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Professor & Lecturer
| Randall Balmer, professor of American religious history at Barnard College, Columbia University, has been teaching at Columbia since earning the Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1985. He has also taught in the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and as a visiting professor at Dartmout College and at Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, Drew and Northwestern universities. He is adjunct professor of church history at Union Theological Seminary. Since 2004 he has been a visiting professor of American religious history at Yale University Divinity School. He has lectured at such places as the Chautauqua Institution, the Commonwealth Club of California, the New-York Historical Society and to audiences around the country. Under the auspices of the State Department, he has lectured abroad in Lebanon and Austria. |
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Randall Balmer is the author of a dozen books, several of which have received awards. God in the White House: A History: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2008.
Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America: An Evangelical’s Lament. New York: Basic Books, 2006; paperback ed., 2007.
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America. 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Religion in American Life: A Short History [co-written with Jon Butler and Grant Wacker]. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003; paperback ed., 2007.
Protestantism in America [co-written with Lauren F. Winner]. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002; paperback ed., 2005.
* Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series
Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002.
Revised and expanded edition. Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2004
Growing Pains: Learning to Love My Father’s Faith. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brazos Press, 2001.
* Named “Book of the Year” (Spirituality), 2002
Christianity Today
Religion in Twentieth Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
* Oxford’s Religion in American Life Series
Jon Butler and Harry S. Stout, General Editors
* Named to the “Best Trade Books in the Social Studies,” 2002
Social Studies/Children’s Book Council
Blessed Assurance: A History of Evangelicalism in America. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999; paperback ed., 2000.
Grant Us Courage: Travels Along the Mainline of American Protestantism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
The Presbyterians [co-written with John R. Fitzmier]. New York and Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993; paperback ed., 1994.
*Denominations in America Series, no. 5
Henry Warner Bowden, General Editor
* Translated into Korean
Seoul: Christian Literature Crusade, 2004
A Perfect Babel of Confusion: Dutch Religion and English Culture in the Middle Colonies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989; paperback ed., 2002.
* Inaugural volume, Oxford’s Religion in America Series
Harry S. Stout, General Editor
* Governor Alfred E. Driscoll Publication Prize, 1986
New Jersey Historical Commission
* Manuscript Award, 1986
New York State Historical Association
* Distinguished Book Award, 1991
Society of Colonial Wars
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|  Episcopal Priest
Randall Balmer, a graduate of Trinity College (B.A.) and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.A.) in Deerfield, Illinois, completed his Master of Divinity degree at Union Theological Seminary in 2001. He was graduate assistant to the Dean of the Chapel during his final year of doctoral studies at Princeton Univeristy. He served on the Task Force on a Sabbath for the New Millennium in the Diocese of Newark in 1998-1999. Mr. Balmer was ordained to the diaconate in the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande on May 20, 2006. On December 7, 2006, he was ordained to the priesthood by the Rt. Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Steenson and the Rt. Rev. Andrew Smith at St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, Connecticut. He preaches frequently, does adult education and speaks at clergy conferences at various places around the country. Mr. Balmer serves as a non-stipendiary assistant at St. John's, Washington. |
 Documentary Filmmaker
Randall Balmer's second book, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory, was made into a three-part documentary for PBS. The production received several awards, and Mr. Balmer was nominated for an Emmy for writing and presenting the series. In 1993 he was executive producer, writer, and host for Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham, a sixty-minute documentary for PBS. That production was recut in 1995 and aired in A&E's Biography series. "In the Beginning": The Creationist Controversy, a two-part series, aired on PBS in 1994. Mr. Balmer wrote and hosted that series. With funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, "In the Beginning" was revised (with new footage) and aired again in 2001.  Personal
Randall Balmer and his wife, Catharine Randall, a professor of French at Fordham University, live in rural Connecticut. They have three children in college and beyond. |
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