The DMN Religion blog has info on Ruth Graham’s funeral services.
The services will be open to the public, with the first 2,000 people getting a seat in the auditorium – others will be directed to three off-site closed-circuit viewing areas.
Question for the day: Do you think there will ever be a couple like Billy and Ruth Graham in America who has the kind of impact they’ve had? Are the days of the large crusades coast to coast over?
Month: June 2007
A logical response to climate change
Christian Conservative has found a logical response to climate change.
Watch it. Think about it. See if you can poke a whole in the logic.
Ruth Graham dead at 87
From the LA Times:
Ruth Graham, the wife of evangelist Billy Graham, who supported her famous husband as he spread the Gospel to millions but dispelled the notion of the demure preacher’s wife with her humor, spunk, poetry-writing and motorcycle riding, died Thursday at her home in Montreat, N.C., from complications of pneumonia. She was 87.
“Ruth was my life partner, and we were called by God as a team,” Billy Graham said in a statement released Thursday.
“No one else could have borne the load that she carried. She was a vital and integral part of our ministry, and my work through the years would have been impossible without her encouragement and support.”
It was Ruth Graham who dissuaded her husband from launching a campaign for the U.S. presidency: She told him she would leave him if he quit his ministry. The American public would not accept a divorced man as president, she warned….
Long before Billy Graham’s legendary 1957 crusade in New York — the beginning of a journey that would take him to 185 countries and territories — she understood that his calling would eclipse her own. The woman who once had dreams of becoming a missionary in Tibet surrendered them for her husband.
“If I marry Bill, I marry him with my eyes open,” she wrote in her journal. “He will be increasingly burdened for lost souls and increasingly active in the Lord’s work …. I will slip into the background…. In short, be a lost life. Lost in Bill’s.”
The couple married Aug. 13, 1943, and had five children. In addition to her husband, Graham’s survivors include her children: Virginia, Anne, Ruth Bell, Franklin (William Franklin III), and Nelson Edman.
ONE Vote ’08
Bono’s ONE Campaign, is encouraging candidates and voters to make debt, poverty and AIDS in Africa a major campaign issue in 2008.
They’ve launched their new campaign with a video on YouTube
CNN/YouTube debates
CNN and YouTube are joining forces for the next round of presidential debates.
Not only is CNN planning on sharing their video footage with YouTube, but YouTube users can submit their own video questions for the debate.
The candidates will not only watch the video question but have to answer them as well.
Anderson Cooper will host the live debates.
The Democratic debate will be July 23rd – the Republican debate will be held September 17.
What would you like to ask the candidates?
Submit your questions online – or just share them with us
Ruth Graham in coma
Ruth Graham, pastor of world renowned evangelist, Billy Graham, has fallen into a coma.
According to a report from the AP, Ruth Graham fell into a coma yesterday, the same day the Grahams announced both Billy and Ruth would be buried at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, NC.
As of this morning a spokesman for the Grahams said she was only semi-comatose but is becoming less responsive to caregivers and her family has joined her at her side.
On Wednesday, her husband had said she “is close to going home to heaven.”
“Ruth is my soul mate and best friend, and I cannot imagine living a single day without her by my side,” said Billy Graham, who is 88 and ailing himself with prostate cancer and Parkinson’s disease. “I am more in love with her today than when we first met over 65 years ago as students at Wheaton College.”