Charlotte-born Billy Graham would like to give one more sermon. That, everybody can agree on.

But there appeared to be mixed signals from Graham’s family last week over whether, at age 91 and in fragile health, he’ll be up to it. And if he is, where, when and in what format should he preach?

Last Monday, Graham’s youngest daughter, Ruth, told a religion reporter for The Associated Press that her father was preparing a sermon and thinking about delivering it sometime next year at Charlotte’s Bank of America Stadium – the site of his last hometown crusade, in 1996.

But on Tuesday, spokesmen for Billy Graham and his son Franklin, who heads the Charlotte-based Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, dismissed that scenario as mere speculation. The elder Graham does want to preach again, said his spokesman Larry Ross, but the likeliest possibility would be to have him speak into a camera and then widely distribute the video.

“Though many potential venues have been suggested to him,” Ross said, “his son, Franklin, and he thought perhaps it would be on video, so that more people could be reached with the transformational message of faith in Christ that he has preached for more than six decades.”

But Ruth Graham told the AP that she encouraged her father to preach before an audience and that he seemed to like that idea.

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