Earl Cox, Founder FPJ
Friday, May 2, 2008

Earl Cox and the Launch of FPJ

The story of Front Page Jerusalem begins on a jogging path on an exclusive island resort in South Carolina in the year 2000.

“I was out on a morning run when my life was transformed in a few moments’ time”, recalls Earl Cox. “I was laying the groundwork for a possible ambassadorship in Latin America, but the Lord had other plans. He asked me to stand with Israel and the Jewish people.”

A polished communicator and veteran Washington insider, Cox had held senior level positions in the administrations of four U.S. presidents over a two-decade span, years of public service that he hoped would translate into a well-earned ambassadorship position.

But his life took a major detour that day some six years ago. “My husband went out on his morning jog as one man and came back completely changed”, his wife Kathleen confirms.

Cox’s about-face first propelled him to proclaim Christian support for the Jewish people in an unusual way - buying billboard space in Tel Aviv and time on Israel TV Channel 2 to declare that, “Evangelicals stand with Israel”.

Then on one of his early trips to Israel, Cox was deeply impacted when he visited Netanya shortly after the Passover seder suicide bombing and decided to tell the world the truth about Israel’s suffering via a new radio show - Front Page Jerusalem.

“I decided to fight anti-Semitism with a radio show that arms listeners with an educated viewpoint concerning the Jewish people and State”, says Cox. Today, that message is being delivered to countless homes in America and worldwide through the radio program founded by Cox just three short years ago and now produced by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem.

In January 2005, Cox brought on Ben Kinchlow, the long-time co-host of the 700 Club with Pat Robertson, as his stateside co-anchor. Later last year, Cox decided after much prayer to turn over production of Front Page Jerusalem in Israel to the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, in order to return to the States to continue co-hosting the radio show with Kinchlow while also launching several other pro-Israel initiatives.