The Evangel-ist

The Evangel-ist Billy Graham restored a sense of goodness about the Good News. Philip Yancey

The fundamentalist church of my youth viewed the upstart evangelist Billy Graham with deep suspicion. He invited members of the National Council of Churches—and Roman Catholics!—to sit on his crusade platforms. He seemed soft on communism, especially in his comments about the church behind the Iron Curtain. Perhaps most important, in those days of Jim Crow racism, he insisted on integrated crusades even in white bastions like Alabama. Those suspicions, which now seem quaintly extremist, ...

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