Historians consider narratives of resistance and resilience as part of a special issue of Anglican & Episcopal History (AEH) for the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.

AEH editor-in-chief Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook writes that, “Ongoing debates over the role and scope of history amid this year’s semiquincentennial (250th) anniversary of the Declaration of Independence raise questions about who controls national narratives and how they intersect with religious history.” The June issue of AEH attempts to “complexify more dominant narratives of national and Episcopal history.”

Readers can find six peer-reviewed academic studies along with fourteen book reviews, an exhibit review, and a church review in the June issue.

The academic studies in the summer issue of Anglican & Episcopal History are:

A Dance of Destiny: 250 Years of Sovereignty and Survival by Bishop Steven Charleston

“If you want to understand the significance of the United States sesquicentennial from a Native American point of view, then you need to understand the powwow,” according to Charleston.

The retired bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Alaska writes that, “In Native America, dance does more than tell a story. It changes reality. Dance is an agency of the sacred, a generator of spiritual energy and healing. People do not come to watch a dance, but to be transformed by it.”

Charleston’s essay points to ways the powwow on Turtle Island (North America) expropriates the American flag from being a symbol of death and translates it to become a symbol of life making it a symbol of freedom and equality for all people.

Charleston is an elder citizen of the Choctaw Nation. He is a well-known advocate for environmental justice and Indigenous rights.

Two studies are framed using Henry Wadsworth Longfellows’ 1860 poem “Paul Revere’s Ride.”

“Negro Belonging To”: Monstrous Intimacies in the Eighteenth-Century Records of Boston’s Old North Church by Jaime D. Crumley

“History has long lauded Old North [Church] for its contribution to the American Revolution. However, the church’s early history is rife with contradictions. Old North is simultaneously a monument to American freedom and a testament to the dark work of slavery,” according to Jaime D. Crumley.

Her study examines three baptisms: Gidney Clark’s at St. Michael’s Parish in Barbados as well as Prince and Cato at Old North Church in Boston.

Crumley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic, Gender, and Disability Studies at the University of Utah. During the 2022-2023 academic year, she was the Research Fellow at Old North Illuminated, the nonprofit that interprets and preserves the history of Boston’s Old North Church.

Shining Lights on Complexity and Contradiction at the Old North Church, Boston: a Reappraisal for America’s Semiquincentennial by Matthew Peter Caldwell

“Old North is a church within a museum and a museum within a church, with all the attendant complexities of historic preservation, governance, and balance of religious and secular activity,” according to its vicar Matthew Peter Caldwell.

Old North has long held an outsized role in U.S. history. During the 1776 bicentennial celebrations President Gerald Ford spoke there. Old North also hosted Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II in July 1976.

Caldwell writes that “Old North is for many a place of pilgrimage and a symbol of freedom” while recounting ways research by historian Jared Ross Hardesty in 2018 “led to deeper reflection of the church’s active engagement and complicity in the economy of enslavement.”

In addition to being vicar of Old North Church in Boston, Caldwell holds a Ph.D. in Anglican history and theology from the Toronto School of Theology.

Despite the Declaration: White Episcopal Support for Slavery and Black Episcopal Resistance in Early Republic New Jersey by Jolyon G.R. Purszinski

“During the Revolutionary War, Anglicans in New Jersey were split on whether to remain loyal to the Crown, but after the war, both white and Black Episcopalians generally embraced the language of the Declaration of Independence with patriotic zeal,” according to Jolyon G.R. Purszinski. He finds that, “Where they split was over whether ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ should be the deserved possessions of ‘all men’ or if the ‘all men’ who were ‘created equal’ were, in fact, ‘white’ men only.”

Purszinski identifies a complex historiography in which the heritage of the U.S. Declaration of Independence was “one that both white and Black New Jersey Episcopalians claimed as their own: white Episcopalians usually as their exclusive possession, but Black Episcopalians as a part of a broadly catholic vision of what could and should be. It is the result of the insistence and persistence of Black Episcopalians over the course of 250 years that broader acceptance of the full truth of the Declaration has begun to be embraced in the Episcopal Church: that ‘all’ people are ‘created equal’ and are ‘endowed by their Creator with . . . inalienable rights.’”

