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...
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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 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...
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...
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...
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...