6 Fri, 25 May 2007 18:19:17 GMT