Randall Herbert Balmer (born October 22, 1954) is an American author, professor of American religious history at Barnard College, Columbia University, an editor for Christianity Today and an Episcopal priest. He earned the Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1985. He is currently a visiting professor at Yale Divinity School, and he has been a visiting professor at Rutgers, Princeton, Drew, Yale and Northwestern universities and at Union Theological Seminary, where he is also adjunct professor of church history. He has also taught in the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. October 22 is the 295th day of the year (296th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 70 days remaining. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Barnard College, founded in 1889, is one of the four undergraduate divisions of Columbia University. ... Christianity Today is an Evangelical Christian periodical based in Carol Stream, Illinois. ... Yale Divinity School is the one of the constituent graduate schools of Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. ...
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Blessed Assurance: A History of Evangelicalism in America. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. ISBN 0-807-07711-9
Protestantism in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-231-11130-4
Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America. New York: Basic Books, 2006. ISBN 0-465-00519-5