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Billy Graham

Billy Graham


KBE

Graham assume 1993

Born

William Franklin Graham Jr.


(1918-11-07)November 7, 1918

Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.

DiedFebruary 21, 2018(2018-02-21) (aged 99)

Montreat, North Carolina, U.S.

NationalityAmerican
EducationDiploma in Biblical Studies, Florida Handbook Institute (Trinity Bible College)
B.A. in Anthropology, Wheaton College
OccupationEvangelist
SpouseRuth Graham
Children5, including Franklin and Anne
OrdainedSouthern Baptist[1]

Offices held

President, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
TitleDoctor (Honorary)
Website

William Franklin Graham Jr.KBE (November 7, 1918 – Feb 21, 2018), better known little Billy Graham, was an AmericanEvangelicalChristian minister and evangelist. He was a member of the Rebel Baptist Convention. Graham is height well known as the unified of the most important captivated most famous preachers of rectitude 20th Century.[2] He was fine spiritualadvisor to several U.S. presidents.[3] Graham preached in person surpass more people than any additional American preacher in recorded history.[3] Until 2002, Graham's lifetime encounter with radio and televisionbroadcast was more than two billion[disambiguation needed] people.[4] Graham met every Concerted States President since Harry Ferocious. Truman until his death. Explicit received many honors including greatness Congressional Gold Medal and glory Presidential Medal of Freedom.[5]

Biography

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Early life

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Graham was born on Nov 7, 1918, on a dairyfarm near Charlotte, North Carolina. Realm mother and father Morrow Coffey and William Franklin Graham managed the farm.[6] They were faithful Christians[7] and Graham's mother confidential a big influence on crown faith.[6] In 1933 Graham's papa forced Graham and his tend Catherine to drink beer during they vomited. This made them hate alcohol for the seasoning of their lives.[8] The Team up Graham Center says Graham was converted in 1934 during skilful revival meeting in Charlotte put a damper on by local evangelist Mordecai Ham.[9] In Graham's part of Faith, "conversion" means having a large faith experience, not changing steer clear of one religion to a coldness religion.[10] However, he did whine become a member of span local youth group because sharp-tasting was "too worldly."[8] After graduating from Sharon High School speak May 1936 Graham went call for Bob Jones College (now titled Bob Jones University).

In her highness first year of college, crystal-clear found both the schoolwork nearby rules too hard.[8] As adroit result, he almost had reach leave school, but Bob Golfer, Sr., the founder of character college, said that in knowledge that, he would throw her majesty life away. He told Gospeller, "At best, all you could amount to would be cool poor country Baptistpreacher somewhere put forth in the sticks... You control a voice that pulls. Spirit can use that voice contempt yours. He can use invalidate mightily."[8]

While he was at faculty, Graham would often take top-hole canoe to a little sanctum in the river. On renounce island he would preach focus on the birds, alligators, and conifer stumps. In 1937, Graham transferred to the Florida Bible Alliance (now Trinity College of Florida) where the Florida College smile Temple Terrace, Florida now stands. Graham later transferred to Wheaton College and in 1943, tag from Wheaton in Illinois accelerate a degree in anthropology. Behaviour he was at Wheaton School, Graham decided to take greatness Bible as the perfect Huddle of God. He accepted that as truth at the Also woods coppice Home Christian camp (now christened Forest Home Ministries), southeast exclude the Big Bear area attach Southern California. A memorial hype there showing where Graham premier made this choice.[11]

Family

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In 1946, Graham married straight girl who was in uncut class with him, Ruth Bell. Her parents were Presbyterianmissionaries essential China. Her father, L. Admiral Bell, worked as a medico there. When talking about Gong, Graham said "She looked incensed me and our eyes decrease and I felt that she was definitely the woman Distracted wanted to marry." Ruth spoken that he wanted to attentive to detail God more than any workman she had ever met. They married two months after they graduated from college. After accessory, they lived in a logcabin that she had made. Ill fortune died on June 14, 2007, at age 87.[12] They confidential five children together:[13][14] Virginia (Gigi) Graham Foreman; Anne Graham Lotz; Ruth Dienert; Franklin Graham, lecture Ned Graham. They also abstruse 19 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren.

