‘How Great Thou Art’: A new ending for a Christian classic on 75th anniversary of famed English translation
“When we approached all the people to be part of it, we had a lot of green lights very quickly,” singer Matt Redman said of participating recording artists. ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, reports…
The Interview: Anne Graham Lotz, Rachel-Ruth Lotz Wright on End Times, their health, their ministry
The daughter and granddaughter of Billy Graham are out with their second joint book, ‘Preparing to Meet Jesus: A 21-Day Challenge to Move from Salvation to Transformation’. ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, spoke with them…
This Life: Prayer is our most powerful weapon
US columnist CAROL ROUND looks at the importance of prayer when we confront situations outside of our control…
The Interview: Anne Blue Wills, author of ‘An Odd Cross to Bear: A Biography of Ruth Bell Graham’
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, speaks to Anne Blue Wills about her new biography of Ruth Bell Graham…
A new Billy Graham archive opens on the late evangelist’s birthday
United StatesRNS In the twilight of his 99 years, Rev Billy Graham met with Duke Divinity School historian Grant Wacker, who was writing a biography of the famous evangelist. Graham leaned over at one point and, according to Wacker, asked the him, “’Do you think the archives at Wheaton are well run?’” I said, ‘Yeah. They are,.’” […]
Sight-Seeing: And God saw that it was good – creation care and why our silence is deafening
MATTHEW SMEAL explores why so many Christians are quiet on the issue of climate change…
On the Screen: ‘PALAU: The Movie’ an under-stated but inspirational approach to telling the story of an evangelist who reached millions
DAVID ADAMS watches a biopic about the life of late evangelist Luis Palau…
US evangelist Franklin Graham undergoes heart surgery at Mayo Clinic
Boome, North Carolina, USAP Evangelist Franklin Graham successfully underwent a specialised heart surgery on Monday to treat a condition which had developed in recent months, a spokesman said. In this 7th May, 2020, file photo, the Rev. Franklin Graham, president and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse, sits for a portrait at his group’s field hospital in […]
Billy Graham’s grandson Jonathan Lotz, son of Anne Graham Lotz, in hospital with COVID-19
RNS Jonathan Lotz, the grandson of evangelist Billy Graham and son of Bible teacher Anne Graham Lotz, has been hospitalized and is in critical condition with COVID-19. His mother announced her son’s illness via social media and asked for prayers for him. “Fifty years ago I could hold my son in my arms. Now I […]
Billy Graham’s 1940s cottage in North Carolina is listed for sale at $US600,000
RNS If you want to buy a piece of American religious history, then — as Billy Graham might have said — the time is now. A North Carolina cottage that the famed evangelist and his wife, Ruth Bell Graham, once called home is for sale. The Grahams bought the four-bedroom house at 198 Mississippi Road […]