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Jerry Laymon Falwell Sr. [a] (August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007) [3] was an American Baptist pastor, televangelist, and conservative activist. [4] He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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.
During a 1979 meeting, they urged televangelist Jerry Falwell Sr. to found the Moral Majority (a phrase coined by Weyrich [3]). This was the period when the New Christian Right arose. [4] [5] Joining Falwell in the Moral Majority was Ed McAteer, who the same year, founded the Religious Roundtable in Memphis, Tennessee. [6]
Hulu's documentary, 'God Forbid' investigates a sex scandal involving the Falwell family. What to know about the patriarch, Jerry Falwell Sr., and his death.
Four years after Jerry Falwell Jr. resigned as the head of Liberty University amid a series of personal scandals, he and the evangelical school founded by his father have announced a settlement of ...
Jerry Falwell Jr. looks ready to sever ties with the South Beach hostel that ... “My family purchased the property at 810 Alton Road in February of 2013,” Jerry Falwell Jr. wrote the city’s ...
Jonathan Pate Falwell (born September 7, 1966) [1] is the senior pastor at the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, [2] and Chancellor at Liberty University. [ 3 ] Education
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.