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Elmer Leon Towns (born October 21, 1932) is an American Christian academic, pastor and writer who co-founded Liberty University alongside Jerry Falwell in 1971. [1] He is a speaker on the principles of church growth, church leadership, Christian education, Sunday school, prayer and fasting.
Jerry Lamon Falwell Jr. (/ ˈ f ɔː l w ɛ l /; born June 17, 1962) is an American attorney, former academic administrator, and evangelical.Starting with his 2007 appointment upon the death of his father, televangelist and conservative activist Jerry Falwell, Falwell served as the president of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, until resigning in August 2020 amid a sex scandal.
The couple had two sons, Jerry Jr. (a lawyer who succeeded Jerry Sr. as president of Liberty University until 2020) and Jonathan (who succeeded Jerry Sr. as senior pastor at Thomas Road Baptist Church, and became chancellor of Liberty University in 2023), and a daughter, Jeannie (a surgeon).
Jurnee Carr, founder of Jurnee's Journey Foundation; Jonathan Falwell, son of Jerry Falwell and senior pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church; William Franklin Graham IV, evangelist; grandson of Billy Graham; Bill Keller, televangelist and host of Live Prayer; Michael R. Licona, New Testament scholar and apologist and professor of theology
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He is the son and successor of the late Reverend Jerry Falwell and the brother of former Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. His older sister, Jeannie, is a surgeon.
Thomas Road Baptist Church (TRBC) is a Baptist megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia, located on the campus of Liberty University, which it founded and is closely affiliated with. In 2016, a church spokesperson stated they had an average weekly attendance of 9,000. [ 1 ]
The Liberty University Rawlings School of Divinity (formerly Liberty Divinity School) was founded in 1973. [97] The largest divinity school in the world based on the number of students enrolled in degree programs, [ 98 ] it offers 44 bachelor's degrees, 44 master's degrees, and 14 doctorate degrees; [ 99 ] its graduate programs are accredited ...