Jerry Falwell in Heaven

A true pioneer goes home.

by Rod D. Martin
May 15, 2007

According to an aide, the Reverend Jerry Falwell went home to be with his Lord moments ago.

Falwell was instrumental -- yea, pioneering -- in bringing Christians back into public life in America, after an absence stretching across most of the 20th Century. His work in missions, in education and in a host of other endeavors was equally impressive if not quite so influential, at least as the world would count it; and he was a friend to many of us, one greatly to be missed.

His suffering has now ended; his journey has just begun; and we are all better for his sojourn among us.