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My blog posts revolve around my interests and vocation as a historian: the intersection of history and contemporary church life, the intersection of history and contemporary politics, serendipitous discoveries in archives or on research trips, publications and research projects, upcoming conferences, and speaking engagements.
I sometimes blog for two other organizations, the Canadian Baptist Historical Society and the Centre for Post-Christendom Studies. The views expressed in these blogs represent the views of the authors, and not necessarily those of any organizations with which they are associated. |
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg While the ideals of the United Nations (UN) are commendable, it seems obvious that the UN as an organization is deeply troubled and bordering on irrelevancy. Its system of governance is paralyzed, its decisions partisan, its leaders suspect, its resolutions flouted, and its ideals lost in the passions of political brinkmanship. Some call for its demise. Most ignore it.
Yet what many people do not know is how the churches at one time were enthused with the UN and saw it as a way forward in a troubled world. Consider the case of Canadian churches.
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 A while ago I was looking through Canadian Baptist periodicals in the archives at McMaster Divinity College and I made a serendipitous discovery of an article that described a visit of Canadian youth to a summer Hitler Youth Camp. This discovery is an excellent example of finding something from the past that makes little sense in the present.
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