Purszinski is a lecturer in the departments of History and Religion at Princeton University and the Reparations Commission historian for the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.

St. Anna’s: the Influence of the Episcopal Church on the Poarch Band of Creek Indians Community in Alabama

“The history of St. Anna’s Episcopal Church and the Poarch Band of Creek Indians is not a simple story of missionary benevolence or cultural imposition, though it contains elements of both,” writes Kelly Fayard.

“What stands out across these accounts is how consistently elders refused both the missionaries’ paternalism and their own victimhood,” according to Fayard. “They acknowledged poverty plainly while insisting on the richness of their relational lives. They credited the Episcopal Church with real, material help—schools, healthcare, records that enabled federal recognition – while correcting the record on what missionaries had gotten wrong. This is a sophisticated historical consciousness, not nostalgia.”

Fayard is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Denver and a member of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians.

Decolonizing the Holy Land: Anglican Missionaries and Jewish Immigration into Mandatory Palestine, 1917-1948 by Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr.

Shattuck traces the influence and reactions of Anglican missionaries in Palestine to the increasing influence of Zionism and the arrival of Jewish migrants between 1917 and 1948.

His study points to changing views across time as he writes “...Anglican opposition to the Zionist movement begins during the latter stages of World War I with British missionaries in Jerusalem celebrating the capture of the city by Allied military forces under the command of General Edmund Allenby.”

Shattuck also chronicles Anglican missionary disappointment with the Balfour Declaration. He notes that, “As soon as it was made public, the statement was instantly greeted with consternation by Anglican missionaries, who began to worry about its impact on their activities in Palestine.”

One prominent figure in this opposition was Bishop Rennie MacInnes. Shattuck describes him “as bishop of the state church of the imperial power that held sway over Palestine” who was “clearly the most prominent of the Western Christian critics of Zionism in the 1920s.”

Shattuck concludes that “despite the laudable intent of the missionaries in seeking proactively to shield Palestinians from the immense suffering and dislocation that Zionism ultimately brought upon them, their continual use of anti-Judaic, supersessionist arguments, laced with antisemitic tropes and stereotypes, still represents a troubling legacy for which Anglicans and Episcopalians (as well as other Christian denominations) did not begin to atone officially until the mid-1960s.”

Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. is a historian and retired Episcopal priest who has written extensively on American Protestant involvement in socio-political events.

Narratives of Resistance and Resilience: Reflections on Anglican and Episcopal History for the Semiquincentennial by Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook

The paradox of Christianity – particularly Anglican and Episcopal Christianity – as a source of both liberation and oppression is the focus of the final essay by AEH editor-in-chief Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook.

“Empire, colonialism, and Christianity form the basis of White supremacy – the belief that White people are inherently superior to people of color – has operated for at least the last 500 years and is a pervasive part of the legacy of Anglican settler colonialism,” according to Kujawa-Holbrook. “Throughout Christian history, religion has been a source of liberation for some and a source of oppression against others. Racism, sexism, heterosexism, gender oppression, classism, religious oppression, language oppression, and other forms of oppression were and are still promulgated through Christian discourse.”

She challenges adoption of the “single narrative worldview of ‘secular’ histories” that suggest there is “one true historical narrative of Anglican and Episcopal history, and that this dominant narrative is the only way to tell our ‘unbiased’ story.” She points to ways Anglican and Episcopal historians have been actively dispelling this myth for at least two generations. She points to African American Episcopal and Afro-Anglican histories, Anglican and Episcopal women’s histories, Indigenous histories, Asian and Asian American Anglican histories, Latinx Anglican and Episcopal histories, LGBTQi1 histories, and increasingly, postcolonial and decolonial analyses as examples.

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

Exploring the History of Latino Ministry in the Episcopal Church

Videos from the 2025 Tri-History Conference, Caminemos con Jesús (Let’s Walk with Jesus): History of Latino Ministry in the Episcopal Church, are now available online for public viewing.

