Many Episcopalians associate the name Richard Hooker with via media and Anglicanism’s three-legged stool of scripture, reason, and tradition.

In the spring issue of Anglican and Episcopal History (AEH), multiple historians challenge accepted narratives and offer new analysis of sixteenth-century priest Richard Hooker’s writings, life, and legacy.

In the lead study, Rudolph P. Almasy argues Hooker’s landmark Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity was not exclusively aimed at Presbyterian critics of the time as is often assumed. Instead, Almasy’s closer examination of Polity argues that Hooker “was aware of and sensitive to the polyvocal religious scene in London as he began to draft the Polity.” And, that knowing this, Hooker “sought to have his work speak to the largest audience possible as he explained the positions and practices of the established church.”

The study is titled “Richard Hooker’s Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity and the Late Elizabethan Polyvocal Religious Scene.” Almasy is emeritus professor and dean emeritus at West Virginia University.

Then in “The Destruction of Richard Hooker’s Manuscripts, Revisited” Daniel F. Graves reconsiders Izaak Walton’s 1655 The Life of Richard Hooker, a once authoritative biography of Hooker that has fallen out of favor in recent years.

Graves contends that “Hooker scholarship has adhered too closely to [C.J.] Sisson and [David] Novarr’s dismissal of Walton as a reliable source and essentially taken him off the table as a resource in reconstructing the life of Hooker. It is high time we treated Walton seriously, although not uncritically, and put him back on the table.” Graves does just that.

He is theologian-in-residence at Trinity Anglican Church in Aurora, Ontario and teaches church history at Huron University College in London, Ontario.

Other Hooker related studies in the spring issue of AEH are:

“The Beauty of Holiness between Hooker and Laud: ‘Not more holy, than comely, nor more sacred than sumptuous’” by Travis J. Knapp. The study looks at evolving usage of the phrase “in the beauty of holiness” in Laudian and anti-Laudian liturgies. Knapp is assistant professor of English at Valley City State University in North Dakota.

“Early Protestant Riffs on Ephesians 4:18 in martin Bucer and Richard Hooker” by David B. Alenskis, a doctoral student at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto.

“‘Pretended Queen’: English Catholics and Elizabethan Treason Legislation, 1569-1572” by Hannah Wygiera, a doctoral student at the University of Calgary who is also involved in church governance within the Anglican Church of Canada

BOOK REVIEWS

Multiple book reviews also examine recent works relevant to Hooker and his times. These include:

• Richard Hooker and the Christian Virtues edited by Daniel F. Graves and Scott N. Kindred Barnes | Reviewed by Rudolph P. Almasy of West Virginia University
• Tudor England, A History by Lucy Wooding | Reviewed by William Gibson of Oxford Brookes University
• England’s Other Countrymen: Black Tudor Society by Onyeka Nubia | Reviewed by Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, editor-in-chief of Anglican and Episcopal History
• The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church by Matthew Barrett | Reviewed by Jack D. Kilcrease of Christ School of Theology in Brookings, South Dakota
• A joint review of The Anglican Episcopate 1689-1800 edited by Nigel Aston and William Gibson and Civil Religion in the Early Modern Anglophone World, 1550-1700 edited by Rachel Hammersley and Adam Morton | Reviewed by Christopher Fauske of Salem State University
• Lollards in the English Reformation: History, Radicalism, and John Foxe by Susan Royal | Reviewed by Lora Walsh of the University of Arkansas

Anglican and Episcopal History is the peer-reviewed journal of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church. It is published quarterly. For subscription information visit hsec.us/membership.

The latest issue of Anglican and Episcopal History provides a range of exhibit, podcast, and book reviews helpful to scholars of church history. Reviews of current scholarship include:

Exhibit Reviews

Black Americans, Civil Rights and the Roosevelts, 1932-1962 – a special exhibition at the Franklin D. Roosevelt President Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York that ran June 2023 through December 2024.

