Autumn issue of Anglican and Episcopal History offers reviews in engaged history, churches, podcasts and book
Exhibit, podcast, church, and book reviews featured in the autumn 2025 issue of Anglican and Episcopal History (AEH) provide a range of insight helpful to scholars of church history. Highlights from the latest issue are included below.
ENGAGED HISTORY
Engaged History considers the “Walking Together Finding Common Ground Traveling Exhibit” in the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan. Leora L. Tadgerson describes it as an interactive educational installation about “the genocidal era of the Native American boarding schools from a Tribal perspective.” The project was developed in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan through a collaboration of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan, the Great Lakes Peace Center, and Northern Michigan University with a primary goal of deepening the understanding of the Native American experience.
Tadgerson’s overview is the latest example of Engaged History in AEH. These articles are an opportunity for churches, organizations, committees, schools, and other church-related institutions to report to the wider Anglican/Episcopal history community. Projects of the most interest to the journal are those whereby research initiates a change process informing the future identity, ministry, and mission of a church-related organization.
CHURCH REVIEWS
Two church Reviews take readers to services in different parts of the world. The first profile is a Sunday service at the Trinity Congregation in Shanghai, China. The congregation served a wide range of Protestant foreigners living in suburban Shanghai. The second article profiles worship at the Anglo-Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont, a western Philadelphia suburb in the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania.
PODCAST REVIEW
Edward Rolands reviews Episode #98 from the Episcopal Divinity School podcast series. The episode titled “the Church’s Role in Indian Residential Schools and a Path to Reconciliation” interviews Anton Treuer, professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University. Rowlands writes that, “Treuer’s interview is moving, insightful, and challenging to the listener.”
BOOK REVIEWS
The autumn issue of AEH features reviews of 24 books representing a wide range of Anglican and church history scholarship. Reviews include:
- Wakan Cekiye Odowan (The Dakota Hymnal) | Reviewed by Rachel Taber-Hamilton of Schackan First Nation
- James DeKoven: Biography of a Famous Yet Forgotten Man by John E. Magerus | Reviewed by Warren C. Platt of Church of the Transfiguration in New York City
- Abbeys and Priories of Britain by Stephen Platten | Reviewed by Brett Donham
- Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn by James Walvin | Reviewed by Sister Mary Winifred
- The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism edited by Bernice M. Kaczynski | Reviewed by Severin V. Kitanov of Salem State University
- Freedom Seekers: Fugitive Slaves in North America 1800-1860 by Damian Alan Pargas | Reviewed by Christopher L. Webber
- Migration and the Making of Global Christianity by Jehu J. Hanciles | Reviewed by Carla E. Roland Guzmán of General Theological Seminary
- Religious Vitality in Victorian London by W.M. Jacob | Reviewed by Stephen Spender of the Anglican Communion Office
- Negotiating the Christian Past in China: Memory and Missions in Contemporary Xiamen by Jifeng Liu | Reviewed by Samuel J. Richards of the International School of Kenya
- Christians in the City of Hong Kong: Chinese Christianity in Asia’s World City by Tobias Brandner and Christians in the City of Shanghai: A History Resurrected Above the Sea by Susangeline Y. Patrick | Reviewed by John L. Kater of Ming Hua Theological College in Hong Kong
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