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...many cruel cusps atop which life obliges us to teeter, none is more razor-sharp than the one separating childhood and adolescence. Just ask Dawn Wiener (Heather Matarazzo), better known to her fellow students at Benjamin Franklin Junior High as "Wiener Dog." Built like a badly packed shipping carton, afflicted with thick, round glasses and tightly skinned-back hair, she was born to be shunned and taunted in approximately equal measure...
...Things have changed since Billy Graham's day. Franklin Graham's presentation is so refreshing. He's the coolest evangelist around." DANA RIMBACK Joelton, Tennessee...
...appreciated your cover story on Franklin Graham, who is assuming leadership of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, succeeding his father [RELIGION, May 13]. But to call Franklin a "somewhat limited man" lacking "curiosity" about "intellectual and theological" matters is an unfair assessment of him. Anyone who knows him well, as I do, will tell you he possesses a breadth of experience and an insight into global affairs that are uncommon among many world leaders. Through his numerous trips to the Middle East and through dealings in other international hot spots, he has developed a working knowledge of important issues. Granted...
...most disheartening part of Franklin Graham's rise to power was the brief mention of his sister Anne Graham Lotz, one of Billy Graham's three daughters, "an inspirational speaker and long considered the child who inherited the greatest share of Billy's gift." It is obvious that no one--not herself nor her father nor his organization--even considered Lotz to be the one to whom the "mantle may be passed." Instead it was forced on the son, the rightful male heir, according to some patriarchal notion of manifest destiny. Perhaps today's preachers should be as mindful...
...Franklin Graham was not really a rebel. He did kid stuff, like drinking, smoking and wearing his hair long. To rebel intellectually is much more difficult. Franklin, like most Americans, was taught at an early age to believe in mythologies and spirits. While not embracing his father's Evangelicalism until he was 22, he was never a nonbeliever. Had Franklin truly rebelled, he would have read philosophy, embraced biology and science and chosen his own value system based on empirical observations of the real world. RAYMOND R. ACKERMAN Culver City, California...