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Where Is God When My Spouse Is Incarcerated? | [View online]( [Give Now]( Advertisement [Christianity Today Weekly Newsletter]( [Home]( [Our Latest]( [Subscribe]( Friday, March 16, 2018 [Lead Us Not Into Scandal]( Integrity [Lead Us Not Into Scandal]( While some other evangelicals stumbled in national news, Graham's Modesto Manifesto kept him from falling. William Martin On countless occasions during his career, usually at a press conference preceding a major crusade, Billy Graham declared that he sensed religious revival was breaking out and about to sweep over the land. In 1948, he happened to be right. During the 1940s, church membership in America rose by nearly 40 percent, with most of the growth coming after the end of the war, as the nation tried to reconstruct normalcy on the most dependable foundation it knew. Church building reached an all-time high, seminaries ... 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