Yeah, I don’t mind Beck for a political speaker, or a talk show host, but not on a Christian college for commencement.
I agree. Liberty is (or at least always has been) a “Christian college/university. It does seem incongruous to invite someone who is NOT a Christian to give a graduation speech.
As a Liberty grad myself I might be able to shed a bit of light on this. Jerry Falwell always invited prominent speakers, Christian and not, to speak at Liberty - at commencement, at convocation, etc., as a means of exposing the Liberty community to a variety of thoughts and ideas. Business leaders, politicos (Reagan, Bush I, Karl Rove, Andy Card, Tony Snow, Phil Gramm, Jack Kemp, even Ted Kennedy), and many others (i.e. Ben Stein last year) have spoken at Liberty from time to time. My own commencement speaker was Billy Graham.
Liberty students have a strong enough theological foundation that having a non-Christian speaker isn't going to hurt anyone.
Glenn Beck is doing some very interesting things right now, and in my view he's a great choice as commencement speaker. It's not like you're going to see Liberty students converting to Mormonism because of this.
For some reason Liberty U is pushing for Amnesty hard. Rev. Samuel Rodriguez is their new point man.
Aha, works for me and is very sensible as the fact that Beck is a Mormon convert, would not convince any student to convert especially when he is speaking about politics and world affairs.
You know I don’t mind that idea, but at commencement it should be a speaker that represents what the school itself is all about. Frankly this says the school is primarily about conservative politics than Christianity.
Glenn is interested in a “spiritual renewal” in America.. the “spiritual renewal he is talking about is not Christian ...