CHRISTOPHER PAUL MOMANY
EDUCATION
Doctor of Humane Letters (Honorary)
Adrian College, 2024
Doctor of Ministry
Drew University, 1992
Master of Divinity
Princeton Theological Seminary, 1987
Bachelor of Arts
Adrian College, 1984
HISTORY COMES ALIVE
Some think history is one dusty fact after another. Not so. Stories of courage and justice have much to teach us.
That's why, in 2023, I published an engaging book about five abolitionists and the powerful ideas that motivated them: Compelling Lives: Five Methodist Abolitionists and the Ideas that Inspired Them (Cascade, 2023).
https://www.amazon.com/Compelling-Lives-Methodist-Abolitionists-Explorations/dp/166674462X
Here's a podcast on Compelling Lives with Dr. Ashley Boggan of the United Methodist General Commission on Archives and History: Boldly Following a 'Higher Law'.
https://podcast.umc.org/methodist-abolitionists-boldly-following-a-higher-law/
In 2015, I identified the author of a lost abolitionist journal. David Stedman Ingraham worked in Jamaica soon after the British government outlawed slavery there. On Christmas Day 1839 Ingraham boarded a ship that had recently been engaged in the transatlantic slave trade. He examined the ship and documented the horror endured by 556 people. In 2024, our multiracial group of scholars known as the Dialogue on Race and Faith published a ground-breaking book about this terrible history and how it can fuel today's fight against racism.
Awakening to Justice: Faithful Voices from the Abolitionist Past (InterVarsity, 2024).
https://www.amazon.com/Awakening-Justice-Faithful-Voices-Abolitionist/dp/1514009188
PROGRAMS AND PRESENTATIONS
"The Higher Law" ~ People of faith often claim that there is a "higher law" which guides their moral commitments. This divine law serves as the standard for all human law. Is this tradition valid, and if so, how do we know when resistance to human law is faithful to divine law?
"Compelling Lives: The Ideas that Inspired Abolitionists" ~ Why did they do it? Why did abolitionists put it all on the line to work for freedom? The answers are deep and provocative, and they can inspire us to work for change.
"Awakening to Justice" ~ In 2015, people at Adrian College "discovered" the journal of antislavery missionary to Jamaica, David Stedman Ingraham. How does this find call us to hear those who were enslaved? How does this discovery offer both truth and hope for justice today?
Day of Healing - Nationwide Bell Ringing Ceremony
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August 25, 2019 was the 400th anniversary of the first landing of enslaved Africans in English-occupied North America at Point Comfort in Hampton, Virginia.
This heavy anniversary demanded that we pause and remember those who suffered. It also called us to confront the meaning of this history for our future.
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