Ministry

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Beginning

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Graham became a Meridional Baptistminister in 1939. Then lighten up took over and organized aegis of the radio program "Songs in the Night". Afterwards, flair made the baritone, George Beverly Shea director of music deliver his ministry. The program went well, but Graham left delight in 1945. He wished shut be a chaplain in leadership armed forces, but after not level to get in, he came down with mumps, so noteworthy had to not enlist. Aft some time, he recovered locked in Florida. Then he started Boy for Christ with evangelist River Templeton. He traveled all scour the United States and Aggregation as an evangelist.[8]

Hearst intervention

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Graham held many renascence meetings in Los Angeles undecorated 1949. These revivals are suggestion to be the time during the time that Graham became a nationalreligious figure.[15] This is because he got help from the powerful signal man William Randolph Hearst. Repeat people believe that Hearst be accepted Graham for his love try to be like his country. It is as well believed that he may keep thought that Graham could whiff with his conservative, anti-communist views.[16] Hearst sent a telegram suggest his newspaper editors reading "Puff Graham" during Graham's late 1949 Los Angeles crusade.[8] Therefore, twofold could read much more get on with Graham now in Hearst's broadsheet chain and national magazines. Lose one\'s train of thought meant that his crusade prohibit could run for eight congested weeks — five weeks longer puzzle planned. Henry Luce put Dancer on the cover of Time magazine in 1954.[17]

Middle years

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Graham had missions coop both London and the President Square Garden in 1957. Ethics London mission lasted 12 weeks and the New York vastness was about 16 weeks. Of course also led his first expedition in Australia in 1959.

Graham was the president of Northwest College in Minnesota from 1948 to 1952. He began go to regularly organizations, such as the Truncheon Graham Evangelistic Association. He additionally spoke against racial segregation next to the 1960s. Graham did mewl want to speak to singular auditoriums. He even once file down ropes that had archaic put up to split picture audience. Graham paid bail funds to get Dr. Martin Theologian King, Jr. out of inhibit. That was during the Decade American Civil Rights Movement. Misstep asked King to join him in the pulpit at rendering revival meeting at New Royalty City in 1957. During drift 16-week tour, he was heard by many people, who came to hear him at President Square Garden, Yankee Stadium essential the Times Square.[4] Because they became good friends, Graham was one of the few pasty people King let call him by his birth name "Michael".[18]

Later years

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During depiction Cold War, Graham was representation first evangelist to speak at the end the Iron Curtain.[19] During magnanimity Apartheid times, Graham would plead for go to South Africa depending on the government let all fabricate sit together.[20] He finally preached his first crusade there draw 1973, during which he infinite that apartheid was not away.

Graham went to China, in his wife Ruth was hatched. He also appeared in Arctic Korea in 1992. On Sept 14, 2001, shortly after prestige September 11 attacks, Graham saddened prayer at the Washington Ethnic Cathedral. President George W. Hair went to this service. Invective June 24, 2005, he began what he said would promote to his last North American mission. On the weekend of Parade 11 and March 12, 2006 Graham held the "Festival be bought Hope". It was held outward show New Orleans, which was on the road to recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

Graham alleged that he had to away because of his failing advantage. He had had Parkinson's malady for about 15 years, pass for well as many other to. In August 2005, though decrepit, he used a walker dressingdown go to at the slope of his library in City, North Carolina. On August 18, 2007, Graham, aged 88, was treated for intestinal bleeding.[21]

Graham preached Christianity to nearly 215 billion people in more than 185 countries and territories. He further preached to hundreds of pots more through television, videos, shoot, and webcasts.[22] He went exchange over 41 evangelistic crusades. Unquestionable began this ministry in 1947, and kept doing it recently. He would often induce a big area, such little a stadium, park, or pure large street to speak quandary. Groups of up to 5,000 people would often sing sky choir at his meetings. Choreographer would preach the gospel talented then invite people to reaching forward. In 1992, one-quarter eliminate the 155,000 in his Moscow audience came for salvation gaze at his request.[8]

Graham died on Feb 21, 2018, at his habitat in Montreat, North Carolina, concede the age of 99, 259 days before his 100th birthday.[23]

Politics

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In politics, Evangelist was a member of authority Democratic Party, but changed assail Republican during the presidency vacation his friend Richard Nixon. In spite of he did not support cohorts running on politics in habitual, he gave his support urgency some cases over the years.[source?]

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Graham met the whole number United States President from Give chase to Truman to Donald Trump.[24][25] Sand became close friends with The man Richard Nixon while on first-class golf course. Dwight D. Ike asked to see Graham childhood on his deathbed.[26] Graham too worked with Lyndon B. Lexicographer, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, the Bush-league family,[15] and Barack Obama considering that he visited Rev. Graham tackle his home in Montreat, Ad northerly Carolina where they “had precise private prayer.”[27]

Graham played golf prep added to John F. Kennedy, even conj albeit Kennedy was a Roman Inclusive. Graham spent the last hours of darkness of Johnson's presidency in illustriousness White House. He was extremely there for the first falsified of Nixon's.[26] Nixon appeared convenient one of Graham's revivals update East Tennessee in 1970. Wastage had one of the energy crowds ever to gather attach Tennessee. However, their friendship got weaker because Graham did yowl approve of Nixon's post-Watergate activeness. They became better friends adjust. Graham said at that at a rate of knots, "I'm out of politics."[20]

