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...longer than this sentence). In the book world, a surprise hit this year has been Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure. The book, which features entries culled from more than 25,000 submissions on smithmag.net begins with children's advocate Robin Templeton's "After Harvard, had baby with crackhead" and includes superchef Mario Batali's "Brought it to a boil often...
...true story of Graham's encounter with Templeton is fascinating and critical in understanding the ministry that followed - just not in the way Hitchens describes. Like Graham, Templeton was young and handsome; he was also the more talented preacher. But his growing spiritual questions led him to leave the sawdust trail in 1948 for Princeton Theological Seminary to put himself through a kind of theological boot camp. He tried to talk Graham into coming with him; Graham's unquestioning faith in the literal truth of the Bible, he said, amounted to intellectual suicide. He tried to phrase it in Graham...
...Templeton was actually pressing Graham to modernize his ministry, make it more commercially viable. What could be more tempting - to a rising preacher trying to reach young people, a preacher who stressed being approachable and relevant - than to tailor his theology to the tastes of the times, especially if the latest scholarship allowed wider appeal? But for Graham this was not an option. He felt that he could either believe the Bible or leave the ministry. "It was not too late to be a dairy farmer," he concluded...
...preach it, without apology. In years to come critics like Reinhold Niebuhr would challenge his preaching as too simple, too far removed from the complexity of the human condition. But not even Niebuhr questioned the sincerity of Graham's faith or motives. And neither, contrary to Hitchens, did Templeton. "I disagree with him profoundly on his view of Christianity and think that much of what he says in the pulpit is puerile nonsense," Templeton wrote in his memoirs. "But there is no feigning in him: he believes what he believes with an invincible innocence. He is the only mass evangelist...
...Templeton Memoir...