Jerry Falwell, 1933-2007

As a stoic, mind-your-own-business Lutheran, I never identified very much with Jerry Falwell or his politics. In fact, I've been known to grumble about Falwell's opinions from time to time. Given that, I really wasn't sure what to write about Falwell when I learned of his passing. Strangely enough, this began to frame it for me in my mind. You may not have liked the man's ideas, but when even his perhaps arch enemy can say something good about him in death, the man could not have been bad.