Tag: Liberty University

• Selling Out the Gospel at the Altar of Politics

  I don’t do politics on social media (nor in the pulpit), but I feel an exception is warranted – on social media, anyway. With the exception that I don’t really care that Donald Trump has not previously held public office, nor do I care that neither Ben Carson nor Carly Fiorina have ever held public office, pretty much…

  Dennis Griffith

  January 29, 2016

  Cultural Issues, Evangelical, Gospel, Politics

  2016 Presidential Election, Christian Colleges, Christianity, Counterfeit Gospel, Donald Trump, Evangelicalism, Gospel, Jerry Falwell Jr, Liberty University

• What’s Glenn Beck Doing at Liberty University?

  It was with some bemusement that I took note of the speaker for Liberty University’s 2010 Commencement: Glenn Beck.  I am not sure what message was conveyed by this choice. One possibility seems commendable. Another possibility, I fear, may be a sad reflection of attitudes within and around contemporary American Evangelicalism. Liberty University, long steeped in Baptistic Fundamentalism, maintained its commitment to the conservative…

  Dennis Griffith

  May 22, 2010

  Cultural Issues, Evangelical, Politics

  Christianity, Conservatism, Conservatism vs. Christianity, Evangelicalism, Evangelicals, Glenn Beck, Jerry Falwell, Liberty University, Mormonism, Mormonism vs. Christianity