Billy’s children are thankful for their father; they just wish he’d been around more. When Franklin Graham was five, his famous father was in Australia for six months preaching at a Billy Graham Crusade. Like many youngsters, "I'd wake up in the morning, go down the hall and crawl into bed with Mama," Franklin says. …
Resignations follow allegations, divorce The majority of staff and board members of East Gates Ministries International, which supports Bible publishing in China, has resigned in the past year amid controversy involving Nelson “Ned” Graham, East Gates president and the youngest of evangelist Billy Graham’s five children. During a lengthy interview with Christianity Today, Ned Graham …
This magazine and I both have our beginnings in a replacement evangelist’s ministry. I was making my way down Black Mountain in North Carolina in the fall of 2009, heading for I-40 north to Charlotte, when I decided to call my mom. Not the usual thing a guy then in his late 50s does following …
‘America’s pastor’ shaped modern evangelicalism. Billy Graham was perhaps the most significant religious figure of the 20th century, and the organizations and the movement he helped spawn continue to shape the 21st. During his life, Graham preached in person to more than 100 million people and to millions more via television, satellite, and film. Nearly …
The Nixon tapes revealed a shocking quote, but there was much more to his relationship with Judaism. New York City gave Billy Graham a national stage like no other US city when he arrived in 1957. And the evangelist saw a special opportunity in its ethnic diversity, with "more Italians than Rome, more Irish than …
Billy Graham’s regrets, in his own words. For all of Billy Graham's remarkable accomplishments, he made his share of mistakes. These mistakes might have harmed his ministry if not for Graham's willingness to confess them and learn from them. "I've had to admit errors in judgment, and I've found Christian people more than generous in …
The quote that went viral after Graham’s death actually came from D. L. Moody—but he probably wouldn’t mind. In the wake of Billy Graham’s death, many have recalled the evangelist’s most pithy phrases and memorable lines in posts across social media. The onslaught of quotes comes as a fitting homage to a man who was …
Billy and Ruth’s marriage was one of calling. But true love came along. Billy Graham and Ruth Bell's early love story didn't unfold at all the way a romance writer might have penned it. There were no flirtatious winks across the room, no mushy meetings between classes, no plaintive pledges of undying love. They were …
Chuck Colson tells the inside story of the most controversial relationship in Graham’s life. Billy Graham's relationship to President Richard Nixon was a tricky one, Charles Colson said in this exclusive interview before his death in 2012. As special counsel for Nixon before his own conversion to Christ, Colson often assisted in arranging meetings between …
The great abolitionist spoke words of rebuke—and hope—to a slaveholding society. As Frederick Douglass looked out on the boisterous crowd that had gathered to celebrate America’s independence, he thought of Psalm 137. By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there …