Ruth Bell Graham ... wrote in a 1947 poem: "cry—/ if you must—/ but privately cry; the heart will adjust to being the heart,/not the forefront of life." Now that Billy Graham and his children ...

“An odd cross to bear” is an odd but apt phrase that Ruth Bell Graham used to describe her life ... Wills’s depth of research, including especially her analysis of many of Ruth’s poems, bolsters an ...

(RNS) — Ruth Bell Graham, the wife of evangelist Billy Graham ... And then I used her poems and tried to make it work that way and set her in the context of what was going on with white ...

“Ruth was my life partner, and we were called by God as a team,” says Billy. RUTH BELL GRAHAM ... In 1959, Mrs. Graham published her first book, “Our Christmas Story,” an illustrated ...

But if there was an earthly power who helped both raise him up and keep his feet on the ground, it was his bright-souled, big-hearted wife Ruth Bell Graham ... weekend before Christmas in 1973 ...