Randall Balmer
Randall Balmer teaches religion at Dartmouth College and is the author of Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter and coeditor of Mormonism and American Politics. His most recent book is Evangelicalism in America.
Reading evangelical history with one eye closed
Frances FitzGerald gets the religious right wrong—along with the evangelical tradition generally.
Political religion, sanctified politics
It's odd the way this volume deals with Barack Obama. It's a shame it has to deal with David Barton at all.
Capitalism and faith: A tangled history
Why have American Christians so readily baptized the idea of free-market capitalism? Kevin Kruse illuminates the long, tangled history.
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, turns 91 years old on Thursday. By any reckoning, he has led a remarkable life. Anyone who visits Plains, in southwest Georgia, and especially the Carter farmstead three miles down the road in Archery, cannot fail to be impressed by the simplicity of Carter’s background.
It’s a kind of parlor game in some circles. Rattle off various misperceptions about what the Bible says.
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