“Some auditory displays and video scan draw in younger viewers more easily than the many documents reflecting the correspondence among Civil Rights leaders and politicians from 1932. Yet, those documents give a deeper understanding of the lives of Black Americans during that time,” according to Janet Manko of the Lakeville Journal Company. “The exhibit includes information that will be enlightening for people of all ages.”

Morgan’s Bibles: Splendor in Scripture – an exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, NY (October 2023-January 2024) by Nancy Bryan of New York City

Podcast Review

“Religion in the American Experience” hosted by Chris Stevenson

Edward Rowlands hears “…a compelling resource for Americans to understand the role of religion in their national story, and a podcast that an academic and educated audience can deeply appreciate.” And that “Controversial themes of religion and American history that still blight the national conscience are discussed openly.”

Church Review

Readers enjoy a glimpse of worship on the Third Sunday after Pentecost at Grace Episcopal Church in Traverse City, Michigan. Grace Church is part of the Episcopal Diocese of the Great Lakes that was formed in 2024 by the merger of the dioceses of Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan.

11 Book Reviews including:

• The Broken Body: Israel, Christ, and Fragmentation by Sarah Coakley | Reviewed by Michael Plekon of The City University of New York, Baruch College
• On Memory, Marriage, Tears, and Meditation by Margaret R. Miles | Reviewed by Carla E. Roland Guzmán of The General Theological Seminary
• Women, Dance, and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640: Negotiating the Steps of Faith. Gender in the Middle Ages. Vol. 19 by Lynneth Miller Renberg | Reviewed by Nancy Saultz Radloff
• America’s Book: The Rise and Decline of Bible Civilization, 1794-1911 by Mark Noll | Reviewed by Christopher L. Webber
• An Anglo-Catholic Visionary for Modern America, collected writings of Gordan Butler Wadhams edited by Joseph F. Byrnes | Reviewed by Warren C. Platt of the Church of the Transfiguration in New York City
• Late Georgian Churches, Anglican Architecture, Patronage, and Church-going, 1790-1840 by Christopher Webster | Reviewed by William Gibson of Oxford Brookes University

The December issue of Anglican and Episcopal History (AEH) reaches across a broad range of geography and time to offer studies of interest related to church-state relations, liturgy, and theology.

Studies addressing church-state relations consider events in France, England, Germany, and the U.S.

Justus Doenecke considers ways two different theologies can lead to similar conclusions. He closely examines archived issues of the Anglo-Catholic weekly The Living Church to determine ways it responded to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s policies surrounding World War I. This study shows ways The Living Church editor Frederic Cook Morehouse (1868-1932) and the Presbyterian US president both came to equate Christianity with patriotism. Doenecke cautions that “…statecraft took on the trappings of a crusade” while both men assumed a universalism that was “doomed to failure be it in 1914-19 or a century thereafter.”

The study is titled “The Living Church and Wilsonianism, 1914-1920: An Ambiguous Legacy.” Doenecke is emeritus professor of history at New College of Florida.

Two studies address events in Europe.

Mary, as Our Lady of Lourdes, is well-known. Shawn Martin, head of scholarly communication at Dartmouth College, introduces readers to a lesser-known apparition of Mary that occurred in La Salette, France, in 1846.

Martin notes ways that the appearance before two children, Maximin Giraud and Mélanie Calvat, was widely reported in European newspapers at the time. It was also interpreted politically by some as a way to support centralized government and the restoration of the French monarchy.

In “Marian Apparitions in Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue: La Salette and the Politics of Mariology in Nineteenth-Century England,” Martin argues that the different ways in which the apparition in La Sallette was interpreted politically provides lessons for the Anglican Communion and Roman Catholic Church not to let politics get in the way of what Mary was about.

Other studies with connections to church-state dynamic include:

• “George Bell, the British Churches, and Émigré Artists from Nazi Europe, 1933-c.1957” by Peter Webster. Webster is head of digital scholarship and innovation at the Hartley Library, University of Southampton

• “Indigenous African Women as Missionaries, Preachers, Evangelists, and Receivers of Christianity in the Interactions of Niger Missions in the Middle Belt States of Nigeria, 1841-1930” by Kefas Lamak, a doctoral student at the University of Iowa. Lamak uses a “history from below” framework to recover indigenous women’s perspectives from their triple marginalization by African men, colonial missionary men, and women from outside the region.

