But almost two decades ago, Graham handed over the keys of the empire to
his son, Franklin. And if you want to chart the troubled recent course
of American evangelicalism—its powerful rise after World War II and its
surprisingly quick demise in recent years—you need look no further than
this father-and-son duo of Billy and Franklin Graham. The father was a
powerful evangelist who turned evangelicalism into the dominant
spiritual impulse in modern America. His son is—not to put too fine a
point on it—a political hack, one who is rapidly rebranding
evangelicalism as a belief system marked not by faith, hope, and love
but by fear of Muslims and homophobia.
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