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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
College Democrats at Pat Robertson’s Regent U., Notre Dame’s refusal to rescind an invitation to the pro-choice president—younger evangelicals and Catholics are in rebellion and it doesn’t bode well for the once-commanding presence of the religious right.
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Religion Dispatches
As the old guard retires, a generational challenge emerges for the Christian Right. Who can lead a movement whose constituency no longer agrees with its core tenets?
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Religion Dispatches
Leaders of the religious right have recently begun to complain about the various names by which their movement is known. But if the shoe fits…
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