Studies related to liturgy and theology include:

• “Revising the 1929 Book of Common Prayer Psalter: A Difficult and Delicate Process” by Steven Bishop. This study uses extensive archival evidence and a focused study of Psalm 84 to examine the methodology used for revising the psalter. Bishop’s examination provides lessons for future revisions of the 1979 Psalter. He writes that “Revising is as taxing as translating… The peculiar constraints of a translation embedded in a religious tradition and emotionally charged attachment to that tradition make the work particularly hazardous.” Bishop is associate professor of the Old Testament at Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas.
• “Explanations of the Real Presence and Richard Allestree’s Heresy of Impanation in Early Modern England, 1534-1681: Finding God in Bread” by Tanner Moore. This essay proposes that Richard Allestree’s (1619/21?-1681) theology on the Eucharist used the heresy of impanation to reconcile Church of England theology of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist with its Roman Catholic heritage. Moore is visiting professor of religious studies at Claremont McKenna College.

Anglican and Episcopal History offers scholars and history buffs 20 book reviews, 2 exhibit reviews, and 2 church reviews in its autumn issue. The September issue commemorates the 70^th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Brown v. the Board of Education (1954) ordering the desegregation of U.S. public schools.

Church Reviews Church reviews provide readers a glimpse of divine services throughout the Anglican Communion, especially within the Episcopal Church. This issue features profiles of the All Saints’ Sunday service at Christ Episcopal Church in Charlevoix, Michigan, part of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Michigan, and a Christmas Eve service 10 years after schism at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Peters Township, Pennsylvania, part of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh.

Exhibit Reviews

• “Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance” at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, England (September 8, 2023 to January 7, 2024)
• “Women and the Church of England: 200 Years of Women’s Ministry and Agency” at Lambeth Palace Library, London (April 9 to August 29, 2024)

Book ReviewsAs always, readers enjoy a treasure trove of book reviews related to church history and Anglican scholarship. The September issue includes 20 book reviews, among them are:

• The Anglican Tradition from a Postcolonial Perspective by Kwok Pui-Lan | Reviewed by Don H. Compier of the Bishop Kemper School for Ministry in Kansas
• Mission, Race, and Empire: The Episcopal Church in Global Context by Jennifer C. Snow | Reviewed by Bishop Ian T. Douglas of Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts
• The Many Faces of Slavery: New Perspectives on Slave Ownership and Experiences in the Americas edited by Lawrence Aje and Catherine Armstrong | Reviewed by Kyle Welty of Northern Arizona University
• Women in World Christianity: Building and Sustaining a Global Movement by Gina A. Zurlo | Reviewed by Nancy Saultz Radloff of Interlaken, New York
• A Church Militant: Anglicans and the Armed Forces from Queen Victoria to the Vietnam War by Michael Snape | Reviewed by Lawrence G. Duggan of the University of Delaware
• Ministry in the Anglican Traditions from Henry VIII to 1900 by John L. Kater | Reviewed by J. Barrington Bates of Harbor Springs, Michigan
• Bisschop’s Bench: Contours of Arminian Conformity in the Church of England, c. 1674-1742 by Samuel D. Fornecker | Reviewed by Benjamin M. Guyer of the University of Tennessee at Martin
• Te Hāhi Mihinare: The Māori Anglican Church by Hirini Kaa | Reviewed by Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, editor-in-chief of Anglican and Episcopal History

Anglican and Episcopal History is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December. Full text articles are available through JSTOR.org and for members of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church at hsec.us/AEH.

The June 2026 issue of Anglican and Episcopal History (AEH) will commemorate the 250^th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the formal founding of the United States. AEH is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December. Editor Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook is looking for journal articles and engaged history articles related to the theme "Decolonizing Anglican and Episcopal History" for the issue.

