On the Blog:
17 February 2021
From our friends at the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies: …
28 January 2021
Save the date for our 2021 Annual General Meeting. …
26 October 2020
From our friends across the Atlantic: …
23 September 2020
This is a call for book chapter proposals for an edited volume tentatively entitled The Black Baptist Experience in Canada. Here are book details: …
11 September 2020
On 26 August 2020, Gordon L. Heath and I announced the publication of a Festschrift in honour of Dr. Robert S. Wilson (“Dr. Bob”), …
19 August 2020
I often have referred to the historical research that I do as following in the methodology of Neil Postman’s “Building of Bridges.” …
5 August 2020
From our friends (Centre for Baptist Studies at Regent’s Park College, Oxford) across the pond: …
15 April 2020
Various historians have drawn similarities between the recent outbreak of COVID-19 and earlier events in world history. Among the most prominent comparisons is the influenza that followed on the heels of the First World War. …
17 March 2020
Given the seriousness of the COVID 19 outbreak, we have decided to postpone our CBHS Annual Meeting at Jarvis Street Baptist Church in Toronto until April of 2021. …
16 January 2020
From our friends at the Canadian Society of Presbyterian History: …
16 December 2019
Each April we gather for our Annual General Meeting. In 2020 we are meeting at Toronto Baptist Seminary. …
7 November 2019
From our friends at the Canadian Society of Church History: …
6 November 2019
Stuart Eldon Murray (1919–1985) was born one-hundred-years ago today, on 6 November 1919. …
28 October 2019
The guns went silent on the Western Front on the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month. …
10 October 2019
Fifty-nine years ago this past September, Christian leaders in the Soviet Union invited two key Canadian Baptists leaders to visit them for a series of special, celebratory services. …
8 October 2019
From our friends across the pond …
15 September 2019
Visit our friends at the International Conference on Baptist Studies (ICOBS) online at their new website …
1 September 2019
This is a call for papers for the upcoming annual meeting of the Canadian Baptist Historical Society (CBHS). …
15 August 2019
The recent publication of my article on Watson Kirkconnell’s covert war against communism reminds me once again of the serendipitous surprises one experiences while doing research in archives. …
31 July 2019
During the first years of his ministry, some of Eben Rice’s diary accounts are nonchalant—household chores, sermon preparation, visiting with church members in far-flung homes and long meetings. …
26 June 2019
The recent 100th Anniversary of the Winnipeg Strike, that took place from 15 May to 25 June 1919, prompts many questions for those interested in Canadian Baptist history. …
29 May 2019
From the Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies (ACBAS): …
28 May 2019
During his student days at the Canadian Literary Institute in Woodstock in the early-1860s, Eben Rice had his share of …
15 April 2019
On 13 April 2019, the Canadian Baptist Historical Society held its annual meeting at Tyndale Seminary in Toronto, Ontario. …
19 March 2019
On Saturday, 13 April 2019, the members of the Canadian Baptist Historical Society are gathering for our Annual General Meeting …
2 March 2019
At age twenty-one, Ebenezer Muir Rice began keeping a diary. He was living in upstate New York with his uncle at the time. In his first entry …
14 January 2019
On my trips to various archives I am often pleasantly surprised by unexpected discoveries. My recent excursion to the Baptist archives …
9 January 2019
From our friends across the Atlantic: …
18 December 2018
Each April we gather for our Annual General Meeting. In 2019 are meeting at Tyndale Seminary. …
14 December 2018
On 10 September 1939 Canada declared war on Germany. For the third time in forty years, Canada was at war. …
13 December 2018
From the Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies (ACBAS): …
15 November 2018
Despite the hellishness of the war, the students and faculty of McMaster University proved themselves to be profoundly loyal to the Empire’s cause…
9 November 2018
On 4 August 1914, Great Britain declared war on Germany, committing its far-flung, global domains to a war of the most tragic proportions yet experienced by humankind…
22 October 2018
This is a call for papers for the upcoming annual meeting of the Canadian Baptist Historical Society (CBHS). …
2 October 2018
From our friends from across the Atlantic:
“Wedding Cake Church”: St. Andrews Baptist Church
15 August 2018
Nestled in the sea-side town of St. Andrews, New Brunswick is perhaps one of the most interesting churches in Atlantic Canada.
NEWS | Serampore 200 – Oxford Conference
5 July 2018
Here is an update from our friends across the Atlantic: Dear Friend of the Centre for Baptist History and Heritage, …
NEWS | Congratulations, Dr. Chris Crocker!
3 July 2018
We would like to offer a special note of congratulations to Chris Crocker, who, after four years of study, successfully defended his PhD thesis at Bristol Baptist College (the world’s oldest …
1 June 2018
This summer (June 23 to 29) marks the 90th anniversary of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) congress that was held at Exhibition Park in Toronto, Canada.
Retirement Dinner for Dr. Robert S. Wilson
16 May 2018
On 2 May 2018, hundreds of people filled the Sheldon L. Fountain Commons at Acadia University to celebrate the career of an extraordinary Canadian Baptist: Dr. Robert S. Wilson …
The Crown: Baptists and the Coronation of Elizabeth II
10 May 2018
Viewers of the Netflix series The Crown are familiar with the early years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, especially the tradition and pageantry surrounding her coronation in …
NEWS | Annual General Meeting, 2018
30 April 2018
On 28 April 2018, the Canadian Baptist Historical Society held its annual meeting at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario.
“Our Holy and Our Beautiful House”: Jarvis Street Baptist Church
5 March 2018
In March 2017, I visited the archives at Jarvis Street Baptist Church (JSBC) in downtown Toronto. While I was there I snapped a few photographs of the sanctuary.
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