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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. |
Image from Anglican General Synod Archives, Toronto, ON. I am in the midst of researching the Canadian churches and their reaction to the First World War. My task this month is to read through the wartime denominational periodicals.
One of my small pleasures in life is finding interesting items in my archival research, things that I did not expect to find. Today I found "An Ode to Germs" in the Canadian Churchman, an Anglican weekly newspaper. In light of our present day pandemic - and the one that occurred in 1918 - the brief poem is interesting to say the least, if not prescient.
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