Dr. Larry Sanger, the Wikipedia cofounder who made headlines this year for announcing he has gone from being a skeptic to being a believer in Jesus Christ, has decided to join the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). Sanger, who has his Ph.D. in philosophy, has appeared on various Christian podcasts in recent months to discuss his journey of becoming a Christian.
“I will seek to be confirmed in early September in the Anglican Church of North America [sic],” Sanger said in an Aug. 21 thread on X.
I will seek to be confirmed in early September in the Anglican Church of North America. pic.twitter.com/O7ilQULST4
— Larry Sanger (@lsanger) August 21, 2025
“I am fairly sure they’ll let me in. The ACNA, like Anglicanism generally, is a ‘big tent’ denomination,” he said. “I will explain my reasoning this weekend, but it is fairly obvious if you look at the recent three blog posts on denominational questions on http://larrysanger.org.”
Larry Sanger Settles on ACNA
In addition to being a cofounder of Wikipedia, Dr. Larry Sanger is a philosopher and internet project developer. On Feb. 5, he published a lengthy article on his blog, titled “How a Skeptical Philosopher Becomes a Christian.” In it, he detailed the events and thought processes that led him out of agnosticism to belief in God and, eventually, a belief in the orthodox Christian faith.
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“In 2020 I read the Bible through for the first time, all the way through for good understanding, which I’d never done before,” Sanger told Christian hip hop artist Lecrae in a conversation published May 8. “It transformed my life. And that was five years ago, but I put off actually making an announcement about it, telling the story, because I wanted to be ready to contend for the kingdom, forcefully.”
In the Feb. 5 blog post, Sanger shared that he was not currently attending church, in part because he was still in the process of figuring out what he believed about the doctrines held by different denominations.
“While I think I am called to worship with my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, face to face, I am aware that my presence is probably going to be like, well, a bull in a china shop, if I am not very careful,” Sanger said. “For one thing, I still ‘ask too many questions.’ I am still probably not as deferential to authority as I should be.”
“I simply don’t want to make a nuisance of myself, and I know myself well enough, and how people react to me, to know that I would make a nuisance of myself,” said Sanger.
Sanger acknowledged that others might approach choosing a local church differently and that it is not necessary for believers to have all of their convictions figured out prior to attending church in person. “Speaking only for myself,” he said, “I don’t want to join a church—basically, becoming part of a family—only to feel I must leave after a year or two because I have finally gotten around to thinking hard about some fairly basic issue, and now I see a different denomination is closer to my views.”
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