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Jan 16, 2025 | 
goodfaithmedia.org | Randall Balmer
Donald Trump’s second inauguration coincides with the holiday celebrating Martin Luther King Jr., which can either bode well or badly. On the side of hope, I was struck by the tableau of presidents past, president and future at the funeral of the thirty-ninth president, Jimmy Carter. Apparently, George W. Bush snubbed Trump, but Barack Obama and Trump appeared to share a cordial moment or two.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
mississippivalleypublishing.com | Randall Balmer
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
mississippivalleypublishing.com | Randall Balmer
At a campaign event in Winston-Salem on the eve of the 1976 North Carolina Democratic primary, a voter asked then-candidate Jimmy Carter whether he was a “born again” Christian. Carter, a Southern Baptist Sunday-school teacher, replied that, yes, he was “born again,” thereby sending a legion of journalists from outside the Bible belt to their Rolodexes to figure out what in the world he was talking about.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
thedailynewsonline.com | Randall Balmer
At a campaign event in Winston-Salem on the eve of the 1976 North Carolina Democratic primary, a voter asked then-candidate Jimmy Carter whether he was a “born again” Christian. Carter, a Southern Baptist Sunday-school teacher, replied that, yes, he was “born again,” thereby sending a legion of journalists from outside the Bible belt to their Rolodexes to figure out what in the world he was talking about.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
thelcn.com | Randall Balmer
At a campaign event in Winston-Salem on the eve of the 1976 North Carolina Democratic primary, a voter asked then-candidate Jimmy Carter whether he was a “born again” Christian. Carter, a Southern Baptist Sunday-school teacher, replied that, yes, he was “born again,” thereby sending a legion of journalists from outside the Bible belt to their Rolodexes to figure out what in the world he was talking about.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |Randall Balmer |Wendell Berry |Bob Smietana
“We are the ones. /We are the ones. / We’ve been waiting.” These words, wrapped in layered melody rising from the voices and witness of Sweet Honey in the Rock, met me one morning, first in memory and then on Spotify. “We are the ones. . . . / We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” Their sound held the kind of rhythmic calm and balm my unsettled soul needed. These days I find myself stalled at a bit of a crossroad, the heart of it being the contour and function of calling in this season.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |Randall Balmer |Wendell Berry |Bob Smietana
Richard Hays, a renowned New Testament scholar and former dean of Duke Divinity School known for his influential books on Christian ethics and his change of mind about same-sex marriage, died January 3 at his home in Nashville, Tennessee, from pancreatic cancer. Hays was 76.
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
newstribune.com | Randall Balmer
COMMENTARY: Carter had a second term; it just wasn’t in White House Today at 4:00 a.m. by Randall Balmer Los Angeles Times (TNS) At a campaign event in Winston-Salem on the eve of the 1976 North Carolina Democratic primary, a voter asked then-candidate Jimmy Carter whether he was a "born again" Christian. Upcoming Events
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Randall Balmer
In November 1973, a group of evangelicals met at the YMCA on Wabash Avenue and adopted the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern. Echoing the themes of progressive evangelicalism from decades past, the declaration decried income inequality and militarism as well as the persistence of racism and hunger in an affluent society. The declaration also included a forthright embrace of women's rights and gender equality. Roughly a year later, on Dec.
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Dec 29, 2024 | 
chicagotribune.com | Randall Balmer
In November 1973, a group of evangelicals met at the YMCA on Wabash Avenue and adopted the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern. Echoing the themes of progressive evangelicalism from decades past, the declaration decried income inequality and militarism as well as the persistence of racism and hunger in an affluent society. The declaration also included a forthright embrace of women’s rights and gender equality. Roughly a year later, on Dec.
