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A Truly Christian College Would Teach Biblical Defense Of The Faith

Liberty U. Is A Christian University?

By John Lofton / The American View

Many years ago, in the late 1980s, I spoke in Chapel to the entire student body at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. When I was picked up at the airport by two ministerial students, we had some time to talk in the car. What they told me was distressing. What they said, simply put, was that at L.U. the jockstrap had replaced the Cross.

They told me that while the school was originally founded to train and graduate preachers, this was no longer the case. They said that the Big Men On Campus were the football players. They said that the only thing Falwell talked passionately about was his hope that in football the school would become the Notre Dame of Protestantism. They said that the football budget was huge and dwarfed any truly Christian/Biblical studies.

I thought about this conversation when I read recently an article in the Sunday “New York Times” magazine about Liberty University’s award-winning debate team. Full story...

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Posted by Editor at March 28, 2006 01:54 AM