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...everyone approves of Bright's reductivism, which historian Mark Noll once said led to an evangelical environment that is "naive, inept or tendentious." Columbia University religion professor Randall Balmer contends that the Laws "flatten the Gospel," while CCC's culture cramps "faith into a dualism between saved and damned, right and wrong, moral and immoral." Immoral often meant liberal: Bright helped lay the groundwork for the religious right. Of his stylistic critics, he notes "Jesus had to be simple so the masses would hear him gladly...
...supervision. Since then, thousands of Bible and prayer clubs have whooshed into what their members saw as a God-shaped vacuum. The new groups are not refuges for dweebs. Unlike their evangelical parents, who often defined themselves as outsiders, today's campus Christians, says Barnard College religion professor Randall Balmer, "are willing to engage the culture on its terms. They understand what's going on and speak the language." Teen evangelicals have their own rock concert circuit, complete with stage diving; their own clothing lines, like Witness Wear; and in the omnipresent wwjd ("What would Jesus do?") bracelet, their...
Sorrento worked and joked around with now-famous Crimson editors-including Microsoft president Steven C. Balmer '77, commentator Michael E. Kinsley '72 and Clinton defense attorney Nicole Seligman '78-when they were young, scared and comping The Crimson...
Cramer and Steven A. Balmer '77, advertising manager, recognized that students did not use The Crimson's "The Third Page," a section of the Thursday paper with limited weekend listings of plays, concerts, lectures and musical performances. Instead, students consulted the Independent or bought The Phoenix and The Real Paper for goings-on in Cambridge and Boston...
Bush campaign officials did not take the charges seriously. "I do not believe that there is any possibility that those things are true," said Ron J. Balmer, executive director of the Bush campaign in Massachusetts...