September 2011 - Paul Stanley

Gibson Guitars CEO Talks Government Overreach, Tea Party

If you live in Tennessee you've probably heard of the government raid on Nashville based Gibson Guitars. It's also received significant coverage nationally. Napp Nazworth, one of our reporters at The Christian Post interviewed the CEO of Gibson, Henry Juszkiewicz, and talked with him about the severe overreach of the government and the temporary shutdown of the esteemed instrument maker. He also talks about being the hero of the Tea Party. You can read the interview here. http://www.christianpost.com/news/gibson-guitars-ceo-talks-government-overreach-tea-party-56561/ Given that most everything President Obama does these days is for his reelection efforts, I just can't figure out how raiding Gibson helps him with his liberal base; many of whom are in the music business. Interesting.

By Paul Stanley|2011-09-27T11:35:28-05:00September 27th, 2011|My Blog Post|Comments Off

Two-Part Interview with Best-Selling Author Nancy French

One of the fun parts of my duties at The Christian Post is getting to interview interesting people. Several months ago a friend of mine mentioned her sister was a writer and was working on "sort of big project." A few months later I read where that same sister was the co-author of Bristol Palin's memoir, Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far. Not bad for a girl from Paris, Tennessee - not bad at all. What I found more intriguing in the brief time I spent with Nancy French was how she and her husband David met and married. Also, the twist and turns their lives took after he decided to join the Army at a time when most people are retiring from their military careers. Home and Away: A Story of Family in a Time of War, is the title of their book and is written from David's perspective of serving in Iraq and Nancy's perspective of managing a household of young children while looking for ways to pay off his law school debt (which is an interesting story in the book). Nancy has written other books and has a forthcoming fiction book that will hopefully be [...]

By Paul Stanley|2011-09-21T15:14:15-05:00September 21st, 2011|My Blog Post|Comments Off

Pete Wilson, Teens Want Authenticity, Not Religion

On Monday night I had the chance to hear one of the nations brightest young pastors speak at the LifeWay National Youth Workers Conference in downtown Nashville. Pete Wilson is the senior pastor at Cross Point Church in Nashville and like David Platt and Francis Chan, he delivers the message of Christ love in an effective, yet easy to understand way. Covering Church & Ministry for The Christian Post took me a bit out of my element, but I was blessed to hear Pete's message. I had the opportunity to meet him over breakfast a few months ago and he's as genuine up close as he is in front of a few hundred church leaders. Below is the link to the story I wrote today and I hope you enjoy it. But you'll enjoy Pete's message even more if you hear him preach on a Sunday morning. http://www.christianpost.com/news/pete-wilson-teens-want-authenticity-not-religion-55536/

By Paul Stanley|2011-09-13T20:56:53-05:00September 13th, 2011|My Blog Post|Comments Off

Do you remember where you were on the morning of 9/11?

As a child I remember my parents and other adults speak of what they were doing the moment they heard that President Kennedy had been shot. In what was still the infancy of television news, Walter Cronkite announced to a stunned nation that President Kennedy died in a Dallas Hospital early in the afternoon of a crisp November day. Radio announcers reached millions more with the news. The moment of generation would forever remember is the morning of September 11, 2001. Similar to the weather in New York City, the morning that day was bright and beautiful in Memphis, Tennessee. I was in my first term as a Tennessee State Representative. As was my weekday morning routine at the time, I got up, ate breakfast and dropped my then two-year old son off at our church daycare before driving to work. What made this morning unique for me was I had just received notice that I needed to confirm my airline reservation for my flight to Washington, D.C. for the morning of September 13. For on that afternoon, I had been invited to a briefing in the East Room of the White House, along with about 50 other state legislators [...]

By Paul Stanley|2011-09-11T10:00:57-05:00September 11th, 2011|My Blog Post|Comments Off

Why Are Evangelicals Being Excluded From 9/11 Ceremonies?

If you've watched the news any at all this week you've seen stories about the 9/11 10th anniversary ceremonies being held in New York City and Washington. What you may not have heard is that evangelical leaders are being excluded from these events. Today, the Family Research Council, a conservative pro-family organization, submitted over 62,000 signatures to Mayor Bloomberg at his office in New York. Two of our outstanding reporters covered the issue extensively and posted stories on our website at http://christianpost.com/politics/. I hope you will take a few minutes to read these stories about why Christians are being excluded from these important events and more importantly, prayer for the safety of our nation and for the sacrifice so many make ten years ago.

By Paul Stanley|2011-09-08T21:31:25-05:00September 8th, 2011|My Blog Post|Comments Off