“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, ...

In the summer of 1941, Ruth McCue Bell, a 21-year-old college graduate with a razor-sharp mind, made a decision that today might seem, as they say in her adopted state of North Carolina, somewhat ...

Ruth Bell Graham, who pursued a vigorous if reclusive Christian ministry for six decades in the shadow of her famous husband, the Rev. Billy Graham, died June 14 at her home near Montreat, N.C. She ...

MONTREAT, N.C. -- Ruth Graham, who surrendered dreams of missionary work in Tibet to marry a suitor who became the world's most renowned evangelist, died Thursday. She was 87. Mrs. Graham died at 5:05 ...

John 14:6 reads, "Jesus answered, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.'" The verse was central in Graham's preaching ministry, and he often referred to ...

Ruth Bell Graham, the wife of the late evangelist Dr. Billy Graham, once said that marriage is “a union of professional forgivers.” Her point was that both parties must be consistent in their ...

Ruth Bell Graham, wife of evangelist Bill Graham, gestures during a news conference in a Thursday Oct. 22, 1998 file photo in Tampa, Fla. Evangelist Billy Graham said Wednesday, June 13, 2007, that ...

"When we dated, we had our ups and downs. I had always thought I should go to Tibet as a missionary, and one day Bill said to me, 'Ruth, do you think God led us together?' I had to admit that I was ...

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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) _ Ruth Bell Graham, wife of the Rev. Billy Graham, was discharged Thursday from a hospital after treatment for dehydration and the side effects of antibiotics she had been taking.