Thomas Kidd
The Gospel Coalition
Texas, United States
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Past articles by Thomas:
Campus Revival: How 1740s Yale Gives Hope for Today
The biblical way to test a revival is to examine its fruit, not to focus on its initial excitement and noise. → Read More
Tradition, the Bible, and America’s Debate over Slavery
The Bible isn’t the problem—we are. → Read More
Charles Spurgeon the Pastor
In his ecclesiological convictions, Spurgeon is an example of faithfulness. → Read More
Did the Fundamentalists Win? Answering a Century-Old Question
Harry Emerson Fosdick claimed traditional Christian beliefs couldn’t survive in the modern world. Was he right? → Read More
Zwingli: God’s Armed Prophet
At Easter 1525 the Reformation was formally instituted with abolition of the mass and the celebration of a new Reformed order of the Lord’s Supper. Zurich had formally left the Roman church. → Read More
Carl Trueman and the Evangelical Mind
There have always been Christian voices defending gospel truths in the groves of academe. → Read More
Southern Baptists and the Founding of Israel
A new book that anyone interested in Baptist history or American views of Israel should definitely read. → Read More
Andrew Walls (1928-2021) and World Christianity
Andrew Walls was one of the greatest scholars of world Christianity and missiology. → Read More
How to Counter Anti-Evangelical Hostility
Clickbaity hostility to evangelicals is everywhere. How do we respond? → Read More
A Modernist Christian Nationalist: John Wilsey on John Foster Dulles’s Faith
Historians are to be truth tellers, not judges. → Read More
Why Do We Say ‘Gospel-Centered’?
Thomas Kidd traces the origins of the phrase "gospel-centered," which burst into the evangelical vocabulary in the mid-2000s. → Read More
Denominations: To Leave or Not to Leave?
Churches, and the denominations they compose, are highly imperfect things, because they are filled with people like me. → Read More
The Bible and the Civil War: An Interview with James P. Byrd
The Bible has been used to argue for peace, and it has been cited to justify horrible forms of violence. → Read More
A Christian Sherlock Holmes: Rebuilding an Empirical Christian Culture
How can we build a Christian academic culture that prizes evidence? → Read More
Christian Nationalism vs. Christian Patriotism
Thomas Kidd explains the definition and history of Christian nationalism, along with three ways to know if love of country has moved into idolatry. → Read More
Rod Dreher Is Not Pessimistic Enough
“Rod Dreher is not pessimistic enough,” says Baylor’s Perry Glanzer. “But I am also more hopeful.” → Read More
Did Adam Smith Get ‘The Wealth of Nations’ from the Bible?
I am teaching through Isaiah in my adult Sunday school class. History nerd that I am, I perked up in chapters 60 and 61 when the English Standard Version (and other modern translations) repeatedly uses the phrase “the wealth of the nations.” I immediately guessed that this phrase was the origin of Adam Smith’s classic 1776 economic text of the same name. But I was probably wrong, as Jordan… → Read More
Traditional Christians Have Never Been Politically Unified
Traditionalist Protestant voters - if we don’t just mean whites - have almost never been unified in American history. → Read More
Time Away
A few thoughts on stepping away from online writing during the month of July. → Read More
Choosing the Best History Books
A little discernment can help make your history reading profitable and enjoyable at the same time. → Read More