Founder/Former President

Fr. Alan R. Crippen II is a clergyman and the rector of Holy Trinity Parish in Hillsdale, Michigan, a member congregation of the Diocese of the Living Word in the Anglican Church in North America. He has a professional background in both parish ministry and church planting as well as non-profit executive leadership. Reverend Crippen has worked for International Students, Inc., Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the Family Research Council in Washington D.C., the John Jay Institute (of which he is the founder), and American Bible Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At American Bible Society, he served as Executive Director of the Faith and Liberty Initiative, an innovative cultural strategy to engage all people in exploring the Bible as the “Good Book” and principal freedom text of American ideals and institutions. In this capacity he led content development for a $60 million-dollar project that included the creation and buildout of a high-tech interactive museum, general editorship of the Faith and Liberty Bible (2021), a historical application study bible, and the creative direction of content development for the Faith and Liberty Trail mobile app for both IOS and Android platforms. Reverend Crippen is also a U.S. Army veteran with both active-duty and reserve service including artillery platoon and battery command and battalion staff operations and planning. He was graduated from Cairn University with a bachelor’s degree and Westminster Theological Seminary with his master’s. He is the father of five adult children and thirteen grandchildren with his late wife, Michelle, who tragically died of cancer in 2020. He has since been remarried to Leonor Lee of Alexandria, Virginia, the widow of classical architect, Daniel Lee, and mother of four children and seven grandchildren. Together they make their home in Hillsdale, Michigan.