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Best way to verify somebody’s degrees?

My parents attend an evangelical church where they have recently hired a new senior pastor. I met him at a funeral this weekend. I’m about to start a PhD in physics, and my parents mentioned this as a topic for discussion, as this new pastor supposedly has two master’s degrees and a PhD. I think he’s full of shit. During our brief conversation it seemed like he didn’t really know anything about academia. He said things that didn’t make sense. He was also talking at me instead of to me, in a way that made him seem nervous to be in a position where the person he’s talking to knows something about academia. He seems like the charismatic type who is willing to take advantage of other people. I seriously doubt the church verified his credentials when they hired him. After some Google sleuthing I found his LinkedIn where he had listed one master’s degree from Liberty University. I don’t know which other schools he claims to hold degrees from.

What is the best way for me to verify this person’s degrees? Do I need to find out where he supposedly got them from? Would I be able to use the National Student Clearinghouse to list all the degrees a person has obtained from all schools? If I can prove that he’s lying, hopefully he will get fired and won’t be able to take advantage of the simple country folk who look up to him.
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Straightforward questioning can get you very far. “So you’ve got a PhD/Master’s degree? How interesting! Where from? How fascinating! What was the thesis title? I’d love to read that, would you share a copy with me?”