The Kingdom, the Power, and America

Way back in 1989 I read Randall Balmer’s Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory, which was a ramble through the dusty roads leading to evangelical quirks and quarks. At the time my eyes went crosswise a few times and my eyebrows were raised and I wondered if it was appropriate to label some of those quirks as “evangelical.” Balmer’s pen flows gently though at ti…