Held in June 2025, the conference brought together historians, clergy, archivists, scholars, and community leaders to explore the rich and evolving history of Latino ministry and leadership within the Episcopal Church. Through keynote addresses, scholarly presentations, oral history workshops, panel discussions, and worship, the conference highlighted Latino voices and experiences that have shaped Episcopal and Anglican history.

Six conference presentations are currently available on YouTube:

2025 Tri-History Conference Playlist [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTTsAuTbw7aYp-RWogvv22SMUmckUvwh7]

Each video includes subtitle captions available in both English and Spanish, allowing viewers to select their preferred language through YouTube settings. While these are not studio productions, the recordings provide clear presentations and accessible audio intended to support learning, research, teaching, and wider public engagement.

Currently available presentations include:

• Keynote Address by the Rev. Anthony Guillén, “Latino/Hispanic/Latiné Ministry in The Episcopal Church”
• Conference Address by Ray Suarez, “Demography, Geography, and Destiny”
• “PECUSA’s Soap Opera was a Mexican Novela” by the Rev. Dr. Carla Roland Guzmán
• “La Iglesia de Santiago: The First Spanish-Speaking Episcopal Church” by Schuyler Rowe
• “The Cancionero: An Attempt for Equality” by the Rev. John Rawlinson
• “Liberation Theology and Latin American Anglicanism: A Fruitful Dialogue” by the Rev. Dr. John L. Kater

Additional presentations remain in various stages of editing and production and will be released over the coming months.

The conference was organized through the collaborative work of the Tri-History organizations and seeks to broaden understanding of Episcopal and Anglican history by making these conversations accessible to a wider audience.

Additional information about the conference is available at Tri-History Conference Information [https://www.trihistory.org/].

Explorando la historia del ministerio latino en la Iglesia Episcopal

Los videos de la Conferencia Tri-History 2025, Caminemos con Jesús: Historia del ministerio latino en la Iglesia Episcopal, ya están disponibles en línea para su visualización pública.

Celebrada en junio de 2025, la conferencia reunió a historiadores, clérigos, archiveros, académicos y líderes comunitarios para explorar la rica y cambiante historia del ministerio y el liderazgo latinos dentro de la Iglesia Episcopal. A través de discursos de apertura, presentaciones académicas, talleres de historia oral, mesas redondas y cultos, la conferencia destacó las voces y experiencias latinas que han dado forma a la historia episcopal y anglicana.

Actualmente hay seis presentaciones de la conferencia disponibles en YouTube:

Lista de reproducción de la Conferencia Tri-History 2025 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTTsAuTbw7aYp-RWogvv22SMUmckUvwh7]

Cada video incluye subtítulos disponibles tanto en inglés como en español, lo que permite a los espectadores seleccionar su idioma preferido a través de la configuración de YouTube. Aunque no se trata de producciones de estudio, las grabaciones ofrecen presentaciones claras y un audio accesible destinados a apoyar el aprendizaje, la investigación, la enseñanza y una mayor participación del público.

Las presentaciones disponibles actualmente incluyen:

• Discurso de apertura del reverendo Anthony Guillén, «El ministerio latino/hispano/latiné en la Iglesia Episcopal»
• Discurso de la conferencia de Ray Suárez, «Demografía, geografía y destino»
• «La telenovela de PECUSA era una novela mexicana», por la reverenda Dra. Carla Roland Guzmán
• «La Iglesia de Santiago: la primera iglesia episcopal de habla hispana», por Schuyler Rowe
• «El Cancionero: un intento de igualdad», por el reverendo John Rawlinson
• «Teología de la liberación y anglicanismo latinoamericano: un diálogo fructífero», por el reverendo Dr. John L. Kater

Otras presentaciones se encuentran en diversas etapas de edición y producción, y se publicarán en los próximos meses.

La conferencia fue organizada gracias al trabajo colaborativo de las organizaciones de Tri-History y busca ampliar la comprensión de la historia episcopal y anglicana al hacer que estas conversaciones sean accesibles a un público más amplio.

Hay más información sobre la conferencia disponible en Información sobre la Conferencia Tri-History [https://www.trihistory.org/].

