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God's Right Hand by Michael Sean Winters6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Liberty’s overriding mission is to train "Champions for Christ" - all of whom are expected to go forth and fight against the forces of secularism and for the political primacy of their brand of Christianity. Here also is where he established a small Bible college that grew into Liberty University - a bastion of fundamentalist Christian nationalism with a worldwide online enrollment of over 115,000 students and an on-campus enrollment of 15,800. It was here that Falwell established his megachurch and went on to become a television evangelist and a political activist. The library where I found the book happens to be in Lynchburg, Virginia, where I now reside. The author, Michael Sean Winters, who writes for National Catholic Reporter, traces Falwell’s rise from obscurity to national prominence as the founder of the Moral Majority. One day last week, I was browsing at the local branch of our county library when this title caught my eye: "God’s Right Hand: How Jerry Falwell Made God a Republican and Baptized the American Right" (2012). ![]()
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