Thousands of Christians and their unbelieving friends will file into Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California on Sunday for Greg Laurie’s Southern California Harvest Crusade. They will be hoping for a good-old fashioned revival. Laurie is the pastor of Harvest Christian...
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...
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOxuBs5sR_s&w=560&h=315] If you had thirty minutes to say something to the most powerful man in the world, what would you say? This is how I started our short series titled “Three Sundays in April.” On April 19, 2020, the...
Religion News Service is running my piece on Billy Sunday. I absolutely love the title they chose and the images they added! Here is a taste: (RNS) — As the United States deals with the social effects of COVID-19, several...
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTVB2FJC-7k&w=560&h=315] In 1950, Billy Graham started a radio show called “Hour of Decision.” Cliff Barrows, Graham’s musical director, hosted the show. It featured Graham sermons and usually ended with a call to make a “decision” to accept Jesus Christ...
Last April, four Wheaton College students were distributing evangelistic literature in Chicago’s Millennium Park. They were doing so in an area of the park that does not allow “the making of speeches and passing out of written communications.” When a...
What is perhaps most disturbing about [Dallas megachurch pastor Robert] Jeffress’s [book] Twlight’s Last Gleaming is the way in which his deeply held passion for sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with others is neutralized by his political agenda. The book...
This is the second time this year that Darryl Hart has agreed with something I wrote. :-)(The first time was here). Here is a taste of his recent post at Old Life: Glad to see John Fea stand up for evangelism (in...
Donald Akenson is Douglas Professor of Canadian and Colonial History at Queen’s University. This interview is based on his new book Exporting the Rapture: John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North-American Evangelicalism (Oxford University Press, 2018). JF: What led you to...
Adam Laats is a professor of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership at Binghamton University. This interview is based on his new book, Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education (Oxford University Press, 2018). JF: What led you to write Fundamentalist U? AL: Over...
Peter Moore is Professor of History at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. This interview is based on his new book, Archibald Simpson’s Unpeaceable Kingdom: The Ordeal of Evangelicalism in the Colonial South (Lexington Books, 2018). JF: What led you to write Archibald Simpson’s Unpeaceable Kingdom: The...
According to Barna, 51% of churchgoers have never heard of the Great Commission. Here is a taste of Barna’s research: In partnership with Seed Company, Barna conducted a study of the U.S. Church’s ideas about missions, social justice, Bible translation...
They should be. Recently I typed the word “hypocrite” and “evangelicals” into a search engine. Here are just some of the articles I found. Nearly all of them are written by non-evangelicals: Focus on hypocrisy: Evangelicals hush on the Trump’s...
I have always been fascinated by this Billy Graham crusade. When I was in divinity school I wrote an M.A. thesis on separatist Protestant fundamentalism in the 20th century. The 1957 crusade was a key part of my story. Over...
James Dobson made a strong case for the moral character of the President of the United States during the Clinton impeachment crisis in 1998. You can read about it here. So did Wayne Grudem. You can read about it here....
Syndicate, a theology website, is running a symposium on Grant Wacker’s America’s Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation. So far Wacker has responded to reviews by Wheaton College theology professor Vince Bacote and Dartmouth College religion professor...
1954: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWO6e29qtq8] British Pathe videos...
1957: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j31ptAfnebo] British Pathe Videos
Recently, while teaching a Sunday School class on American evangelicalism, I was asked who I thought would be the next great American evangelist now that Billy Graham is off the scene. We had just finished discussing the history of revivalism...
Shea and Graham Billy Graham once told the New York Times that without singer George Beverly Shea “he would have had no ministry.” Shea died April 16, 2013 at the age of 104 and Douglas Harrison remembers him in a […]
