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July 2014

July 04, 2014

Louis Zamperini: A life transformed by … Billy Graham?

Louis Zamperini had an amazing, amazing life. Actually, he had two of them since --...

February 2014

February 20, 2014

Concerning all those ‘fake baptisms’ at Elevation Church

Long, long, ago I covered several Billy Graham crusades or other evangelistic efforts linked to...

February 16, 2014

Seeking the sympathetic critics of Bob Jones University

As any journalist knows, institutions -- secular or religious -- do not like to talk...

November 2013

November 14, 2013

Billy Graham’s 95th birthday bash: Happy or harpy?

In the 1984 hit movie "Sixteen Candles," Molly Ringwald's character, Samantha Baker, awakens on what...

June 2013

June 03, 2013

Pod people: Concerning the IRS and the God squads

It's a basic fact of life in American politics that nothing fires up the non-profit...

May 2013

May 12, 2013

WWROD? Another stab at defining the word ‘evangelical’

Long ago, I asked the Rev. Billy Graham a question that I really thought he,...

April 2013

April 23, 2013

Behold: A pretty fair tribute to George Beverly Shea

Longtime GetReligion readers may recall that I grew up in Texas in the 1960s and...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

BBC probes Johnny Cash’s vague interest in redemption

The late Johnny Cash was a lot of things at the same time, which has...

November 2012

November 16, 2012

Preachers and politics: Be careful out there folks …

Today's digest from the Religion News Service (sign up for this very helpful service, if...