French talks to Mark Oppenheimer at Inside Higher Ed about Liberty University. Listen: French says he is still getting emails from people saying that his New York Times column on Liberty University did not go far enough in exposing the...
We introduced you to this story last month.Get up to speed here. Katherine Knott has the latest at Insider Higher Ed: The Education Department is fining Grand Canyon University a record $37.7Â million for misleading more than 7,500 students about the...
In case you don’t know what I am talking about in the title of this post, get up to speed here. I am sure that Liberty University and its supporters will dismiss French’s piece as yet another hit job by...
When you have a free moment check out the website or twitter feed of Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center. You will find articles with titles like this: “Why Young Evangelicals Are in Danger of Becoming Puppets for Climate Marxism.”...
Here is Susan Svrluga at The Washington Post: Liberty University has failed for years to keep its campus safe and repeatedly violated the federal law that specifies how it should do so, according to preliminary confidential findings from an Education...
Here is Ryan Burge, the religion and politics numbers guy, referencing a study at TheFire.org, the website of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression: More from Burge here....
The disgraced former president of Liberty University, Jerry Falwell Jr., is in the midst of a legal war with his brother and the university which forced him out of office. The fight is over the legal legacy of Jerry Falwell...
On July 1, 2023 Dondi E. Costin took the helm of Liberty University. We will see if he brings any changes to Liberty’s culture war stance, but if this Steve Bannon-Dave Brat conversation is any indication I am not optimistic...
Here is Hannah McClellan at Christianity Today: Four months after Liberty University filed a motion to dismiss a whistleblower’s lawsuit, the former dean suing the school amended his complaint with more detail about the alleged fraud he reported to authorities. He alleges...
Ron DeSantis was at Liberty University on Friday morning. Watch: When I first heard that DeSantis was speaking at Liberty University, I thought that he might announce his presidential candidacy there. That didn’t happen, but here’s what did happen. 27:31:...
As Kate Shellnut reports at Christianity Today, Liberty University has finally replaced Jerry Falwell Jr. on a permanent basis. Dondi Custin is a retired Air Force chaplain. Here is a taste of Kate’s reporting: Two and a half years after...
A visit to the Liberty University convocation has become a rite of passage for GOP presidential candidates. (Remember Donald Trump’s “Two Corinthians” blunder?) Florida governor Ron DeSantis is obviously aware of this. He will be at Liberty next month. Here...
Falwell Jr. says his former employer owes him over $8.5 million. Here is Jacob Hunziker at ABC 13 News in Lynchburg, Virginia: Liberty University is facing a new lawsuit — this one coming from its former president, Jerry Falwell Jr.,...
When Thomas Jefferson was running for president in 1800, Federalist evangelicals claimed that if the Virginian won the election he and his henchman would try to close their churches and confiscate Bibles from their homes. When Irish Catholics started arriving...
John Robert Markley is a Liberty University graduated who worked at the Christian school as an assessment coordinator, New Testament professor, and, most recently, Administrative Dean for Academic Operations. He claims that when, beginning in 2018, he blew the whistle...
Unfamiliar with the term court evangelical? Read this. It is worth noting that Trump said nothing about evangelicals and very little about the moral issues they deem important during his speech last night. I did not see many court evangelicals...
Here is WFXR reporter Rhian Lowndes: For the first time since multiple Title IX allegations involving mishandled sexual assault cases were made in lawsuits against Liberty University, WFXR News is hearing from one of the two dozen women accusing the...
The 990 is an IRS tax form that provides the public with financial information about a nonprofit organization. Chronicle of Higher Education reporter Dan Bauman read Liberty University’s recent Form 1990 with a fine-tooth comb. Here is a taste of what...
Fourteen women have sued Liberty University since July, accusing the school of a “long-standing pattern of mishandling sexual assaults.” Here is Josh Moody at Inside Higher Ed: Liberty University is under fire, facing a barrage of allegations that it mishandled...
Ryan Helfenbein’s Twitter bio says that he is a “Christ Follower,” a “Husband and Father,” and a “Texas native.” He also uses the Latin phrase “Soli Dei Gloria” (“glory to God alone”). Helfenbein holds a Master of Divinity degree from...
