For decades, Billy Graham was perhaps America's most famous religious figure, someone who could draw hundreds of thousands to evangelistic “crusades,” someone picked by president after president to pray at inaugurations. If America had a pastor, Graham was it.
Yet as he aged — he's now 98 and ailing — members of this evangelical royal family began to form their own views. Now as Graham's son, Franklin, prepares to participate in the inauguration of Donald Trump, the views among Billy Graham's descendants reflect tensions that have flared anew with the election over the proper role of Christianity in public life.
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