Richard Taylor is a noted church historian and an award-winning author of publications that focus on the historical traditions that are part of the United Church of Christ, including Congregational, German Evangelical, Christian, and German Reformed.

Since 1989 we have specialized in the production and publication of historical directories of American Churches. Each book includes a overview of the historical events that affected the histories of the local churches and a listing of the local history data of hundreds of local churches.   

 

Virginia F. Rainey, in her review of Mr. Taylor's book Plan of Union and Congregational Churches of Christ in the Middle Atlantic States in The Journal of Presbyterian History writes: "Catalogues, such as Taylor's, are more than a resource for genealogists, though this will quickly become an essential reference tool for everything from hunting ancestors to finding one's way through the Congregationalist system...Taylor's work gives us the resource to quantify what has been said qualitatively by intellectual historians.  This is a welcome gift to future historians of the Reformed tradition."

 

The Churches of Christ of the Congregational Way in New England, the first book of the series, was the winner of the President's Award from the Congregational Christian Historical Society.

 

Research in already published and forthcoming books also includes data on Evangelical Protestant, Congregational Methodist, Hungarian Reformed, and other bodies. Information on early Unitarian, and Plan of Union and Presbyterian Churches in particular states is also available.

 

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