Essay: PBS’ Billy Graham documentary captures preacher’s pull and ambition
KEN GARFIELD, who covered Billy Graham for ‘The Charlotte Observer’ in North Carolina, reflects, in an article published by Religion News Service, on a new two hour documentary on evangelist Billy Graham…
In the US, Franklin Graham unfazed after evangelical base blasts him for encouraging vaccines
RNS As Facebook posts go, it was pretty straightforward. “ I have…been asked if Jesus were physically walking on earth now, would He be an advocate for vaccines,” wrote Franklin Graham in a Facebook post. Graham’s answer? “I would have to say – yes, I think Jesus Christ would advocate for people using vaccines and medicines […]
Essay: As the US marked another MLK Day, white evangelicals again have a choice to make on racial justice
In an article adapted from his book ‘The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism‘, JEMAR TISBY, says Martin Luther King, Jr, “saw an indissoluble link between the Christian faith and the responsibility to change unjust laws and policies”…
The Interview: Author Aaron Griffith on how law-and-order evangelicals helped shape the US criminal justice system
YONAT SHIMRON, writing for Religion News Service, speaks with Aaron Griffith, author of ‘God’s Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America’…
The Interview: US author John Compton on why American Protestants moved from championing social reform to resisting it
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, speaks with John Compton, a political science professor at Chapman University and author of ‘The End of Empathy: Why White Protestants Stopped Loving Their Neighbors’…
Billy Graham statue to replace that of white supremacist in US Capitol
RNS A life-sized statue of Rev Billy Graham will be installed in the US Capitol’s Statuary Hall collection sometime next year, replacing a statue of a white supremacist that both the state of North Carolina and the US House want removed. Last week, a North Carolina legislative committee approved a two-foot tall model of the statue depicting […]
Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias dies of cancer at 74
RNS Popular Christian evangelist and apologist Ravi Zacharias died Tuesday morning at age 74, a few months after being diagnosed with cancer. Zacharias rose to prominence in 1983 when he was invited by Billy Graham to speak at the inaugural International Conference for Itinerant Evangelists in Amsterdam, according to an obituary published by the ministry Zacharias founded. […]
Dutch Pentecostal preacher Ben Hoekendijk dies at age 81
Harderwijk, The NetherlandsBosNewsLife Ben Hoekendijk, the Dutch evangelist who became the face of the Netherlands’ post-war Pentecostal movement, has died. He was 81, friends confirmed to BosNewsLife. Hoekendijk, who was in frail health after suffering a stroke, died last week in his hometown of Harderwijk. Dutch evangelist Ben Hoekendijk “He will be remembered as a […]
ESSAY: NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST WAS A MOMENT FOR LEADERS TO SHOW HUMILITY – TRUMP CHANGED IT
In an article first published on The Conversation, DIANE WINSTON, associate professor and Knight Center chair in Media & Religion at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, looks at the history of the National Prayer Breakfast in the US – and Donald Trump’s contributions…
Franklin Graham vows UK tour will go on, after all planned venues back out
RNS Franklin Graham said he will seek out alternative venues for a United Kingdom tour this spring after all eight venues reneged on plans to host the evangelist, saying his views on homosexuality are incompatible with the values of the British people. Graham, who was in London on Thursday to rally churches to his tour, […]