by Thomas Kidd | Jun 9, 2015 | Opinion
Collin Hansen’s new book, “Blind Spots,” has initiated a helpful conversation about what American evangelicals conventionally miss when their faith is defined by insular, America-intensive subcultures. I found especially instructive his interview...
by Thomas Kidd | May 25, 2015 | Opinion
Baptist pastor James Manning of Providence, Rhode Island, wrote to English Baptist leader John Ryland in November 1776, apprising him of trouble in the American colonies. Two winters before, Providence’s Baptists had seen a prodigious revival, with perhaps 200...
by Thomas Kidd | May 7, 2015 | Opinion
Baptists unduly rescinded the offer to Ben Carson to speak at the Southern Baptist Convention’s Pastors’ Conference because of what critics see as irrelevant theological differences between evangelicals and Seventh-Day Adventists, Carson’s...
by Thomas Kidd | Feb 24, 2015 | Opinion
Is it easier to live out biblical Christianity in a small church or a big church? Before engaging this question, it should be noted that there are healthy and unhealthy big and small churches. What I’m comparing are healthy big churches, especially in areas...
by Thomas Kidd | Feb 9, 2015 | Opinion
In the fading light of a cool autumn evening, 25-year-old evangelist George Whitefield ascended a platform on Boston Common on Oct. 12, 1740. Before him stood 20,000 people. If the crowd estimates were reasonably accurate, this was the largest assembly ever gathered...
