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Rev. Billy Graham has died at the age of 99. He was one of the most well-known Christian evangelists in the United States and in the world.

is an associate professor of history and political science聽in the Maxwell School at 黑料不打烊. In addition to his impact on the global religious realm, Thompson says in subtle ways, he contributed to social change as well.

Thompson says:

鈥淏illy Graham probably preached to more people than anyone in world history. He was not a learned theologian, but he preached from the heart and his message had a tremendous impact聽around聽the world.

鈥淚n subtle ways, he contributed to social change–refusing to appear before segregated audiences in the American South well before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. His life was not without controversy; to his own acknowledged shame, he can be heard on the Nixon White House tapes聽concurring in some of the president’s anti-Semitic comments. After Watergate, he carefully refused to take positions that were partisan.

鈥淎s an Evangelical who was not a聽Fundamentalist, he reached across lines of demarcation –traveling to the Soviet Union, engaging in ecumenical dialogue with Catholics, etc. He was a major figure of the second half of the 20th century.鈥�

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