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Podcast: East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray
Episode: KL Marshall: the Religious Right, Oil, and Alaska
Description: Send us Fan MailKL Marshall, while working on her PhD in Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, became enthralled with the influence of oil money on Christian Fundamentalism in Alaska. She moved to the MatSu Valley to research her 2020 book, Faith & Oil: How the Alaska Pipeline Shaped America’s Religious Right. Her doctoral thesis was on Jerry Falwell who started the Moral Majority that helped elect Ronald Reagan. Falwell founded Liberty University in 1971, the same year that his friend Jerry Prevo began leading the Anchorage Baptist Temple. Prevo led ABT until 2020 when he took over Liberty Uni...