Bono: 'I Give Thanks Just for the Sanity of Billy Graham'

U2 frontman, investor, and philanthropist Bono, who isn’t shy about discussing his Christian faith, wrote a poem in honor of evangelist preacher Billy Graham that describes Bono’s relationship with Jesus as a  “journey from Father to friend,” and how he learned of this through “the voice of a preacher,” Graham, “that gave my life a Rhyme.”

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In explaining to Sojourners in 2005 about that visit with the Grahams, Bono said he had been on tour and got a phone call that Rev. Graham wanted to give his band, U2, a blessing.