👋 About Church Writings
Church Writings is a resource for learning and reading from historic Christian writings by providing a digital library of texts and helpful tools. Founded in 2024 by Max Secor and Tom Kruger, it aims to make historic Christian texts accessible to everyone. The platform includes interactive tools for exploring connections between texts.
Max Secor
Max is a machine learning scientist and former missionary who loves reading early Christian literature and engaging with the historic faith. He lives in Boston with his wife and two children and enjoys the fellowship of like-minded believers from every Christian background. His goal is to see more people read the works of faithful Christians who came before him.
“For as there are two kinds of coins, the one of God, the other of the world, and each of these has its special character stamped upon it. The unbelieving are of this world; but the believing have, in love, the character of God the Father by Jesus Christ, by whom, if we are not in readiness to die into His passion,† His life is not in us.” — Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to the Magnesians 6.1.2
Tom Kruger
Tom is a software engineer based in Boston, where he lives with his wife and three children. He spent the majority of his adult life in China, working across cultures and languages. His deep love for the Christian faith and its history (spanning East and West, ancient and modern) shapes much of his life and work. Through Church Writings, Tom seeks to modernize and make accessible the vast treasury of Christian literature. His hope is that many will rediscover a renewed faith, deeper zeal, and lasting passion for the tradition handed down by Christ and the apostles, while also fostering greater unity among Christians around the world.
“For Adam indeed was in Paradise, yet, when he had provoked God, Paradise profited him nothing. These youths were in the furnace; yet, since they were approved, the furnace injured them not at all... Job sat down on the dunghill, yet, since he was vigilant he prevailed! Yet how much better was Paradise than a dunghill! still the excellency of the place benefitted in no degree the inhabitant; forasmuch as he had betrayed himself; as likewise indeed the vileness of the place did to one no injury, who was fortified on every side with virtue.” — John Chrysostom, Statues To The People of Antioch 4.11.1