Historical Society of the Episcopal Church to Host 2026 Manross Lecture and Banquet in Nashville

The Historical Society of the Episcopal Church invites all to attend the 2026 Manross Lecture and Banquet on Saturday, June 20, 2026, at the Holiday Inn–Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tennessee. This gathering offers an evening of fellowship, fine dining, and thoughtful engagement with Episcopal history.

The evening will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a reception featuring hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar, followed by a 6:30 p.m. plated dinner. At 7:30 p.m., the Society will share announcements before the featured Manross Lecture.

This year’s lecturer is The Rev. Benjamin King, Ph.D., Academic Dean and Duncalf-Villavoso Professor of Church History at the Seminary of the Southwest. A distinguished scholar of Anglican history and theology, Dr. King will present “Now is the time for a Black Bishop”: The surprising agreement between African Americans and English High Churchmen in the 1850s. His lecture explores a compelling and often overlooked moment of convergence in 19th-century Anglican thought and practice.

Dr. King’s research focuses on the Oxford Movement, the development of the Anglican Communion, and the Episcopal Church’s historic entanglement with slavery. He is the award-winning author of Newman and the Alexandrian Fathers, recipient of a Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and The Oxford Movement and the People of God: Enslavement, Education, and Empire. A widely published scholar and international lecturer, he has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church and serves on the editorial board of Anglican and Episcopal History. An Episcopal priest since 2000, he brings both pastoral and academic depth to his work.

The banquet will feature a choice of salad, entrée, and dessert, with options including soy and ginger glazed salmon, mustard pork loin, or grilled marinated vegetables, followed by New York-style cheesecake or a triple berry tart. Bread, butter, and beverages are included.

The event will take place at:
Holiday Inn–Vanderbilt
2613 West End Ave
Nashville, TN 37203

Tickets are $100 per person, and reservations must be made by Monday, June 15, 2026. Registration is available online at hsec.us/manross-lecture.

The Manross Lecture will be recorded and made available to the public following the event.

Join the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church for an evening of community, conversation, and discovery, as we explore a fascinating chapter in the Church’s history.

Book, church, and film reviews helpful to scholars of church history are featured in the spring 2026 issue of Anglican & Episcopal History (AEH). Reviews of current scholarship include:

Engaged History

Mark Beckwith reviews the 35-minute documentary-style film Prophets Among Us (Heritage Films) recounting the life and ministry of the Rev. Cn. Ed Rodman (1942-2024).

Rodman was a long-time civil rights activist who operated largely behind the scenes. Beckwith recalls that “With great pride Ed had often said that he never left any fingerprints or footprints in the many conversations and initiatives that he was involved in over more than four decades.” Beckwith writes that the church “needs to see those fingerprints and footprints” from Rodman’s ministry.

Rodman, a canon missioner in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, helped establish the Union of Black Episcopalians and played a crucial role in the group adopting the 1969 “Black Manifesto” calling for $500 million in reparations.

Beckwith is the retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark.

Church Reviews

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

In this issue, readers first get a glimpse of Sunday worship at the Church of St. Paul in the Desert in Palm Spring, California, part of the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego.

The second church review takes readers to an Advent service at Xujiahui Cathedral during the Covid-19 pandemic. The cathedral is the headquarters of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association’s Diocese of Shanghai.

12 Book Reviews including:

• Anglican Theology: Postcolonial Perspectives edited by Stephen Burns and James Tengatenga | Reviewed by Don H. Compier of the Bishop Kemper School for Ministry
• Black Contemplative Preaching: A Hidden History of Prayer, Proclamation, and Prophetic Witness by E. Trey Clark | Reviewed by Sylvia A. Sweeney of Bloy House, the Episcopal Theological School at Los Angeles
• Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch | Reviewed by Peter Carlson of California Lutheran University
• Call and Commitment: A Journey of Faith from Nakba to Palestinian Liberation Theology by Naim Stifan Ateek | Reviewed by Newland Smith
• Faith: Conversations in Global Anglican Theology by Michael Battle| Reviewed by Ian T. Douglass, retired bishop of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut
• Changing Mission, Unchanging Faith: Episcopalians and Influence in Indianapolis by Lee Little | Reviewed by Michael Nichols of Purdue University

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 www.hsec.us/membership.

