by Thomas Kidd | Feb 1, 2015 | Opinion
Robert Nisbet’s classic work, “The Quest for Community,” which I read recently, is a challenging and far-sighted book that attributes much of modernity’s unease to the collapse of the mediating institutions – village, church and family – that...
by Thomas Kidd | Oct 15, 2014 | Opinion
Brian Palmer at Slate muses about the work of medical missionaries, like Dr. Kent Brantly, who contracted Ebola in Liberia: “It’s great that these people are doing God’s work, but do they have to talk about him so much?” I’m almost...
by Thomas Kidd | Jun 13, 2014 | Opinion
Owen Stanwood’s excellent book, “The Empire Reformed: English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution,” has taken me back to my own doctoral research and first book, “The Protestant Interest: New England after Puritanism.” Stanwood...
by Thomas Kidd | Jun 4, 2014 | Opinion
One of the recent topics in my small group at church was “unplugging” or fasting from technology. Fasting is, of course, an ancient practice, but in the past 50 years or so it has been applied more and more to electronic devices, from the radio to the...
by Thomas Kidd | Apr 28, 2014 | Opinion
While the church should never “pander” to anyone, the church does have a responsibility to “cater” to those who might be making decisions about faith and the church. Such lifelong decisions are most often made in one’s late teens and...
