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Gibbs and Duffy interviewed Graham four times at his mountaintop home in western North Carolina. Last week they asked him if he'd be willing to share some thoughts about life since Ruth, his beloved wife of nearly 64 years, died in June. His moving reflections, which combine both aching sadness and his continuing sense of mission, are included in this week's cover stories...
After attending one of the crusades, Luce met up with Graham at a dinner that evening. The publisher and the preacher talked late into the night. "I think he was trying to pull me out," Graham later said, "to see if I was genuine or honest...
Luce concluded that Graham was both. In 1954, TIME put Graham on the cover for the first time, calling him "the best-known, most talked-about Christian leader in the world today, barring the Pope." Luce believed that Graham had increased "interest" in religion in America. "I say 'interest,'" Luce wrote to a colleague, "because 'interest' is all a journalist can judge: journalists can hardly, if at all, judge of the quality of true religion." I say amen to that...
...decades, TIME has documented the unique role that Graham has played in American life. He has preached to more people in more places than anyone else who ever lived. At the same time, his private ministry to Presidents, going back to Harry Truman, offers profound insight into the forces that have shaped both politics and religion in America--and the costs and benefits of marrying...
Fifty years later, when TIME editors Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy visited Graham, they saw that the man who has been on countless magazine covers had only three hung on his office wall: the TIME cover from 1954, a 1992 TIME cover called A CHRISTIAN IN WINTER, and THE PRODIGAL SON, our last Graham cover, with his son Franklin, from 1996. Nancy and Michael's book, The Preacher and the Presidents, was conceived after they covered the 2004 election. It is the inspiration for a one-hour ABC documentary on Graham, hosted by Charles Gibson, airing Friday, Aug. 10. Gibbs...