Historians examine the lasting global influence of the Anglican Congress of 1963 and its emphasis on “mutual responsibility and interdependence” (MRI) in the spring issue of Anglican & Episcopal History (AEH).

Eight papers by leading scholars consider legacies of MRI based on discussions from the ‘MRI at 60’ conference hosted in Toronto in 2024. These papers provide a timely complement to the 2024 Nairobi-Cairo Proposals slated for discussion during the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Belfast in June.

Bishop R. William Franklin introduces the spring issue of AEH by reminding readers that the 1963 Anglican Congress in Toronto included 1,000 lay and clergy representatives from 350 dioceses. The Congress’ first Eucharist welcomed 16,000 worshippers setting the tone for discussions about Anglican identity in a post-colonial world.

The eight studies in the issue are:

Transfiguring Presence: An Anglican Contribution to Interreligious Dialogue and the Life of the Church

Anglican theologian Clare Amos discusses ways we engage with other faiths and branches of Christianity. She draws on the work of Church Missionary Society leaders Max Warren and John V. Taylor along with Kenyan Anglican theologian Jesse Mugambi to explore the tension between particularity of context and universality as a core paradox of Anglican tradition.

Amos has taught in Jerusalem, Beirut, Cambridge, South London, and Kent. She has worked for the Anglican Communion Office and World Council of Churches.

Instruments and Instrumentality in koinonia: Competing Anglican Identities and the Future of Unity

Charlie Baczyk-Bell contends that 60 years after Anglican Congress of 1963 “the key hopes largely remain unresolved.” He writes that “Vestiges of the colonial age continue to blight the Communion’s ability to re-imagine itself, leading to ongoing disquiet about the role of the ‘Instruments of Communion’ and to the continued instrumentalization of LGBTQIA Christians as pawns in a wider debate about power, authority, identity, and colonial legacy.”

He invites “the possibility of a future Anglican Congress that is focused on listening, encounter, and worship, and takes an Anglican expression of relational unity in bishop-in-Synod as a starting point and not the creation of unity as a goal?”

Baczyk-Bell is a priest in the Church of England’s Diocese of Southwark, author of several books, and a fellow in medicine and public theology at Girton College, Cambridge.

A Tale of Two Anglican Congresses: London 1908 and Toronto 1963

Bishop Stephen Bayne’s role as architect of 1963 Anglican Congress and MRI leading to rebirth of the Anglican Communion and a repudiation of colonialism is the focus of Mark D. Chapman’s work.

Chapman writes that, “The Toronto Congress undeniably helped reorient the approach to mission across the Anglican Communion and helped forge many new relationships between churches.”

Chapman is Professor of the History of Modern Theology at the University of Oxford and Distinguished Fellow of Ripon College, Cuddesdon. He is a priest in the Church of England.

Theological and Missiological Implications of ‘MRI’ in the Digital Age: A Perspective from the Episcopal Church in Connecticut

Greg Farr, director of archives and records managements for the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, investigates major adjustments to communications and Anglican identity in the Episcopal Church of Connecticut as shaped by the 1954 and 1963 Anglican Congresses in Minneapolis and Toronto.

Farr writes that, “The Church’s messaging and communications, which must reckon continually with its historical legacies and its core beliefs in the context of present-day realities, naturally demand ethical reflection. Such moral concern is indicative of how authentic religious faith interacts with the world. The 1963 Anglican Congress held in Toronto stands as an example of this kind of deliberation in its articulation of both the hopes and the challenges to Anglican faith applied in that historical context– the central outcome being the advancement of a gospel centered mission outreach program rooted in global mutual interdependence.”

MRI in Australia. ‘Miracle’ or ‘More Ruddy Interference?’

MRI failed in Australia, according to Paul Mitchell, even though nearly 90% of Australian dioceses were represented by 55 delegates at the Toronto Congress in 1963.

Mitchell explores eight reasons for this failure, including resistance to a centrally, directed Anglican Communion; fear of change; finances; and theological differences – especially from the Diocese of Sydney.

