Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on July 22, 2009
Once upon a time passageway.org was the teen web site of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. But not for long.
You can still find vestiges of the teen site here. Of course none of the links work and the content has been largely pulled into Dare to Be a Daniel or dumped. But that’s OK. That’s the way of these things. Before Dare to Be a Daniel there was passageway.org. Before passageway.org there was Alive.
If I sound a little nostalgic, it’s because I worked on passageway.org for two years. Good times.
Now it seems the passageway.org url and name are being reused for a children’s curriculum series. The place holder graphic looks like Billy Graham meets Disney. Yikes.
Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on March 17, 2009
“My parents never once told me to be in at a certain time when I went out on a Friday or Saturday night date. I knew that I had to be up by three in the morning and if I stayed out past midnight I would get only a couple hours of sleep.”
-Billy Graham
(Just As I Am)
Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on January 22, 2009
Take a retro ride into Christianity circa 1971 with your favorite crusading hipster, Billy Graham. That’s the basic feel of The Jesus Generation by Billy Graham.
In a book that’s understandably out-of-print, Graham tries to “rap” with the youth of America and get them to “turn on” to Jesus. Graham often borrows campy ’60s and ’70s expressions in an attempt to connect with the younger generation, and 30 years later it’s kind of funny.
As a challenging and encouraging devotional book it falls a little short. As a retro ride it’s very insightful and entertaining.
The book is very telling of the times (there’s a lot of environmental doom and gloom), and you even learn that on a few occasions Billy Graham himself visited various rock festivals, protests and love-ins in an attempt to understand the masses. Of course he attended “incognito” (meaning he donned a hat, sun glasses, and a big sweater).
Once upon a time passageway.org was the teen web site of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. But not for long.
If I sound a little nostalgic, it’s because I worked on passageway.org for two years. Good times.
