Presiding Bishop Michael Curry has issued this tribute to the Rev. Billy Graham after the evangelist’s death: The phrase “a big tent” is often used to suggest gracious openness and respect for varieties and diversities of people and perspectives. It reflects the sentiment of the old spiritual that says, “There’s plenty good room in my Father’s kingdom.” The crusades and … [Read more...] about ‘There’s Plenty Good Room’
Archives for February 21, 2018
Rose Keeps Sewanee Honor
The University of the South, better known as Sewanee, last week declined to revoke the honorary degree it gave in 2016 to Charlie Rose. The veteran TV journalist was fired the following year by three news organizations after allegations of years of sexual harassment of female subordinates. Sewanee is the only university in the United States that is owned and governed by … [Read more...] about Rose Keeps Sewanee Honor
Walking Billy Graham’s Sawdust Trail
By Douglas LeBlanc For about the first decade of my life, nearly everything I thought about God centered on St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Baton Rouge, which in those years was a broad church with a spice of Anglo-Catholic piety. I served as an acolyte for years, and worked to look very pious each time I donned a black cassock and white surplice. I fantasized about a … [Read more...] about Walking Billy Graham’s Sawdust Trail
Rise in Glory: Billy Graham
Marshall Shelley writes for Christianity Today, the magazine Billy Graham helped create in 1956, about the evangelist’s death at 99: Billy Graham was perhaps the most significant religious figure of the 20th century, and the organizations and the movement he helped spawn continue to shape the 21st. During his life, Graham preached in person to more than 100 million people and … [Read more...] about Rise in Glory: Billy Graham