Billy Graham’s US Capitol Statue Unveiled
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“The late evangelist is one of just four Americans who have received the nation’s three highest congressional honors.” - Christianity Today
As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“The late evangelist is one of just four Americans who have received the nation’s three highest congressional honors.” - Christianity Today
“The new two-story building, constructed with the latest preservation standards and environmental controls, cost $13 million. It unites all of Graham’s records — not only from the Wheaton archive but from Minneapolis, where he started his formal ministry” - RNS
“Bruce oversees a state-of-the-art monument to the preservation of that history: a 30,000-square-foot, $12 million archive. It will open on November 7, Graham’s birthday” - CToday
The Grahams lived in the cottage during Billy Graham’s rise to fame in the 1940s. - RNS
“The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association announced the decision about the transfer of the evangelist’s papers and the association’s archives on Thursday (March 28).
“Starting Monday (March 19), two new collections about his ministry, including notebooks documenting Graham’s personal relationship with each U.S. president from Harry S. Truman to Barack Obama, will be opened to the public” BPNews
In the Summer of 1957, Billy Graham came to Madison Square Garden in New York City. In this excerpt from his autobiography,1 Graham discussed the opposition he received from fundamentalists prior to this Crusade, and his own reasoning for doing ecumenical evangelism:
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