Dr. Kim Riddlebarger

Dr. Kim Riddlebarger is pastor emeritus of Christ Reformed Church (URCNA) in Anaheim, having served as senior pastor from 1995 until his retirement in December 2020. Kim was a long-time co-host of the popular White Horse Inn, a radio-internet talk show, and served several terms as visiting professor of systematic theology at Westminster Seminary California.

Although retired, Kim stays busy with the Riddleblog, The Blessed Hope Podcast, and several book projects. He also teaches the weekly adult Sunday school class at Christ Reformed Church.

A fourth-generation Californian, Kim is a graduate of California State University Fullerton (B.A.), Simon Greenleaf School of Law (M.A.), Westminster Seminary California (M.A.R.), and Fuller Theological Seminary (Ph.D.), where he worked under Richard A. Muller. His doctoral dissertation is entitled The Lion of Princeton—Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield: Apologist, Polemicist, and Theologian.

Kim is the author of four books: A Case for Amillennialism (Baker, 2003/2013), The Man of Sin: Uncovering the Truth About Antichrist (Baker, 2006), First Corinthians—Lectio Continua, 2nd ed. (RHB, 2024), and The Lion of Princeton: B. B. Warfield as Apologist and Theologian (Lexham Press, 2015).

He has been a regular contributor to publications such as Modern Reformation and Tabletalk Magazine.

He has also made contributions to numerous books, including Power Religion (Moody, 1992), Christ the Lord (Baker, 1992), Roman Catholicism: Evangelicals Analyze What Unites and What Divides Us (Moody, 1994), Theologia et Apologia (Wipf and Stock, 2006), Called to Serve (Reformed Fellowship, 2007), Risking the Truth (Christian Focus, 2009), Always Reforming: Essays in Honor of W. Robert Godfrey (2010), and Planting, Watering, Growing: Planting Confessionally Reformed Churches in the 21st Century (Reformation Heritage, 2011), as well as “The Eschatology of the Reformers” in Reformation Theology (Crossway, 2017) and “The Lion of Princeton: B. B. Warfield as Apologist” in A Legacy of Apologetics: Historical and Theological Introductions (Zondervan, 2020).

Kim is married to Micki, and has two married sons, David (Nancy) and Mark (Brianna), and five grandchildren. He is interested in family history and is presently writing a history of the Riddlebarger family. He is also a lifelong New York Yankees fan.