http://www.vnews.com/Column-How-Will-Hi ... m-15854797I knew he would come through after the funeral.
Retired Mercer Proff Colin Harris, a frequent contributor to ethicsdaily texted me after reading the above Piece: "Balmer gets it; a remarkable analysis". A former assistant to SAmford President Tom Corts said Balmer's piece was magnificent.
Doug Cumming the son of the bureau chief of Newsweek in the mid 60s texted me about Marshall Frady's magisterial 500 pages on Graham in 79, A Parable of American Righteousness; an Egyptian in the Mideast told Frady Graham as an American innocent, was deadly. Comparing him to Melville's Billy Budd in Parable of American Righteousness, Frady connects those dots. An ambitious literary achievement.
Mohler boasting about Graham's enthusiastic assistance with the Takeover is on one of his podcasts, his interview with Charles Marsh about three years ago.
You see in the Balmer piece he talks of Graham's help for Gerald Ford in 76. That same year Ford and Graham called on Yankees star Bobby Richardson to run for Congress. With the financial support of Upstate SC Textile Magnates many of them active Baptist lay leadership, Richardson hit a road block when he came to Gaffney and I asked him a question, the subject of a blog coming soon.
More tripe for Thornton. History for my friends at Davidson, Furman and Wofford!!!!!!!