 | A prize-winning historian and Emmy Award nominee, Randall Balmer is professor of American religious history at Barnard College, Columbia University. He has also taught in the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and he has been a visiting professor at Dartmouth College and at Princeton, Rutgers, Drew, Emory and Northwestern universities. He is an adjunct professor of church history at Union Theological Seminary, and from 2004 until 2008 he was visiting professor at Yale Divinity School. His commentaries on religion in America have appeared in newspapers across the country, including the Des Moines Register, the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New York Newsday, the Omaha World-Herald, the Nation and the Albany Times-Union. He has been an editor for Christianity Today since 1999, and he has lectured at such venues as the Chautauqua Institution, Smithsonian Associates and the Commonwealth Club of California. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush and Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America. His second book, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America, now in its fourth edition, was made into a three-part documentary for PBS. Mr. Balmer, an Episcopal priest, lives in rural Connecticut with his wife, Catharine Randall, a professor of French at Fordham University.
Mr. Balmer's newest book is The Making of Evangelicalism: From Revivalism to Politics and Beyond.
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