Graham grandson returns to the flock
His prodigal son story includes a new book and leading a church in south Florida.
Associated Press
Published September 4, 2007

MARGATE - The pastor's hair is spiky, his beard is scruffy, his skin is tan. He talks of his youthful forays into drugs and sex. Even his name - Tullian Tchividjian - is far different from that of his famous grandfather.

He calls the family patriarch Daddy Bill. That's Billy Graham to you.

Tchividjian cuts a far different profile than evangelicalism's elder statesman. It's not that he isn't proud of his heritage. But at 34, back in the fold, with a book just out and a congregation to call his own, he says the spiritual path he's forging is all his own.

"I'm not sure that carrying my grandfather's torch is what I or any other young evangelical would want said about us," he said in an interview at his office. "There's a distinction of what God has called me to do and what God has called him to do." the rest book