We continue our journey through the remarkable team at the General Theological Seminary. Today, we learn about Mr. Harry Soto. Harry is the newest member of the GTS team, he came to us most recently from a charter school in Harlem, but he has years of experience managing the facilities of all kinds of buildings […]
Another wonderful addition to our special guests this semester: Dean’s Scholar the Revd. Canon Scott Cowdell and his wife Lisa from Australia. Canon Scott jokingly presumes his appearance to be yet another time lord regeneration (Doctor Who reference) as part of the many Dean’s scholars who frequent VTS. I hope you will have the pleasure to welcome them as […]
We continue our series that introduces you to the team at The General Theological Seminary. If you are dealing with my office and interested in connecting with New York, then it is highly likely that you will work with Ekama. While the Very Rev. Michael DeLashmutt is on sabbatical, Ekama is doing considerable work for […]
Today is International Women’s Day, a global day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. This day is also an opportunity to raise awareness for women’s equality, lobby for gender parity, and fight against the many inequities women face on a daily basis. One such inequity is the US Black maternal […]
I really like Bishop Frank T. Griswold, III. He had a lovely sense of humor. His counsel was deeply thoughtful. His instincts were sound. He loved the desert fathers; he was committed to ecumenism; he had good advice around the liturgy (he took me though my manual acts that I still use at the Eucharist); […]
We continue the introduction to the team in Chelsea New York. However, our staff member today is a unique employee. She is both working for GTS and VTS. Trecia O’Sullivan is the director of Human resources, contract management and special projects. She has been working at GTS since 2014. Her background prior to coming to […]
As promised, we will be introducing the team at General Theological Seminary. With this affiliation, it is important for VTS to know the key personnel on the campus in Chelsea. It means when you get an email or question, you will know who exactly you are talking to and their role in GTS. Jamie Tan […]
Everyone knows that access to library resources is key to a seminary education. So in January when we heard the news that the GTS Librarian, Melissa Chim, was taking a new position at Albany, we needed to sort out a plan to support the students and faculty at GTS. There are 17 courses being offered this semester, 7 Masters-level students […]
It was an interesting moment. At the Faculty meeting, there were some questions around the following theme: how is it possible to run two institutions at once? After all, advocates of an hybrid degree tend to be critical of residential programs; and advocates of the residential MDiv tend to be critical of distance degrees. In […]
Everyone gets the achievement of writing a book. After all, simply reading a book is a significant undertaking; therefore writing one is an even greater undertaking. However, for me, book writing fades into the background when set against the extraordinary achievement of taking notes out of the air and creating the extraordinary gift and achievement […]