Rev. Dr. Christopher Momany to be honored at AC winter commencement
Posted Friday, November 22, 2024
Author: Mickey Alvarado
Adrian College will conduct its winter commencement at 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 13, at Herrick Chapel. This event is free and open to the public.
In addition to 24 graduate and 45 undergraduate students receiving degrees, the Rev. Dr. Christopher Momany will also be recognized during the ceremony and presented with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.
After graduating Adrian College in 1984, Momany went on to earn advanced degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary and Drew University.
Momany served as chaplain and part-time instructor at Adrian College from 1996 to 2019. He is now the pastor of First United Methodist Church in Dowagiac, Mich.
His speaking, teaching, and writing focus on Christian legacies of human rights work. In 2023, Momany’s book, “Compelling Lives: Five Methodist Abolitionists and the Ideas That Inspired Them (Cascade),” profiles five Methodist abolitionists and their witness against slavery.
In 2015, Momany helped discover a long-lost, handwritten journal, written by Christian abolitionist and missionary, David Ingraham, in Adrian College’s Shipman Library. This artifact, penned during the 1830s and 1840s, documents a ship used in the transatlantic slave trade. Momany is an editor of and a contributor of a book that features this journal titled, “Awakening to Justice: Faithful Voices from the Abolitionist Past (InterVarsity Press, 2024).”
Momany has been honored with numerous awards for his dedication to social justice, education and accessibility. In 2015, he received the Harold Stanton Social Justice Award from the Detroit Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church Board of Justice, Advocacy and Equity. He was also recognized by his alma mater with the Adrian College Alumni Humanitarian Award in 2011. He was named Adrian College Advisor of the Year multiple times and also received the EXCEL Program Excellent Instructor Award.
To learn more about Adrian College and the Winter Commencement ceremony, visit adrian.edu or contact the Office of the Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs at 264.3888.
