Videos of the three lectures given by Dr. Randall Balmer at the Baptist Joint Committee's Walter B. and Kay W. Shurden Lectures on Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State are now online.
Balmer gave three presentations on the theme "Pilgrims in a Foreign Land?" The three lectures included: "So Help Me God: Religion and the Presidency since John F. Kennedy", "Where Have All the Baptists Gone: The Betrayal of an American Institution" and "Keep the Faith: Reclaiming Christianity from the Religious Right."
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Balmer is a professor of American religious history at Barnard College, Columbia University and rector at St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, Conn.
His most recent book is a history of religion and the presidency, titled God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush.
In 2004, Dr. Walter B. Shurden and Dr. Kay W. Shurden of Macon, Georgia, made a gift to the BJC to establish an annual lectureship on the issues of religious liberty and the separation of church and state. The lecturers, selected by the executive director of the BJC, may be academicians, politicians, ministers, church historians, ethicists or activists.
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