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September 21, 2018

'Unbroken' sequel puts faith at the centre

Will Graham plays his grandfather, Billy Graham, in Unbroken: Path to Redemption.

SAN DIEGO – Almost four years ago, Louis Zamperini’s life story received its first big-screen treatment.

Published in Arts News
March 3, 2018

Last crusade: Thousands attend Rev. Billy Graham's funeral service in "canvas cathedral"

Pallbearers carry the Rev. Billy Graham's casket during his funeral service in Charlotte, N.C., March 2.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Under a billowing white tent and Carolina blue sky, Christian leaders and close friends said goodbye to "America's pastor," the Rev. Billy Graham, during a private funeral service March 2.
Published in International
March 1, 2018

Leaders honour Rev. Billy Graham at U.S. Capitol ceremony

The casket with the body of the Rev. Billy Graham arrives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington Feb. 28.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and congressional leaders paid tribute to the Rev. Billy Graham Feb. 28 in a brief ceremony before the public could pay respects to the evangelist while he lies in honor at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
Published in International
February 21, 2018

Billy Graham, America’s pre-eminent evangelist, dies at 99

San Juan, Puerto Rico — Billy Graham launched Global Mission, the largest evangelistic outreach in the history of the Christian church.
MONTREAT, N.C. – The Rev. Billy Graham, a fiery Baptist preacher who was easily the most famous evangelist of the 20th century and for decades one of the world figures most admired by Americans, died early Feb. 21 at his home in Montreat, according to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. He was 99.
Published in International
June 11, 2017

Book: The rise and fall of the Evangelicals

Clockwise from top left: Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), preacher and theologian, Rick Warren, leader of the Saddleback Church, Billy Graham, towering figure among 20th-century evangelicals, George Whitfield (1714-1770), who was called the father of modern revivalism.

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America, Frances Fitzgerald, Simon and Shuster, 2017, 740 pages, $35.

Although a child of evangelicalism (my father J.H. Hunter was the longtime editor of a magazine The Evangelical Christian), I learned much about the origins and development of evangelicalism from this incisive and fascinating book by Pulitzer Prize winning author Frances Fitzgerald.

Published in Book News
November 16, 2016

Cliff Barrows, Billy Graham’s song leader for six decades, dies at 93

Cliff Barrows, program director for evangelist Billy Graham's crusade in New York on Sunday (June 26). Photo by Michael Falco.

Cliff Barrows, who led songs for evangelist Billy Graham for six decades, died under hospice care in Charlotte, N.C., a memorial website disclosed. He was 93 years old.

Published in International
April 23, 2014

Unlikely allies share a common struggle

Pope Benedict XVI, left, and evangelist Billy Graham.

Ninety-five years old, in failing health, evangelist Billy Graham has summoned his energies to write what will almost surely be his last book: The Reason for My Hope. As I read it, I was struck by the extent to which Graham’s prose carries out the “new evangelism” to which Pope Benedict XVI insistently called the Catholic Church.

Published in Guest Columns