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Randall J. Stephens

Randall J. Stephens is Reader and Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Northumbria University. Stephens came to Northumbria in 2012. Hailing from Kansas, he writes and teaches about the American South, religion in the US, religion and politics, conservatism, and popular music. From 2008 to 2014 he was the editor of the history magazine Historically Speaking (Johns Hopkins University Press). Randall is the author of The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South (Harvard University Press, 2008, 2010); The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age, co-authored with Karl Giberson (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011, 2012); and editor of Recent Themes in American Religious History (University of South Carolina Press, 2009).

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Why do Evangelicals Keep Falling for the Trumps and Nixons?

Why do Evangelicals Keep Falling for the Trumps and Nixons?

Randall J. Stephens

Evangelical leaders should be wary of hitching their wagon to an amoral, corrupt president

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