Billy Graham
Frances FitzGerald on how evangelicals lost their way
By David P. Gushee — April 12, 2017
(RNS) When religious folk get entangled with secular politicians in the political arena, the politicians always win.
The ’Splainer: Why won’t Mike Pence eat alone with a woman who is not his wife?
By Kimberly Winston — March 30, 2017
(RNS) Pence's practice, highlighted in a recent Washington Post story, stems from a 1948 meeting in Modesto, Calif., between Billy Graham and three of his closest male friends.
On the delusion of clergy access to the royal throne
By David P. Gushee — December 20, 2016
The religious leader types who get access to the White House are mainly useful idiots.
Cliff Barrows, Billy Graham’s song leader for six decades, dies at 93
By Mark A. Kellner — November 15, 2016
(RNS) Graham, Barrows and soloist George Beverly Shea -- who died in 2013 -- were an inseparable team.
Billy Graham ‘doing well’ just ahead of 98th birthday
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 3, 2016
(RNS) The Graham family plans to celebrate Billy Graham's birthday on Monday with one of his favorite treats.
IRS changes status of Billy Graham’s ministry
By Kimberly Winston — September 29, 2016
(RNS) The change means the 66-year-old ministry will not have to file a public document of its income and salaries.
Billy Graham’s grandson on his near suicide and whether he’s planning a comeback
By Jonathan Merritt — September 29, 2016
Tullian Tchividjian tells RNS he spent hours researching the best way to commit suicide during this period of despair.
Texas evangelist and philanthropist Howard E. Butt Jr. dies
By Lauren Markoe — September 13, 2016
(RNS) He was expected to take over the family's highly successful chain of grocery stories. He turned to preaching instead.
The Christian intellectual tradition is alive and well
By Jacob Lupfer — August 31, 2016
(RNS) So why have commentators bemoaned the absence of Christian thinkers as authoritative voices in American public debates?
Graham daughter: Prayer, not politics
By Adelle M. Banks — May 5, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) It grieves Anne Graham Lotz that evangelicals are often known as a voting bloc rather than for their Christian identity.
Christians plan massive rally in Washington in July
By Adelle M. Banks — April 7, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) Nick Hall, leader of prayer events aimed at young people, hopes the event will draw crowds like Promise Keepers did two decades ago.
Tullian Tchividjian fired from Florida church over ‘previously undisclosed failures’
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 17, 2016
(RNS) Tchividjian's firing follows last year's resignation from Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church after he admitted an affair.
Donald Trump and the preachers he resembles
By David P. Gushee — March 9, 2016
How the worldly Donald Trump dazzles many Christians by resembling their favorite preachers.
Franklin Graham wants your heart, not your vote
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — March 1, 2016
(RNS) Franklin Graham, the hellfire evangelist who's turning election-year rallies into prayer meetings, quotes his daddy -- and Donald Trump.
Wheaton College, Doc Hawk, and a whole heap of trouble
By David P. Gushee — January 7, 2016
It's a chilling story, about a tenured Christian college professor offending a politically conservative white evangelical constituency.
