Liberty University Responds to Complaints About Beck's Sermon

Popular conservative television and radio host, Glenn Beck, created a stir last month when he preached a sermon threaded with Mormon theology at the evangelical Liberty University. During the talk, Beck referred to the Mormon doctrine of the Council of Heaven and showcased a valuable relic, the pocket watch of the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith. Some university alumni and donors were upset that the school allowed Beck to sermonize the students and contacted Liberty to place complaints. An email response was sent from the office of Johnnie Moore, senior vice-president for communications and assistant to the president at Liberty. Most of the letter was boilerplate verbiage that sounds like a sales pitch for potential students. But in the last paragraph Moore states that Beck may have had a "born again experience"... CONTINUE READING...