Found My Sunday
Lost Pentecostal I was born in 1973. A few years before Jerry Falwell pioneered an alliance between evangelicals and politicians in 1979. They formed the Moral Majority in an effort to strategize the use and power of the vote from the pulpit to elect conservatives to political positions. Fast forward 1989, Pat Roberston formed the Christian Coalition to build a network out of the remains of Falwell's prior movement. So imagine what fertile ground my local, small southern town Pentecostal Holiness Church, my white conservative parents and extended family were being exposed to at church, discussions with their family and friends and during political stump speeches? The Old Time Gospel Hour was a broadcast hosted by Jerry Falwell out of his Lynchburg Va church. This broadcast reached millions of viewers and built the political influence needed to voters out to the polls. Unfortunately, it also reached out television with our rabbit antenna via our local ABC channel clear as da...
