ROSS SIMPSON

Clifford Burton Barrows  (April 6, 1923 – November 15, 2016)

Cliff Barrows, who provided the soundtrack for Billy Graham’s global crusades
for decades and remained a close friend to the Charlotte-born evangelist,
died Tuesday at Carolinas HealthCare System-Pineville after a brief illness.

Barrows, who lived in Marvin in Union County, had traveled the world with
Graham since the earliest crusades in 1947, in Charlotte and across the
country. The two men met in Asheville in 1945 and soon formed a team
that became the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. He served in
multiple roles, as song leader, choir director and emcee for the Billy
Graham Crusades.

SANDY KOZEL

(FoxNews) – The earliest known stone inscription of the 10 Commandments
is available to the highest bidder on Nov. 16, but don’t dust off your mantle
at home just yet: this relic has to be shown off in public.

The stone is presented by Heritage Auctions in the properties of the Living
Torah Museum Auction, and will be auctioned in Beverly Hills, California. It
is believed to have been carved sometime between 300 and 500 CE, and
is assumed to be from a synagogue that was either destroyed by Romans
between 400 and 600 CE or by 11th-century crusaders.   

It is described as a square, white marble slab, weighing roughly 115 lbs.
and inscribed with 20 lines of text. Each line contains between 11 and
15 characters of Paleo-Hebrew, or Samaritan, dialect.

TIM MAGUIRE

Jessica McClure Morales turned 30 in March.