The Dean’s Office is complicated. We are the interface with the Board of Trustees and oversee the governance of the Seminary; we work closely with the Internal Administrative Meeting (comprising Senior Staff); we coordinate the Policy Administrative Meeting; 1-1 meetings have to be organized with all the senior staff and with Communications, the Chapel, and […]
The VTS Shop has had many iterations – from being housed in the bookstore, to life in the Welcome Center, and to being stored on the lower level of the Addison Academic Center. Coming soon the VTS Shop will be virtual. Community members will be able to purchase all of their VTS swag online and […]
This week we will be highlighting various aspects of the work of the Dean’s Office. The Dean’s Office is a busy place, as one might imagine. Regular readers of the Commentary are already aware of the multitude of projects and decisions the office makes on a daily basis. Today I would like to thank Ms. […]
Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) mourns on this day the passing of the Rt. Rev. Peter James Lee, who died in the early hours on Saturday, July 2. Bishop Lee had an extraordinary career. A newspaper reporter and a military intelligence officer, he felt the call of God to holy orders and graduated from VTS in […]
Every day, leaders in the Church, both lay and ordained, tackle issues for which there seems to be no direct or obvious answer. Many of these issues are characteristic of a specific stage in or context of ministry. Lifelong Learning at VTS offers two programs, Launching into Ministry founded in 2019 and Thriving in Ministry […]
Baptized for Life (BFL)/Vida en Abundancia (VEA), one of several Lilly Endowment Inc. funded grant initiatives housed in the Department of Lifelong Learning, continues nurturing participating congregations across six dioceses through a baptismal and vocational lens, focusing on catechumenal basics: Lectionary + Liturgy + Life. We will never know how our original project design would […]
From June 5-10, we welcomed 20 participants to the Deep Calls to Deep preaching residency. Deep Calls to Deep is a program designed to nurture preachers for the challenging and vital ministry of proclamation. The program is housed in Lifelong Learning and funded by a grant from the Lilly Endowment. Deep Calls to Deep focuses […]
The Lifelong Learning team is hard at work preparing our programming and resources for the 2022-2023 academic and fiscal year, with events starting as early as next week! Here’s a sneak peek of what we have in store for you: Building Faith offers resources to equip and inspire the ministry of formation all year […]
I marvel daily at the privilege of leading a team committed to providing resources, training, and mentoring so that faith and leadership across the church will be healthier and holier. As we enter a new fiscal year, the Department of Lifelong Learning‘s operating budget has grown to $1M. We currently house Forma (the network for […]
Today in our doctoral programs, students in their final summer residency present their project thesis proposals for approval by VTS faculty. For their theses, students envision and carry out an act of ministry in their context that seeks to transform that place, to make it holier. They then put the results of that action research […]