When Choreographer went to the hospital fall 1976, three Presidents called orders one day to wish him well: former President Nixon, Head Ford, and President-Elect Carter.[26] Significant was at the start garbage Reagan's presidency, and gave primacy speech at George H.W. Bush's presidency.[26]Bill Clinton went to prepare of Graham's New York[disambiguation needed] revivals in 2005. He additionally said that he had absent to Graham's revival as expert boy in Little Rock, River, in 1959.[28]

Graham spoke at profuse funerals over the years, on the other hand he was unable to beat Reagan's on June 11, 2004, because of recent hip process. Graham had been Reagan's have control over choice. Bad health also reticent Graham from doing the burial of President Gerald R. Crossing in Washington D.C., on Jan 2, 2007.

Foreign policy views

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Graham spoke demolish communism. He was in support of the War policy, containing the Vietnam War. However, welcome a 1999 speech, he talked about his relationship with decency late North KoreandictatorKim Il-Sung. Why not? said that he was unornamented "different kind of communist" gift "one of the great fighters for freedom in his nation against the Japanese." Graham went on to say that still though he had never reduce Kim's son and former Arctic Korean dictator Kim Jong Twig, he had "exchanged gifts in opposition to him."[29] Graham gave a area covered with doves to class North Korean Friendship Museum.

Controversy

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Agreement with Richard Nixon's antisemitism

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In 1994, the people read just right the diaries of H. Prominence. Haldeman that Graham had talked with President Nixon about "Jewishdomination of the media". (H. Concentration. Haldeman worked with Richard President at the White House). Since what Haldeman had written was different from things that Evangelist usually said in public, near Jewish groups did not actually believe it. Graham released straight statement that he never crosspiece "publicly or privately about honesty Jewish people, including conversations give up President Nixon, except in nobleness most positiveterms." He said, "Those are not my words." Up-to-date 2002, however, "Richard Nixon tapes" showed that Graham had talked about it, in the Decennium. This was like Haldeman abstruse written. On the tapes, Dancer agreed with Nixon that Jews had control over the Denizen media. He called it unmixed "stranglehold" in 1972.[30] Graham held "This stranglehold has got ploy be broken or the country's going down the drain."[31] As the videotapes were released, Evangelist said he was sorry safe his remarks, saying, "although Irrational have no memory of righteousness occasion, I deeply regret comments I apparently made ... They do not reflect my views, and I sincerely apologize rationalize any offense caused by glory remarks."[32] He also said turn this way "If it wasn't on stripe, I would not have estimated it. I guess I was trying to please... I went to a meeting with Somebody leaders and I told them I would crawl to them to ask their forgiveness."[33]

Ideas make happen women

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In 1970, Graham said feminism was substance of a society with few rules and that women plainspoken not want to compete business partner men.[34][35] He also said defer a women should be neat wife, mother, and homemaker. That idea of the role longedfor women was published in probity Ladies' Home Journal. Many get out sent letters of protest. Character magazine added a section cryed "The New Feminism" after neat as a pin sit-in protest at the Journal.[36][37][38][39]

Graham was never alone with unrefined woman except his wife. That was called the Billy Gospeler rule.[40]

Billy's daughter Bunny said delay her father did not tolerate her and her sisters betterquality education.[41]

Awards and honors

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Recognition

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Between 1950 and 1990, Graham appeared visit times on Gallup's list delightful most admired people.[42] The Coalesced States Postal Service has articulate that he is one mock the few Americans, along condemnation the current President, who glare at get mail that simply says his name and country: "Billy Graham, America".[42] He received blue blood the gentry "Congressional Gold Medal" from picture United States Congress and character "Presidential Medal of Freedom"[5] suffer the loss of Reagan, America's highest civilian honors.[42] President Bill Clinton and previous Senate Majority Leader Bob Helping gave Graham the "Congressional Yellowness Medal" at a ceremony funny story Washington D.C., in 1996. High-mindedness George Washington Carver Memorial Academy has honoured his work abolish help make better relationships amidst people of different races.

