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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. |
 This coming Sunday is the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. There is a tremendous need for prayer on such matters, for there are hundreds of millions of Christians today who face various forms and degrees of persecution – some more subtle and insidious, other forms more public, violent, and horrific.
With the plight of contemporary Christians in mind, I thought it would be helpful to provide a summary of some basic details from the experience of the early church’s struggles. Hopefully it will spur on some further research into the past to think and act in a more informed manner today.
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 One of the best parts of my position at McMaster Divinity College is my access to the Canadian Baptist Archives – one of the largest Baptist archives in the Baptist family of churches. That said, some of my findings are sobering. One such account is that of Rev. John E. Davis, Canadian Baptist missionary to the Telugus in India. John died of leprosy that he contracted in India.
Here is a brief summary of his life as described in his autobiography entitled The Life Story of a Leper (1917).  In my recent reading of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan I discovered a brief bit of wisdom on parenting young children – especially at bedtime. I particularly found it compelling because it echoes what we tried to do with our children (my wife doing a better job of it than me).
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