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Billy Graham
January 14, 2021
Matthew Avery Sutton
The Capitol Riot Revealed the Darkest Nightmares of White Evangelical America
How 150 years of apocalyptic agitation culminated in an insurrection
February 22, 2018
Sarah Jones
Billy Graham’s Circus Left Him Behind
Graham transformed American evangelicalism—until it became almost unrecognizable.
February 21, 2018
Sarah Jones
Billy Graham, dead at age 99, transformed American Christianity and the Republican Party.
May 17, 2017
MagazineJeff Sharlet
Pew Research
To understand the political power of evangelicals, we must look beyond the pulpits.
August 24, 2012
Mark A. Noll
A Close Look at How Evangelicals Communicate With God
December 13, 2011
Mark Oppenheimer
Why Are American Politicians Always Switching Religions?
May 19, 2011
Mark A. Noll
Jesus and Jefferson
November 10, 2010
Suzy Hansen
The Global Imam
August 29, 2010
Alexander Zaitchik
Beck on Top
December 13, 2009
John B. Judis
Obama, Niebuhr, and U.S. Politics
November 23, 2009
Isaac Chotiner
Palin Meets with the Grahams!
May 15, 2006
Marisa Katz
A Very Long Engagement
April 21, 2003
Michelle Cottle
Bible Brigade
October 8, 2001
Leon Wieseltier
Clippings
October 8, 2001
Leon Wieseltier
Washington Diarist: Clippings
May 8, 2000
Andrew Sullivan
State of the Union
Why "civil union" isn't marriage.
May 8, 2000
Andrew Sullivan
State of the Union
October 6, 1997
Andrew Delbanco
The Church of Appearances
A review of "Just As I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham"
March 31, 1986
Andrew Delbanco
God's Realist

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