The Old-Time Gospel Hour was a ministry radio and television program broadcast from Thomas Road Baptist Church hosted by minister Jerry Falwell featuring the church's Sunday service . Started in 1956 by Jerry Falwell , The Old-Time Gospel Hour gained a national following on radio and television. The series was a major revenue source for Falwell, bringing in more than $ 90 million during the early 1980s. The show's popularity continued through the 1990s, during which time it was still broadcast on hundreds of stations across the country.
4-533: The television show ended after Falwell died in 2007. His son, Jonathan Falwell , became the primary minister featured in the Sunday services and eventually folded the show into the church's online video library and livestream website called Thomas Road On Demand . Bono of the band U2 mentions The Old-Time Gospel Hour in the 1988 live version of the song " Bullet the Blue Sky " on the album Rattle and Hum . Toward
8-672: A non-fiction television series in the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jonathan Falwell Jonathan Pate Falwell (born September 7, 1966) is the senior pastor at the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia , and Chancellor at Liberty University . Falwell earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Liberty University in 1987, his Master of Arts degree in Religion from
12-662: The Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary in 1995, and a Juris Doctor degree in 2005 from the Taft Law School in Santa Ana, California . He is the son and successor of the late Reverend Jerry Falwell and the brother of former Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. His older sister, Jeannie, is a surgeon. During a 1974 family discussion about abortion as the 'national sin' of America, Jonathan asked his father why he did not do something about it, which
16-519: The end of the song, there is a spoken section where he says "...and I can't tell the difference between ABC News , Hill Street Blues , and a preacher on the Old-Time Gospel Hour stealing money from the sick and the old. Well, the God I believe in isn't short of cash, mister." This Christianity -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article relating to
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