Mitchell has served in various dioceses in Australia since ordination in the Diocese of Adelaide in 1989. He is currently rector of St. John the Baptist, Bulimba, in the Diocese of Brisbane

The Death of Death: A Linguistic Devolution in Anglican Self-Understanding

“Why have the structures of the Communion not really developed in any demonstrative way since the Toronto Congress? Why have the catholic tendencies never really come to fruition?” asks Matthew S.C. Olver.

Olver examines the reasons for limited change to Anglican Communion structures, including prioritization of “autonomy” and provincial individualism over mutuality and self-sacrifice.

Olver is, executive director and publisher of The Living Church Foundation and senior lecturer in liturgics at Nashotah House Theological Seminary in Wisconsin.

The Ten Principles of Partnership in the Anglican Communion: an Expression of Commitment to Mutual Responsibility and Interdependence

This study explores ways dioceses have transitioned from western missionary Christianity into being indigenous churches, a transformative shift from paternalism to partnership, using experiences from the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina and the Anglican Diocese of Botswana.

James N. Amanze and Leon P. Spencer describe the 1992 Ten Principles of Partnership in the Anglican Communion as “perhaps one of the most important but lesser-known documents emanating from the structures of the Anglican Communion.”

Amanze is canon theologian for the Diocese of Botswana and principal of St. Augustine Theological College.

Spencer has worked with companion links between the Dioceses of Alabama and Namibia in the 1980s and between the Diocese of North Carolina and Botswana since 2008. He is dean of studies at the Diocese of Nairobi’s theological college.

The Baas Boy Called Global South: A Misread of the Toronto Anglican Congress

James Tengatenga describes MRI and the 1963 Toronto Anglican Congress as envisioning the death of old ways and emergence of a new Anglican Communion “with no region exerting hegemonic control. In a word, it was the emergence of a decolonial Anglican Communion.”

The death of hegemony hasn’t quite happened, according to Tengatenga. He asserts that fragmentation within the Anglican Communion today is connected to an ironic situation in which new attempts to control have emerged from conservative American clergy attempting to make “Global South” leaders their mouthpiece. He describes the Global South within the Anglican Communion as a new theo-political grouping where “as much as there is a lot of South in it, the hegemony is Northern, and the tendency is schismatic.”

Tengatenga, a former Bishop of Southern Malawi, challenges the falsehood of a single voice in the Global South and describes ways that Africans who question conservative positions have “our African-ness questioned.”

Bishop James Tengatenga is the former diocesan leader of Southern Malawi and a distinguished professor of global Anglicanism at the School of Theology at the University of the South (Sewanee). He was a member of the Anglican Consultative Council from 2002-2016, where he served as chair from 2009.

This five-volume series focuses on the history of Anglicanism in the Americas (North, Central, and South America, the Caribbean, and related churches). The series is designed to build on the work of previous historians of the regions, revise and revitalize the discipline, and consider recent and emergent scholarship. Chapters will include both chronological and conceptual approaches to interrogate traditional narratives, bring decolonial perspectives and multiple voices, and share the stories of Anglicanism in the Americas. Publication dates for the individual volumes from 2027 to 2030. The series is published by Church Publishing and is intended to be academically sound, with content written in an accessible style. Individual chapters are not to exceed 5000 words, plus endnotes. Potential authors are required to submit a one-page proposal/abstract and a CV or statement of credentials to the series and volume editors.

Editorial Team:

Series Editor: Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook, historiographerTEC@gmail.com

Volume 1: Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook, historiographerTEC@gmail.com

Volume 2: Jolyon Pruszinski, jolyon.pruszinski@gmail.com

Volume 3: Jennifer C. Snow, jennifercsnowphd@gmail.com.  

Volume 4: Carla E. Roland Guzmán, roland@gts.edu

Volume 5: Allen K. Shin, ashinox@gmail.com.

