Becket Cook on A Change of Affection: A Gay Man’s Incredible Story of Redemption

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Paul spoke with Becket Cook for more than 40 minutes on Thursday, August 8th, 2019. The complete audio is below in two parts:

PART ONE:

PART TWO:

TODAY’S GUEST: Becket Cook

Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Becket Cook moved to Los Angeles after college to pursue a career in writing and acting, having some success in both. Becket also created his own successful menswear brand. He currently works as a production designer in the fashion world.

Becket recently received his master’s degree from Talbot School of Theology (Biola University) and spends much of his time in ministry speaking on homosexuality and culture at churches, universities, and conferences.

His memoir, A Change of Affection: A Gay Man’s Incredible Story of Redemption, was released on July 30, 2019 by Thomas Nelson (Harper Collins).

WORLD MAG: Freedom for the Same-Sex Attracted

Dr. Ralph Wood on Flannery O’Connor

Flannery O’Connor, the American novelist and essayist, was born on March 25, 1925. She was a faithful Catholic whose stories reflected the darkness of the human condition yet always resolved redemptively. Yet many Christians may be shocked by many of the elements of her writing, a intentional act on O’Connor’s part intended to wake up her readers.

On the Centenary of her birth it was my honor to have as my guest for a full the esteemed Flannery O’Connor scholar Dr. Ralph Wood, Emeritus University Professor of Theology and Literature at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he taught from 1998-2021. Dr. Wood is the author of two books on O’Connor:

Flannery O’Connor and the Church Made Visible: A Revolutionary Witness for the Sake of the Gospel

Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South

Here is the audio of my hour-long conversation with Dr. Wood on March 25, 2025:

Ralph Wood on Flannery O’Connor: Part One

Ralph Wood on Flannery O’Connor: Part Two

Ralph Wood on Flannery O’Connor: Part Three

Locking Down American Liberty During Covid

Why were we so willing to acquiesce to the draconian lockdowns imposed on us by what Michael Brendan Dougherty at National Review called “the Absolute Sovereignty of Liberal Professional Class Conventional Thinking”? And where is the outrage today over everything that was taken away from us by the elites who lied to us for almost three years?

Dr. Phil Magness, Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy at Independent Institute, has produced an excellent history of how pandemics over the previous century were handled, concluding that our government “…set aside a century of knowledge for the fashionable and flashy promise of a plan, asking not whether its imagined design will ever work.”

I spoke with Dr. Magness about his essay on The Paul Edwards Program on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. Listen below:

Episode 43: Staying Married Doesn’t Mean Staying in Love

In this episode of the Recovering the Christian Mind podcast, Paul takes us to the Bible to build on what Dr. R. C. Sproul said about marriage:

“…if you want to have an excellent marriage, the first thing you have to be prepared to do is to work, and to work hard. Because excellent marriages in this day and age, when almost 50% of marriages in this country dissolve in divorce and a whole lot more are extremely unhappy and provide a miserable atmosphere for the home in general, if you want to transcend the normal in this country, you’re going to have to be prepared to work at it, because it doesn’t come naturally.”

Originally broadcast on The Paul Edwards Program on WMUZ 1035 FM in Detroit.

PODCAST EPISODE 41: How a Skeptical Philosopher Becomes a Christian

Dr. Larry Sanger
Dr. Larry Sanger

On the February 14, 2025 edition of The Paul Edwards Program, Paul’s guest was Dr. Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia. Dr. Sanger has generated a great deal of interest with his announcement that he is no longer a skeptic. He published a 45-page “testimony” of his journey from skeptic to a believer in the claims of the Christian gospel.

Paul Edwards probed Dr. Sanger’s testimony for more than an hour in this candid conversation.