Baptist Fundamentalists and the Toronto Maple Leafs in the Early Twentieth Century

By Taylor Murray

Canadians love hockey.1 It is practically part of our national image, right up there with maple syrup and the beaver. One of the most popular (and, perhaps, equally reviled) hockey teams in the country is the Toronto Maple Leafs, which dates its history back to 1917.2 Continue reading

Stewart G. Cole, T. T. Shields, and the History of Fundamentalism

By Taylor Murray

Historians have debated definitions of the term “fundamentalism” practically since it was popularized in the early 1920s. Continue reading

“Our Holy and Our Beautiful House”: Jarvis Street Baptist Church

By Taylor Murray

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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