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John Bunyan (1628-1688) and suffering for Christ, part II
The present-day site of Bunyan’s prison cell
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Michael A.G. Azad Haykin
On the closure of seminaries and colleges and the need for theological education
Does the recent closure of King’s College in NYC, the collapse of TEDS, and the very recent announcement, “sudden” to many, of the closure of Spurgeon’s…
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A video for Emancipation Day (August 1)
In William Edgar’s recent book on jazz, A Supreme Love: the Music of Jazz and the Hope of the Gospel, he cites these words of Frederick Douglass…
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John Bunyan (1628-1688) and suffering for Christ, part I
“Oft I was as if I was on the Ladder, with the rope about my neck.”[1] So John Bunyan later recalled his possible demise by hanging as he sat in a cold…
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On Being Baptist and Remaining Baptist: CBR and Retrieval
Above: Clipston Baptist Chapel, Northants.
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July 2025

Conference on the legacy of Andrew Fuller
Thrilled to be a part of what promises to be a splendid conference hosted by the Jonathan Edwards Center at Gateway Seminary in Los Angeles next May…
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Michael A.G. Azad Haykin
A small reflection on the hymn “All-sufficient merit shining like the sun”
Listening to the worship service at James North Baptist Church, a work in the north end of Hamilton that was planted as a church in 1887, from July 13…
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On being Catholic and Baptist, and on the matter of ressourcement—some clarifications
Catholicity is a beautiful word.
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Veronica Haykin, our grand-daughter
Born yesterday (July 24), by the grace of God, in the year of our Lord 2025, Veronica Haykin to Nigel and Sharon Haykin at St Josephs Hospital…
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An ever-so brief word about my not becoming Anglican
Above: the baptism of Krishna Pal by William Ward in Bengal on December 28, 1800
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On being a romantic
William Blake, “Pity” (1795)
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On saying no to leadership
The pulpit of Andrew Fuller (Archive Room, Fuller Baptist Church, Kettering).
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