Liberty University Highlighted by U.S. News & World Report

E-mail | 8/18/06 | Jerry Falwell

[WVNan]

Hi. We lived in Lynchburg in the 80s. I loved it and still have friends there. I agree with you about Falwell. He was our neighbor, but like you, I didn't always agree with his methods. I did enjoy his Christmas spectaculars though. I'm happy about Liberty also. We need more "real" Christian Colleges. I went to Lynchburg College, which is a Christian College, but it was very liberal.

[WVNan]

Okay, okay, wet noodles and all that. It's fixed now.

[WVNan]

As you have probably seen, I goofed on the title. It's fixed now. The college was highlighted along with the other two.

[justche]

Thanks for the ping - I'm always surprised I don't see other "Jerry's Kids" posting here...

The dorm comment cracked me up - although it has been nearly 20 years since I was there, they were big enough for four of us - In fact that dorm room was probably bigger than my apt in San Francisco :)

(and hey, if my bday is coming up, that means yours just passed iirc - happy belated bday!)

[WVNan]

If you was at LU anytime between 86-89, we were in Lynchburg at the same time. I was at LC in that time frame.

[WVNan]

If you was? If you were? I can never get that one right.

[justche]

I was there in 88 and 89, from Southern California - it took quite a while to be able to understand all the accents there :)

[Dark Skies]

Thx for the B-Day wish, it is coming up next week (8/30).

[Dark Skies]

And Happy Birthday to you also!!!

[Thombo2]

"The college was "highlighted" along with the other two."Noted,but give em a few more years.I predict more "conservative" schools will be established in the future.I'll bet the demand is there.If i had a kid,i wouldn't pay $20k/yr to send him/her to Cornell,Yale,etc,etc.

[I want to know]

My youngest daughter is a senior at LU this fall and my oldest daughter graduated from LC in 2001. My son graduated for Virgina Tech in 2005.

I think you would be amazed to see how big LU has become since 1989. And the new dorms they built are great - not like dorms at all but more like small suites with bedrooms. They have relocated LCA (K-12) on campus, Thomas Road Baptist Church (where the old GE building was), have an ice skating rink, law school, a wonderful wellness center and more. They are in negotiations to sell off 100 acres to build an upper end outdoor mall on the Campbell County side of town.

I don't attend Falwell's church (I am Presbyterian, Rivermont) but can't deny that he has contributed quite a bit to the growth of Lynchburg. And the school really has come quite a long way since its inception. It's nice to have a place you can send your kids to where the atmosphere strives to be different than the average university (it's not perfect, but it is different).

We have lived in Lynchburg since 88 and love it here. It is a nice place to raise a family. BTW I lived for a time in Shepherdstown, WV which is a beautiful town. My husband was from Martinsburg.

[billhilly]

Do you still live in Lynchburg? I lived there 1968-1970. In fact, only a couple of blocks from Liberty Baptist Church. I'm shocked to learn how much that institution has grown. Interestingly, when I left Lynchburg I moved to Tulsa, Oklahome, home to Oral Roberts University, which was then growing with breath taking speed.

[billhilly]

What a great post, and reminder of how things were when I was a boy. Thanks.

[MamaTexan]

What a great post, and reminder of how things were when I was a boy. Thanks.

You are very welcome, Sir.

[Moose4]

I live in Richmond now, my mother still lives in Richland Hills, out Timberlake Road. If you haven't been back recently you won't recognize the town. The place has really really grown.

}:-)4

[WFTR]

This is good news.In the top three.I'm not religous,but i think the country desperately needs more schools where kids(and adults)can get a college education w/out the pc'ness(leftist indoctrination)of the looney left.

I wish that there were many places where young people could get a solid education without the influence of the looney left. I think those places should be available even to people who don't want all of the rules that come from the Christian association of colleges such as this one. I think it's great that LU is available to those who want that experience, but I think there should be other ways to get a non-leftist education.

Bill

[Miss Marple]

I believe the success of Liberty (and its academic performance) as well as the Catholic university in Florida (name escapes me) will make smaller, struggling colleges look at curricula and professors that are non-leftist, as a moneymaker.

When I was young I thought Jerry Falwell was an extremist nut case. I now believe he was prophetic, and was on the right track. God bless him for his efforts. (And I am a Catholic.)

[Bonaparte]

" I think those places should be available even to people who don't want all of the rules that come from the Christian association of colleges...."

Maybe there already are such schools. Have you looked into this?

[tjd1454]

We just took my daughter to begin her freshman year at Liberty U. We were very impressed with the school and especially the enthusiastic and unapologetic Christian atmosphere. Another Christian college we were considering was embarrassingly eager to be politically correct, with co-ed dorms etc. (By comparison, Falwell told us parents that if they found a man in the women's dorm "we shoot him.") What put us off were reports that this other college looked the other way when male and female students virtually cohabitated.

I haven't always agreed with everything Falwell has said and done through the years, but he has managed to build quite an impressive university. And he seems to have moderated the incipient anti-Catholicism of his earlier years (I'm not Catholic but feel that in this day of growing persecution of those who go by the name of Christ, it is inexusable to build petty barriers between denominations and churches).

[I want to know]

When we moved to Lynchburg in 88 our first house was in Richland Hills. We lived there until 97 and then moved to Forest. Our married daughter lives in Richmond close to the area where they picked up the two Egyptians last week.

What does your mom think of the Pedcor Housing Development proposed for the land between Schewels and Richland Hills?