[WVNan]

Received this today from Jerry Falwell. I love success stories.

[Dark Skies]

ping

[Moose4]

I grew up in Lynchburg, and LU really is an impressive success story. I haven't always agreed with Rev. Falwell about things, and he's not always the most popular man in town, but he's shown excellent stewardship in taking LU from nothing to what it is today in just 35 years. The facilities are first-rate and the school attracts a lot of talent, both religious and secular. And, it's been a hub for a huge amount of development in that end of Lynchburg.

}:-)4

[Eric in the Ozarks]

3rd best ? That'll be the day...

[ncountylee]

The UCLA coeds are tough to beat. A drive through the campus is most scenic.

[Thombo2]

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.

[Theo]

Wonderful! I've spent a total of a couple of weeks there for various conferences, and it can get pretty hot and buggy during the summer. The dorms, while adequate, weren't anything to write home about. Which tells me that the quality of the education is what makes this university notable (and not the dorms and weather).

[Neoliberalnot]

Great job done by the Rev Falwell. He has been vilified from the start by the do-nothing media liberals. I would mention that Harvard, the nations oldest institution of higher learning established in 1635, was also started by a Christian minister. So what is new?

[uscabjd]

Third best at what? Besides, ucla sucks.

[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).

[tang-soo]

About two years ago, an Associate Pastor from my church return to Liberty (his alam mater) to become Director of Leadership and Educational Ministries. Then a few months ago my Senior Pastor returned (also his alma mater) to become a professor. Also, current dean of students, Ergun Caner (author of Islam Unveiled) is also from the same town near Columbus. God Bless them all.