Deep Fakes Come for Billy Graham

February 3rd, 2026 | 5 min read

Recently a church member sent me a link to a Billy Graham sermon on YouTube to get my take on it. I obliged. The voice sounded like a young Graham from what I could tell, but something didn’t smell right. Maybe it was the patterns of speech, the cliches, or the voice inflection. Granted, I’m too young to have heard many of Graham’s sermons, but this was one he never delivered.

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Josh Pauling

Joshua Pauling is headmaster at All Saints Classical Academy and vicar at All Saints Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Charlotte, NC. He is author of Education's End, and co-author with Robin Phillips of Are We All Cyborgs Now? Reclaiming Our Humanity from the Machine. He has written for Front Porch Republic, LOGIA: A Journal of Lutheran Theology, Modern Reformation, Public Discourse, Quillette, Touchstone, and is a frequent guest on the Issues, Etc. podcast.

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Deep Fakes Come for Billy Graham

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