Articles (4000-4500 words maximum, including footnotes), may focus on Anglican and Episcopal history from any region with a decolonial perspective. In addition to journal articles, "engaged history" articles (1500 words), based on local initiatives with a decolonial focus, are welcomed. Completed articles are due by January 1, 2026, and must comply with AEH style guidelines, and are subject to peer review. Interested authors should submit a 50-100 word abstract to aeheditor@gmail.com.

Originally published as the Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church (1932-1986), AEH has had recent themed issues of focus on the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, 50th anniversary of the ordination of women to the priesthood, and history of the Lambeth Conference. Editor Kujawa-Holbrook was recently appointed Historiographer of The Episcopal Church.  Full text articles are available through JSTOR.org, to members of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church. Copies may be obtained through the Historical Society at hsec.us/AEH.

Historians examine factors that led to racial integration in ecclesiastical settings in Maryland, Virginia, Connecticut, and New Jersey in their September issue of Anglican and Episcopal History, an issue that commemorates the 70^th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Three other studies address global issues of schism in the US midwest, theology in Kenya, and ecclesiology in Canada.

The three peer-reviewed studies and one article focused on racial integration and healing are:                

• ·       “The Church School Vision Renewed: the Development Toward Racial Integration at Saint James School of Maryland, 1869-1984” in which the Rev. Dr. Brandt L. Montgomery argues that the 1971 racial integration of St. James School in Appalachian Maryland was enabled by its transition from High Church to Anglo-Catholic churchmanship, especially under the headmastership of the Rev. John Owens. Montgomery is chaplain of St. James School and vicar of nearby St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (Lappans) in Boonsboro, part of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland.
• ·       “The Racial Integration of Shrine Mont Camps” evaluates racial integration at church camps in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. In this study, the Rev. Charles R. Cowherd notes that movement toward racial integration began in 1947 but was slowed by the so-called ‘Virginia Way’ of compromise, gentility, and moderation. He credits Jim Lincoln, appointed director of the diocese’s Department of Christian Education in 1951, as being a key actor promoting racial integration despite fierce backlash and political opposition. Cowherd is rector of St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church in Herdon, Virginia.
• ·       “Trinity Church, Bridgeport: Connecticut’s Copperhead Episcopal Church” challenges earlier histories of the parish that suggest it was founded to achieve Prayer Book renewal or proto-Anglo-Catholic aims. Instead, Stephen McGrath shows that Trinity Church, founded in 1863, became a haven for “Copperheads” – northern Democrats who favored the South. His study is a reminder that racial discrimination was not an exclusively southern phenomena and that economic and political motives related to slavery divided northern congregations during the U.S. Civil War. McGrath teaches at Central Connecticut State University.
• ·       “Engaged History: Public History in the Diocese of New Jersey Racial Justice Review: Research, Reckoning, Education, and Formation” chronicles historical research and congregational outreach undertaken in the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey since 2022 related to slavery in the colonial and antebellum periods. Engaged History features collaborative projects undertaken by Anglican and Episcopal institutions that confront underrecognized historical narratives. This profile is written by Jolyon G.R. Pruszinski of Princeton University and the Reparations Commission Research Historian for the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.

Three other peer-reviewed studies addressing global issues in North America and Africa in the autumn issue of AEH are:

