by Thomas Kidd | Jun 6, 2016 | Opinion
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” would make it on my list of must-reads for American cultural literacy. Written as he awaited release from a Birmingham, Alabama, jail in 1963, King explained why the nonviolent protests...
by Thomas Kidd | Apr 20, 2016 | Opinion
When Mitt Romney lost the presidential election in 2012, many disappointed supporters – including a number of evangelicals – suggested that his defeat spoke to an American culture in decline. For politics to change, they say, culture must change. Glenn...
by Thomas Kidd | Mar 29, 2016 | Opinion
How is there still massive ignorance of the Bible when it is more widely available than ever before? I reflected on this dilemma of mass Bible ownership versus declining Bible “engagement” at the end of my Weekly Standard review of John Fea’s...
by Thomas Kidd | Sep 25, 2015 | Opinion
Ben Carson stirred up the latest Republican primary tempest last weekend when he volunteered the opinion that he “would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation.” What should we make of this statement? First, it speaks to a pervasive...
by Thomas Kidd | Jul 3, 2015 | Opinion
I have a pretty strong personal history of wrestling with the memory of the Confederacy. Having lived all over the South, I grew up hearing stories from relatives about the “Lost Cause” and how the Yankees took everything we had during Reconstruction....
