by Randall Balmer | Jul 17, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
I don’t often comment on matters related to the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). First, many people I admire know far more about the SBC than I do, so I’m inclined to defer to their wisdom, experience, and well, battle scars. Second, commenting on matters Southern...
by Randall Balmer | Jun 25, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Earlier this month, Pope Francis issued an advisory that homilies should be short, approximately eight minutes, “because after that time attention is lost and people fall asleep, and they are right,” he said. I couldn’t agree more. I was first introduced to the short...
by Randall Balmer | May 22, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Like many colleges and universities across the nation, my own campus of Dartmouth College, in the sleepy town of Hanover, New Hampshire, has been reeling with unrest over the war in Gaza. On Wednesday, May 1, the college’s new president called in local police and...
by Randall Balmer | Apr 23, 2024 | Christian Nationalism, Feature, Opinion
In his 1935 novel, “It Can’t Happen Here,” Sinclair Lewis wrote, “When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” That quote has been getting a lot of play lately, with good reason. When a former president and current...
by Randall Balmer | Mar 19, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
I’ve decided to become an influencer. It’s true that I don’t exactly know what an “influencer” is or does, but a recent article in the Boston Globe says that influencers can make up to $100,000 a year by, well, influencing, I guess. And that’s not pocket change. ...