Yesterday, given it was Quiet Day, I booked a session with my Spiritual Director. The Seminary encourages us all to participate in Spiritual Direction. Graduate school is often focused on the hard work of the head – clarifying your ideas and arguments about this or that issue; and inevitably, the Seminary lifts up community and […]
Today is Quiet Day. It might seem strange to have a quiet day in the middle of a semester where much more quiet than normal has been imposed on us all. But this space is quite different from the COVID-imposed quiet. This is a space where we invite God to work on our lives in […]
Construction starts today on two houses (Maywood and 3540 Trotter Road), which are being converted into apartments to provide more on-campus housing for students and their families. We currently average ten students and families living off-campus, receiving subsidies that cost the Seminary almost a quarter of a million dollars. The new apartments will save the […]
An integral part of community life on campus is the role that the student government takes. We are deeply appreciative of all students who are willing to take on a leadership role. Please join me in congratulating the following students. M.Div. Class 2023 President, Mitchell Felton Vice President, Stephen Pecot Junior At-Large Representative to the […]
An integral part of community life on campus is the role that the student government takes. We are deeply appreciative of all students who are willing to take on a leadership role. Please join me in congratulating the following students. M.Div. Class 2023 President, Mitchell Felton Vice President, Stephen Pecot Junior At-Large Representative to the […]
Yesterday I visited the Mail Center. Once the Welcome Center Library emerged, we had to relocate the mail operation. I had the opportunity to visit with Griffin Warder. He showed me around the operation behind the mail boxes. It was impressive. Mail deliveries have become the primary means of shopping. The sheer quantity of parcels […]
Please join us in welcoming the Union of Black Episcopalians (UBE) to campus. The Very Rev. Kim L. Coleman ’01, President of UBE, now has an office in Sparrow. The Union of Black Episcopalians stands in the continuing tradition of more than 200 years of Black leadership in The Episcopal Church. The mission of UBE […]
Tonight at 6 p.m., there will be a Town Hall meeting for the VTS community. There is one substantive item: the construction on Maywood and House 25 on Trotter Road will begin soon. It is important for the residents on the campus to have a good sense of what this will involve and how everyone […]
Yesterday my wife and I had to pop into the Deanery to retrieve a table, which was in the basement. We did glance around the “School House,” and we were impressed. It looks lovely. One arrives to see an array of masks and hand sanitizer. Each child has a cubby in what was my study. […]
Yesterday I went to the Welcome Center Library, to Bicentennial Study Hall, and to the Flamingo. Each space has a capacity of ten people. So a total of thirty could have been in these spaces. It was a total of four (all in the Flamingo) people using those spaces. Human psychology is interesting. We see […]