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Column: Suppose they held a schism and nobody left

by Randall Balmer For the Valley NewsJune 17, 2023

President Jimmy Carter announces his friend Bert Lance's resignation, director of the Office of Management and the Budget, during a press conference in Washington D.C. on Sept. 21, 1977. (Consolidated News Pictures/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Column: Jimmy Carter and the crucible of race

by Randall Balmer For the Valley NewsMarch 13, 2023

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019 file photo, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, center, is escorted into the Iowa House chambers to deliver her Condition of the State address before a joint session of the Iowa Legislature at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. Iowa voters sent a record number of women to the Legislature during last year’s midterms. Women won two of the state’s most competitive U.S. House races, and a woman was elected governor for the first time. Yet across Iowa, there’s palpable anxiety among some Democratic women about nominating a female candidate to face off against President Donald Trump next year. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Column: A tale of two governors in two states, one red and one blue

by Randall Balmer For the Valley NewsFebruary 6, 2023

Frank Pavone, head of Priests for Life, gives the Homily during a mass at Ave Maria University's Oratory in Naples, Fla., on March 31, 2009 to recognize the fourth anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death. The Vatican has defrocked an anti-abortion U.S. priest, Frank Pavone, for what it said were “blasphemous communications on social media” as well as “persistent disobedience” of his bishop. A letter to U.S. bishops from the Vatican ambassador to the U.S., Archbishop Christophe Pierre, obtained Sunday Dec. 18, 2022, said the decision against Pavone, who heads the anti-abortion group Priests for Life, had been taken Nov. 9, and that there was no chance for an appeal. (Greg Kahn/Naples Daily News via AP, File)

Column: Catholic fundamentalism has deep roots in the US

by Randall Balmer For the Valley NewsDecember 31, 2022

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Column: Megachurches reach beyond evangelicals

by Randall Balmer For the Valley NewsDecember 3, 2022

Column: Antiabortion evangelists on the march

by Randall Balmer For the Valley NewsNovember 7, 2022

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Column: Ronald Sider, a Voice in the Wilderness

by Randall Balmer For the Valley NewsSeptember 10, 2022

Blake Masters, who is running for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate from Arizona, walks to the stage to speak prior to former President Donald Trump speech at a Save America rally Friday, July 22, 2022, in Prescott, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Column: Nativism puts on a new face for our troubled times

by Randall Balmer For the Valley NewsAugust 6, 2022

FILE - Abortion-rights protesters demonstrate outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Saturday, June 25, 2022. A new poll finds a growing percentage of Americans calling out abortion or women’s rights as priorities for the government in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, especially among Democrats and those who support abortion access. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

By the Way: Observations about the Dobbs decision

by Randall Balmer For the Valley NewsJuly 5, 2022

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Column: Evangelical follies are no laughing matter

by Randall Balmer For the Valley NewsJune 5, 2022