Sebastian Page is a historian of the 19th century United States and the Atlantic world. This interview is based on his new book, Black Resettlement and the American Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2021). For those who wish to purchase...
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John MacArthur’s reach extends to Canada
Some of you may be following the controversy surrounding GraceLife Church in Edmonton, Alberta. Last Sunday, Alberta health officials arrived at the church and found that its leadership was ignoring public health restrictions related to Covid-19. The church was filled...
Episode 82: The Fastest Game in the World
Ice hockey is now a global sport. Even Brazil, Mexico, Jamaica, and Australia have national teams. The National Hockey League has teams in Miami, Tampa Bay, Dallas, Nashville, and Phoenix. Junior league hockey is played in Shreveport and Amarillo. Anyone...
A Canadian historian reflects on Trumpism
Here is a taste of Jerry Bannister‘s recent piece at Borealia: From the moment of Trump’s election four years ago, we have talked relentlessly about how long it will last. Fear of Tumpism is, at root, the fear of being...
Canada will bring 1.2 million immigrants into the country over the next three years.
Just sayin’. 🙂 Here is Aljazeera: Canada plans to bring in more than 1.2 million new immigrants over the next three years, the federal immigration minister said on Friday, as the country tries to fill gaps in its labour market […]
When Canadian Methodists erased women evangelists from their history
Check out historian Scott McLaren‘s interesting piece at Borealia, a blog about early Canadian history. McLaren, the author of Pulpit, Press, and Politics: Methodists and the Market for Books in Upper Canada, explores the ways early Methodist historians erased “the...
Loyalist Migration: A New Digital Resource
Check out Tim Compeau‘s post at Borealia on a new project that will visualize the movement of men and women displaced by the American Revolution. A taste: Loyalist Migrations is a collaboration between Huron University College’s Community History Centre, the United Empire...
The Author’s Corner with Thomas Richards
Thomas Richards Jr. teaches history at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy. This interview is based on his new book, Breakaway Americas: The Unmanifest Future of the Jacksonian United States (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). JF: What led you to write Breakaway Americas? TR: This book...
The Pot-Smoking Dutch Calvinists Who Stopped “worshipping the Ph.D.” and Gave Their Students “guerrilla credentials.”
I don’t pretend to know much about Dutch Calvinism in America or the differences between Abraham Kuyper and Herman Dooyeweerd. (There are good books on the subject, I would start with the work of James D. Bratt). But I know...
CBC Ideas: “The Pulpit, Power & Politics: Evangelicalism’s Thumbprint on America”
I recently joined Jemar Tisby and Molly Worthen on Canadian Broadcast Corporation’s “Ideas.” You can listen here. Here is a taste of the accompanying article: John Fea has written an entire book about the apparently contradictory relationship of evangelicals and...
What is Happening to Religious Pluralism in Quebec?
I just read Michael W. Higgins’s piece at Commonweal: “Quebec’s Moral Quagmire.” Higgins explores Quebec’s “Bill 21,” a law that, in Higgins’s words, “bans police, civil servants, teachers, government officials, jail guards, and other state employees from wearing any form of...
Election Night with the CBC
If you can pull yourself away from CNN or NPR on election night (November 6), I will be doing some commentary on the evangelical vote for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s radio coverage of the 2018 midterm elections. More details to...
The Randomness of “Borders”
Borders are not handed “down by God.” They have a history. Here is a short piece on “The Grey Zone”: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAlb0MWweno&w=560&h=315] ...
Did Canadian Troops Burn Down the White House?
No. But let’s not get too caught-up in Trump’s remarks to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau concerning the burning of Washington D.C. in the War of 1812. Its slightly more complicated than the pundits make it out to be. Jeet...
Christian Political Engagement in the Age of Trump
As some of you know, I spent the last couple of days in Regina, Saskatchewan. The Canadian Society of Church History (CSCH) invited me to deliver the keynote address at its annual conference. (Thanks for everything Stuart Barnard!). The collegial...
Saskatchewan Bound!
I have never been to Saskatchewan. But if all goes as planned, I will be visiting Regina, Saskatchewan on Wednesday (May 30) to deliver the plenary address at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Church History. The title...
Canadian Evangelicals on Easter in an Age of Trump
Check out Douglas Todd‘s piece at the Vancouver Sun. He asks leading Canadian evangelicals what they think about all the evangelicals in the United States who support Donald Trump. Here is a taste: Three Canadian evangelical theologians say the politics of...
Museums in an Age of Fake News
This piece in the Toronto Star recently caught my attention. In an age of fake news, museums are stepping up to the plate to help “separate fact from fiction and spark critical thinking.” Here is a taste of reporter Stephanie Levitz’s...
“An odd ‘freedom struggle’ that sends 60,000 people fleeing to Canada for their lives.”
Yes, Canada has their own view of our American Revolution. Tristin Hopper of the National Post has a few issues with it. The colonists were fighting “one of the world’s most democratic nations.” (“Democratic” is a bit strong here. How about “liberty-loving”...
Why Did Nova Scotia Stay Loyal?
Alexandra Montgomery, a Ph.D candidate at Penn and an award-winning historian, asks this question here. A taste: As an American born kid growing up in Halifax, the question of why that chunk of land stayed British while the rest of...