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President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd while walking with his wife, Rosalynn, and their daughter, Amy, along Pennsylvania Avenue. The Carters elected to walk the parade route from the Capitol to the White House following his inauguration in Washington on Jan. 20, 1977. Carter announced his campaign for the presidency in December 1974. At that point he had never met an American president. He later said part of what nudged him into the race was meeting several candidates ahead of the 1972 campaign and concluding that he was talented as they were. (Suzanne Vlamis/AP)

Randall Balmer: Jimmy Carter’s election was a high point in resurgence of progressive evangelicals

December 31, 2024 at 12:51 p.m.

During his candidacy, Jimmy Carter drew on progressive evangelicalism and the promise that he would never knowingly lie to the American people.

Claudine Gay, the first Black president of Harvard University, attends a Shabbat dinner held in solidarity with Israel on the university's campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Oct. 13, 2023.

Randall Balmer: Plagiarism, like Claudine Gay’s, is not a victimless offense

January 14, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Claudine Gay's resignation as president of Harvard University has shed a spotlight on the peculiarly academic obsession with plagiarism — using someone else's ideas and passing them off as your...

Randall Balmer: Requiem for Trinity College in Deerfield, a campus that challenged and enriched my faith

February 27, 2023 at 10:36 a.m.

It wasn't quite Camelot, but for a few years during the 1970s, Trinity College in Deerfield was an extraordinary place, a school where evangelical students were encouraged to expand their...

In a June 16, 2015 photo, Rev. Ronnie Floyd, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, gives an address at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, in Columbus, Ohio, to Southern Baptist Convention.

What would Jesus say about same-sex marriage?

May 11, 2019 at 2:26 a.m.

Amid all of the overheated rhetoric surrounding the Supreme Court's decision legalizing same-sex marriages across the nation, evangelicals have alternated between defiance and a kind of martyrdom. "It's time to...

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