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Randall Balmer
Randall Balmer

An American author, Episcopal priest, Dartmouth University professor and historian of American religion, Randall Balmer will present “His Own Received Him Not: Jimmy Carter, the Religious Right, and the 1980 Presidential Election” at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 29, in Weyerhaeuser Hall’s Robinson Teaching Theatre at Whitworth University.

“Randall Balmer is one of the leading historians of American religion and its impact on the American political landscape,” Kathy Lee, Whitworth professor of political science, said in a press release. “His research emerges from his own Christian commitment, a commitment that has been informed by both American evangelicalism, a tradition in which he was raised, and his ordination as a priest in the Episcopal Church.”

Balmer has written more than a dozen books and published countless articles in both scholarly journals and the popular press.  His second novel, “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America,” was adapted into a PBS documentary for which he received an Emmy Award nomination.

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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