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The Fundamental Difference Between Billy Graham and His Preacher-Son Franklin
I wasn’t prepared to come away with inflated respect and a genuine appreciation for Billy Graham, the famous fundamentalist gospel preacher who dominated such a big part of America’s religious and political landscape for more than half a century.
But after watching the riveting 2-hour documentary on his 99-year life and celebrated career as told by the PBS television series American Experience I came away with more knowledge about Graham and a deeper understanding of religious life in America circa 1950-2018 than when I initially hit the play button on the remote.
To be quite clear — there’s nothing in Billy Graham’s evangelistic sermons nor conservative political views I agreed with. Not then. Not now. I view evangelists as charlatans — no better than, and in some cases far worse than comparable con-artists and fortune-tellers. At least con men don’t pretend to be righteous. Graham was a fire and brimstone Southern preacher who often used fear to shackle unwavering devotion and conjure up mass reverence from subservient followers that enabled him to fabricate an all-too powerful voice in politics that masqueraded as
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5 Hot Books: Meg Wolitzer's Buzzy New Novel, Apollo 8, and More
1. The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer (Riverhead)
With the New York Times headline “Why Now May (Finally) Be Meg Wolitzer’s Moment,” and the rave Times review by Lena Dunham (who met Wolitzer through their mutual mentor Nora Ephron), it seems that clear that Wolitzer’s buzzy new novel is tapping into today’s #MeToo gender activism zeitgeist. The good news is that this politically charged novel is stylishly written, a joy to read, and sure to endure as a work of literature and a mirror of our times. At the heart of The Female Persuasion is a young woman with a queer activist best friend and a feminist icon as a mentor, trying to navigate the world’s rocky shoals toward a capacious, generous version of herself as a feminist.
2. Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon by Robert Kurson (Random House)
Before the Apollo 13 mission Tom Hanks brought vividly to life (“Houston, we have a problem”), there was Apollo 8, a lesser-known mission that was a stunning breakthrough in early American spaceflight. Kurson skillfully chronicles the training and mission of the Apollo 8 astronauts with the keen eye for suspense and adventur
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