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...
Liberty University
A former Liberty University Dean claims the school fired him after he reported “foul play,” “troubling concerns,” and violations of Christian ethics
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...
What are the court evangelicals saying about Trump’s announcement last night?
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...
The “Jane Doe” in the Liberty University sexual assault case speaks out
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...
It appears that Jerry Falwell Jr. was using Liberty University as a personal ATM
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...
The latest on sexual harassment at Liberty University
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...
The director of Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center knows who we are. Is he rounding-up a posse and coming for us?
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...
Jerry Falwell Jr. is apparently a Christian again
Last month Vanity Fair ran a piece on Jerry Falwell in which the disgraced president of Liberty University said that he was not “a religious person.” See our coverage of that article here. Falwell Jr. has now told the Washington...
Nyquil is “Baptist wine” and more things I learned from the recent Vanity Fair piece on the Falwells.
Check out Gabriel Sherman’s piece on Jerry Falwell Jr. at Vanity Fair. Here are a few of the new things I learned from it: Falwell Jr. claims that he is not religious: “Subconsciously, yeah, I believe that’s true,” he said,...
Yet another student sues Liberty University for failing to investigate her rape
Last summer twelve former students and employees of Liberty University sued the school for “creating a campus environment where sexual assaults and rapes are forseeably more likely to occur than they would in the absence of Liberty policies.” Today we...
The Moral Collapse of Liberty University
David French tells it like it is: Rarely in my life have I ever seen a single significant American institution face such a staggering run of scandal and controversy as Liberty University, and Liberty happens to be America’s largest Christian...
Former Liberty University fellow and Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis helped plan the attempted undoing of the 2020 election
Ellis was a former fellow at Liberty University’s Falkirk Center (now Standing for Freedom Center). Here is a taste of Libby Cathey’s piece at ABC News: In a memo not made public until now, then-White House Chief of Staff Mark...
1200 Covid-19 cases later, Liberty University returns to in-person classes without an indoor mask requirement
Here is WSLS News: Liberty University resumed in-person classes Monday, following a two-week mitigation period to slow the spread of COVID-19. On September 8, the university reported 463 active cases, with more than 1,800 people instructed to quarantine. “I think it’s too little and late....
COVID-19 at Christian colleges: update
COVID-19 at Liberty University is still out of control, but this did not stop the university from having full capacity at their football game last weekend. Cedarville University seems to be getting things under control after a disastrous first week...
COVID-19 continues to sweep through the Liberty University campus
488 cases and over 1000 students in quarantine. Get up to speed here and here. Here is the local ABC affiliate: Even though Liberty University implemented a temporary campus-wide quarantine on Monday, the total number of active coronavirus cases and...
COVID-19 at Christian colleges
With the Delta variant moving rapidly through the campus of Liberty University and Cedarville University, we thought we would check-in on some other Christian colleges and universities to see how things are going. (NOTE: Some of these campuses started classes...
Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center just released the summer issue of its journal “Reclaiming 1776.” Let’s take a look.
Liberty University president Jerry Prevo begins the journal with a quote from John Adams: Before my God, I believe the hour has come. My judgement approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and...
Members of the Liberty University community speak-out about COVID-19 spike and move to online learning
Last night we posted about the rise in COVID-19 cases at Liberty University and Cedarville University. Here is how students and other community members are responding to Liberty University’s “temporary period of mitigation.” Nearly 500 students and employees are in...
COVID-19 cases on the rise at Liberty University; classes move online.
Here is the press release: As part of its ongoing monitoring of positive COVID-19 rates on campus as well as active community cases and local hospital capacity, Liberty University administration announced on Thursday that it is enacting a temporary mitigation...
An evangelical anti-vaxxer in the Olympic pool
His name is Michael Andrew and he ran out of gas on the last leg of yesterday’s final in the 200 meter individual medley. Watch: Rowdy Gaines said it all: “He’s done.” Out of the pool, Michael Andrew is a...