Randall Balmer is Professor of American religious history at Barnard College. Balmer has published widely both in academic and scholarly journals and in the popular press. His second book, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America, was made into a three-part documentary for PBS.  A spiritual memoir, Growing Pains: Learning to Love My Father's Faith, was named "book of the year" by Christianity Today. Professor Balmer recently completed a history of religion and the presidency entitled God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush.