Hugh E. Brown, III, came to All Saints’ Church as Rector in May 2007. He has been active in parish church and social justice ministries, having served parishes in Virginia, Ohio, and the Washington, D.C., area. In Washington, he served as associate rector at St. John’s Church, Lafayette Square, and as Development Director for Sojourners. He worked in Sojourners’ initial organization of Call to Renewal (since 2006 re-organized as Sojourners/Call to Renewal), a network of churches and other faith-based organizations working to promote anti-poverty efforts as a priority for national public policy.
Before coming to All Saints’, Dr. Brown was most recently rector of St. Thomas’s Parish, an eighteenth-century parish in Prince George’s County, Maryland, and before that was vicar and then the first rector of St. Philip’s Parish, Baden (Brandywine, Maryland), an historic African-American church.
Dr. Brown holds a B.A. in Government and International Relations from the College of William and Mary; an M.A. in Religious Ethics from the University of Virginia; an M.Div. from Virginia Theological Seminary; and a D. Min. in Spirituality and Spiritual Direction from Wesley Theological Seminary.
He is married to the Reverend Dr. Elly Sparks Brown, also an Episcopal priest.
The Rev. Elly Sparks Brown, D.Min. is the former rector of historic Trinity Parish in Southern Maryland, the Diocese of Washington, D.C. Elly has also taught in the Literature Department of The American University in D.C. and the honors program at The University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
In 1991, she earned an interdisciplinary Doctor of Ministry degree in theology, literature and visual art at Wesley Seminary in D.C. She later served the Seminary for three years under a Luce grant as Administrative Director of the Center for the Arts and Religion. She is passionately intereseted in the relationship between the arts and spirituality. Elly holds an M.Div. from Virginia Seminary, Alexandra, VA, an MA in English from The Catholic University of America, D.C., and a BA in English from Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA.
Elly is married to her soulmate and brother priest, The Rev. Hugh E. Brown III, D. Min., Rector of All Saints.
Diogenes Allen retired after thirty-five years of teaching at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he was Stuart Professor of Philosophy. He is the author of fourteen books and is a specialist on the theology of Simone Weil. He was minister of a parish in New Hampshire, served as an interim four times, and continues to teach continuing education courses and to lead quiet days. He and his family have been part of the parish for more than ten years.
John Frederick served as a parish priest in parishes both in the Episcopal Church (in Connecticut) and in the Church of England (in London, Oxford, Birmingham, and Blechingley and as Rural Dean of Godstone in the Southwark diocese) in thirty-five years of ministry before retirement and a move to the Princeton area in 1995. Since then, he has been active as a supply priest in our diocese. He holds an A.B. from Princeton University, an M.Div. from General Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham (U.K.). He is the author of books and articles on liturgy and the church and also on British military history.
Karl Morrison has served as curate at Christ Church, New Brunswick, Rector at St. Michael's Chapel (Rutgers University), intern in prison chaplaincy, and priest associate of All Saints' Sisters of the Poor in Oxford, England. He began teaching medieval history at Rutgers in 1988, and, at that time, he and his family joined the parish. As a teacher and scholar–he is Lessing Professor of History and Poetics at Rutgers–he is an historian whose research interests have centered on the history of ideas, spirituality, and the Middle Ages.
The Reverend Deacon Mary Ann Jensen is now in her seventh year as deacon at All Saints' Church, having previously served in that role at Trinity Cathedral, Trenton, following her ordination in 2001.
She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Danish Lutheran parents. After graduating from college with a degree in Speech and Drama, she worked in the professional theatre before returning to graduate school in Theatre at the University of Wisconsin. In 1966, she came to New Jersey to take up an appointment as Curator of the Theatre Collection at Princeton University Library, a position she held until her retirement in 2000.
At All Saints', Deacon Mary Ann assists in the liturgy and with pastoral care and visits, represents the church on the Princeton Community Housing Board of Directors, serves on the Elm Court-Harriet Brian House management boards, directs and schedules Lay Eucharistic Ministers and Visitors, and sits on the Outreach Committee as a clergy representative. On the Diocesan level, she serves on the Diocese of New Jersey Recovery Ministries Committee, the Bishop's Advisory Commission on Liturgy, and the Committee on the Diaconate. She is also Associate Archivist for the diocesan archives, housed in Trenton.