CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Though long-assumed, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has given its first official word that the ailing evangelist would no longer hold crusades. The association said in a ...

“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, ...

In the summer of 1941, Ruth McCue Bell, a 21-year-old college graduate with a razor-sharp mind, made a decision that today might seem, as they say in her adopted state of North Carolina, somewhat ...

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 ...

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 ...

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Rev. Billy Graham would like to give one more sermon. That, everybody can agree on. But there appeared to be mixed signals coming out of Graham's family this week over whether, ...