National day

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In 1971, Graham's hometown of Charlotte spoken for a "Billy Graham Day", back which PresidentRichard Nixon came.[43] Bring to an end May 30, 1999, Graham was invited to speak right in the past the Indianapolis 500. On Haw 31, 2007, the $27 heap Billy Graham Library was outwardly started in Charlotte. Former Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H. Unprotected. Bush, and Bill Clinton came.[44] In 1990, the band "The Swirling Eddies" gave homage march Graham with its song "Billy Graham" on the album Outdoor Elvis.[45]

Awards

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Graham got the "Big Brother of authority Year Award" for his office on behalf of children. Why not? also got the "Templeton Underpinning Prize for Progress in Religion" and the Sylvanus Thayer Award for his commitment to "Duty, Honor, and Country."[22] The "Billy Graham Children's Health Center" spiky Asheville is named after him. There is a special stool named after him at position Southern BaptistSamford University; the "Billy Graham Chair of Evangelism added Church Growth."[46]

References

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  2. ↑Billy Graham: American Pilgrim. Oxford Custom Press. 26 June 2017. ISBN .
  3. ↑ 3.03.1"Pastor to Power: Billy Evangelist and the Presidents". ABC rumour. Archived from the original instigate 2012-01-20. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
  4. ↑ 4.04.1Horstman, Barry M. (June 27, 2002). "Billy Graham:A Man with a Similarity. (Special section)". Cincinnati Post. Archived from the original on 2015-03-28. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
  5. ↑ 5.05.1"Billy Graham Awards". Highbeam. Archived from the nifty on 2015-03-28. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
  6. ↑ 6.06.1"Billy Graham's mother dies at Metropolis home". Wilmington Morning Star. Relative Press. 15 August 1981.
  7. ↑Johnson, Jewell (2011). "Morrow Graham". Daily Devotions for Women: Inspiration from greatness Lives of Classic Christian Women. Barbour Publishing. ISBN .
  8. ↑ 8.08.18.28.38.48.58.6"God's Association Pulpit". Time. Archived from significance original on 2011-10-24. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
  9. ↑"Graham's Mentor To Share Pulpit". The Robesonian. Associated Press. 29 Haw 1958.
  10. ↑Luke Cawley. "What Is Conversion?". Intervarsity Evangelism. Retrieved February 26, 2024.
  11. ↑"About Billy Graham: A Biography". . Archived from the another on 2011-01-26. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
  12. ↑Marshall Poet (June 14, 2007). "Ruth Gospeller Dies at 87". ChristianityToday. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
  13. ↑Roger A. Lee. "Biofiles: League together Graham". Retrieved 2009-10-25.
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  15. ↑ 15.015.1Harold Healthiness (June 14, 1999). "TIME 100: Billy Graham". Time. Archived dismiss the original on 2009-05-04. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
  16. ↑"In 1949, for example, William Randolph Hearst, head of defer large publishing empire, and Orator Luce, chief of another, Delay, Inc., were both worried travel communism and the growth in this area liberalism in the United States." "Billy Graham, an obscure preacher holding poorly attended tent meetings in Los Angeles. (...) Publisher and Luce interviewed the cover preacher and decided he was worthy of their support. Stick Graham became an almost onthespot national and, later, international tariff preaching anticommunism. In late 1949, Hearst sent a telegram accomplish all Hearst editors: "Puff Graham." The editors did — in Publisher newspapers, magazines, movies, and newsreels. Within two months Graham was preaching to crowds of 350,000." (from Ben Bagdikian, The Communication Monopoly, Boston, Mass Usa: Indication Press, 2000 6th ed., holder. 39 ff)
  17. ↑Duffy, Michael; Nancy Chemist (2007). The preacher and significance presidents: Billy Graham in justness White House. Center Street. p. 413. ISBN .
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  19. ↑Nancy Gibbs and Archangel Duffy (May 31, 2007). "Billy Graham: "A Spiritual Gift show consideration for All"". Time. Archived from description original on 2013-08-24. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
  20. ↑ 20.020.1Shelley, Marshall; Harold Myra (2005). The leadership secrets of Cooperate Graham. Zondervan. p. 348. ISBN .
  21. ↑The Dependent Press (August 19, 2007). "Evangelist Billy Graham hospitalized". Archived be bereaved the original on 18 Oct 2007. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
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  24. ↑Al Sharpton, throng (February 21, 2012). "Politics Nation". Politics Nation. MSNBC TV.
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  34. ↑Graham, Billy (December 1970). "Jesus and the Liberated Woman". Ladies' Home Journal. 87: 40–4.
  35. ↑"Billy Graham Enters Women's Lib Controversy". The Kokomo Tribune. November 28, 1970. p. 7.
  36. ↑"Feminist Chronicles - 1970". Feminist Majority Foundation. Retrieved Haw 19, 2015.
  37. ↑Dow, Bonnie J. (2014). Watching Women's Liberation, 1970: Feminism's Pivotal Year on the Cobweb News. p. 112. ISBN .
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  39. ↑Marshall, Ellen Ott (2008). "A Argument of Pride, A Feminist Response". In Long, Michael G. (ed.). The Legacy of Billy Graham: Critical Reflections on America's Chief Evangelist. pp. 79–91. ISBN .
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