The chain-link fence outside the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, is studded with signs of support. RNS photo by Yonat Shimron
Need to know: Monday, February 26, 2018
Prayer and a packing pastor: A church’s response to mass shooting
In Sutherland Springs, Texas, members of First Baptist Church aren’t protesting like the Florida high school students are.
Admirers line streets as Billy Graham’s body arrives in Charlotte
Adults and children stood behind wooden barricades and yellow tape, police officers saluted, and admirers captured the moment on cellphones.
How Billy Graham changed religion in America
The movement Graham led out of the wilderness has been taken over by the very forces he rebelled against, writes RNS columnist Mark Silk.
Christians shutter famous Jerusalem church to protest taxes
The Christians in charge of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are angry about the Jerusalem municipality’s plans to tax their various assets around the city.
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I have no doubt what Billy Graham would have told the high school kids from Parkland, Fla.
(RNS) — The teens speaking out about gun control these days are amazingly articulate about being young in an America where violence is all too present as a fact of life. What would Graham have said to them? Keep at it!
COMMENTARY: Billy Graham, reaching the last person in the last row
(RNS) His fragile humanity came through, even in his younger, more electrifying days, deepening his connection with the masses, helping people see that he was one of them, on the same journey, facing the same struggles.
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