Jerry Falwell, Jr. announced Friday he’s taking an indefinite leave of absence from his leadership positions at Liberty University, the school his father founded in 1971.
The institution said in a statement that its executive committee requested that he take leave indefinitely from his roles as president and chancellor.
It school said he agreed, “effective immediately.”
The move follows his latest controversy — a photo he posted to his Instagram from a vacation in which his shirt was up and he was holding a glass of dark liquid. The image showed him standing next to a woman and his pants appeared to be unzipped.
He deleted the post and apologized.
The university’s statement did not address the matter directly. Falwell also had to apologize in June for posting a photo on Twitter of someone in blackface.
And in May, Reuters reported that Fallwell once sought the help of Michael Cohen, former personal attorney of President Donald Trump, to destroy private photographs he did not want revealed to the world.
Liberty University is one of the world’s largest evangelical Christian institutions.
Michelle Acevedo contributed.