https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to Billy Graham en https://religiondispatches.org/2021/10/04/who-killed-mars-hill-church-theres-one-suspect-evangelicals-simply-arent-prepared In the fall of 2014, Mark Driscoll resigned from his position as pastor of Mars Hill Church, a multi-campus megachurch in and around the Seattle area. Boasting membership in the thousands, Mars Hill was viewed widely among evangelicals as a… Mon, 04 Oct 2021 04:32:32 EDT Cavan Concannon f65b6263-1a59-415f-843f-c402cdf2ea3b https://religiondispatches.org/2021/06/14/roots-white-evangelicalisms-crisis-are-white-evangelical-churches-not-republican In recent months, the Southern Baptist Convention has faced a steady stream of high-profile defections, including black pastors such as Charlie Dates , popular Bible teacher Beth Moore , and Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission President Russell Moore. The recent… Mon, 14 Jun 2021 10:36:35 EDT Jesse Curtis ac2f8782-8510-45db-8968-ee1c8e127a82 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/03/10/im-not-here-fix-evangelicals-show-them-who-they-are-interview-author-white-evangelical For readers of RD, Anthea Butler scarcely needs an introduction. Since 2009, shortly after RD’s launch, Anthea has contributed well over 100 pieces on topics as wide-ranging as the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church and the Politics of… Wed, 10 Mar 2021 05:41:29 EST Chrissy Stroop 7efcb2cc-9a55-4dd8-b226-237dc14b2d37 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/02/27/metoo-and-problem-billy-graham-rule Billy Graham, Sunday School teacher, failed salesman, and cold-war fear-monger died last week at the age of 99. In the dozens of obituaries making the rounds on social media, you will seldom see one that describes him as such. When… Tue, 27 Feb 2018 08:02:46 EST Sara J. Moslener 0344be02-e908-419e-b4c1-b48e220c94d2 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/02/22/billy-graham-and-gospel-american-nationalistic-christianity Billy Graham’s death on the same day as the anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X is an interesting postscript to the life of America’s premier evangelist of Americanism. It would take an outsider to deftly articulate Graham’s mission. In… Thu, 22 Feb 2018 01:20:21 EST Anthea Butler c3ad26e3-4521-4d32-96f2-09c8c484c727 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/02/21/billy-graham-most-famous-religious-figure-20th-c-dies-99 Billy Graham, by any measure the most famous religious figure of the twentieth century, died today [at his home in Montreat, North Carolina]. He was ninety-nine years old. In a career that extended well over half a century, Graham took a simple evangelical message – give your heart… Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:19:11 EST Randall Balmer f659e9f3-2b80-49cf-b368-6597023eb733 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/06/06/when-muhammad-ali-met-billy-graham How far we’ve come. Mon, 06 Jun 2016 11:47:45 EDT Paul Harvey cd7aa9dd-fb80-4a39-aa15-68f657a98baa https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/02/billy-graham-probably-not-author-his-own-final-chapter In a blog post that made waves in the Christian press last week, Billy Graham warns churches to “prepare for persecution.” Message aside, determining whether or not the nearly 97-year-old evangelist actually issued this warning himself is another matter. A… Mon, 02 Nov 2015 01:54:44 EST Elesha Coffman 653de722-707a-4f0b-8395-d1a8d6330fd8 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/30/huckabee-says-obama-pretending-be-christian Somewhere on the floor of the Arctic Ocean there is a titanium flag on a tiny flagpole, dropped in 2007 from a passing Russian submarine. Recalling the Spanish conquistadores’ arrival on a Caribbean beach, that romantic gesture symbolizes Russia’s territorial… Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:28:39 EDT Carlos Wilton 9cefb9d5-ebb0-4e1b-bbcc-bd7786a80045 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/07/16/i-was-wild-man-how-decode-evangelical-testimony Last month, as many conservative Christians mourned the “collapse of marriage” nationally, one notable evangelical marriage quietly collapsed in Florida. Reverend Tullian Tchividjian (pronounced cha-vi-jin), grandson of Billy Graham (and nephew to Franklin), admitted to an extramarital affair. Though the… Thu, 16 Jul 2015 11:27:08 EDT Eric C. Miller 030a6f7b-9b30-4805-8595-7770e9a57af6 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/10/why-tony-campolos-lgbtq-reversal-evangelicalisms-tipping-point That crashing sound you heard Monday morning was waves of change breaching the levees of the evangelical Christian world when one of its most venerable icons, the Rev. Tony Campolo, came out in favor of full inclusion of LGBTQ people… Wed, 10 Jun 2015 02:19:52 EDT Cathleen Falsani 303ea0ab-caeb-4a14-9eb5-0728627ef71c https://religiondispatches.org/2015/01/09/andrae-crouch-greatest-hymn-writer-our-age-dies-72 Andraé Crouch, the incomparable songwriter, gospel singer and preacher, died in Los Angeles on January 9, 2015 of a heart attack. Billy Graham once said of Crouch that he was “The greatest hymn writer of our age, the modern day… Fri, 09 Jan 2015 04:46:36 EST Anthea Butler 803da2c8-7dba-46f3-815b-f0acfb88324d https://religiondispatches.org/2013/04/30/without-bev-shea-no-billy-graham Shea helped the worshiping faithful understand the purchasing power of Christian consumers as an extension of their piety; as form of devotional practice that encompassed the ordinary pleasures of music entertainment. Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:13:15 EDT Douglas Harrison 53a50ec6-4243-4fea-85b1-9b110303ce5d https://religiondispatches.org/2012/12/27/year-mormons-top-7-stories-2012 Women in pants, gay pride, a certain presidential candidate, and the athletes who probably outranked him in popularity. Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:44:45 EST Joanna Brooks 453ff36b-fc43-41c6-a8f5-34f046cbaaff https://religiondispatches.org/2012/12/10/four-changes-evangelicals-must-make In the process of doing all they could to defeat Obama, self-proclaimed and media-designated evangelicals discredited their message and reduced it to a mere political gospel. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 06:53:29 EST Richard Pierard b3a31ca8-2d8a-46c8-b148-d6a5b7524236 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/11/02/catholics-choose-conscience-over-church Catholics may well decide the election. But I daresay it won’t be because they line up behind the bishops. Fri, 02 Nov 2012 06:46:10 EDT Mary Hunt 79235d6f-5ca7-47d0-b2fb-259f117087d3 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/11/02/electionpocalypse-part-i-christianity As Election Day approaches, the most craven, partisan, dire (and dumb) religious appeals begin to surface. Fri, 02 Nov 2012 06:43:36 EDT Sarah Posner 4f51bf0d-9902-4dd8-b6f9-eca815d4a290 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/10/31/mitt-romneys-prosperity-gospel Mitt Romney’s endorsement by various televangelists obscures the more important ways in which the candidate himself now projects the essence of televangelism. Wed, 31 Oct 2012 02:08:23 EDT Peter Laarman eef47585-cd0f-42b0-a167-2d31ec08128d https://religiondispatches.org/2012/10/15/did-billy-graham-really-tell-romney-hed-help It’s being widely reported, but there’s just one problem… okay, two. There are at least two problems… Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:45:10 EDT Evan Derkacz cfcc2503-7389-4156-b5cc-b214f015c0ec https://religiondispatches.org/2012/07/02/ross-douthats-rosy-old-time-religion In his latest the Times’ conservative Wunderkind Ross Douthat attempts to explain the current crisis as the result of our nation’s departure from orthodoxy. An honest look at the history of orthodoxy and he might see a past rife with the sin and brutality, enforced less by faith than by coercion. Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:17:25 EDT Jerome E. Copulsky 9973c479-a934-44e8-bc24-b22bc97ebd8f https://religiondispatches.org/2012/05/09/straight-people-eat-cake How anti-gay North Carolina celebrates. Wed, 09 May 2012 08:27:19 EDT Sarah Posner 7b0a70bd-5bbc-4d46-9802-4de283aefbfc https://religiondispatches.org/2012/05/08/updated-billy-graham-endorses-north-carolina-discrimination-referendum Announces support for Amendment 1. Tue, 08 May 2012 10:23:13 EDT Peter Montgomery c512a759-af0f-43a1-bb09-fc9059c57a8a https://religiondispatches.org/2011/01/31/billy-graham-regrets-political-involvement-again In a recent interview with Christianity Today, the magazine he helped to found in 1956, Billy Graham expressed regret that he hadn’t spent more time with his family. But he also reflected that he had become too involved in politics. “I also would have steered clear of politics,” the 91-year-old evangelist said. “I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to. But looking back I know I sometimes crossed the line, and I wouldn’t do that now.” Mon, 31 Jan 2011 04:13:21 EST Randall Balmer 3d598074-a67e-42ea-babb-f0e64fe081bf https://religiondispatches.org/2011/01/28/week-religion-haggard-would-identify-bisexual-trademarking-virgin-woman-kills-devil-dog If RD were 21 it would identify as Bisexual too. Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:44:52 EST Michael J. Altman 89834ab1-c530-49e4-a08b-fd5e76976c74 https://religiondispatches.org/2010/10/20/dining-dawkins-humanist-bosom The humanist community assembled many of its leading lights recently to award Richard Dawkins a prize for furthering rational thought. A secular humanist convention is not the witches’ coven that some sheltered theists might expect. I did not see anyone smoking and never heard a profane word. Drinking at the reception was modest by anyone but a teetotaler’s standards, and far less than at the Episcopal fundraiser I’d attended the previous week. Also unlike the Episcopal affair, I did not spot a single same-sex couple. I began to wonder how much fun these people, freed from religion’s rules, were having with their liberty. Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:44:02 EDT Edward J. Larson 343125f1-8bbd-450a-9900-4cbda17383d7