As you may recall, Liberty University is suing its former president Jerry Falwell Jr. Now Falwell is asking a Virginia court to dismiss the lawsuit because he believes his former employer is merely trying to shame him. Here is the […]
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Is Jonathan Falwell the future of Liberty University?
After Jerry Falwell Jr. resigned in disgrace as president of Liberty University, rumors circulated that either Mike Pence or Mike Huckabee might replace him. But the frontrunner in the race for the next president of Liberty is Jonathan Falwell, Jerry […]
Jerry Falwell Jr. is throwing a graduation party for Liberty University seniors
He claims that the event on his 500-acre farm is going to be the “real Liberty graduation.” Here is Emily McFarland Miller and Jack Jenkins at Religion News Service: Former Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr., who left the school […]
Liberty University sues Jerry Falwell Jr. for $10 million
I can’t keep up with all these Liberty University stories. Last week disgraced former president Jerry Falwell Jr. was touting the COVID-19 vaccine and catching a lacrosse game on campus. Earlier this week Liberty fired Trey Falwell, Falwell Jr.’s son. […]
Mike Huckabee and Mike Pompeo join Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center (formerly Falkirk Center)
Charlie Kirk and Sebastian Gorka are out. Huckabee and Pompeo are in. Here is Kate Andrews at Virginia Business: Liberty University’s newly renamed think tank, the Standing for Freedom Center, has announced a slate of five new fellows, including former […]
Trey Falwell is out at Liberty University
Here is Brandon Abroosino and Michael Stratford at Politico: The son of Jerry Falwell Jr. is out of his job as vice president at Liberty University nearly eight months after his father resigned as president of the Christian school amid […]
Liberty University campus pastor David Nasser is out. Jonathan Falwell will replace him.
Nasser will work for a Christian non-profit organization in Nashville. Nasser has had some high points and low points at Liberty. He had a history of defending some of former Liberty president Jerry Falwell Jr.’s outrageous claims. He also sought […]
Chairman of the Alaska GOP is moving to Liberty University’s “Standing for Freedom” (formerly Falkirk) Center
Glenn Cary is pastor of the Anchorage Baptist Temple. Jerry Prevo, Liberty’s interim president and former associate of Jerry Falwell Sr., spent forty-seven years as the pastor of Anchorage Baptist Temple. Here is James Brooks of Anchorage Daily News: Glenn […]
Liberty University’s new “Standing for Freedom Center” will “hold steady to its mission”
Liberty University has renamed The Falkirk Center. The school’s school’s culture war wing, originally named after disgraced former president Jerry Falwell Jr. and Trump wonder-boy Charlie Kirk, will now be called The Standing for Freedom Center. Kirk is out. So […]
Liberty University and Charlie Kirk part ways. The Falkirk Center will get a new name
The Falkirk Center, named after disgraced former Liberty president Jerry Falwell Jr. and Trump wonder-boy Kirk, will be renamed the “Standing for Freedom Center.” It looks like the website is in a state of transition. Here is Ruth Graham of […]
The two largest evangelical universities in the world have made it to the NCAA basketball tournament
Some of you may remember back in April 2018 when Grand Canyon University, a for-profit Christian university in Phoenix, surpassed Liberty University as the “world’s largest Christian university.” Jerry Falwell Jr., who was then the president of Liberty, did not […]
“Election Integrity” conference at Regent University
MAGA Republican and former congresswoman Michelle Bachmann is now the dean of the Robertson School of Government at Pat Robertson’s Regent University. On March 23, 2021, the Robertson School is hosting a virtual conference on election integrity. Here is the […]
CPAC 2021 is over. Let’s check-in with the MAGA evangelicals
On Saturday night I published a post on the Trump evangelical response to the former president’s speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. You can read it here. Let’s check-in on them today: The Liberty University Falkirk Center crowd […]
MAGA evangelical at CPAC: “Conservatism is about the truth of the Word of God”
What are some of Trump’s favorite evangelicals saying about today’s CPAC speech: Charlie Kirk, the founder of Liberty University’s Falkirk Center, loved it: Actually, I thought the speech was pretty low energy: Actually, he IS the former president, Jenna. He […]
Liberty University will host the Virginia GOP convention
Liberty is hosting a “drive-up convention” on May 8, 2021. Here is Patrick Wilson at the Richmond-Times Dispatch: After months of disagreement, the Virginia Republican Party’s governing body agreed Tuesday night on a method to nominate statewide candidates for the […]
Liberty University’s Falkirk Center is promoting an embarrassingly bad Eric Metaxas speech on the American Revolution
I was going to include this in my MAGA evangelicals post this morning, but I decided to save it for a separate post. The Falkirk Center at Liberty University just tweeted a video of an Eric Metaxas speech: Almost everything […]
A Sunday morning check-in with the MAGA evangelicals:
Their rage has turned to Biden, Limbaugh haters, Timothy Keller, Twitter, Ted Cruz haters, and those controlling the seven mountains of influence. Here we go: David Brody on Trump’s “traditional biblical values.” Tweets like this explain why so many evangelicals […]
Trump’s evangelicals respond to the death of Rush Limbaugh
“There was a generation of Christians who used to listen to Moody or Family Life radio all day, and sometime around 1990 they decided to listen to Rush five times a week instead. And here we are.”–TWOILH reader. Limbaugh seldom […]
The Liberty University Falkirk Center continues to promote evangelical Trumpism:
Yesterday I noted that Calvary Chapel-Chino Hills has emerged as a prominent site for Trump’s evangelical lost cause movement. Today I highlight (once again) the “think tank” associated with this movement: Liberty University’s Falkirk Center. It continues to baffle me […]
Trump evangelicals respond to his impeachment acquittal
If Mitch McConnell is right, the Democratic House managers proved that Donald Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors. The former president survived his impeachment trial because forty-three senators, all Republicans, voted to acquit. Several of these senators, including Ted Cruz, […]