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Jerry Falwell Jr. will leave behind a very different legacy from his influential father

  • Written by Richard Flory, Senior Director of Research and Evaluation, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageJerry Falwell Jr., right, during commencement ceremonies at Liberty University in May 2017.AP Photo/Steve Helber

Jerry Falwell Jr., son and namesake of the founder of the evangelical Moral Majority movement, has resigned as president of Liberty University.

The resignation followed the Liberty board’s decision to put him on an “indefinite...

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