The summer issue of Anglican and Episcopal History features two engaged history articles and a range of exhibit, church, and book reviews helpful to scholars of church history. Reviews of current scholarship include:

Engaged History

Jennifer Woodruff Tait reflects on the 1,700^th anniversary of the Nicene Creed, its meaning and ways it connects us to Christians across the generations. Tait is senior editor of Christian History magazine and priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Lexington.

Then, a team of historians trace the ministry, challenges, and transformations of rural St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, a former church in the hamlet of Redbank in a remote northern area of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh. The article by Colin J. Wood, Christian Mumpower, and Jacob Battle represents work by the Redbank Valley Historical Research Project at Liberty University.

Church Reviews

Church reviews provide readers a glimpse of divine services throughout the Anglican Communion, especially within the Episcopal Church.

In this issue, Joel W. West reflects on an “old-school worship” service on the First Sunday of Lent at Christ Church North Adelaide, part of the Diocese of Adelaide in the Anglican Church of Australia (ACA). West gives readers context for the evolution of Anglicanism in Australia and ways the Diocese of Adelaide and its Province of South Australia became the most Anglo-Catholic part of the ACA.

Church review editor J. Barrington Bates then takes readers to a summer Sunday service at Grace Episcopal Church in Holland, Michigan, part of the Episcopal Diocese of the Great Lakes.

Exhibit Review

Nancy Saultz Radloff explores the online exhibition “For the Expansion of the Kingdom” published online by the Archives of the Episcopal Church.

The exhibit explores women’s contributions to the Episcopal Church. Saultz Radloff calls the exhibit “an excellent resource” that isn’t just a history of the church but “it’s also a social history of America.”

Online exhibits from the Archives of the Episcopal Church are accessible at: https://exhibits.episcopalarchives.org/

20 Book Reviews including:

• The Iron Bishop: A Servant of God to Church and Humanity by Peter Njenga | Reviewed by Samuel J. Richards of the International School of Kenya
• Why Study History? Reflecting on the Importance of the Past by John Fea | Reviewed by Glen Bowman of Elizabeth City State University
• Defusing the Sexuality Debate: the Anglican Evangelical Culture War by Mark Vasey-Saunders | Reviewed by Jean De Dieu Mampouya of Université Clermont Auvergne
• In the Eye of the Storm – Middle East Christians in the Twenty-First Century edited by Mitri Raheb | Reviewed by Brian J. Grieves of the Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii
• The Huguenot-Anglican Refuge in Virginia: Empire Land and Religion in the Rappahannock Region by Lonnie H. Lee | Reviewed by Charles R. Cowherd of Herndon, Virginia

• Looking East in Winter: Contemporary Thought and the Eastern Christian Tradition by Rowan Williams | Reviewed by Tim Vivian of California State University Bakersfield
• Christian Theologies of the Sacraments: A Comparative Introduction edited by Justin S. Holcomb and David A. Johnson | Reviewed by Ruth A. Myers
• Bach’s St. John Passion for the Twenty-First Century: Musical and Theological Perspectives by Michael Fuchs and Bradley Jenson | Reviewed by Sister Mary Winifred

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 summer issue of AEH publishes 5 of the 18 papers presented during the Apostolic Ministry Conference. The conference was held at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University in October 2023.

Conference attendees used language of the 1886 Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral to explore ways “the Historic Episcopate, locally adapted in the methods of its administration to the varying needs of the nations and peoples” is functioning in a modern world of overlapping ecclesiastical jurisdictions. The conference was the brainchild of Berkley Divinity School student Matthew F. Reese and Christopher Adams of Fordham University.

In this issue of AEH, Reese introduces the collection of papers. He writes, “In all these articles, we see that the exercise of the apostolic ministry and its practical, theological, and sacramental implications are hardly abstract concerns. Questions of apostolicity are not simply mediated within ecumenical working groups– they are played out in the missional, pastoral, and liturgical work of Christian communities. We also see the messiness and malleability of denominational lines.”

The published papers include:

“Having the Lord’s Body to Give: John Keble, Eucharistic Warrant, and the Colonizing Logics of Property” by Ed Watson, a PhD candidate at Yale University. Watson also offers a brief tribute of gratitude to the late Robert Willis (1947-2024), the Dean of Canterbury from 2000-2022, for influencing his work.

Caleb Lindgren questions whether the Reformed tradition should embrace the episcopacy as a way to bring order to the church. He considers the work of Scottish Reformed theologian John Geddes MacGregor (1909-1998) in advocating for a reformed episcopate.

Lindgren is a doctoral candidate in systemic theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. His article is “Bishop’s Gambit: Reformed Ecclesiology and the Possibility of a Reformed Episcopate,”

The next study considers events in South Asia.

“Contextualizing Apostolic Tradition and Denominational Affinities: the Tryst of Saint Thomas Christians of Southern India with Multiple Christian Traditions” explores complexities of apostolic authority and interactions of Christian denominations.

Sinu Rose finds that “The churches of Thomas Christians that once stood as material expressions of their Christian faith and Indian identity until the sixteenth century have now become sites of conflict, venues for displaying the splendor of their denomination, or spaces for expressing ecclesiastical allegiance. The Thomas Christian community, with its roots tracing back to the apostolic era, presents a compelling case for the need to reevaluate the perceptions surrounding their exclusive claims to apostolic origin and the implications of their superior caste consciousness.”

Rose is a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of History, University of Kentucky. Her focus is ways historical processes have changed the religious landscape of South Asia.

Greta Gaffin turns readers’ attention to movements within the United States in an article titled “Black Nationalist Anglicanism: George Alexander McGuire and the African Orthodox Church.”

This study recounts the life and ministry of black Episcopal priest George Alexander McGuire (1866-1934) and his attempt to create the African Orthodox Church as an Episcopalian version of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She examines the denomination’s initial successes then considers reasons it did not become a long-term player in the African American religious landscape. In line with the volume’s theme, important factors relate to legitimacy and apostolic succession.

Gaffin is a master’s student at Boston University. Her research focuses on clergy at the margins of their traditions.

The final study is “Apostolicity and Ecumenicity in Ministry: Lessons from the United Liturgy for East Africa (ULEA)” by E. Okelloh Ogera.

Ogera argues that the ULEA was a significant step toward ecumenicity among Anglicans, Lutherans, Moravians, Methodists, and Presbyterians during the 1960s. However, it was undermined by differing understanding of apostolicity from the participating churches.

Ogera is an ordained priest and head of the Bishop Okullu School of Theology at Great Lakes University in Kisumu, Kenya.

These studies along with exhibit and book reviews are available in the latest issue of AEH. Anglican & Episcopal History is the peer-reviewed journal of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church. It is published quarterly.

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.