Billy Graham was hospitalized Wednesday with pneumonia, but is "responding well" to treatment, according to his rep.
"Based on test results, doctors for Billy Graham confirm diagnosis of pneumonia, but are encouraged he is responding well to antibiotics," Graham's rep, A. Larry Ross, tweeted on Thursday. Graham's pulmonologist, Dr. Mark Hellreich, also released a...read more
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Length: 56:00
Posted: 10/13/2011
Hour two considers the origins of America's experiment in religious liberty, examining how the unlikely alliance between evangelical Baptists and enlightenment figures such as Thomas Jefferson forged a new concept of religious freedom. In the competitive religious marketplace unleashed by this freedom, upstart denominations raced ahead of traditional faiths and a new wave of religious revivals swept thousands of converts into the evangelical fold and inspired a new gospel of social reform. In a fierce political struggle, Catholic immigrants challenged Protestant domination of public schools and protested the daily classroom practice of reading from the King James Bible. watch
Hour five explores the post-World War II era, when rising evangelist Billy Graham tried to inspire a religious revival that fused faith with patriotism in a Cold War battle with 'Godless Communism.' As Americans flocked in record numbers to houses of worship, non-believers and religious minorities appealed to the US Supreme Court to test the constitutionality of religious expression in public schools. And civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. emerged as a modern-day prophet, calling upon the nation to honor both biblical teachings and the founders' democratic ideals of equal justice. watch