In New York, Billy Graham Will Find an Evangelical Force
Posted by tom | Jun 21, 2005In New York, Billy Graham Will Find an Evangelical Force (note also covered in Christianity Today)
"Unlike most of the rest of the country, where the image of evangelical Christians is of people who are white and middle class, in New York City, conservative Christian faith has become quite polyglot.
Fueled by a large influx of immigrants, for example, there are more than 100 African churches in the city alone . . .
But the emergence of evangelical faith is not entirely limited to the working class communities outside Manhattan. Redeemer Presbyterian Church, started in the late 1980's, by the Rev. Timothy Keller, draws several thousand on weekends, mostly young professionals, to its services in Manhattan. The Journey, a Manhattan church that started after Sept. 11, 2001, now draws about 1,000 people to its Sunday services and Bible studies, and has many actors and artists in its congregation."
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My Dad informed me that Billy Graham was on the Today Show this morning and in a rare moment of political expression confessed that he was a Democrat but that he voted on a person-by-person basis. Wonder how the media will deal w/that? Doesn't fit in the conservative evangelical 'right-wing' box . . . and you can't get much more mainstream evangelical than Graham. Wonder how those who are part of the conservative evangelical 'right-wing' box will deal w/that? Lord give us grace to love you, love one-another, and wisely steward the creation. "What are mere mortals thatyou are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?" (Ps 8:4)
Posted by Tom, Jun 23 2005, 09:43