out of politics, and his five decades of ministry were relatively free from controversy, except for opposition from fundamentalists. harold Ockenga and Billy Graham The Rev. Harold John Ockenga, pastor of the influential Par Street Church at the edge of the Boston Common, brought Graham to Boston and did as much as anyone to give Graham’s mission its larger shape. Ockenga and Graham both heralded the revival of 1950 as the greatest in New England since the Great Awakening. While Graham could
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