Contributors

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  James M. Houston

  CSLI Co-Founder
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James M. Houston
CSLI Co-FounderJames M. Houston (1922 – 2026) is a co-founder of the C.S. Lewis Institute. Jim served as a Senior Fellow of the Institute, lecturing at CSLI events over the past five decades. He received his Bachelor of Science and M.A. degrees from the University of Edinburgh and a D. Phil. from Oxford University. He was a University Lecturer at Oxford from 1947 – 1971 where he taught cultural and historical geography. While teaching at Oxford, he met C.S. Lewis and participated in a regular Bible study with him for six years. He is known as one of the “founding fathers” of Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia where he has served as the first Principal, Chancellor and Professor of Spiritual Theology.  
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  Billy Graham

  Pastor
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Billy Graham
Pastor
Billy Graham, Pastor, was an American evangelist (1918 – 2018), a prominent evangelical Christian figure, and an ordained Southern Baptist minister who became well-known internationally in the late 1940s. It has been said that Billy Graham is "among the most influential Christian leaders" of the 20th century. He held large indoor and outdoor rallies with sermons that were broadcast on radio and television; some were still being re-broadcast today. In his six decades on television, Graham hosted annual "Crusades", evangelistic campaigns that ran from 1947 until his retirement in 2005. Graham was a spiritual adviser to U.S. presidents, and he provided spiritual counsel for every president from Harry S. Truman to Barack Obama.