Billy Graham
Rabbi James Rudin’s memoir recounts the interfaith movement’s hits and misses
By Yonat Shimron — May 30, 2022
(RNS) — In the book, 'The People in the Room: Rabbis, Nuns, Pastors, Popes, and Presidents,' Rudin writes about his favorite collaborators, the challenges of cultivating pluralism and the future of interfaith relations.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s hard words for white Christians
By Robert P. Jones — January 17, 2022
(RNS) — King’s exasperation at self-satisfied white Christians holds up a mirror that is still painfully accurate today.
In ‘The Jesus Music,’ Erwin Brothers recount the glory and mess of Christian music
By Bob Smietana — October 6, 2021
(RNS) — A new documentary recounts the history of contemporary Christian music from its roots among California hippies to today’s multimillion-dollar industry.
Billy Graham’s grandson Jonathan Lotz, son of Anne Graham Lotz, in hospital with COVID-19
By Adelle M. Banks — July 26, 2021
(RNS) — ‘Pray he will not have to go on a ventilator,’ his mother asked on social media, ‘and that his health will be fully restored.’
Billy Graham’s 1940s cottage in North Carolina is listed for sale at $600,000
By Bob Smietana — July 9, 2021
(RNS) — The Grahams lived in the cottage during Billy Graham's rise to fame in the 1940s.
Why the legacy of Billy Graham continues to endure: 3 essential reads
By Kalpana Jain — June 12, 2021
(The Conversation) — A PBS documentary has reinitiated conversations about the influence of Billy Graham. Here are three articles that describe the impact and the enduring legacy of the famed preacher.
Anne Graham Lotz: ‘I just have to follow the Lord and what he’s called me to do’
By Adelle M. Banks — June 9, 2021
(RNS) — ‘Generally speaking, I’m not accountable to people who want to say that I should or shouldn’t be doing this or that,’ said Bible teacher Anne Graham Lotz.
Franklin Graham urges evangelicals to get vaccinated before it’s ‘too late’
By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 17, 2021
(RNS) — 'My father was a firm believer in medicine. He believed in it, so he would have been a supporter — no question,' said Franklin Graham, son of the late evangelist Billy Graham.
PBS’ Billy Graham documentary captures preacher’s pull and ambition
By Ken Garfield — May 14, 2021
(RNS) — PBS’ ‘American Experience’ explores the life and legacy of the legendary preacher in a new documentary.
Franklin Graham unfazed after evangelical base blasts him for encouraging vaccines
By Yonat Shimron — March 26, 2021
(RNS) — Graham's March 24 Facebook post uncovered a deep divide among evangelicals, many of whom are suspicious of COVID-19 vaccines. His organization, Samaritan's Purse, is managing vaccine clinics in Boone, North Carolina.
Luis Palau, globe-trotting evangelist, is dead at 86
By Mark I. Pinsky — March 11, 2021
(RNS) — Over the past half century, the Luis Palau Association, based in Beaverton, Oregon, estimates that it has reached 30 million people in 75 countries.
This MLK Day, white evangelicals again have a choice to make on racial justice
By Jemar Tisby — January 18, 2021
(RNS) — Those who wish to learn from MLK’s legacy must also ask if they are willing to listen to the modern-day prophets of racial justice.
How law-and-order evangelicals helped shape today’s criminal justice system
By Yonat Shimron — November 16, 2020
(RNS) — Evangelicals have largely championed the rise of mass incarceration, writes Aaron Griffith in his new book. They've also undertaken novel ministries to try to bring compassion, healing and conversion to those behind bars.
‘Well known pastor’ arrested on flight not a pastor, says Charlotte church
By Bob Smietana — October 27, 2020
(RNS) — The wife of a North Carolina pastor accused of disorderly conduct during a flight from Las Vegas to Detroit says he had a bad reaction to sleeping medication.
New book links the decline of religious authority to the end of empathy
By Yonat Shimron — October 6, 2020
(RNS) — John Compton’s ‘The End of Empathy’ shows how the collapse of religious authority in the 1960s led Christians to evangelical megachurches that resist any efforts at social reform.
