by Randall Balmer | Aug 26, 2025 | Opinion
The vital task of patrolling the wall of separation between church and state, America’s best idea, has enlisted some unlikely allies over the years. Although the motives animating some of those measures can undoubtedly be called into question, those contributions have...
by Randall Balmer | Jul 7, 2025 | Opinion
Jimmy Swaggart didn’t want to talk with me. He really didn’t want to talk with me. I flew to Baton Rouge in 1998, ten years after his famous—infamous!—confession that he had sinned against various people, including the Almighty. I had never been a fan of the...
by Randall Balmer | Jun 18, 2025 | Opinion
Southern Baptists are at it again. Meeting in Dallas last week, the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, passed several resolutions addressing the critical issues of our time. They resolved to ban pornography, oppose...
by Randall Balmer | May 21, 2025 | Opinion
David Horowitz, the right-wing flamethrower, died on April 29. I recall very well when he brought his act to Dartmouth in an attempt to smoke out campus radicalism. I suspect he went away disappointed. Both campus security and Hanover police officers were present to...
by Randall Balmer | Apr 17, 2025 | Opinion
I received advance notice that something was afoot. A reporter emailed me that the people at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School were about to make a major announcement and asked if I would be available to comment. After graduating from Trinity College in Deerfield,...
