The Evolution of Liberty University
First flip-flops, now College Democrats. What is next for Liberty University? Karen Swallow Prior commented recently on the changing face of the school founded by Jerry Falwell just over forty years...
View ArticleShake Up at King’s College
If you look at the $30,000,000 box office sales for his film 2016: Obama’s America, it would seem that Dinesh D’Souza is very in. But at King’s College in Manhattan, D’Souza is out. According to a...
View ArticleFaith and Football
Forget Tim Tebow. The real story in the world of fundamentalist football is Liberty University. The fundamentalist Virginia school founded in the early seventies by Moral Majority frontman Jerry...
View ArticleLiberty and Intellectual Diversity
Can the faculty at a fundamentalist university embody a true intellectual diversity? In some senses, of course they can. Depending on the school, faculty at conservative Protestant schools may...
View ArticleJesus at the Big Dance
Liberty University got a chance at basketball glory this year. As World Magazine reports, Liberty’s men’s basketball team squeaked into the NCAA tournament. They quickly squeaked back out again. As...
View ArticleFundamentalist U: The Original “Safe Space”
It’s not a new idea. In spite of what journalists and pundits might suggest, today’s push on college campuses for “safe spaces” has a century-long tradition. The schools I’m studying these...
View ArticleI Owe, I Owe
It was a squeaker, but it worked. I promised my editor I’d deliver the manuscript for Fundamentalist U by Monday, and I just mailed it in today. Coupla days to spare. Whew! If I were cooler, I would...
View ArticleProtests: Part of Life at Fundamentalist U
Shut em down! That’s what radical college students are saying these days. As Molly Wicker writes in the New York Times, even conservative students at conservative colleges are getting in on the action....
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