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Thomas Kidd

Interview: Thomas S. Kidd on ‘Christian History: From the Reformation to the Present’

Thomas S. Kidd and Nadya Williams   |  February 5, 2025

“I wanted to center the book on the history of Christianity as believed and lived by everyday pastors, Christians, and churches.”

Wise words from historian Thomas Kidd for your summer writing goals

Nadya Williams   |  May 14, 2024

Historian Thomas Kidd’s advice for summer writing goals.

Before the “nones” there were the “nothingarians”

John Fea   |  July 19, 2023

Here is Thomas Kidd at The Panorama: One of the most common news topics on American religion in recent years has been the rise of the “nones,” or the religiously unaffiliated. News stories from the Pew Research Center and similar outlets constantly […]

Historian Thomas Kidd leaves Baylor for Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

John Fea   |  November 15, 2021

I knew Tommy Kidd liked barbecue, but I was not expecting this. Here is the press release: Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Jason Allen has announced that historian Thomas S. Kidd will join Midwestern Seminary’s residential faculty as research professor […]

Is evangelical Christianity a religious movement, or is it something else?

John Fea   |  July 17, 2021

I first read historian Paul E. Johnson’s 1978 book A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 in 1989 while I was studying church history at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Johnson argued that evangelical religion in Rochester, […]