Grant Wacker
A new Billy Graham archive opens on the late evangelist’s birthday
By Yonat Shimron — November 7, 2022
(RNS) — The two-story building, constructed with the latest preservation standards and environmental controls, cost $13 million and sits across the road from the Billy Graham Library.
From shoeboxes to war zones: How Samaritan’s Purse became a $1 billion humanitarian aid powerhouse
By Yonat Shimron and Bob Smietana — September 9, 2022
NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. (RNS) — Now one of the largest US nonprofits, its growth has come largely through frontline work in public health crises and natural disasters around the world.
Paula White and the mainstreaming of American Pentecostalism
By Daniel G. Hummel — November 8, 2019
(Sightings) — Paula White is a new breed of Christian-right leader who is defined far less by theology than by ideology.
Billy Graham, Franklin Graham and the dangers of mixing religion and politics
By Jana Riess — October 15, 2019
(RNS) — How will Billy Graham be remembered? Is his son Franklin damaging that legacy? Historian and Graham biographer Grant Wacker weighs in.
Whither Wheaton? An evangelical college ponders its future
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 12, 2016
(RNS) The conflict between the school and a professor who tried to show solidarity with Muslims is itself emblematic of where American evangelicalism is today.
Billy Graham, Louis Zamperini and the two nights in 1949 that changed their lives
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — December 9, 2014
(RNS) The preaching in that rented circus tent in Los Angeles changed Louis Zamperini, then 32 -- who put away the bottle and devoted his life to Jesus. It also changed the preacher, Billy Graham, and the future course of American evangelicalism.
ANALYSIS: Billy Graham’s legacy is fading ‘into the mists of history’
By Ken Garfield — October 1, 2013
WHEATON, Ill. (RNS) “No matter how badly you have messed up,” Graham biographer Grant Wacker said, echoing a lifetime of Graham messages, “there’s a second chance.”
Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan GOP ticket reflects religious shift
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — August 21, 2012
(RNS) The 2012 GOP ticket _ two Christians who are neither evangelical nor mainline Protestants _ isn't a major marker of social change, experts say, but rather a refection of today's wider, less brand-specific Christian culture. By Cathy Lynn Grossman.
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