This month marks the 75th anniversary of Billy Graham’s first major evangelistic crusade. It was held in Los Angeles. On Sept. 25, 1949, the 30-year-old blond evangelist stood on a platform in a ...
Here's a look back at some of his most memorable moments: September 1947: Billy Graham's first city-wide crusade in Grand Rapids, Michigan, followed through the years by more than 400 crusades across ...
PASADENA, Calif. - The nation was still recovering from World War II when a little-known minister pitched a tent over a sawdust floor in downtown Los Angeles and began preaching a powerful message of ...
Other Facts: Grew up on a dairy farm near Charlotte, North Carolina. Graham has been listed by Gallup as one of the "Ten Most Admired Men in the World" more than 50 times. Has met with every US ...
Billy Graham was having doubts -- in his ministry, in his rock-ribbed Christian faith, in himself. At age 30, he was president of a small Christian college in Minnesota. But he was better known as the ...
MONTREAT, N.C. (AP) — The Rev. Billy Graham, who transformed American religious life through his preaching and activism, becoming a counselor to presidents and the most widely heard Christian ...
Uta A. Balbier’s ambitious book chronicles how evangelist Billy Graham became a transatlantic household name—one recognizable in the capitals of the United States, Britain, and Ger­many—on his way to ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – A frail Billy Graham, using a walker and leaning on his son Franklin, was honored Thursday by three former American presidents as they dedicated a museum built to be a “living ...
Is there a psychological explanation for the phenomenal success of evangelical preacher Billy Graham, often described as the Protestant Pope? Elliot Berger recently obtained his PhD from the ...