Article: Billy Graham: an appreciation: wherever one travels around the world, the names of three Baptists are immediately known and appreciated--Jimmy Carter, Billy Graham and Martin Luther King, Jr. One is a politician, one an evangelist, and the other was a civil rights leader. All of them have given Baptists and the Christian faith a good reputation.(Biography)

This article focuses on the worldwide evangelist, Billy Graham. My intention in this article is to offer a personal appreciation of Graham from the vantage point of my acquaintance with him for forty years. Many articles and books have been written about him. Some are hagiographic, and others are downright mean and unfair. When one lives to be eighty-seven, there is time for critical appraisal even before one dies. The real story of Billy Graham and his influence on American religious life and indeed on Christianity worldwide, however, will be written by historians at a later date. Probably no evangelist in history has left behind more written material than Graham. He has ...

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