by Randall Balmer | Apr 9, 2026 | Opinion
It’s a good rule of thumb that if Tony Perkins lines up on one side of an issue, it’s better to be on the other side. This is not merely because of Perkins’s history of entanglements with the Ku Klux Klan and the Council of Conservative Citizens, also known as the...
by Randall Balmer | Mar 3, 2026 | Opinion
Editor’s Note: The Baylor Line is the publication of the Baylor Line Foundation, which is an independent organization for alumni of Baylor University. An earlier version of this post described it as the student newspaper of Baylor, which is The Baylor Lariat. It...
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...