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 (White Horse Inn Archives) 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), 2nd Edition of First Corinthians -- Lectio Continua, (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); “The Eschatology of the Reformers” in Reformation Theology (Crossway, 2017), "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 four grandchildren. He is interested in family history and is presently writing a history of the Riddlebarger family. He is also a life-long New York Yankees fan.
Admiring Calvin’s Chair in Geneva
Giving the 2021 denDulk Lectures at Westminster Seminary California
White Horse Inn 30th Reunion Recording (Rod Rosenbladt, Ken Jones, KR, and Michael Horton)
Rod Rosenbladt, Mike Horton, Kim Riddlebarger, and R.C. Sproul taping the White Horse Inn,
in Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse's old studio at Tenth Presbyterian in Philadelphia
Dr. Riddlebarger, delivering the May 2009 commencement address at Westminster Seminary California
A "live" White Horse Inn taping at the Liberate Conference at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church
in Fort Lauderdale, FL, in February of 2013.
Dr. Riddlebarger preaching at Christ Reformed Church in Anaheim in March of 2019
With Co-founder Mike Horton on Christ Reformed Church’s 25th Anniversary
Mike, KR, and Rod, picking up where we left off
With the "Missus" in the summer of 2017 at one of our favorite places in the Eastern Sierras--Lake Mamie
Our family (David seated, Mark standing) on the occasion of David's wedding on April 26, 2019
The Riddlebargers on the occasion of my 70th Birthday (August 2024)