Michael Haykin

Michael A. G. Haykin (PhD, University of Toronto) is professor of church history and biblical spirituality at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has authored or edited more than twenty-five books, including The Emergence of Evangelicalism: Exploring Historical Continuities.

5 Myths about John Calvin

by Michael Haykin | Portraits of Protestants, Featured

Dispelling Urban Legends Like many larger-than-life figures in the history of the church, the memory of the French Reformer John Calvin has been subjected to various distortions that amount to urban legends. Myth #1: Calvin had Michael Servetus executed. During what...

Being John Calvin

by Michael Haykin | 500 Years of the Reformation: Why We Need Revival and Reformation Today, Featured, Theology For Life

Born on July 10, 1509, in Noyon, Picardy, in northern France, John Calvin was raised in a family of deeply committed Roman Catholics. Calvin would long remember his mother taking him on pilgrimages to see the relics of the saints, while his father, the...

Being John Owen

by Michael Haykin | 500 Years of the Reformation: Why We Need Revival and Reformation Today, Featured, Theology For Life