The Billy Graham Center Archives presents the annual BGC Archival Research lecture, Oh Lamb of God, I Come: Music and the Billy Graham Crusades. T

Music took center stage in every Billy Graham crusade, under the leadership of Cliff Barrows and George Beverly Shea. In this presentation, historian Edith Blumhofer explores how archival sources provide an overview of crusade musical continuity and change for more than sixty years. Dr. Blumhofer's research also examines the developing roles of music in evangelism from D. L. Moody  to Billy Graham and uncovers the impact of crusade music on musical practice in congregations around the globe.

Dr. Blumhofer is Professor of History Emerita at Wheaton College where she also directed the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals.  Her book (tentatively titled "Songs I Love to Sing": Graham Crusades, Music, and Modern Christian Song) is forthcoming from Eerdmans in Spring 2019.

Accompanying the lecture will be an exhibit of photographs and documents from the BGC Archives about evangelistic music. There will be a reception following the lecture.