The Devil made great advances in the 20th century, from the increase in abortion after Roe v. Wade to the great secularization of America’s public institutions, which seem increasingly hostile to the truth of the Gospel. Yet the Holy Spirit moved through one man perhaps more than any other to enliven the American church during that pivotal century, and this week, his likeness will grace the halls of the U.S. Capitol.
Each of the 50 states in the union sends two statues to the Capitol’s Statuary Hall Collection, to represent the pride each state takes in its historic figures. North Carolina will rightly retire the statue of segregationist Democratic Gov. Charles Brantley Aycock and replace it with the likeness of the evangelist Billy Graham. Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., played a pivotal role in the effort, and then-Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican, signed a bill in 2015 to place…
