To coincide with the publication of Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism (co-edited with Paul R. Wilson), I put together a blog for the Canadian Baptist Historical Society exploring a few places where future authors could expand on the historiography. My suggestions are by no means exhaustive. The point here is simple: there is a wide-open field to explore, and there are countless topics just waiting for the right person to dive in.
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Last month, I wrote a blog for the Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies (ACBAS) website on research on Baptists in Canada published since the middle of the twentieth century. As I explain in my post, dated historiographical essays are one of my favourite sub-genres (same goes for articles that predict the future of a particular topic). They give us an opportunity to look at the field and, as I note, ask ourselves: “how’d we do?”
Continue reading “Revisiting Themes For Research In Canadian Baptist History”A Reflection on Maritime Baptists and the “Spanish Influenza”
With COVID-19, these are unquestionably strange times—but they are not without some historical precedent. Last year, early in the pandemic, I wrote a blog for the Canadian Baptist Historical Society on the experience of the Maritime Baptists (United Baptist Convention of the Maritime Provinces) during the Spanish Influenza in 1918–1920.
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