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Randall Balmer听holds the John Phillips Chair in Religion at Dartmouth, the oldest endowed professorship at Dartmouth College. A prize-winning historian and Emmy Award nominee, Balmer earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1985 and taught as Professor of American Religious History at Columbia University for twenty-seven years before becoming the Mandel Family Professor in the Arts & Sciences at Dartmouth College in 2012. Balmer has published more than a dozen books, including听Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter,听God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush, and听The Making of Evangelicalism: From Revivalism to Politics and Beyond. His second book,听Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A听Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America, now in its fifth edition, was made into an award-winning, three-part documentary for PBS.

John Fea听is professor of American history at Messiah College. Fea received his Ph.D. in American history from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His interests center on early American history, American religious history, the history of religion and politics, and the place of historical thinking in a democratic society. Fea recently published听Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump听(Eerdmans Publishing, 2018), and, among his five other books, his 2011 manuscript,听Was America Founded as a Christian Nation: A Historical Introduction听(Westminster/John Knox Press), was selected as a听Choice听Outstanding Academic Title and as Religion Book of the Year (Gold Medalist) by the Association of Independent Publishers.