America’s Best Idea: The Separation of Church and State

Join us on May 9 at noon (AZ time) as we welcome special guest Dr. Randall Balmer, author of America’s Best Idea: The Separation of Church and State.

Click here to watch this presentation on Secular AZ’s YouTube channel.

Randall Balmer, a CNN contributor, is the John Phillips Professor in Religion at Dartmouth College. He is the author of eighteen books, including Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right and Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter. His second book, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America, now in its fifth edition, was made into an award-winning three-part documentary for PBS.

Dr. Balmer was nominated for an Emmy for writing and hosting that series. He is a columnist for the Santa Fe New Mexican, and his commentaries on religion in America appear in newspapers across the country, including the Los Angeles Times, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Washington Post, the Des Moines Register and the Chicago Tribune. His book America’s Best Idea: The Separation of Church and State will be released this summer.