Jerry Falwell Jr.: The Falkirk Center Partnership Explained

Showing 5 Jerry Falwell Jr. videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Jerry Falwell Jr., the former Liberty University president, partnered with Charlie Kirk to launch the Falkirk Center in 2019, a joint venture combining both of their names that marked one of Kirk's earliest formal alliances between Turning Point USA and organized evangelical institutions. Kirk used appearances at Liberty University during this period to argue that authentic Christianity requires active cultural engagement rather than withdrawal, rejecting characterizations of Jesus as a socialist and framing Christian political involvement as a direct extension of the Sermon on the Mount's call to be salt and light. Commentator Allen Parr describes attending the Falkirk Center's 2019 launch event and later feeling used, concluding its real purpose was recruiting online influencers to support Donald Trump's reelection campaign, a realization that left him skeptical of Kirk for years until he began listening to Kirk's actual campus debates directly. Candace Owens, in unrelated investigative material appearing in the same source pool, connects the Falkirk Center's creation to broader scrutiny of Liberty University's institutional history, though her claims linking that history to Kirk's own assassination remain her own disputed theory rather than an established finding.