Many people hire personal trainers, shoppers, life coaches or pooper scoopers. How many have a personal priest?
When evangelist Billy Graham died last February at the age of 99, many commentators noted his friendships with U.S. presidents, beginning with Harry S. Truman.
Graham, perhaps the last in a long line of populist American evangelists including Whitefield, Finney, Moody and Sunday, had the ear of every president following Truman. President Barack Obama was the only sitting president to visit him at his mountain home in North Carolina.
Many of the presidents who invited Graham to the White House later acknowledged with appreciation both the friendship and the counsel received from him.
For some, he was a sort of de facto White House chaplain, or priest, as it were. When you’re the president of the United States, you get to have your own personal pastor, and Billy Graham often functioned in a pastoral way when at the White House.
Some presidents — Bill Clinton, for example — had other “pastors,” sometimes known as “spiritual advisors.” Tony...
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