Billy Graham's Legacy in Serious Question

[Sandy]

[David Flick]

[Stephen Fox]

They sadden me.

David do tell Effie and your daughter about The Heathen School by John Demos. give them a chance. I think they may like it even if you persist in your ignorance and comic books.

[Stephen Fox]

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archi ... an_nation/

[Stephen Fox]

http://billygraham.org/decision-magazin ... -warriors/
Also see public policy discussion about the Life and Liberty seminar at FBC Spartanburg, S.C. Where Billy Graham's currently has membership

[Sandy]

Just because a particular organization rents a church facility for a conference does not lead to the conclusion that one of the church's members specifically endorses it. It is completely irrelevant that Billy Graham is a member of the church whose building is being used for the Life and Liberty conference. You need to be consistent with the Baptist philosophy you express in which no one Baptist speaks for any other Baptist, and apply that to Billy Graham. His membership in FBC Spartanburg constitutes no particular endorsement of any specific church policy, doctrine, or statement.

[Stephen Fox]

Among scholars of the evangelical experience in America whom I am convinced would see Sandy's misleading view of priesthood of believer and what's going on with the seminar at FBC Sburg as sophomoric at best ARE:

Notre Dame's Mark Noll

Dartmouth's Randall Balmer

Wake Forest President Nathan Hatch

Darren Dochuk

Dan Williams

Steven Miller. Miller recently wrote of the relationship between Nixon and Billy Graham

[Sandy]

[Stephen Fox]

I raised ten per cent reservations on her facebook wall where I saw this about 20 mins ago:

https://www.facebook.com/worthen?fref=nf

[Stephen Fox]

Cumming whose father was Marshall Frady's boos at Newsweek in the 60s has a jewel of a piece in the fall 2014 Literary Journalism Studies mag about the creation of the Frady 79 bio of Graham. The Bgea fought him over technicalities.

Cumming says Frady found in Graham a "distilled" innocence reflecting the immaturity of post war America that was a danger to the Christian faith.

Sandy, read the article for context.

Here is Molly Worthen's piece that went up today on her facebook wall

http://www.thenation.com/article/196969 ... oilerplate

[Stephen Fox]

www.foxofbama.blogspot.com

[Stephen Fox]

http://video.foxnews.com/v/406384124700 ... show-clips

[Stephen Fox]

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolit ... -the-world

Listen to the the end of this interview when Nixon consider's his line of succession.

Agnew

A Drunk

Plantation man James Eastland of Mississippi

And the German Henry Kissinger

All Sanctified by Billy Graham

[Stephen Fox]

I heard Billy's grandson Wil preach on TV this morning from 1st Samuel. If tempted you could almost past him off as a polished up bumpkin, but I found myself moved by his humility, honesty, authenticity and love for the Gospel. I hope he read Molly Worthen, but for a moment this morning there was some redemption for his father's network to the Nixon administration and Harry Dent's Southern Strategy.

[Stephen Fox]

http://www.albertmohler.com/2015/05/18/ ... -wacker-2/

Mohler tells Wacker Graham much more involved in the fundy takeover of the SBC than Wacker coulda imagined, nor reported.

Graham shyed away from entanglements over inerrancy. Didn't seem to phase Mohler though Mohler's whole career stands on inerrancy, though Mohler says its not the whole story

Mohler says in 93 Graham told him Mohler; Graham made it clear that he expected Moher to stand for inerrancy . And Mohler mentions in 84 and 87 Graham took the fundy side in the SBC takeover. Wacker begs off the significance. Wacker said he never consciously dissimulated.

Wacker says Graham was conservative but didn't want to break fellowship. I think WAcker is naïve. Mohler also pushes the question and suggests Graham more calculating.

Mohler pushes to document entrepreneur and architect. Mohler promotes Carl Henry

[Stephen Fox]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc ... ce/398924/

[Stephen Fox]

Franklin has come to Wheaton's defense

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc ... or/421029/

And Stephen Holmes took Franklin's measure at ed.com earlier this week. The facebook chat on ed.com home wall is interesting.

[Stephen Fox]

was big influence on the fundamentalist side in the SBC takeover.

As such he swims in this conversation with Russ Moore and Al Mohler on his alma mater, Wheaton

Also see evolving chat at SBC Trends

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/20/460496144 ... n-theology

[Stephen Fox]

https://syndicatetheology.com/commentar ... t-history/

[Stephen Fox]

Most exhaustive Ive seen to date.

Still looking for Miller's presentation on Frady on Graham, Through Welkin Eyes.

But for the record

And it is my understanding Harvard Press is to publish an anthology of this event but I can't find it to date. I have the Furman Library looking

http://www.resourcingchristianity.org/s ... _Essay.pdf

[Stephen Fox]

Pierce repeatedly invokes Frank's name about the underbelly of the religious right in his most recent blog on the eve of our 2016 Presidential election at Nurturing Faith.

[Stephen Fox]

Doug Cumming is the son of Joe Cumming the Newsweek bureau chief in Atlanta in the 60s where Furman grad(63) Marshall Frady blossomed. Having access to Frady's papers in the Emory archives. Doug wrote this portrait of the process of Frady's magisterial bio of Graham Parable of American Righteousness in 2014

http://journalism.wlu.edu/CUMMING-Frady-Graham.pdf

[Stephen Fox]

https://friendsofjustice.wordpress.com/ ... -religion/

[KeithE]

[Stephen Fox]

in light of the recent conversation about the Sarah Pulliam Bailey piece in the Wash Post about the complicated billy Gees. It failed to consult Randall balmer and she is catching flack on her facebook wall about that, but it did reveal that Billy's granddaughter Jerushah Tchvidjian is straying off the Trump Reservation if ever so slightly

Nelson Bell who prohibited Christianity Today from covering the Selma march in 1965

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivis ... e-fathers/