“Give Cheerfully, Give Abundantly”: White American Prosperity Evangelism, Financial Obedience, and Religious Corruption in the Trump Era

On February 12th, 2018 Billy Graham, American televangelist and former spiritual advisor to Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and George W. Bush Sr. and Jr., died at home in Montreat, North Carolina.[1] At his funeral, President Donald Trump gave a speech prior to Graham’s interment in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, referring to the space as “where the memory of the American people is enshrined.” Billy Graham is now immortalized as a national public figure, surrounded by scenes of colonization, genocide, and westward expansion that represent American perseverance and prosperity.
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