The Nation - News from Jan. 15, 1986
The Rev. Jerry Falwell, assuming the post of interim pastor at a troubled fundamentalist church wracked by controversy since its founder publicly confessed to adultery, said he hoped to bring about “spiritual healing” in the congregation. Falwell, founder of the Moral Majority, said at a news conference at the Bangor, Me., Baptist Church that he was there because “the church and the cause of Christ in New England have both suffered a great blow.” The Rev. Herman C. (Buddy) Frankland left the area after admitting in October that he had an affair with a church member.
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