In Christian Homeland, Gardiner Shattuck directs our attention to the Episcopal Church's engagement with the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries... While there have been recent moments in this activism when rhetoric has been antisemitic in nature, Shattuck reminds us that this is not an anomaly.
Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. is a retired Episcopal priest and historian who has written extensively about the involvement of American Protestants in political and social issues during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A graduate of Brown University (A.B.), General Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and Harvard University (A.M., Ph.D.), he is the author of numerous books, most recently The Episcopalians (2004). He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church and the Steering Committee of the African American Episcopal Historical Collection at Virginia Theological Seminary.