Randall Balmer holds the John Phillips Chair in Religion at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. He is an expert on American religious history and especially American evangelicalism and the role of religion in American presidential politics. He is the author of Evangelicalism in America, Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter and God in the White House: How Faith […]

The Free Congress Foundation in Washington is a non-partisan organization dedicated to addressing the problems in the U.S. It was founded by Paul Weyrich and in 1977 co-founded Moral Majority with the Rev. Jerry Falwell. He was CEO of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation.

Evangelicals for Social Action is a Christian organization that works on social concerns from an evangelical Christian perspective. Contact through president and founder, Ron Sider.

The Traditional Values Coalition in Washington, D.C., is a leading voice in Congress for Bible-based traditional values. The Rev. Louis P. Sheldon is chairman of the organization.

Read a Feb. 2, 2008, New York Times column by Peter Steinfels that analyzes the imbalance of exit polling questions on faith between Republican voters and Democratic voters.

An extensive survey, “American Evangelicals,” was released in April 2004 in connection with a May special section by U.S. News & World Report and a four-part series by the PBS program Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. The survey is a comprehensive snapshot of America’s evangelical community.

See a Jan. 16, 2008, analysis of poll data from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press on religion and the electorate, with a focus on evangelicals and the GOP.

Read a June 23, 2011 Christianity Today article that features polls about the declining strength of the Evangelical community in politics.

Read a February 2004 article in Christianity Today by church historian Martin Marty on the emergence of evangelicals in American society and their great influence in politics.