Category: Dean’s Commentary

CACS: Anglican Commentary from Anglican Communion Prize Recipient

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 […]

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Center for Anglican Communion Studies: Highlights from 2025: Women Mentoring Women

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 […]

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Center for Anglican Communion Studies: Highlights from 2025: Scriptural Reasoning

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 […]

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An Anglican Communications Expert

Senior Vice President Nicky Burridge is in the middle of a whirlwind set of presentations. There is an acute debate amongst specialists in faith-based higher education about how best to communicate the achievements and witness of their programming. Nicky Burridge has just returned from a conference in London, where she gave the keynote address. And […]

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Commencement 2025

If you track down a copy of the Washington Post for today, then you will see a very interesting advert. It is an advert placed by Virginia Theological Seminary to recognize the extraordinary achievement of our graduates. Each year, we send out a new group of congregational leaders who will bring an energy and passion […]

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Board Meetings Continued

Yesterday afternoon we had a good plenary. The first half was focused on “the state of the seminaries”. The second half was focused on “research at VTS”. Our practice in these plenaries is that from time to time we will focus on a particular school. We will be reflecting on research at GTS in the […]

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The Board is in town

It is amazing. These gifted men and women make the journey to the campus to ensure that VTS and GTS are run appropriately and effectively. They do so as volunteers. In fact, the expectation is that they will all make a gift to two seminaries. But they do so because they believe in theological education […]

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An important week looms

As we run into the week of Board meetings and Commencement, I am very grateful to everyone who is working hard to make this a special occasion. Facilities are ensuring that the campus look stunning. Sixty new trees were planted last week. Our contract staff in grounds and cleaning have done a fabulous job in […]

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The Preaching Excellence Program

The purpose of the Episcopal Preaching Foundation is to “raise the standard of preaching in the Episcopal Church.” To this end, the EPF offers various programs for ordained and lay preachers at all stages of their preaching ministry. One of their most popular and long-standing programs is the Preaching Excellence Program, a 5-day conference for […]

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Come tonight

On Thursday 1 May at 7.30pm, we look forward with joy to celebrating the work of our Masters students who have written a Thesis or Summative Capstone Project this academic year. After many months in conversation with Advisors, Readers, Librarians, Writing Coaches, family and friends the students will now have an opportunity to share their […]

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