Topic: Randall Balmer

AP-Petside.com poll: Pets make cut on family trips

Forbes - 449 days ago
When the Eubank family plans a trip, airplanes are usually out of the question. That's why they go everywhere we go," said Mike Eubank, 51, of Overland Park, Kan. , who piles the dogs, his wife and three kids into a motorhome ...

Making Up Evangelical History

Crosswalk - 733 days ago
Randall Balmer is Professor of American Religious History at Barnard College, Columbia University. Rather Dr. Balmer puts forward a radically different motivation for the formation of conservative evangelical political engagement in the mid to late 1970s: Indeed, Balmer's thesis is that ...

Americans embrace alternatives to 'pagan' Halloween

AFP American Edition - 833 days ago
Christian conservatives have led the way in opposing the traditional Halloween revelry. find some aspects of Halloween celebrations disturbing," said James Dobson, head of the "Focus On the Family" organization, one of the most influential Christian groups in the United States. "There ...