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Remembering Washington Christian (1776–1850)
By Taylor Murray Historians sometimes joke that they spend a lot of time with dead people. We listen to the voices of those who have long passed, and we learn what lessons they have to teach us.
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I Wish More Baptists from the Past Were Like T. T. Shields
By Taylor Murray Thomas Todhunter “T. T.” Shields (1873–1955) is an individual who looms large in the Canadian Baptist story. As the primary mover of the fundamentalist-modernist schism of 1927 (which divided Baptists in Ontario and Quebec), there is a case to be made that there is no Baptist in Canada from the twentieth century…
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NEWS | Washington Christian Monument Dedication Event, 4 July 2026
Earlier this year, the Canadian Baptist Historical Society announced an intiative to raise money in order to erect a monument for Washington Christian (pastor of the First Coloured Calvinistic Baptist Church of Toronto, 1834), on the site of his grave at the Necropolis Cemetary in Toronto.
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Stranger Things & The End of the World: A Fascinating Example of Apocalypticism in the Present Age
By James Tyler Robertson The Netflix show Stranger Things garnered hundreds of millions of fans worldwide over the past decade and historians of religion should take note.
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NEWS | International Conference on Baptist Studies, August 2027
From our friends at the International Conference on Baptist Studies (ICOBS):
Canadian Baptist Historical Society 