 | A prize-winning historian and Emmy Award nominee, Randall Balmer is professor of American religious history at Barnard College, Columbia University, and a visiting professor at Yale Divinity School. 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, and Northwestern universities. He is an adjuct professor of church history at Union Theological Seminary. 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 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 a dozen books, including Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America and Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America, now in its fourth edition, which 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.
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