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About me | Résumé vitae | Books by me
I am a church historian, author, and digital archivist working since the last century at intersections of religion, culture, language, academia, and technology. My work spans and integrates scholarship, preservation, religious relations, org support, library development, and consulting--all to help persons, communities, and institutions remember themselves.
Since 2014, I have participated in the Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative of the Council on Foreign Relations. I have also been a regular participant more recently in programs of the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment, and Chatham House.
In 2015, I was elected to membership in the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences for contributions to the dissemination of scholarly information. In 2026, I was elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Websites I manage
anglican.org | Bishop Searches | Descendants of Swiss Settlers | Lithuanian National Catholic Church | Project Canterbury: Anglican History Online
Current projects
Internet Archive digitizing projects
Essays and sermons of Franklin Joiner (1887-1960)
Digitizing of Anglican liturgical materials: c. 195 languages in c. 400 editions to 2026.
English translation of Olivier Loyer's L'Anglicanisme de Richard Hooker (1979)
English translation of William Palmer's In XXXIX Articulos (1842)
The Book of Common Prayer of the Evangelical Episcopal Church [critical edition]
Past Projects
Pennsylvania German Dialect Checklist
'S Pennsylvaanisch Deitsch Eck: Pennsylvania German newspaper column (1935-1969)