Vol 1: Origins

This volume will introduce the series and the multiple “origin” stories that constitute Anglicanism in the Americas. No single origin story encompasses all of Anglicanism in the Americas, yet they are critical to shaping history and identity. Considering multiple origin stories allows suppressed histories to emerge and influence dominant narratives. Topics for consideration include Indigenous peoples and encounters with Anglican Christianity; the impact of the Doctrine of Discovery; the Reformation inheritance of Anglicanism; Enslavement and the West African religious influence; Caribbean Anglican origins; English colonialism in the Americas and mission societies (SPG, SPCK, CMS); regional Anglican histories before 1700; the Jamestown story; the Southern colonies; the Philadelphia story; Establishment in Canada; local Anglican life; Regional Anglican pluralism. Submit your proposal/abstract to historiographerTEC@gmail.com.     

Vol. 2: Movement, Contestation, Hybridity & Synthesis

Vol. 2: Movement, Contestation, Hybridity & Synthesis

This volume covers the development of Anglicanism in the Americas and the Episcopal Church from the latter colonial period in what was to become the United States, through the revolutionary period, and into the first generations of the Early Republic (through 1835). As it was an era marked by significant ecclesial, theological, colonial, and racial contestation and controversy, we are particularly seeking chapter proposals that both offer fresh considerations of key shaping issues and demonstrate a historiographical awareness of decolonial approaches. Proposals may address locations in the North American / Caribbean sphere and possible topics may include (but are not limited to) slavery and the Church, high/low church tensions, competing visions of seminary education, developments in the Black Church, women’s roles in forming the Episcopal Church, the Iroquois in Canada post-revolution, indigenous cross-border Anglicanism, or the influence of Bishops William Meade, John Henry Hobart, William White, Philander Chase, or others. Submit your proposal/abstract to Jolyon Pruszinski, jolyon.pruszinski@gmail.com, and copy the Series Editor at historiographerTEC@gmail.com.

Volume 3: Missional Colonialism, Missional Resilience 

This volume focuses on the bulk of the nineteenth century (post-1835) through World War I and examines how Episcopalianism and Anglicanism, developed in the nineteenth-century North American context, shaped and were shaped by migration and colonial expansion. We are seeking papers on any aspect of this interaction, from support for and complicity in internal and external colonialism to providing tools for creative response, dynamic resistance, indigenous leadership, strategic allyship, and reframing across cultural and national boundaries. Paper proposals can be rooted in any context in North, South, Central America, or the Caribbean, including cross-border and indigenous contexts, and may include North American missional expansions beyond geographic boundaries of North America (such as missional or territorial expansion or migration from/to the Pacific, Asia, Africa, South America, etc.). The tentative organization for the volume divides articles into five thematic areas: violence and political conflict; economics; race, gender, and sexuality; science, culture, and theology and liturgy; territorial and missional expansion, hybridity, and cross-cultural interactions. Submit your proposal/abstract to Jennifer C. Snow at jennifercsnowphd@gmail.com and copy the Series Editor at historiographerTEC@gmail.com.

Volume 4: Global Central Anglicanism 

In this volume we invite proposals for chapters that examine Anglican histories and ecclesial formations in Latin America and the Caribbean—especially those that emerged beyond the usual frame of “Anglicanism as British Empire” and that illuminate the “Global Central” vision articulated in the 2005 Panama Declaration: a participatory, diverse, tolerant, and inclusive via media that resists the binary pressures of “Global North” and “Global South.” We welcome historically grounded chapters (chronological, geographic, and/or thematic) that trace trajectories from the nineteenth century through Lambeth 1958 and into contemporary realignments. These could pay attention to early constituencies: merchants, migrants, missionaries, chaplaincies, schools, and hospitals, or could focus on indigenous expressions of Anglicanism; other topics include the struggle over paternalism, dependency, and the pursuit of self-supporting/self-governing/self-propagating/self-interpreting churches (including provincial and extra-provincial arrangements such as Province IX, or Southern Cone, or IARCA, etc); and the development of locally authoritative theological and liturgical expression (including Spanish- and Portuguese-language prayer books, seminaries and theological education initiatives, and ecumenical relationships). Submissions may focus on particular countries or subregions (Mexico and Central America; the Spanish- and non-Spanish-speaking Caribbean; South America), or pursue cross-cutting themes (autonomy, liturgy, mission societies, “the forgotten continent,” GAFCON and twenty-first-century ecclesial politics), so long as they clarify how “Global Central” emerges as a lived Anglican reality in the Americas. Submit your proposal/abstract to Carla E. Roland Guzmán, roland@gts.edu, and copy the Series Editor to historiographerTEC@gmail.com.

