by Randall Balmer | May 23, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
When I headed to graduate school in the summer of 1980, my aspiration was someday to teach at a Christian liberal arts school. With recent developments at several evangelical colleges, I see now how precarious that path would have been. I had been profoundly shaped by...
by Randall Balmer | May 11, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
I recently completed three-plus years of off-and-on (mostly on) supply work at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Española, New Mexico. The end came rather suddenly; for a variety of reasons, we relocated on short notice, so what had been a 30-minute commute each way...
by Randall Balmer | Apr 26, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
The question, I confess, caught me off-balance. I was in California recently to give the Castelfranco Lecture at the University of California, Davis. During lunch before the event with a small group of colleagues, I fell into conversation with a graduate student who...
by Randall Balmer | Mar 20, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
I used to tell my graduate students that doing archival research is just about the most fun you can have with your clothes on. I gave up graduate students when I moved from Columbia to Dartmouth more than a decade ago, and it’s a good thing because if I said something...
by Randall Balmer | Feb 21, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
The email arrived on a Friday afternoon, a bolt out of the blue from Trinity International University. Any notice from a university president entitled “Reimagining the Future” can’t be good news. Sure enough, after the treacly God talk – “educating men and women to...
