For the next two months, the Dean’s commentary will feature text by VTS & GTS faculty members writing about what they are currently teaching, reading, or writing about. Is it possible to give a gift? So much of our preparation for Christmas involves acquiring and preparing gifts for those we love. The more pragmatic of […]
For the next two months, the Dean’s commentary will feature text by VTS & GTS faculty members writing about what they are currently teaching, reading, or writing about. Over the past month, readers of the Dean’s Commentary have gotten a better sense of what the faculty of VTS and GTS do. You’ve read about their […]
For the next two months, the Dean’s Commentary will feature text by VTS & GTS faculty members writing about what they are currently teaching, reading, or writing about. Perhaps I’m not the only one who picks up a new book and first peruses the acknowledgments. Most chapter ones begin with words well considered and polished, […]
For the next two months, the Dean’s Commentary will feature text by VTS & GTS faculty members writing about what they are currently teaching, reading, or writing about. In January 2026 at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, I will be giving a paper titled “The Nominalization of ‘Morisco’: Discursive Othering and the […]
For the next two months, the Dean’s Commentary will feature text by VTS & GTS faculty members writing about what they are currently teaching, reading, or writing about. I am delighted to announce that VTS Press has recently published Experiments in Early Christian Theology, the 2022 Costan Lectures given by Kathryn Tanner, the Frederick Marquand […]
Today is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. I’ve been blessed to have been in ministry for decades with Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Chicanes. My spiritual life and practices have been enlarged by their spiritualities and theologies. They were faithful Roman Catholics and Episcopalians who welcomed me and taught me how to serve […]
For the next two months, the Dean’s Commentary will feature text by VTS & GTS faculty members writing about what they are currently teaching, reading, or writing about. In addition to the daily rhythm of “class, chapel, lunch,” faculty at VTS regularly include faculty meetings into their schedule. At the beginning and the end of […]
For the next two months, the Dean’s Commentary will feature text by VTS & GTS faculty members writing about what they are teaching, reading, or writing about. In 2026, VTS is transitioning to a new Student Information System that will better support the processes and documentation associated with a student’s progression from the Admissions process […]
For the next two months, the Dean’s Commentary will feature text by VTS & GTS faculty members writing about what they are currently teaching, reading, or writing about. Over the past several years, my research and writing have focused on a question that many clergy are encountering with increasing frequency: How do Christians faithfully navigate […]
For the next two months, the Dean’s Commentary will feature text by VTS & GTS faculty members writing about what they are currently teaching, reading, or writing about. As Dr. Knowles mentioned in the Dean’s Commentary on Monday, the scholarly work of seminary faculty can seem invisible to many who are engaged in seminary life. […]