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William Franklin Graham Jr., known to all the world as Billy, is now 80 years old, and has been our leading religious revivalist for almost exactly 50 years, ever since his eight-week triumph in Los Angeles in the autumn of 1949. Indeed, for at least 40 years, Graham has been the Pope of Protestant America ... Read More

Billy Graham Articles

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Religion: The New Evangelist

Oct. 25, 1954

The first one to come forward was a round, sensible-looking housewife with thick glasses. She stood as still and undramatic as if she were waiting to be served at the meat counter. The next was an eleven-year-old boy who kept his head low to hide his tears: a thin girl appeared behind him and put ...
God's Billy Pulpit

Nov. 15, 1993 | By NANCY GIBBS and RICHARD N. OSTLING/MONTREAT

After a lifetime of reshaping Protestantism, Billy Graham contemplates his final years and a legacy that has no sure successor
IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER

May. 13, 1996 | By DAVID VAN BIEMA

FRANKLIN GRAHAM DID NOT WANT TO BE BILLY'S HEIR AND PLAYED THE PRODIGAL INSTEAD. NOW HE IS POISED TO INHERIT THE FAMILY BUSINESS
Billy Graham, Pastor In Chief

Aug. 9, 2007 | By NANCY GIBBS

A new book reveals what Billy Graham learned--and what he regretted--in his 50-year ministry to every U.S. President since Truman
People: PERSONALITY

Nov. 17, 1952

ABOVE the entrance to the specially built 8,000-seat "tabernacle," a banner proclaims: BILLY GRAHAM'S GREATER ALBUQUERQUE CRUSADE. Despite the threatening windy weather which has dusted the nearby Sandia Mountains with the season's first snow, some 7,000 people are already waiting in the steel and tar-paper structure—the largest indoor gathering ever assembled in Albuquerque. A Plymouth ...