Tech guru Larry Sanger joins Anglican Church in North America

Larry Sanger, who was influential in the founding of Wikipedia, formally joined the Anglican Church of North America on Sunday. Sanger joyfully shared news of his confirmation out of Ohio with an online statement. Sanger noted the coincidence of being confirmed halfway through reading Augustine of Hippo’s work, The City of God. He said he had just finished Augustine’s lengthy critique of pagan values and their role in Rome’s fall to the Visigoths. The former agnostic first announced his conversion to Christianity in February and said he was shocked by the amount of attention it received online.

What has he been doing since his conversion? After his initial announcement, Sanger shared his testimony about his decades-long journey to Christ in greater detail. He described his conservative Lutheran church and becoming agnostic by the time he went to college. He further explained how his marriage and the birth of his children unexpectedly set him on the path to faith, and how he began earnestly reading the Bible in 2019 before his announcement in 2025 of his conversion.

Sanger has since continued working on ZWIBook, a project compiling the more than 75,000 eBooks from the Project Gutenberg library on a flash drive for digital consumption. ZWIBooks has continued producing drives and doesn't anticipate an outage anytime soon, Sanger shared on Sunday.

Dig deeper: Read my previous report on Sanger’s testimony for more about his conversion.