Derek Brower

Squinting through one half-open eye across a large wooden table, I wonder if this is the first Lunch with the FT to begin with a prayer. It’s a reminder that I am in the presence of American religious royalty. Franklin Graham is America’s best-known evangelist and heir to its best-known evangelical name. His late father, Billy Graham, was “America’s pastor” — a counsellor to presidents and preacher to millions, famous for “crusades” to save souls everywhere from Australia and the UK to China an…