“Billy Graham, Pastor In Chief”
Read an Aug. 7, 2007, Time magazine profile of Billy Graham.
Read an Aug. 7, 2007, Time magazine profile of Billy Graham.
Stephen Um is the senior minister of Citylife Presbyterian Church in Boston. He also is an adjunct faculty member at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and at Emerson College. Citylife, a multicultural congregation affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America, was started in 2002 as part of the network of the Redeemer Church Planting Center in New York and now has more […]
Read an Aug. 26, 2008, story in The Christian Post about Franklin Graham’s criticisms of a movie about his father’s early years. Franklin’s sister Gigi Graham Tchividjian took issue with his remarks and helped promote the film.
Peter Skerry is a political science professor at Boston College. During the 2006-07 school year, Skerry was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, where he worked on a book about how a distinct Muslim identity is emerging in the United States – influenced by the presence of Muslims from Arab, South Asian and African-American backgrounds.
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.”
Richard Alba was a professor of race and ethnicity in the sociology department of the State University of New York at Albany. He is co-author of Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration and can speak about the impact of immigration and ethnic identity on religious life.
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.
See a May 15, 2011, Newsweek article about conflicts among his offspring over protecting their father’s image and the family name.