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Randall Balmer

Randall Balmer, Mandel Family Professor in the Arts & Sciences at Dartmouth College, is the author of a dozen books, including most recently Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Often used interchangeably with Christian Right, but also can describe broader conservative religious coalitions that are not limited to Christians. Can include right-wing Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Mormons, and members of the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon. Learn more (Eerdmans, 2021). He wrote, produced and hosted a PBS documentary on Billy Graham, Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham.

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Religion Dispatches
Reformed Theological Seminary forces out professor who suggested evolution is not incompatible with evangelicalism. A sign of fundamentalist retrenchment?
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Religion Dispatches
In the midst of new developments in the Catholic sex abuse scandal and in light of last year’s surprise invitation from the Pope to conservative Episcopalians, a new invitation is extended to disheartened Catholics.
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Religion Dispatches
Well-known for his dogged “pursuit of knowledge” when it came to Bill Ciinton’s sex life, Kenneth Starr will now be at the helm of the the largest Baptist university in the world.
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