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randallbalmer.bsky.social @randallbalmer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
By the Way | The Magic of Chautauqua goodfaithmedia.org/by-the-way-t...
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By the Way | The Magic of Chautauqua
Imagine a place where people actually talk with one another rather than boring into electronic devices. That’s Chautauqua.
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randallbalmer.bsky.social @randallbalmer.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
By the Way | ‘Baptist Battles’ Five Decades Later goodfaithmedia.org/by-the-way-b...
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By the Way | ‘Baptist Battles’ Five Decades Later
My eyebrows always twitch a bit when I hear about “liberalism” in the Southern Baptist Convention.
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randallbalmer.bsky.social @randallbalmer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
By the Way | Tony Perkins Is Wrong Yet Again goodfaithmedia.org/by-the-way-t...
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By the Way | Tony Perkins Is Wrong Yet Again
It’s a good rule of thumb that if Tony Perkins lines up on one side of an issue, it’s better to be on the other side.
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randallbalmer.bsky.social @randallbalmer.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
By the Way | Donald Trump’s (Singular) Moment of Truth goodfaithmedia.org/by-the-way-d...
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By the Way | Donald Trump’s (Singular) Moment of Truth
I leave it to others to parse the remainder of Trump’s remarks, but they included some doozies.
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randallbalmer.bsky.social @randallbalmer.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
By the Way | Stephen Colbert, Our Most Important Theologian goodfaithmedia.org/by-the-way-s...
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By the Way | Stephen Colbert, Our Most Important Theologian
Fear is one thing our country still manufactures, but you cannot laugh and be afraid at the same time.
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randallbalmer.bsky.social @randallbalmer.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The Scopes Trial Turns 100 arcmag.org/the-scopes-t...
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The Scopes Trial Turns 100 | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
The second floor of the Rhea County courthouse in the sleepy town of Dayton, Tenn., is rather unremarkable, a cavernous space with windows opening out onto the courthouse lawn. The redbrick building i...
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randallbalmer.bsky.social @randallbalmer.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Barnes & Noble is offering a 25% discount on a pre-order of my new book, "America's Best Idea: The Separation of Church and State," through July 11. Follow the link below, and type in PREORDER25 if necessary. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/americas-b...
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America's Best Idea: The Separation of Church and State|Paperback
A historian and ordained Episcopal priest offers everything you need to know for shaping and defending your own beliefs on the role of religion in American lifeFilled with stories from America's strug...
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randallbalmer.bsky.social @randallbalmer.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
By the Way | When David Horowitz Came to Dartmouth goodfaithmedia.org/david-horowi...
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By the Way | When David Horowitz Came to Dartmouth
Randall Balmer reflects on when David Horowitz, who passed away last month, visited the Dartmouth campus to “smoke out campus radicalism.”
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randallbalmer.bsky.social @randallbalmer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
By the Way | Biblical Inerrancy and the Demise of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School goodfaithmedia.org/the-demise-o...
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By the Way | Biblical Inerrancy and the Demise of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Randall Balmer reflects on some of the reasons for the recent demise of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.
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randallbalmer.bsky.social @randallbalmer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
By the Way | Those Liberal Evangelicals goodfaithmedia.org/by-the-way-t...
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By the Way | Those Liberal Evangelicals
Charles Grandison Finney, by any measure the most important and influential evangelical of the nineteenth century, excoriated greed and free-market capitalism. He suggested that “Christian businessman...
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randallbalmer.bsky.social @randallbalmer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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Jimmy Carter, America’s best ex-president
After his 1980 defeat, Carter devoted himself to the causes of a progressive evangelicalism that has all but disappeared from public...
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randallbalmer.bsky.social @randallbalmer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Opinion: Evangelical Christians once agitated for women, prisoners, the poor and ending slavery. What happened?
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