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Thomas Kidd

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Thomas S. Kidd serves as research professor of Church History at Midwestern & the John and Sharon Yeats Endowed Chair of Baptist Studies. Kidd completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of Notre Dame, where he worked with historian of religion George Marsden. He also earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees at Clemson University in South Carolina. He is the author of multiple books including Baptist in America and Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh. Kidd and his wife have two sons.

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Thomas Kidd

More than Just the Moral Majority

Evangelicals, the GOP, and the Global Political Landscape

We’ve heard the claim a million times: “81% of evangelicals voted for Donald Trump.” Some...

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Reexamining the Pilgrims and liberty

Thanksgiving and a look at Plymouth on the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival

November 2020 marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the “Pilgrims” in Plymouth...

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4 benefits of online courses during the pandemic

I am online for my courses this semester. Baylor has done a remarkable job...

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Did Christians pioneer the idea of religious liberty?

A look at Robert Louis Wilken’s "Liberty in the Things of God"

Robert Louis Wilken, emeritus professor at the University of Virginia, is one of this...

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Baptists and religious liberty

In 1802, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the...

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Thanksgiving: More than turkey and touchdowns

The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony weren't the first Europeans to settle in North America,...

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The Baptist alliance with Thomas Jefferson that secured religious liberty

In 1776, long-persecuted Baptists hoped that the American Revolution would not only secure America’s...

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The Quaker Exemption and Religious Liberty Today

As oral arguments begin in Hobby Lobby’s challenge to the HHS abortifacient mandate, we...

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