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Randall Balmer

Randall Balmer holds the John Phillips Chair in Religion at Dartmouth. He has published more than a dozen books, including Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter (Basic Books, 2014), God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush (HarperOne, 2008), and The Making of Evangelicalism: From Revivalism to Politics and Beyond (Baylor University Press, 2010). His second book, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America (Oxford University Press, 1989), now in its fifth edition, was made into an award-winning, three-part documentary for PBS.

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Christian Higher Education: Questioning Assumptions and the Asymptote of Truth

Volume 1 | June 6, 2022

Theme: Christian Higher Education, Religion & Politics

Discipline: American Religious History

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A Different Direction

Volume 1 | June 6, 2022

Theme: Religion & Politics

Discipline: American Religious History

Imagine with me an evangelical coming of age in the 1970s. Let’s call her Rachel. Her father was an independent Baptist pastor in southern Illinois, someone more interested in the prophecies of the book of Revelation than in Republican Party politics. Rachel’s parents wanted her to attend Moody Bible Institute, as they had, but she…

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White Evangelical Alignment with Political Forces of Our Time

Volume 1 | June 6, 2022

Theme: Religion & Politics

Discipline: American Religious History

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