A new Billy Graham archive opens on the late evangelist’s birthday

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“The new two-story building, constructed with the latest preservation standards and environmental controls, cost $13 million. It unites all of Graham’s records — not only from the Wheaton archive but from Minneapolis, where he started his formal ministry” - RNS

Billy Graham Gets State-of-the-Art Archive

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“Bruce oversees a state-of-the-art monument to the preservation of that history: a 30,000-square-foot, $12 million archive. It will open on November 7, Graham’s birthday” - CToday

Billy Graham archives to move from Wheaton College to his North Carolina library

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“The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association announced the decision about the transfer of the evangelist’s papers and the association’s archives on Thursday (March 28). ‘This is part of our continuing consolidation in Billy Graham’s hometown,’ said evangelist Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the BGEA.” - RNS

Embargoed Billy Graham documents to be released

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“Starting Monday (March 19), two new collections about his ministry, including notebooks documenting Graham’s personal relationship with each U.S. president from Harry S. Truman to Barack Obama, will be opened to the public” BPNews

Theology Thursday - Billy Graham on Ecumenical Evangelism

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In the Summer of 1957, Billy Graham came to Madison Square Garden in New York City. In this excerpt from his autobiography,1 Graham discussed the opposition he received from fundamentalists prior to this Crusade, and his own reasoning for doing ecumenical evangelism:

Opposition also came from a few in the Roman Catholic and Jewish communities, although I had made it clear I was not going to New York to speak against other traditions or to proselytize people away from them. My goal instead was to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ as it was presented in the Bible and to call men and women to commit their lives to Him …