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This is by no means to suggest that such illumination is not to be had from examples in different world literatures, nor is it to absolve us of our responsibility as world citizens to study other cultures. But I believe it safe to say that, for Americans of today, the...
For a book so full of grace, the Bible is remarkably tough on sons, especially the firstborn. There is Isaac, son of Abraham and Sarah, who barely escaped becoming the bloody covenant of his father's faith. Esau, who traded away his birthright for a mess of pottage. And the...
"God's not finished with him," insists Franklin of his father. "He's a warhorse. Daddy in his latter years is having some of his biggest meetings. He set the attendance record for the SkyDome in Toronto. He set the attendance record for the Georgia Dome. Broke it." And then...
Between father and son, there are differences in style. If the father is known for the plainness of his preaching--what made him absolutely impossible to ignore was not his turn of phrase or his way with a parable, but his utter, breathtaking conviction--then the son's style is...
Additional bones of contention were the $40 million of B.G.E.A. money that Franklin, as a board committee chairman, directed toward the Cove, a beautifully appointed Bible-study center in Montreat that is the only brick-and-mortar institution Billy built to outlast him; and Franklin's insistence that the B.G.E.A...