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Jerry Falwell Jr. to get $15 million payout after Liberty University sex scandal

New tax filings reveal lawsuit settlement and retirement details over influential evangelical leader’s exit from university

The Independent UK

MAGA youth pastor charged with coercing minors to have sex with him

Zachary Radcliff, the music and youth pastor at Oakwood Church in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, is accused of a string of offenses relating to sexually abusive activity

The Independent UK

Liberty University fined $14m over ‘culture of silence’ around sexual assault

Christian evangelical institution punished victims ‘for violating the student code of conduct’ as ‘assailants were left unpunished’

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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory review: Trump and his evangelical believers

Tim Alberta is a fine guide to the world of conservative US Christians, their dispiriting march to the right, and its ugly cost

The Guardian - US

Liberty University failed to disclose crime data and warn of threats for years, report says

New reporting says preliminary findings from a federal investigation found that Liberty University failed to warn its Virginia campus community about safety threats

The Independent UK

Republican executive blogged about ‘conversion therapy’ for extremist group

Mark Trammell wrote posts in 2013 and 2014 for Liberty Counsel, a group on a ‘crusade to strip LGBTQ people of their rights’

The Guardian - US

Review: God Forbid Chronicles Jerry Falwell Jr.'s Fall From Grace

Falwell and his wife engaged in extramarital trysts with a younger man and introduced him to powerful friends, such as future president Donald Trump.

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God Forbid: Hulu documentary explores sex scandal that brought down evangelist Jerry Falwell Jr

The man at the centre of this new show is largely credited with inspiring 81 per cent of white evangelical Christians to vote for Donald Trump in 2016

The Independent UK

‘It’s do as I say, not as I do’: the lurid fall of evangelical pariah Jerry Falwell Jr

The catastrophic descent of the man who put his religious sway behind Donald Trump is explored in a new Hulu documentary

The Guardian - US

‘God Forbid’: In wildly entertaining doc, pool boy tells all about affair with powerful evangelical’s wife

Hulu film uses a neon potpourri of slick visuals, quick cuts, clever re-creation techniques, archival footage and sit-down interviews to tell the incredible but true story.

Chicago Sun-Times

TV shows to watch this week: Doc gives jazz legend Louis Armstrong the tribute he richly deserves

'Louis Armstrong's Black and Blues'

Tribune News Service

The ‘pool boy’ faces the camera in documentary on Falwell sex scandal

MIAMI — The darkest moment in director Billy Corben’s mostly jaunty documentary “God Forbid” comes when Giancarlo Granda reads several suicidal texts sent after being branded the “pool boy” in a media storm involving his close ties to evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. and wife Becki.

Miami Herald

The Breach review: ex-January 6 staffer on how Republicans lurched into madness

Denver Riggleman offers an inside track on the Capitol attack, the House committee and Donald Trump’s great GOP hijack

The Guardian - US

Why anti-choice churches protect abusers

As with the Catholic church scandal, what ties sexual abuse to anti-choice activism is a belief in male supremacy

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Documents say women settle lawsuit against Liberty U.

A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit twelve women brought last summer against Liberty University, accusing the Christian institution of mishandling cases of sexual assault and harassment

Salon

The church of Trump's Big Lie

Evangelicals are the backbones of Trump's Big Lie — and it's all about white supremacy

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