“Lion in winter: Billy Graham, hearing and sight failing, pays a visit”
Read an April 1, 2010, Charlotte Observer story about a visit by Graham to the library that bears his name.
Read an April 1, 2010, Charlotte Observer story about a visit by Graham to the library that bears his name.
Jacqui Lewis is senior minister at Middle Collegiate Church, a multicultural, Reformed Church in America congregation in New York City. Lewis has written that multiracial and multicultural congregations “help us to rehearse the Reign of God here on earth.”
Read a Christianity Today Q-and-A with Graham, posted Jan. 21, 2011, in which he expressed regret for some of his past political involvements.
The Rev. Anita Hendrix is pastor of Hunting Ridge Presbyterian Church, a multiethnic congregation in Baltimore affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Her congregation is about 60 percent Anglo, with others of African-American, Caribbean, Asian and African heritage.
Imam Muhammad Musri leads the Islamic Society of Central Florida, a mosque in Orlando whose members come from more than 30 countries. Located in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood, the mosque is seeing an increasing number of Latino converts and now offers a Spanish-language program for women.
Oakhurst Presbyterian Church in Decatur, Ga., a congregation that’s committed to diversity and whose membership is about half white and half black. Contact pastors Nibs (Gibson) Stroupe and Caroline Leach. Together they wrote O Lord, Hold Our Hands: How a Church Thrives in a Multicultural World, and Stroupe is a co-author of Where Once We Feared Enemies: Inclusive Membership, […]
See a May 15, 2011, Newsweek article about conflicts among his offspring over protecting their father’s image and the family name.
Temple Israel of Greater Miami is a progressive, inner-city congregation and the oldest Reformed congregation in Miami – states on its website: “You want diversity? Some of our services are a tropical tzimmes of languages: English, Spanish, and Hebrew, with a little Yiddish, Ladino and Aramaic thrown in for good measure.” The congregation also is […]
Read a May 17, 2011, post by Stephen Prothero on CNN’s Belief blog. The Boston University religion scholar praises Billy Graham as “a powerful preacher of the gospel” but calls his son Franklin “a political hack.”