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America's Evangelical Founding Father: A Conversation about George Whitefield with Historian Thomas Kidd

Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler

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The Influence of George Whitfield on the British Empire

Thomas Kidd argues that George Whitfield may in the modern sense be the first major world celebrity. He is able to pair deeply, theologically sophisticated, principled preaching and ministry up with the latest technologies," he says. "I think that that's highly instructive for evangelicals today"

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