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,...
by Randall Balmer | Mar 11, 2025 | Opinion
Evangelicals are too liberal. Who knew? That’s the assertion of Andrew T. Walker in an article in “World” magazine titled, “It’s OK to be a Christian Conservative.” I had to look twice to see that I was reading the title correctly, but there it is. To be clear, I...
by Randall Balmer | Dec 18, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Last month, evangelicalism lost a prominent figure: Hal Lindsey, author of The Late, Great Planet Earth. Born in Houston, Lindsey graduated from the University of Houston and Dallas Theological Seminary, which is a hotbed of dispensationalism–the notion that all...
