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Billy Graham

The new Billy Graham archive will open this month

John Fea   |  November 2, 2022

It looks like it will be a professional archive that will gather “the full documentary record” of Graham’s life and work. Here is Daniel Silliman at Christianity Today: When he watched Billy Graham preach, David Bruce couldn’t help but think […]

The Nixon Library has released another recording in which Billy Graham and Richard Nixon discuss Jews and the “Synagogue of Satan”

John Fea   |  October 27, 2022

Back in September we called your attention to a 1972 conversation between Billy Graham and Richard Nixon that was, according to researcher Mike Hertenstein, “quietly posted on the Nixon Library website.” The conversation reveals Graham talking about Jews as part […]

Episode 101: Exhibiting Evangelicalism

John Fea   |  September 12, 2022

Have you visited the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C.? How about the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina? In this episode, historian Devin Manzullo-Thomas, author of Exhibiting Evangelicalism: Commemoration and Religion’s Presence of the Past, helps us make sense […]

Billy Graham to Richard Nixon: Satan was working through the Jews, but Hitler handled it all wrong

John Fea   |  September 11, 2022

The Graham-Nixon conversations were much worse than we originally thought. In late July 2018, the full conversation of a 1972 Billy Graham-Richard Nixon conversation was, according to researcher Mike Hertenstein, “quietly posted on the Nixon Library website.” It was labeled […]

Franklin Graham sounds more like a member of a Trump cult than a Christian leader

John Fea   |  August 10, 2022

Yesterday Franklin Graham appeared on the Trinity Broadcasting Network to offer his opinion on the FBI’s execution of a search warrant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. Watch: Let’s break this down. 00:40ff: The host, Doug McKelway, describes how the execution of […]

Who will be the last Trump evangelical standing?

John Fea   |  June 29, 2022

Today, after watching another day of damning testimony before the House January 6th Committee, I was reminded again of this passage from Grant Wacker‘s biography of Billy Graham: The details of the low-level crime and high-level mendacity that led to […]

Billy Graham’s grandson Jonathan Lotz is in critical condition due to COVID-19

John Fea   |  July 26, 2021

Jonathan Lotz is the son of Anne Graham Lotz. Here is Julian Shen-Berro at the Charlotte Observer: Jonathan Lotz, the grandson of Rev. Billy Graham, is hospitalized and in critical condition due to COVID-19, according to social media posts by […]

Live-tweeting PBS’s Billy Graham documentary

John Fea   |  May 18, 2021

As a historian of American evangelicalism, I thoroughly enjoyed last night’s PBS documentary “Billy Graham: Prayer. Politics. Power.” As as an evangelical Christian, I also enjoyed it. Billy Graham’s message–the Good News–changed my life. I will always have a deep […]