July 16 Billy Graham’s TED Talk
Reverend Billy Graham. Photo: Tony Carnes/A Journey through NYC religions Speaking at TED in 1998,...
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by Journey | Jul 16, 2023 | Evangelical Protestants, Retro Flashes | 0 |
Reverend Billy Graham. Photo: Tony Carnes/A Journey through NYC religions Speaking at TED in 1998,...
Read Moreby Journey | Jul 14, 2022 | Retro Flashes | 0 |
Rev. Billy Graham in NYC. Photo: Tony Carnes/A Journey through NYC religions On the steps of...
Read Moreby Tony Carnes | Feb 22, 2018 | Evangelical Protestants, Flushing | 0 |
June 24-26, 2005
Read Moreby Tony Carnes | Feb 21, 2018 | Evangelical Protestants, Flushing | 0 |
70 years ago in NYC, the evangelist wrestled with his faith & decided that he believed Jesus, the Bible, and the evangelical message.
Read Moreby Journey | Jan 16, 2017 | African American, Harlem, Postsecular City, Retros-Personalities | 3 |
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s appearance at Billy Graham’s 1957 evangelistic crusade in NYC infuriated segregationists.
Read Moreby Melissa Kimiadi | Dec 29, 2013 | Biographies, Evangelical Protestants, Jesus the New Yorker, Postsecular City | 18 |
How Midwesterner Mac Pier turned on a power system for evangelical churches. Part 3 in series “Jesus the New Yorker”
Read MoreVideo of Shea singing his signature hymn “How Great Thou Art” at the 1969 NYC Billy Graham Crusade. In the famous 1957 NYC Crusade he sang it 108 consecutive nights. It was probably the first time that Shea sang the song for a television broadcast.
Read Moreby Tony Carnes | Jan 19, 2011 | Diary, Postsecular City | 23 |
The Washington Post UNDER GOD by Julia Duin New Yorkers not so godless Big Apple is...
Read Moreby Tony Carnes | Dec 17, 2010 | Evangelical Protestants, Manhattan, Postsecular City | 2 |
Religion was making a comeback. Name a religion and it had believers in the city, sometimes a lot of them.
Read Moreby Joe Battaglia | Dec 15, 2010 | Evangelical Protestants, Manhattan, Op-ed, Postsecular City | 4 |
In the rocky years of 1978-1979 several things worked together to create a sense of renewed possibilities for church growth.
Read Moreby Tony Carnes | Dec 3, 2010 | Evangelical Protestants, Manhattan, Postsecular City | 1 |
The decline of the evangelicals was peculiar to a fifty year period in the mid-20th Century within the city’s almost four hundred year history. Evangelicalism predominated in the 19th and early 20th Century.
Read MoreDon’t worry. We will get to them down the road.
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