People Notes | November 2025

Michael O’Loughlin ‘09 M.A.R. has been named Executive Editor of National Catholic Reporter.

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Rachel Field ’16 M.Div. appeared on the “Women, Land, & Food” podcast to discuss her work as a farmer and Episcopal Priest.

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Sarah Drummond ‘93 B.A., Dean of Andover Newton Seminary at YDS, has published a new book, Cultivating Competence: The Ministry of Leadership Development.

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Andrea Barton Reeves ‘26 M.A.R. appeared on the Alec Baldwin podcast “Here’s the Thing” to talk about her work as Commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Social Services.

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Nathan Peace ’25 M.Div. has joined the YDS staff as Admissions Officer in the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid.

Class Notes

Becky Garrison M.Div. 1992 

An excerpt from my forthcoming book “Gaslighting for God: A Satirical Guide to Save Yourself from Spiritual Narcissists” due out January 27, 2026. Sign up to be notified when the book is available for preorder

Mark Scott M.A.R. 2003 

I have recently published a book entitled The Beauty of Souls: Aesthetic Encounters with Marilynne Robinson. Here’s a nice endorsement that summarizes it well: 

“Scott’s The Beauty of Souls presents a carefully insightful and intricately comprehensive close reading of all Marilynne Robinson’s novels. For this alone it deserves praise. But The Beauty of Souls is more than just a literary analysis: it is also a spiritually attentive and deeply compassionate theology of human personhood and divine beauty” (Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, Harvard University). 

In Memoriam

William Brandt ‘Bud’ Bradshaw ’58 M.Div.
Helen Mary Schaberg Kauffman ’81 M.Div.
Robert E. Skeele ’53 B.D.
Joseph Freeman ’74 M.Div.
Richard B. Wilke ’55 B.D.