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Part 1 in a series of articles based upon the Lausanne North American Listening Call. Ed Stetzer and Josh Laxton Image: Lausanne North America
As you may be aware, the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center also houses the regional offices of Lausanne North America, which is 1 of 12 regions part of the Lausanne Movement. Billy Graham saw the need for evangelicals to unite towards the task of world-wide evangelization. This desire and dream led to the First International World Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne Switzerland in July 1974 and the birth of the Lausanne Movement.
Since 1974, there have been two other World Congresses that have met Manilla, Philippines in 1989 and Cape Town, South Africa in 2010. As part of the process of preparing for the World Congress in 2024 the Lausanne Movement has been hosting listening calls for each region to discuss five questions. Lausanne North American held our listening call on March 3 with close
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Part 2 of Sherelle Duckworth s contribution to our Critical Race Theory series. Sherelle Ducksworth Image: Canva
We are launching a series on Critical Race Theory. It’s an important conversation today, since many are using the description and meaning different things. At the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center, we are committed to help Christians know and engage the culture with biblical discernment, so we are launching a conversation with, well, different views. As Christians, we want to think through these things together, and the series will include not just one opinion, but several.
We started with a positive framing, and will include others who are more negative, and some in the middle. All will come from evangelicals. And, it is important that we hear from people of color, and, in this series, not all people of color will agree. It’s a conversation mature, Christ-like, and God-honoring. We hope it serves you and your church well.
Luis Palau, the âBilly Graham of Latin America,â Dies at 86
He rose from preaching on street corners in Argentina to ministering to millions around the world, then focused his ministry on liberal corners of the U.S.
Luis Palau preaching in Queens in 2015 during CityFest, an evangelical crusade that drew an estimated 180,000 people. He often staged his events in bastions of liberalism.Credit.Victor J. Blue for The New York Times
Luis Palau, who rose from preaching on street corners in Argentina to become one of the most significant evangelical leaders in the generation following his mentor, Billy Graham, died on Thursday at his home in Portland, Ore. He was 86.
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