Today, the Board of Trustees will gather in New York. Our practice is to have three meetings a year – in November, February, and May. All Board meetings have some important work to do; and this one is no exception. We are continuing to think about how best to manage our resources and to create […]
One theme of this year is the theme of remembering significant anniversaries. As a Seminary, we have marked our 200th year; and on Wednesday, we remember the 20th anniversary of the African American Episcopal Historical Collection. Our community Eucharist will focus on this anniversary. So, at 8:15 a.m. Wednesday, November 8, 2023, we will hear […]
I confess this is not the ideal time. We are preparing for Board meetings in New York for early next week. But the invitation came and I was honored to accept. On Sunday, I will be the preacher at The University Church in Oxford (where John Wesley preached and where John Henry Newman was a […]
We are in many ways a DC Seminary. We are part of the nation’s capital. From time to time, we are blessed to have guests making their way from Capitol Hill to visit the Seminary. I am delighted to share the news that on Thursday November 16, we will welcome Senator Warnock to the Holy […]
On Monday, I had the joy of visiting with the Chelsea Group in the Sparrow Conference Room. This is The General Theological Seminary class of 1970. From 1989 onwards, the class has been meeting annually, except for during the COVID interruption. It is an exceptional class of distinguished clergy, who love the Church and love […]
Today we have the opportunity to hear from CACS Communion Sabbatical Visitor, the Rt. Rev. Dr. George Okoth of the Diocese of Mara in the Anglican Church of Tanzania. He will share with us a talk on “Current Topics in the Diocese of Mara” in the Lettie Pate Evans Room from 12:45pm – 1:45pm. Bagged […]
The Board Meetings, which will be held in Chelsea, New York, in early November, are crucial. There is considerable success to report. For VTS, we have marked our Historic Bicentenary appropriately and powerfully. The campus is ready for a third century of service. For GTS, the hybrid MDiv is an amazing success, with GTS students […]
I arrived in 2007. Apart from COVID, VTS has participated in the Luther Bowl every year. This is the gathering of flag football teams from the regional seminaries. When I recently met the Rev. Dr. Justyn Terry, who served as dean and president at Trinity School of Ministry before his return to the UK, he […]
Today we celebrate our annual Giving Day to raise money for the mission and ministry of VTS through the Annual Fund. On campus and online, we come together to celebrate an important truth: God calls us to accomplish together what we could never do alone. Today your gift of any size has even more impact […]
There is, of course, an advantage in the traditional form of worship. You come to Chapel and you know exactly what will happen. And this is part of the joy of liturgy: the form becomes so familiar that you end up focusing entirely on God and not on what is going on. Yet sometimes it […]