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.