Jesus Is Not a Republican by RANDALL BALMER

We will meet at 8 pm on Sept. 6 at the downtown House of Aromas (118 S Clinton, near Washington) to discuss this excerpt from Dr. Balmer's forthcoming release along with several affirmitive and dissenting responses.


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Randall Balmer is a professor of American religious history at Barnard College. This essay is excerpted from Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America: An Evangelical's Lament, to be published next month by Perseus Books. Copyright © 2006 by Randall Balmer.