William Wallace Finlator: Activist Prophet (Biography‪)‬

Any Baptist minister from North Carolina who has the nerve to write an editorial entitled "I'll Skip Billy Graham" deserves notice. William Wallace Finlator wrote such an article in 1973, criticizing Graham for being too narrowly focused in his preaching. Finlator argued that Graham gave attention only to private sins "of the Saturday night variety," whereas he should be devoting his energies to problems in society such as injustice, poverty, the struggle for civil rights, and economic inequality created by the system of capitalism. (1)