Champions of the TruthRawlyk argues that in the early part of this century the Maritime Baptist mainstream was far more accommodating and open minded than Baptists in central Canada and the West. He shows that during the fundamentalist modernist controversies of the 1920s and 1930s the vast majority of Maritime Baptists rejected the closed minded Central Canadian Fundamentalism of T. T. Shields. Instead they stressed what Barry Moody has referred to as the prevailing