Read an excerpt from Graham’s 2011 memoir, Nearing Home: Life, Faith and Finishing Well. It’s posted by Christianity Today.

Read a Baptist minister’s Oct. 19, 2012, commentary about Billy Graham’s comments in the 2012 presidential election.

Michael N. Allen is senior pastor of Uptown Baptist Church, a multicultural Southern Baptist congregation in Chicago. The church has an English-speaking congregation that’s about half Anglo, half people of color. It also has congregations that worship in Spanish, Russian and Vietnamese, along with two West African congregations.

Herbert Cooper is senior pastor of People’s Church in Oklahoma City. This Assemblies of God congregation, started in 2002, draws about 1,400 people to worship on a weekend – about half black, about 40 percent white. Contact through the website.

The transcript of a 1983 oral history interview with Graham is posted by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas.

Curé d’Ars is a Catholic congregation in Denver. This multiethnic parish, in what was once a predominantly white neighborhood, uses music and a worship style with a strong African-American flavor. The Rev. Simon Kalonga is administrator.

Bethany United Church of Christ in Seattle. Bethany was founded in 2000 at the site of a previously dying Anglo congregation in the diverse Beacon Hill neighborhood, as an intentionally multicultural, multiracial and multigenerational church.

Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass., which Graham co-founded, has archival photos of Billy Graham and his family available for digital transfer. Contact through the website.

The website of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has a media resources page that includes biographies and photos. Email through the website.