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,...
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...
