If you've spent any time around evangelical Christians -- as I did when I went undercover for a semester at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University -- you'll recognize a time-tested Christian phenomenon: pop culture repackaging. For every pop culture sensation in the secular world, a sanitized, curse-free evangelical version...
Posted May 25, 2009 | 15:52:14 (EST)
Last week, Liberty University - the evangelical Christian mega-college founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell - made the national news when, while implementing a new funding scheme for student organizations, it revoked approval for the campus Democratic organization.
Liberty's Young Democrats club - the first in school...
Posted May 5, 2009 | 16:07:35 (EST)
When I stepped on to the campus of Liberty University for my first day as a new transfer student, I thought I knew what I was getting myself into.
I knew that Liberty was a Christian college in Lynchburg, Virginia, founded in 1971 by the late Reverend Jerry Falwell...
Posted February 14, 2009 | 14:06:22 (EST)
At most American colleges, young lovers are spending Valentine's Day doling out Whitman's samplers, stuffed animals, and long-stemmed roses to their crushes and significant others, hoping to get lucky in the process. Not so at Liberty University, the late Reverend Jerry Falwell's "Bible Boot Camp" for young evangelicals.
As I...
Posted April 22, 2010 | 17:19:00 (EST)