• ·       “Anti-Ritualism & Self-Determination: Non-Episcopal Anglican Congregations in Indianapolis before 1977” examines historic “non-Canterbury-aligned Anglican congregations” in Indianapolis. Author Lee R. Little, a church historian and law librarian, identifies historic reasons for schism and failure of breakaway congregations in Indianapolis using case studies of Trinity Reformed Episcopal Church and the African Orthodox Church of St. John the Divine. Little finds that both case studies offer practical lessons for Anglican Communion leaders today.
• ·       Joseph S. Pagano’s “The Anglican Fulfillment Theology of John S. Mbiti” examines Kenyan-born philosopher-priest’s praeparatio evangelica view of traditional African religions, a fulfillment theology that views African religions as positive preparation for the gospels in contrast to traditional Western missionary views that interpreted them as lost in superstition and devilish. Pagano argues that Mbiti’s theology “is not simplistic of formulaic application of Christian truths to African religion and culture” and is instead a “sustained and sensitive treatment of African religions and Christianity in various historical and cultural forms.” Mbiti (1931-2019) is often recognized as the father of modern African theology. The Rev. Dr. Pagano is a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland.
• ·       “Liberty and Loyalty: the Canadian Experience and the Transformation of British Ecclesiastical Policy, 1759-1774” by Frederick V. Mills, Sr., provides a historiographic overview of the Quebec Act of 1774 and examines the transition from a policy of religious toleration of dissenters in Quebec to religious liberty in return for loyalty to the crown. Mills is a retired professor of LaGrange College in Georgia, USA, and 1975 recipient of the Brewer Prize from the American Society of Church History.

These studies along with church reviews, book reviews, and exhibit reviews are available in the September 2024 issue of Anglican and Episcopal History. More information is available at hsec.us/aeh.

The Rev. Dr. Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook was nominated and confirmed as 14^th Historiographer of The Episcopal Church by the 81^st General Convention meeting in June 2024. Editor of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church’s peer-reviewed journal, Anglican and Episcopal History, she has been an Episcopal priest since 1985, currently in the Diocese of Los Angeles and formerly in Massachusetts. She is Professor of Practical Theology and Christian History at Claremont School of Theology and Professor of Anglican Studies, emerita, at Bloy House, the Episcopal School of Theology at Los Angeles. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

The office of Historiographer was established in 1838 when it was recognized records of the church’s founding were being lost. The directive then was to prepare “from the most original sources now extant” a faithful Ecclesiastical History to the formation of the Episcopal Church. The duties go beyond writing history and include studying historical documents, methods and writings of other historians. At the root of the position, a historiographer is charged with keeping history alive.

“This is a time when there is a great deal of historical research across the church as parishes, dioceses, schools, and other commissions and institutions investigate their histories and address long-standing issues like involvement in enslavement and in residential schools to raise lost voices and begin working toward authentic reconciliation and reparations,” Kujawa-Holbrook shared in a recent interview. “My interest in history is based on moments of connection when our ancestors speak to us from the past, and it is up to us if we learn from their experiences to interrupt damaging cycles or even celebrate significant breakthroughs. I believe that historical consciousness is integral to the exercise of ministry.”

Following the resignation of Dr. R. Bruce Mullin, who served in the position from 2012-2022, the House of Bishops made no nomination an under Canon I.1.5.d., the Historiographer became the Registrar of The Episcopal Church. This was the Rev. Dr. Canon Michael Barlowe who served until Kujawa-Holbrook was confirmed in 2024. A list of previous historiographers is at hsec.us/List-Historiographers.

Kujawa-Holbrook holds several academic degrees, including an M.T.S. in Church History and Women's Studies in Religion from Harvard Divinity School and Ph.D. in Christian History from Boston College. She has been active as a teacher, scholar, and historian for almost 40 years, authored dozens of books and numerous articles and reviews in academic journals and church publications. She was Suzanne Radley Hiatt Professor of Feminist Pastoral Theology and Church History at Episcopal Divinity School from 1998-2009 and its Academic Dean from 2005-2009.

Dr. J. Michael Utzinger, President of the Historical Society, notes “it has been a pleasure working with Sheryl as editor of our journal. The gifts and abilities she brings to serve as Historiographer of the Episcopal Church will be a blessing in helping all of us to share our stories and remember our history.”

Kujawa-Holbrook is an associate of the Society of St. John the Evangelist in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She lives in California with her husband Paul, daughter Rachel, and cats Xander and Brady. She sees “the role of a historiographer as based on connection. The Episcopal Church has many gifted historians, archivists, librarians, and historiographers. I hope we can use this time of rich historical activity to further ministry and inform the church's mission in the future. I am always interested in learning more about historical projects.” Contact her at HistoriographerTEC@gmail.com.

