Ruth Bell Graham didn't want to stand in the limelight with thousands of faces staring up at her. She left that job to her husband. But the mother of five attentively sat in the background of her ...

Ruth Bell was born in 1920 in China to missionary parents. By the time she met Graham at Wheaton College in Illinois at age 20, she was used to a life of service, hardship and separation from ...

(RNS) — Graham opposed the women’s rights movements even as she benefited from some of its gains by becoming a public figure sought after as a speaker and writer in her own right. (RNS ...

Ruth Bell Graham wrote this in 1957 while her husband Billy Graham was off crusading in New York City, a reminder that behind public lives—for no one has lived more publicly than Billy Graham ...

“An odd cross to bear” is an odd but apt phrase that Ruth Bell Graham used to describe her life. Historian Anne Blue Wills effectively argues this point in her biography of Billy Graham’s spouse, ...

Ruth Bell Graham died 10 years ago this month. But her influence lives on. It’s there in the ways scholars are re-telling the story of her famous evangelist husband, Billy Graham, now 98.

In addition to her husband, Graham’s survivors include her children: Virginia, Anne, Ruth Bell, Franklin (William Franklin III), and Nelson Edman. For Ruth Graham, life in the background did not ...

Yet in 1978, Ruth Bell Graham befriended North Carolina’s death row inmate Velma Barfield, convicted of murdering seven people, including her own mother. And while there was no question about ...

The wife of the Rev. Billy Graham, has died. Ruth Bell Graham was 87. Born in China, the daughter of a missionary, she married the man who would become the most famous evangelist of his time.

The Rev. Billy Graham and his wife Ruth during a press conference at their home in Montreat in 1996. Scott Sharpe [email protected] Ruth Bell Graham died 10 years ago this month.

The Rev. Billy Graham and his wife Ruth during a press conference at their home in Montreat in 1996. Scott Sharpe [email protected] Ruth Bell Graham died 10 years ago this month.