Word: grahamism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high gear last week on an experiment called the North Birmingham Industrial Crusade. Through a three-square-mile area of dour, industrial Birmingham, Potter and his fellow crusaders are swarming in a "saturation campaign" designed to test the chances of evangelizing the segment of Britain that Billy Graham largely failed to reach-the workers. Potter's plan is not to rack up as many "decisions for Christ" as possible, but to stimulate discussion along Christian lines, eventually organize "Christian cells in the factories-Communism in reverse...
...Positive Side. Potter is a Communist in reverse himself. For 15 years he was a leading party organizer in Reading. But in 1953, he reports, "I began to feel a deep unrest." Billy Graham came to England, and Potter decided that such a proficient crowd mover might have something to teach a Communist tactician. His first meeting left him cold, but later, when he attended the baptism of a friend whom Graham had converted, Potter was deeply moved. At a Communist mass meeting in Reading Market Square, Potter turned Red faces redder with the announcement that he had turned Christian...
...Potter quit his factory job, joined an evangelical group called the Workers' Christian Fellowship. Soon, he averaged 12,000 miles and 400 speeches a year. During his travels he met a young Anglican minister called Bruce Reed who was shepherding study and prayer groups of Graham-converted university students...
...Chicago's Graham, Anderson, Probst & White; Detroit's Harley, Ellington & Day, Inc., with Washington, D.C.'s A. R. Clas as associate...
...years Father Lombardi, 48, has been a kind of Roman Catholic Billy Graham, firing hearers all over Italy with new zeal. But Father Lombardi believes that the enthusiasm in the crowds he left behind will not last without continuing leadership. To provide that leadership, he set up a new organization: Per un Mondo Migliore (For a Better World...