Articles Archive for June 2005
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A recap of Billy Graham’s Sunday Night service in New York City
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Out of curiousity, I have been reading some online articles about a 1973 bank robbery in Sweden that gave birth to something psychologists call the Stockholm syndrome where a hostage begins to identify with and grow sympathetic to his or her captor. This term and concept was also used to explain a case about a woman named Patty Hearst who went from being kidnapped by a radical group to being one of their members and eventually robbed a bank.
As I began reading the stories and analysis concerning the now …
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I would like to do a blog discussion of the book “Mere Christianity” by C. S. Lewis.
From the Back Cover:
Mere Christianity is the most popular of C. S. Lewis’s works of nonfiction, with several million copies sold worldwide. Heard first as radio addresses (on the BBC in the early 1940’s) and then published as three separate books The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality this book brings together Lewis’s legendary broadcast talks of the war years, talks in which he set out simply to “explain and …
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From this FoxNews.com article, The Clintons were present and Bill made a short speech beforehand remembering how Billy refused to preach in a segregated setting in Arkansas until the event was integrated.
Graham also made references to Madonna, Bono, and Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith in his sermon.
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In light of the Billy Graham crusade taking place this weekend in New York City, I had to go back into the archives and find this article I wrote back in October, 2004 and re-address the question:
Is The Days of Mass Evangelism Crusades Over?