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Adoniram Judson: A Bicentennial Appreciation of the Pioneer American Missionary

This year marks the bicentennial of Adoniram and Ann Judson’s departure from America to Burma (present-day Myanmar). In honor of the Judson Bicentennial, Jason Duesing has edited a new collection of...

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Book Recommendation: The Sermons of George Whitefield

George Whitefield (1714–1770) was probably the most well-known individual in colonial America in the years before George Washington became, well, George Washington. Whitefield preached in all thirteen...

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Andrew Fuller and His Friends: Audio Now Available

Back in September, I participated in a conference at Southern Seminary on “Andrew Fuller and His Friends.” The conference was sponsored by the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at SBTS. The...

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On Defining and Dating Puritanism

Among the perennial issues for historians is defining and dating the puritan movement(s) in the English-speaking world. In terms of definitions and boundary markers, social historians tend to focus...

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Reviewing Key Works in Andrew Fuller Studies

Yesterday, I linked to my three-part series on Recent Trends in Andrew Fuller Studies, which was published earlier this week at Between the Times. In that series, I mentioned that there have been four...

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The Conservative Resurgence: An Annotated Bibliography

Yesterday, I published an annotated bibliography of the Conservative Resurgence at Between the Time. A lightly edited PDF version of that bibliography can be downloaded from the “Writings” page of...

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Why Read Andrew Fuller Today?

As many readers know, much of my scholarly attention is focused upon the famous Particular Baptist pastor-theologian Andrew Fuller (1754-1815). In fact, back in December I dedicated three posts at...

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Book Recommendation: After Jonathan Edwards

I’ve recently been reading through an interesting collection of essays edited by Oliver Crisp and Doug Sweeney titled After Jonathan Edwards: The Courses of the New England Theology (Oxford University...

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Recommended: New Edition of Brothers, We Are Not Professionals

When I was a seminary student, John Piper published a book titled Brothers, We Are Not Professionals (B&H, 2002). I remember reading through it shortly after it came out. Piper argued that the...

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Jonathan Edwards and Religious Affections

I recently came across a wonderful, brief introduction to the life and literary legacy of Jonathan Edwards by Joel Beeke and Randall Peterson. The essay, which is available online, is reprinted from...

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Andrew Fuller and the Evangelical Renewal of Pastoral Theology

I was very pleased to receive my copy today of Keith Grant’s new book Andrew Fuller and the Evangelical Renewal of Pastoral Theology (Paternoster, 2013). The monograph, which is a revised version of...

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Recent Blog Posts on Other Websites

This week, in addition to the blog posts I published on this website, I wrote posts for three other blogs. On Tuesday, Two Journeys republished an earlier blog post of mine titled “FBC Durham: A Brief...

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Some Brief Thoughts on Baptism

Recently, The Gospel Coalition published two short articles about baptism. In the first article, Gavin Ortlund, a PhD student at Fuller Theological Seminary, shares his journey from a pedobaptist to...

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Ten Books That Shaped America’s Conservative Renaissance

Yesterday, I blogged about Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind, which was published sixty years ago. I mentioned it is one of the seminal works in the modern conservative intellectual tradition. I...

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The Nature of Christian History Revisited

One of the perennial debates among believing historians is the nature of Christian history. When I was finishing my undergraduate degree in history and first contemplating eventually pursuing a PhD, I...

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Jay Richards on Faith, Family, and Freedom

Last week, Jay Wesley Richards delivered several lectures on the Southeastern Seminary campus in conjunction with the L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture. Richards is a leading evangelical...

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Inexpensive E-Books on Global Missions

Check out the latest post at Between the Times, which points readers to four deeply discounted e-books on global missions. B&H Publishers discounted the titles for Southeastern Seminary’s Global...

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The Gospel’s Redeeming Relationships

I’m currently reading Robert Cheong’s new book God Redeeming His Bride: A Handbook for Church Discipline (Christian Focus, 2012). I’m really enjoying it so far, and though I haven’t quite finished it,...

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Book Recommendation: The Young Shepherd

Wayne McDill: Preaching Guru My friend Wayne McDill has co-authored a new book for (primarily) younger pastors titled The Young Shepherd: Nathan Murray’s First Year as Pastor (CreateSpace, 2013)....

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Leon McBeth and My Personal Journey into Baptist Studies

Longtime Southwestern Seminary church historian Leon McBeth passed away last week at the age of 81. I never met Dr. McBeth, though I have been around him once or twice at conferences. My own career in...

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