Thomas Kidd

If God chooses to raise up “another Billy Graham,” then there will indeed be another. Continue Reading »

Over at Kevin DeYoung’s blog, Jason Helopoulos asks “ Does Calvinism Kill Missions? ” and answers with a resounding historical ‘no.’  I agree, and want to put a little finer point on it: from the perspective of Baptist history, Calvinists  birthed  . . . . Continue Reading »

The Boston Marathon bombings and the faiths of the Tsarnaev brothers have renewed the debate about the nature of Islam, so this week I am reposting my review of Miroslav Volf’s  Allah: A Christian Response , from the Patheos archives. — President George W. Bush created a boiling . . . . Continue Reading »

The latest issue of the Weekly Standard  includes a  rant against Twitter  by Matt Labash, who does not have a Twitter account. I am  on Twitter , and I like it a lot. Of course, it has its vapid and vicious aspects, but all in all, I find that Twitter is the most useful means . . . . Continue Reading »

The History Channel’s hit miniseries “The Bible” offers us yet another on-screen depiction of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. The honor this time goes to Diogo Morgado, whom the  New York Post  calls “a kind of surfer Jesus.” The Portuguese actor’s Jesus . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the perennial struggles in church life is balancing our approach to the work of the Holy Spirit. On one side of the evangelical continuum, there are self-conscious “cessationists” who believe that the “sign gifts,” such as prophecy and speaking in tongues, ceased with the . . . . Continue Reading »

The past couple years years have seen a great deal of criticism and allegations about Sovereign Grace Ministries (SGM), with a number of churches breaking away from the organization, and a lawsuit charging leaders with covering up child physical and sexual abuse in the 1980s and 1990s. Last Friday . . . . Continue Reading »

The latest front in the Baptist battle over Calvinism and Arminianism has opened at Louisiana College, where the administration has decided not to renew the contracts of three faculty members—- Jason Hiles ,  Kevin McFadden  and  Ryan Lister . The latter two have doctorates . . . . Continue Reading »