A new biography helps us come to terms with the unsavory side of the great revivalist’s mission to America. On the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, there sits a statue of one of the school’s ...

In this impressive debut, Choi, director of academic studies at Newbigin House of Studies, presents a bold recontextualization of the life of 18th-century English preacher George Whitefield. Using ...

(RNS) Future evangelists -- most notably Billy Graham -- followed a pattern set by Whitefield of making the most of the media available in their time. (RNS) If YouTube had existed in the 1700s, George ...

This new biography recalls George Whitefield, the 18th-century English evangelist, as probably the most recognizable celebrity of his age. He was certainly the most traveled, crisscrossing the ...

It’s a curious fact of history that a statue of John Wesley stands prominently ensconced in the center of downtown Savannah, Georgia. In stark contrast, a nondescript gazebo dedicated to George ...

GEORGE WHITEFIELD: AMERICA’S SPIRITUAL FOUNDING FATHER By Thomas S. Kidd Yale University Press, $38, 344 pages In the fall of 1764, George Whitefield, itinerant evangelical preacher, gave a ...

Edwards worried that the strong emotions raised by George Whitefield’s preaching would produce not steady Christians by religious hypocrites. It is wonderful to see what a spell he casts over an ...

The early 18th century was not a time of religious vibrancy and high church attendance. The upheavals of the previous century—collectively, if misleadingly, called “religious wars”—had seemed to ...

In his recent biography of Billy Graham, Grant Wacker nicknamed the Baptist preacher “America’s pastor.” Owing to a prolific career that began in 1949 and has now spanned nearly 70 years, which saw ...

If YouTube had existed in the 1700s, George Whitefield, hailed by scholars as the best-known evangelist of that century, would have been all over it. Whitefield (pronounced WIT-field), who was born in ...