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 | 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 Good Faith Media | Oct 3, 2022 | News
Religious, social and policy issues are often framed in ways suggesting that many people of faith hold narrow, fundamentalists views. Good Faith Media is launching a new initiative to offer another, better way that will provide an alternative voice in the public...
by David Currie | Aug 22, 2022 | Christian Nationalism, Opinion
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) recently told worshippers at a religious service, “The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church. That is not how our Founding Fathers intended it.” She added, “I’m tired...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 11, 2020 | Opinion
The so-called Moral Majority was roaring to life in the early ’80s. Its loudest mouthpiece, Jerry Falwell (the original version), was bringing his show to metro Atlanta where I served as a young campus minister. Conservative pastors and other church leaders were abuzz...