Supposedly, he was still writing an advice column in the Charlotte Observer and the Asheville Citizen-Times. Those are the papers I actually know about. The Observer had a condensed version of his advice. However, until recently it was credited to "Billy Graham's staff". Some answers made it look like he had said what was said because they included recent events.
I figured his son Franklin might have been writing them, or at least pointing the "staff" to craft the message less subtly.
Billy Graham's "Here's My Answer" or "My Answer" ran in newspaper syndication going back to at least the 70s. They could probably be recycled today if you cut out any referfence to current events. Same subjects (No, you can't live with your boyfirnd without a marriage license, etc, etc)
Billy Graham's "Here's My Answer" or "My Answer" ran in newspaper syndication going back to at least the 70s. They could probably be recycled today if you cut out any referfence to current events. Same subjects (No, you can't live with your boyfirnd without a marriage license, etc, etc)
This doesn't add any additional information, but this was on the web site of the newspaper for the area where Graham lived.I'm still in the newspaper business (holds hat out for any small change you can spare) and we still run "My Answer." Some of the letter writers appear to be trying to goad Graham: "If God created everything, why did He create Satan?" and "How come people lived to 500-800 years old only in the Middle East and only in the years the Old Testament was written?" and "Surely you don't believe this stuff!" But no matter how hard they try, Graham won't be trapped and winds up placing the blame on the letter writer for even thinking the thoughts that led to the question. And each reply ends the same way: "Give your life to Christ."
By the way, the syndicate that distributes "My Answer" sent out his "final column" yesterday for use in today's papers. It came with an editor's note saying that Graham had approved the column for use on this occasion. It also said that Graham's column would continue "in some form." Since the syndicate moves "My Answer" in weekly batches, papers that run it still have at least two weeks worth of columns yet to run. I guess we'll see what happens after that.
This doesn't add any additional information, but this was on the web site of the newspaper for the area where Graham lived.
https://www.citizen-times.com/story...ote-billy-grahams-my-answer-column/363025002/
I don't know about that other paper, and I haven't looked, but my paper ran a column the next day and said it would continue to run. The columns will be written by staff from now on.So it looks like that paper is running his farewell column and ending the feature for good, ignoring the future columns the syndicate has already sent out. Interesting, because that means management paid for two or three weeks' worth of columns that will never run, not something you expect in a struggling industry that's focused on making every dollar count. I wonder if the syndicate has offered papers pro-rated refunds if they don't feel comfortable with running a few weeks of posthumous Graham columns.
And the column has been cancelled and replaced with a word game.This is weird. Every day The Charlotte Observer has an explanation of what is being done with the column. The response to the question often gets edited so much, since it has been years since the paper had room to run the entire column, that the explanation sometimes ends up longer what response there is, depending on the length of the question.