About Dave Edwards — The Plumb Line Post

Dave Edwards

Founder & Editor — The Plumb Line Post

For nearly thirty years Dave Edwards served as a pastor, with teaching and the shaping of clear thinking at the center of that work. The last two and a half years have been spent as an AI consultant, most recently focused on AI governance and security — work anchored by the Guardian Manifesto, his published ethical framework for the age of intelligent machines. The Plumb Line Post sits at the intersection of both callings: the pastor's instinct to cut through noise toward something true, and the technologist's firsthand knowledge of the systems generating the noise.

Why this publication exists

I was born in 1950. My parents came through World War II and the Korean Conflict, and they raised me to love this country and mean the Pledge when I said it. I do not apologize for that love. I also do not apologize for knowing that we have not always been the best representative of freedom — but we have grown. We have matured as a nation, learned from our mistakes, and we keep learning. That matters.

If we are to take the place in history we were meant to occupy, we owe it to ourselves and to the world to be the gift to the world that I believe we were destined by God to be. This is what I believe. You may differ. That is fine — but this is my Post, not yours.

For years I was very political. Then the duplicity on both sides wore me down and I walked away. I went apolitical and stayed there for almost fifteen years. No debates, no stress. I was at peace with it.

Then I began watching what was happening to my grandchildren — and I have to admit I am partly to blame for what happened next. My wife rarely watched any major news outlet until she retired. I — Lord, help me — introduced her to Fox News. Imagine my surprise when I began hearing back quotes I knew came from that very source. Knowing this incredible lady like I do, I understood what was actually happening. Her heart's voice was reflecting the news she was hearing — completely truthful or slanted to meet a narrative. That is exactly what was happening to very good people everywhere. People with real integrity and genuine love for this country, being pushed toward choices that did not fit who they were. The question nobody could ask out loud anymore was the simplest one: what happened to our right to agree to disagree — to get all the facts, and then decide where we actually stand?

I could not be silent anymore.

What this publication is and is not

The Plumb Line Post is not a news outlet. It does not break stories or file dispatches. It publishes when a story has gotten loud enough that the noise is drowning the signal — when both sides are performing rather than reasoning, when the data has disappeared behind characterizations of the data, when the people actually affected have vanished from their own story.

Every piece draws on reporting from all three source tiers — left-leaning, wire and international, and right-leaning. Every significant claim is cited. Opinion is labeled opinion, regardless of which side it comes from. The full methodology is published at The Balanced Research Protocol. Read it. Hold this publication to it.

If I get it wrong, the door is open. Challenge any piece. I will answer for it.

Transparency note — AI tools

The masthead imagery on this site was generated using AI image tools and processed programmatically to achieve clean transparency. This publication believes that honesty about tools is part of honesty about process. The writing, the reporting, the editorial judgments, and the accountability are human — all of it.

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