{"id":55,"date":"2007-08-23T13:33:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T13:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/feilerfaster\/2007\/08\/if-jesus-had-life-insurance.html"},"modified":"2007-08-23T13:33:15","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T13:33:15","slug":"if-jesus-had-life-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/feilerfaster\/2007\/08\/if-jesus-had-life-insurance.html","title":{"rendered":"If Jesus Had Life Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gives new meaning to the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/us\/AP-Religion-Briefs.html\">resurrection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Rev. Jerry Falwell had life insurance policies worth $34 million and the money has been used to erase the debt of Liberty University, the school he founded.<br \/>\nThe televangelist&#8217;s son, Liberty Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr., said his father had named the university and the Thomas Road Baptist Church as beneficiaries to protect their future.<br \/>\nThe policies left $29 million to Liberty; its debt had reached $82 million in 1992, but the school had succeeded in paying off a significant amount before the elder Falwell&#8217;s death.<br \/>\nAnother $5 million went to the 22,000-member Thomas Road congregation, which Falwell had led, according to the News &amp; Advance of Lynchburg.<br \/>\nFalwell Jr. said his father used to joke that when he &#8221;kicked the bucket&#8221; the school would get a windfall. Falwell, a founder and leader of the Moral Majority, died last May.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gives new meaning to the idea of resurrection. The Rev. Jerry Falwell had life insurance policies worth $34 million and the money has been used to erase the debt of Liberty University, the school he founded. The televangelist&#8217;s son, Liberty Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr., said his father had named the university and the Thomas Road&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>If Jesus Had Life Insurance - Feiler Faster<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/feilerfaster\/2007\/08\/if-jesus-had-life-insurance.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"If Jesus Had Life Insurance - Feiler Faster\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gives new meaning to the idea of resurrection. 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