The Historical Society of the Episcopal Church announced $14,000 in grant awards to 14 recipients at its Annual Meeting on July 31, 2024. Grant funds support research, publication and projects related to preserving and sharing the history of the Episcopal Church and churches of the Anglican Communion. Over $400,000 in grants have been awarded since the inception of the grants program in 1988.

Applications are considered by the Grants and Research Committee then awarded by the Board of Directors. Grants are made from budgeted funds. Additional grants were made from proceeds of the 2023 Advent Appeal to members of the Historical Society. Award recipients are encouraged to share the research and projects, especially in the peer-reviewed, quarterly journal of the Society, Anglican and Episcopal History. Details about the grant program may be found at hsec.us/grants.

Recipients with their areas of awarded research are:

• Tucker Adkins, a postdoctoral student at Calvin College, for researching and editing the journals of William Seward with David Ceri Jones.
• Christopher Arnold, a doctoral student at Syracuse University, for studying the papers of Emmett Jarrett, the first Anglican to lead a Catholic Worker intentional community.
• Mikkaela Bailey, a doctoral student at the Catholic University of America, for doctoral research on late medieval guilds in England.
• Tyson House, the Episcopal and Lutheran ministry at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, for digitization work of their historical records.
• Christian Clement-Schlimm, doctoral student at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, for doctoral research in England on Edward Bickersteth.
• Robert Flanagan, chaplain at General Theological seminary, to defray the costs of researching and publishing an edited collection of essays on Phillips Brooks.
• Neil Fleming, faculty member at the University of Warcester, for a research trip to Lambeth Palace Library to study archival material on relations between the Church of England and the Church of the East after World War I.
• Alan Guenther, faculty member at Briercrest College, for archival research in England Ram Chandra Bose, a late-nineteenth century evangelist in North India and advocate of episcopacy.
• Marianna Klaiman, independent scholar, for continuing research on ecclesiastical textiles in New York.
• Matthew Lukens, chaplain at the Episcopal Student Foundation/Canterbury House at the University of Michigan, for oral history research and interviewing on Canterbury House.
• Cameron Nations, D.Min student at Sewanee, for research on the ministry of John Claypool.
• Samuel Richards, social science and history teacher at the International School of Kenya, for research on how colonial clergy responded to violence in the Kenya Colony perpetrated during the Kenyan War for Independence.
• Anthony Sammarco, independent scholar, for research on the history of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Mattapan, Massachusetts.
• Phil Sinitiere, Scholar in Residence at the W.E.B. Du Bois Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, for research on the Rev. William Howard Melish and civil rights at the Church of the Holy Spirit, Brooklyn.

The Historical Society of the Episcopal Church announces the Rev. Dr. John D. Alexander as recipient of the 2024 Nelson R. Burr Prize. Alexander is a retired priest of the Diocese of Rhode Island, who received a Ph.D. in Christian Social Ethics from Boston University in 2014. The honor is made for the article ‘Christ Church, Providence, 1839-1851: An African American Parish in Antebellum Rhode Island’, published in the September 2023 issue of Anglican and Episcopal History (Volume 92, No. 3). The Publications Committee was impressed by the depth of Dr. Alexander’s research and scholarship.

The article, which focuses on the beginning of Alexander Crummell’s remarkable and multi-faceted career, sheds important light not only on the history of the short-lived New England parish where Crummell served as rector, but also on the overall position of African Americans within both the Episcopal Church and American society in the mid-nineteenth century. The committee was particularly appreciative of Dr. Alexander’s willingness to extend his narrative beyond the internal affairs of a single parish, placing the history of Christ Church, Providence, within the much larger context of political events in Rhode Island during the tumultuous period before the Civil War

The Burr prize honors the renowned scholar Nelson R. Burr, whose two-volume A Critical Bibliography of Religion in America (1961) and other works constitute landmarks in the field of religious historiography. A committee considers all articles for the year to determine an author of the most outstanding article in the quarterly, peer-reviewed journal. The award recognizes that which best exemplifies excellence and innovative scholarship in the field of Anglican and Episcopal history.

