Article: Billy Graham's son Franklin speaks mind

Billy Graham's son Franklin speaks mind, doesn't fear fallout

By ADAM BELL AND KEN GARFIELD

Knight Ridder Newspapers

Sunday, February 3, 2002

Boone, N.C. -- Supporters and critics of Franklin Graham agree on little except this: The man who now runs one of Christianity's most famous ministries is no Billy Graham.

Fourteen months after the head of Samaritan's Purse took over from his ailing father as CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Franklin Graham is shaping a $250 million-a-year empire in his own image.

That became clear in November when he announced that after a half- century in Minneapolis, the ministry his father founded would move to Charlotte, N.C.

With Franklin Graham ...

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