Billy Graham’s 1957 New York crusade: sixteen weeks at Madison Square Garden
In 1957, Billy Graham held a crusade in New York that ran for sixteen weeks, filling Madison Square Garden night after night and drawing a huge…
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Forgotten in America, revived in London: the unusual journey of “To God Be the Glory”
"To God Be the Glory", with words by Fanny Crosby and music by William Howard Doane, was first published in 1875. Ira Sankey used it in…
Written by an invalid who felt useless, sung at thousands of altar calls: “Just As I Am”
Charlotte Elliott, an English woman living with long-term illness, wrote "Just As I Am" in 1835. The hymn became the anthem of Billy Graham's crusades, sung…
A thunderstorm in Sweden, a church bell, and a translation through three languages: the story of “How Great Thou Art”
"How Great Thou Art" began as "O Store Gud", a poem Carl Boberg wrote in 1885 after a thunderstorm in Sweden. It passed through German and…