Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finished with him," insists Franklin of his father. "He's a warhorse. Daddy in his latter years is having some of his biggest meetings. He set the attendance record for the SkyDome in Toronto. He set the attendance record for the Georgia Dome. Broke it." And then the son is suddenly full of the Spirit. "As our society falls apart, as crime increases, when, as the Bible says, the love of most grows cold, people want to know, Does God care? Am I just here on earth to breathe so many cubic meters of oxygen and eat so many cows...
...Franklin Graham does enjoy preaching. It just took him a while to figure...
...father's. the eyes are not so deep set; the jaw may not be quite so Rushmore ready. But the resemblance, if not deceiving, is striking. The voice, but for being perhaps a semiquaver deeper, is the very one that has moved millions. Yet evidence abounds of the Franklin Graham difference. In his office in Boone, North Carolina, are artifacts not associated with his father: the half-dozen military rifles mounted on the wall. A little way down the road stands his beloved Harley-Davidson Wide Glide. Hangared at a nearby airstrip is the six-seat twin-turboprop Mitsubishi plane...
...solid man, 6 ft. 1 in. and 208 lbs. He is polite, his yes sirs and no sirs bespeaking good breeding, a breeding that might be called hard fought. Franklin's father, always off on a crusade, was a distant if benevolent presence. The boy's rearing was left largely to his spirited mother Ruth. "Stubborn but never villainous" is her description of the result. Franklin began smoking as a child by picking up discarded butts, and it became a potent symbol of rebellion. Ruth at one point attempted aversion therapy by making him smoke a whole pack...
High-spirited sparring gave way to something more sullen when Franklin was sent off to a Christian boarding school on Long Island, New York. "Whatever was expected of the student body, I wanted to do the opposite," he says. "I got a kick of staying one step ahead of the 'law.'" If Billy was the ultimate preacher, then Franklin made a run at being the ultimate Preacher's kid: fighting, taunting the police of Montreat into high-speed car chases and cultivating a fascination for firearms and rock music and a taste for hard liquor. By the time he managed...