Phillis Wheatley and the Evangelical Anti-Slavery Movement
When the evangelical poet Phillis Wheatley published an pamphlet-length elegy on George Whitefield upon the great itinerant’s death in 1770, she gained renown as the first published African American...
View ArticleWriting a Book, From Start to Finish
One of my newsletter subscribers, Job Dalomba [jobdalomba.com] suggested that I write a post how how to do “book projects from start to finish, and share any ideas on how to get started.” Philip...
View ArticleThe New Birth: A Uniquely American Concept?
Last week at CNN.com, progressive Christian author Matthew Paul Turner wrote a piece about the ways that America has “changed God.” George Whitefield came into the discussion in way #2. Rather than...
View ArticleGeorge Whitefield: Bridging the Evangelical and Academic Gap
Today is the official publication date for my book George Whitefield: America’s Spiritual Founding Father. Thanks to all of you who have already bought the book, as well as those who have so kindly...
View Article“More a Doctrine than a Person”: Evangelicals and the Holy Spirit
I suspect many a Christian, including many evangelicals, can identify with frustrations J.D. Greear expressed in his recent Christianity Today interview about the Christian life and the Holy Spirit:...
View ArticleHappy 300th Birthday George Whitefield!
The day is finally here – the 300th birthday of George Whitefield, the greatest evangelist of the eighteenth century, and the best known person in colonial America prior to the Revolution. I have been...
View ArticleGeorge Whitefield’s Christmas, 1739
As we observed George Whitefield’s 300th birthday last week, here’s a post on his 1739 Christmas travels and preaching, from the Anxious Bench archive: In December 1739, George Whitefield was...
View ArticleDefining Evangelicalism: Part 1,242…
Douglas Winiarski’s Darkness Falls on the Land of Light begins with the story of two couples in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. In the winter of 1748-1749, Hannah and John Corey withdrew from Sturbridge’s...
View ArticleThe Great Awakening and the Collapse of New England Congregationalism
What happens when a religious establishment implodes? In his magisterial Darkness Falls on the Land of Light, Douglas Winiarski traces the maturation and then collapse of New England’s Congregational...
View ArticleI’m Sorry, But You’ve Been Canceled
George Whitefield canceled John Tillotson. Tillotson was one of the most influential ecclesial figures during the seventeenth century, on both sides of the Atlantic basin and continental Europe. He...
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