In God We Lust | Liberty... or Libertine? | 140

Even the Rich

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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When Jerry Falwell Jr takes over at Liberty University in 2007 he has big shoes to fill: his father’s. The Reverend Jerry Falwell was a famous and controversial evangelical minister who lived by a strict code of conduct. Can Jerry Jr. follow in his father’s footsteps, or will he make his own rules?

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can
0:01.8	convince the newest season of even the rich before anyone else.
0:04.4	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:07.4	Hey, Riches, did you miss us?
0:09.6	And if you didn't, how dare you? But this week we have a surprise for you so hopefully that'll change your mind.
0:17.0	That's right.
0:18.0	So you might have heard that there's a new Hulu documentary about the fallout at Liberty
0:21.7	University dropping soon as in today.
0:25.0	Mm-hmm, but as your trusty gossip fiends, we've already got the inside track.
0:31.0	Last year, our special even the rich mini series In God We Lust cover the
0:35.6	whole messy story and now we're bringing it to you. In God We Lust tells the story of
0:40.8	Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife Becky Falwell,
0:43.9	members of one of the richest and most powerful evangelical families in America.
0:48.7	Jerry is the son of Reverend Jerry Falwell Sr.
0:52.1	And until he resigned in August of 2020, Jerry Junior was also the president of Liberty University, the Evangelical College his famous father founded.
1:02.0	So why did Jerry Jr resign? Well it turns out that despite
1:06.9	Liberty's strict rules of conduct based on religious doctrine, Jerry and Becky
1:11.6	were a little light on the religious devotion.
1:14.6	Exactly.
1:15.6	Their torrid affair with a much younger pool attendant
1:19.2	led to a love triangle, a shady business deal, and a tabloid scandal that exposed the hypocrisy behind
1:26.0	one of the nation's biggest political machines and threatened to bring down
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