(ENS) The triennial Anglican/Episcopal Church History Conference, commemorating the 300th anniversary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG), will be held June 23-27, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The event is hosted by Trinity College and Wycliffe College of the University of Toronto and is sponsored by the Canadian Church Historical Society, Episcopal Women's History Project, Historical Society of the Episcopal Church USA, and National Episcopal Historians and Archivists. The conference will explore Christian traditions in a variety of cultures and their historical changes from a number of perspectives. Some 30 scholars from four countries will deliver papers around the following themes:
- Change and diversification in North American Anglicanism;
- The church and public culture;
- Anglicanism, the New World, race and gender;
- The church and the SPG in North America