by Randall Balmer | Feb 12, 2026 | Opinion
When someone issues 30,573 false or misleading statements in the space of a four-year term, as documented by the Washington Post, it’s important, in all fairness, to notice when that person actually tells the truth. Such is the case with Donald J. Trump during an...
by Randall Balmer | Jan 22, 2026 | Opinion
While having dinner the other night at our local Mexican restaurant, a young couple was seated at the table beside us, the man wearing a black MAGA hat with “Trump” embroidered in the back. In the days leading up to this, Donald Trump had sent military troops into...
by Randall Balmer | Dec 19, 2025 | Opinion
Stephen Colbert may be our most important theologian. In accepting the Ripple of Hope Award on December 5 from the Robert and Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center, Colbert invoked the image of Robert Kennedy breaking bread with Cesar Chavez on the day Chavez ended his...
by Randall Balmer | Nov 20, 2025 | Opinion
A megachurch in Texas is offering a course to encourage evangelicals to run for public office. I have a couple of suggestions. According to the Texas Tribune, Mercy Culture, a megachurch based in Fort Worth, is trying to foster so-called “spirit-led candidates” by...
by Randall Balmer | Oct 27, 2025 | Opinion
The fiftieth anniversary of Willow Creek Community Church provides an occasion to consider the impact of megachurches on the landscape of American evangelicalism. In October 1975, Bill Hybels, a former youth pastor and graduate of now-defunct Trinity College in...
