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

Engaged History

The rich archival collections of General Theological Seminary in New York City are the focus of this issue’s engaged history, especially the popular spiritual direction program there that was founded in 1976.

In “Illuminating Buried History at the General Theological Seminary,” Melissa Chim chronicles the successes and challenges of publishing Living Archives: A History of the Center for Christian Spirituality (2022) with colleague Anne Silver. This includes ways Open Educational Resource (OER) can be a strategy to highlight collections using Creative Commons licenses.

Church Review

Church reviews provide readers a glimpse of divine services throughout the Anglican Communion, especially within the Episcopal Church. In this issue, readers get a glimpse of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Durango. The reviewer describes it as having a friendly congregation where the reviewer was “delighted” to sing – rather than say – the psalm. St. Mark’s is part of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado.

Immersive Concert Review

The concert “Secret Bird” by the Gesualdo Six is a “priority to experience” for “anyone with a passing interest in sacred music of the Tudor period” according to Kate Charles. The group’s tours have included performances at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City and Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford. “Secret Bird” recreates covert Roman Catholic Mass settings by William Byrd (1540-1623). Charles encourages booking tickets for the 2026 tour writing “you won’t regret it.”

Podcast Review

Walking the Dogma hosted by David Hedges and Dominic Moore is “a fascinating new podcast on Anglican and Episcopal theology” according to reviewer Edward Rowlands. Rowlands praises it for its broad spectrum of historical knowledge, low and high church perspectives, friendly banter, and ability to make theological history interesting.

21 Book Reviews including:

• Daughters of Palestine: A Memoir in Five Generations by Leyla K. King | Reviewed by Brian J. Grieves of the Episcopal Church in Hawaii
• Mary of Nazareth: the Mother of Jesus as Remembered by the Earliest Christians by Christopher Bryan | Reviewed by Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, editor-in-chief of Anglican & Episcopal History
• On Laudianism: Piety, Polemic, and Politics During the Personal Rule of Charles I by Peter Lake | Reviewed by Lora J. Walsh of the University of Arkansas
• The Oxford Movement and the People of God: Enslavement, Education, and Empire by Benjamin J. King | Reviewed by John D. Alexander
• Storied Witness: the Theology of Black Women Preachers in 19^th Century America by Kate Hanch | Reviewed by Sylvia Sweeney of Bloy House, Los Angeles
• Anglo-Catholicism and the Church of Ireland by Michael Yelton | Reviewed by Warren C. Platt of the Church of the Transfiguration, New York City
• George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture by Simon Jackson | Reviewed by Nancy Saultz Radloff

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