Word: grahams
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...Graham urged his audience to pray for Presidents no matter what they believe, saying all Presidents needed wisdom. He spoke of his love for Clinton and Carter as well, his "longtime friends. I love them all, regardless of politics and regardless of who stands for what...
...Graham's spiritual message was always consistent, a message of gospel love and Jesus's saving grace, his political message changed profoundly. There had been a time where he didn't hesitate to speak out on the issues of the day, on foreign policy, the economy, court decisions. But he had come to see the cost of discussing the issues that divide people...
...Jerry Falwell's death brought many reminders of what happens when preachers take sides; long ago, Graham had decided to go down a different road. He had gotten way too deeply involved in his friends' campaigns, and he resolved to try and stop diving in. Ten days before his good friend Ronald Reagan was sworn in, Graham told Parade Magazine that "evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left. I haven't been faithful to my own advice...
...letter on global warming and "creation care" as a moral imperative, or when megapastor Rick Warren addresses AIDS and poverty as moral issues, and says, when it comes to politics, "I'm not left wing, I'm not right wing, I'm for the whole bird." Warren cites Graham as his mentor; he has absorbed the lessons that reflected Graham's unprecedented and sometimes painful journey through the inner rings of power. There is a reason why, even now as he resides in peaceful twilight on his mountaintop in Montreat, North Carolina, Graham remains the leader evangelicals say they admire...
...Gibbs' and Duffy's book, The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House, will be published in August...