“An odd cross to bear” is an odd but apt phrase that Ruth Bell Graham used to describe her life. Historian Anne Blue Wills effectively argues this point in her biography of Billy Graham’s spouse, ...
Ruth Bell Graham, who pursued a vigorous if reclusive Christian ministry for six decades in the shadow of her famous husband, the Rev. Billy Graham, died June 14 at her home near Montreat, N.C. She ...
The Washington Post: Ruth Bell Graham, The Soul Mate Of the Preacher
With his wife, Ruth Bell Graham, in a coma at home in western North Carolina, the Rev. Billy Graham announced yesterday that she will be buried in the city of Charlotte and not in her beloved ...
When she agreed to marry Billy Graham, Ruth Bell Graham said she knew her life would "be lost in Bill's." For her generation, the pastor's wife was expected to work solely in service to her husband ...
Franklin Graham is very much his own man. He?s the fourth of five children of the Rev. Billy Graham, known for years as “America?s Pastor,” and his wife Ruth Bell Graham, an author and poet who was ...
Ruth Bell Graham, the wife of the late evangelist Dr. Billy Graham, once said that marriage is “a union of professional forgivers.” Her point was that both parties must be consistent in their ...
Religion News Service: A biography of Ruth Bell Graham explores an icon of evangelical womanhood
(RNS) — Graham opposed the women’s rights movements even as she benefited from some of its gains by becoming a public figure sought after as a speaker and writer in her own right. (RNS) — Ruth Bell ...