{"id":1456,"date":"2009-09-10T22:34:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T06:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2009\/09\/10\/article-on-liberty-u\/"},"modified":"2009-09-10T22:34:34","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T06:34:34","slug":"article-on-liberty-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2009\/09\/10\/article-on-liberty-u\/","title":{"rendered":"article on Liberty U"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christianity Today publishes a lengthy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2009\/september\/22.40.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> on Liberty University, now led by Jerry Falwell\u2019s sons, Jerry, Jr., and Jonathan.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting quote (taken from a book about Liberty) from near the end of the article addresses the generational shift.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Under Dr. Falwell&#8217;s guidance, Liberty was frozen in place by a half-century of ideological inertia, and his passing has freed the school from its bindings,&quot; Roose writes. &quot;But the younger Falwells belong to a different generation of evangelicals, and the difference on campus is palpable. For one, seeds of ideological diversity are sprouting.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The article notes that Falwell\u2019s sons follow a somewhat different philosophy from their father. Some of the changes are clearly for the better, others will show their quality (or lack thereof) over time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"don_sig2\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"50\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/don_sig24.png\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christianity Today publishes a lengthy article on Liberty University, now led by Jerry Falwell\u2019s sons, Jerry, Jr., and Jonathan. An interesting quote (taken from a book about Liberty) from near the end of the article addresses the generational shift. &quot;Under Dr. Falwell&#8217;s guidance, Liberty was frozen in place by a half-century of ideological inertia, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[34,72],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-nu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}