 

Volume 5 – Decolonization, Trauma & Resilience

This volume tells the stories of the Episcopal and Anglican Churches in the Americas and the Caribbean from the mid-twentieth century to the present, focusing on how significant events and themes have shaped their evolution. Proposals from diverse contexts are welcome that address decolonization, trauma, and resilience. Tentative themes include Liberation Movements (Civil Rights, Women, Indigenous Peoples, LGBTQi), Liturgical Renewal Movement and the Prayer Book Revision, Schism & Conflicts in regional Anglicanism, Reparations and Residential Schools apologies, Women’s Ordination, Immigration and Migration, Toward Postcolonial Anglicanism in the Americas. Other important themes may be suggested for consideration. Other important themes may be suggested for consideration. Please submit your proposal and abstract to Allen K. Shin at ashinox@gmail.com and historiographerTEC@gmail.com.

For general questions, contact Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook, Series Editor, at historiographerTEC@gmail.com.

Liturgical Arts Conference
Saturday, May 30th, 2026
From 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.
St. Luke’s Chapel
Sewanee, Tennessee

St. Augustine’s Altar Guild of All Saints’ Chapel will host a liturgical arts conference featuring Marianna Garthwaite Klaiman, an expert in the field of church textiles. Marianna will offer a presentation in the morning covering many aspects of our church vestments, including their history and specific information about care and restoration.

The afternoon will be devoted to a hands-on workshop where participants will make a padded hanger suitable for use with heavy vestments.

The fee for the conference is $50.00 per person and includes lunch and all materials for the workshop. Space is limited to 100 participants.

For more details and registration information, email staugustinesguild@gmail.com or call/text (931)636-4046.

For more information about Marianna and her work, visit her website, Sacristies of New York, at this link: https://www.sacristiesofny.com/

The Historical Society of the Episcopal Church invites applications for grants to be awarded in July 2026. These grants support projects that advance the Society’s mission, particularly the preservation and dissemination of the history of the Episcopal Church, its Anglican heritage, and the churches of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

Requests must be submitted no later than May 1, 2026, to be considered for this year’s awards.

General grant requests may be submitted by individuals, academic institutions, or church entities seeking financial assistance to support research and publication in Episcopal and Anglican history. Grants are available to facilitate travel for archival or other research, to defray the cost of research materials such as duplication or permissions, and to support public history initiatives.

Grant requests are not considered for stipends, equipment purchases, website creation, or digital storage.

Prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the grants committee chair before submitting an application.

In recent years, grants have supported archival research, the publication of books and scholarly articles, public digital history projects, and conferences focused on church history. Awards typically range from $500 to $2,500, depending on the number of approved requests and the funding available.

For full guidelines and application details, visit hsec.us/grants.

The African American Episcopal Historical Collection (AAEHC) is a partnership of The Bishop Payne Library of Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) and the Historical Society of The Episcopal Church (HSEC).

AAEHC is now accepting applications for its 2026-2027 research travel grants, supporting scholars and researchers working with its unique archival collections. Travel reimbursement grants are open to faculty, students, independent researchers, clergy, and laypersons. Funds may be used for travel, lodging, meals, photocopying, and other research expenses.

Application deadline: May 1, 2026
Travel window: August 1, 2026 - June 30, 2027

In 2025-2026, the AAEHC awarded $8,400 to three grantees, supporting a range of projects, including welcoming its first international researcher from the Diocese of Tete in the Anglican Province of Mozambique and Angola.

AAEHC preserves vital materials documenting the histories of African American Episcopalians. Collection strengths include parish histories, clergy mentorship networks, the Union of Black Episcopalians, Bishop Payne Divinity School, and the contributions of significant African American Episcopal leaders.

"It is an extraordinary blessing to have access to the AAEHC's historic research and memorabilia of noted Black clergy and scholars. These collections add fullness to the rich and true history of our Church," said The Rev. Canon Betsy Smith Ivey (retired).

Learn more at vts.edu/AAEHC.

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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

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.