The Committee also conferred an “Honorable Mention” on John Saillant’s article, ‘A Black Woman’s Baptism in the Episcopal Church: Prudence Gabriel in an Hour of Crisis, 1812’ published in the December 2023 issue. Dr. Saillant is a Professor of English and History at Western Michigan University. Similar in many ways to Dr. Alexander’s article, Dr. Saillant’s extensively researched essay deserves commendation for its ambitious analysis of the baptism of an African American woman in a Rhode Island Episcopal parish, interpreting that event as a paradigm of broader religious and social changes sweeping across the United States in the early nineteenth century.

Copies of articles of Burr Prize recipients may be found at hsec.us/Nelson-Burr-Prize or a printed copy may be secured by contacting Matthew. P. Payne, Director of Operations of the Society at mpayne@hsec.us or (920) 383-1910.

Anglican and Episcopal History offers scholars and history buffs over 20 scholarly reviews in its summer issue. The June issue, focused on the 50th anniversary of the Philadelphia Eleven ordinations, includes a church review, engaged history review, two film reviews, and 18 book reviews complementing 6 peer-reviewed studies and 2 accounts from women who helped break the Episcopal Church’s “stained glass ceiling.”

Church Review
Church review editor J. Barrington Bates provides a detailed profile of the iconic Church of the Advocate, site of the “irregular” ordination of 11 women in 1974. Readers learn about the North Philadelphia parish’s history as well as its current struggles to maintain its Christian witness. Church of the Advocate is part of the Philadelphia-based Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania.

Film Reviews
The Philadelphia Eleven, a documentary by Margo Guernsey and Nikki Bramley released in 2023 is reviewed by two viewers from opposite US coasts: Susan Russell from the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles and Gina L. Gore from St. James Episcopal Church, Danbury, in the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut.

Engaged History
Engaged history features collaborative projects undertaken by Anglican and Episcopal institutions that confront underrecognized historical narratives.

In this issue, readers first learn about ways Florence Li Tim-Oi ministered in East Asia as the first woman ordained in the Anglican Communion. Then, discover ways her legacy continues as part of the Li Tim-Oi Center for Chinese Ministry founded in 2014. The center provides lay leadership training courses taught in Chinese and designed for Chinese ministry within the United States.

The profile is written by Thomas Ni, executive director of the Li Tim-Oi Center and associate for Chinese Ministry at the Church of Our Savior in San Gabriel, part of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.

Book Reviews
As always, readers enjoy a treasure trove of book reviews related to church history and Anglican scholarship. The June issue includes 18 book reviews, among them are:

• A History of Women in Christianity to 1600 by Hannah Matis | Reviewed by Valerie Abrahamsen of Brattleboro, Vermont
  

• The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers: Volume 1: A–H and The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers: Volume 2: TH-Ō from the Cistercian Studies Series as translated and introduced by Tim Vivian | Reviewed by David Brakke of The Ohio State University
  

• The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies edited by Kirsteen Kim, Knud Jørgensen, and Alison Fithcett-Climenhaga | Reviewed by David P. Adams of the University of Galway

• Global Faith, Worldly Power: Evangelical Internationalism and U.S. Empire edited by John Corrigan, Melani McAlister, and Axel R.Schäfer | Reviewed by Samuel J. Richards of the International School of Kenya

• Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York by David N. Gellman | Reviewed by Suzanne Geissler of William Paterson University

• Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions by Kate Cooper | Reviewed by Walter Knowles of the University of the South

• She’s Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World by Dannelle Gutarra Cordero | Reviewed by  Carla E. Roland Guzmán of the General Theological Seminary

• The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye: Ecumenism, Feminism, and Communal Practice by Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein | Reviewed by Kefas Lamak of the University of Iowa

Anglican and Episcopal History is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December. Full text articles are available through JSTOR.org and for members of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church at hsec.us/AEH.