In October 2009, Kent Dorsey (1982) became the Senior Minister of Riverside Avenue Christian Church in Jacksonville, Florida. Kent and Jan moved there from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Don Browning (1956) gave the 2009 James Luther Adams lecture on "Religion and Civil Society" at the Divinity School on October 15.

Former resident Kevin Madigan is now the Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard Divinity School. He began teaching at HDS in 2000 and specializes in high-medieval scholastic biblical exegesis and theology. He is married to Stephanie Paulsell (1985; trustee).

Matt and Sara Staton (2003) welcomed the birth of Evan Matthew on September 15, 2009. Evan was 7 pounds, 10 ounces and 20 inches long.

House Scholars Santiago Piñón and Garry Sparks are two of ten Divinity School students who were selected as Marty Center Dissertation Fellows this year; Garry works on the earliest Mayan-Christian theological dialogue, while Santiago is writing on “the law of the nations” in the sixteenth-century Dominican Francisco Vitoria. David Hall (1989), who is an associate professor at Centre College, is a Senior Fellow in the Marty Center this year.

Ryan Singleton (2008) ran the Chicago Marathon on October 11, 2009. He raised over $2,000 for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. 

Joy Omslaer (1997) and Stan Laws are planning a December 5, 2010 wedding. They became engaged on October 6, 2009.

Joy Omslaer (1997) has been featured on the front page of The Ohio State University's home page for her project that works with veterans with mild traumatic brain injuries, which both tries to improve care for veterans and figuring out how veterans wish to be involved in research projects that impact their care and recovery. 

Congratulations to Bill Wright (1995) and Jessica Barr who were married on August 15, 2009, in Sugerties, New York. Both are members of the faculty at Eureka College.

Matt Rosen (2003) now works at So Others Might Eat (SOME), an interfaith, community-based organization that offers a comprehensive, holistic approach to caring for the homeless and extremely poor citizens of the District of Columbia.

In early August 2009, House Scholar Garry Sparks was in La Paz, Bolivia, to participate in the symposium on “Social Movements and Liberation Theology in Latin American” at the Ecumenical Andean Superior Institute of Theology (ISEAT). He presented a paper on indigenous cultures and spirituality and was a member of a panel “Liberation Theology in the 21st Century." The event drew scholars and church activists from across Latin America and the world.