by Randall Balmer | Aug 13, 2026 | Opinion
I’m not a theologian, either by training or temperament, but I offer here a fresh argument about the ordination of women. (I can’t believe we’re still discussing this in the third decade of the twenty-first century!) This isn’t so much a brief in favor of women’s...
by Randall Balmer | Jul 22, 2026 | Opinion
In 1874, Lewis Miller and John Heyl Vincent, both Methodists, inaugurated the Chautauqua Lake Sunday School Association on the shores of Lake Chautauqua in western New York. The idea was to provide instruction for Sunday school teachers and out-of-school vacation...
by Randall Balmer | Jun 3, 2026 | Opinion
You really have to feel sorry for Robert Jeffress. The faithful are looking to the pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, which once claimed to be the world’s largest Baptist congregation, for political advice. He’s under some pressure to deliver. Over the past...
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 | 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...
