“But,” Prothero continued in an interview for this article, “they signal what could be growing disquiet about the hijacking of what was once a clearly Christian (and evangelistic) purpose for what is raw Republican politics.” ► Year after Billy Graham's death, son Franklin Graham, grandson Will Graham, poised to lead A time of ‘growing disquiet’Īuthor Stephen Prothero, a professor of religious studies at Boston University, described the grandchildren as “outliers in their own family and in the wider white evangelical community” in their willingness to accuse their uncle of abandoning Billy Graham’s example of non-partisanship by tying his ministry so tightly to Trump. Graham declined to comment through a spokesperson. Although they are not the first among evangelicals to publicly charge Franklin Graham with undermining the memory of his father, the fact that they are bringing the charge from within the family brings powerful momentum to it. In a response to his uncle’s post, Tchividjian wrote with withering sarcasm:īoth have written several books, separately and together, about their grandfather and his worldwide ministry, which was rooted in the North Carolina mountains near Asheville. That was too much for another Billy Graham descendant, his grandson Aram Tchividjian.
Trump was the man for this hour in the history for our nation." My father knew, believed in him & voted for him. "I hadn’t shared who my father voted for in 2016 but because of article, I felt it necessary share now. So Franklin fired back at the magazine with a powerful riposte to his millions of social-media followers: But the insult was compounded by the fact that Christianity Today had been founded by his recently deceased father, Billy Graham, the revered evangelist often called America’s Pastor. To Graham, it was bad enough to read such an attack on Trump. Franklin Graham, the scathing editorial in Christianity Today last year calling his friend Donald Trump “a leader of grossly immoral character” and urging that Trump be “removed from office” was heretical.
0 kommentar(er)
