The mission of the Saint Nicholas Center for Faith and Justice is to support the formation of Christian leaders as faithful and effective advocates for justice in the way of Jesus. God’s gracious action in Jesus Christ turns our world upside down. Because of God’s loving concern for us, we are freed to practices of […]
VOICE (Virginians Organized for Interfaith and Community Engagement) has helped remind me why I came to seminary. As I think many do in their first year of MDiv studies, I found myself grappling with a sense of aimlessness. I often felt bogged down with homework, yet left without a place to integrate the things I […]
Core to my understanding of the Gospel is God’s call for us to strive for justice and meet the material needs of all of God’s children. When I arrived at VTS as a first year MDiv student last fall, I was looking for something that would help me live into this call. I didn’t want […]
When I first came to VTS, I felt uprooted, not just from my old communities, but from the habits of being involved in civic life beyond a school setting. As much as I loved throwing myself into theological studies and learning more tools for ministry, I missed the chance to use those skills in practice, […]
When I arrived at Virginia Theological Seminary last summer, it took only a few days before I was the target of organizing efforts. Casey Jones, president of the student organization the Justice and Reconciliation Society, emailed me with a request to meet. Jessica Sarriot, co-lead organizer of Virginians Organized for Interfaith and Community Engagement (VOICE), […]
Having shared some highlights from our ’24-’25 program year and our May Anglican Commentaries, today we shift to a look forward and some of the projects we are working on this summer. Through our Trinity grant project, we have completed on-line leadership training with 5 cohorts of young leaders from Kenya, Mexico, Diocese of Jerusalem, […]
CACS has long hoped to establish a regular Cross-Cultural Education Program with Ghana, especially with the area of the coastal Slave Forts. David Smith used his spring break to travel to Ghana with support from Seminary Consultation on Mission (SCOM) and the Reverend Akua Ofori-Boateng, Diocese of Accra, who was a VTS Communion Sabbatical visitor […]
One of the ways CACS works to engage the VTS community and our partners and friends is through our Anglican Commentaries.. Today we’d like to share one of our Anglican Commentaries for May from our 2025 Anglican Communion Prize recipient, Addie Budnick Tapp. Prior to coming to VTS, I had very little understanding of the […]
The Center for Anglican Communion Studies hosted the Women Mentoring Women Conference three months ago, from Feb 24-28. From regions and continents across the Anglican Communion and with support from Trinity Wall Street, this conference brought together lay and ordained women leaders who are passionate about mentoring and learning from others. We had an incredibly […]
The Center for Anglican Communion Studies-Rumi Forum Scriptural Reasoning (SR) series for ’24-’25 has ended and we’re very happy with the results. From September- April the partnership hosted 8 monthly discussions based on the Rose Castle Foundation’s “12 Habits of Reconciliation”. Our numbers have grown this year from an average 10 – 15 participants to […]