Date: February 8, 2024
The Spring 2024 Program for the Center for Anglican Communion Studies is now out. I was walking back from lunch yesterday and saw the associate director of CACS, Hartley Wensing, walking to lunch. “Would you like the new program from CACS?” she said. “Hot off the press,” she added. I was pleased to say yes and walked back to my office with it.
Interfaith events figure prominently. Scriptural Reasoning is now an established part of their programming: reading scripture alongside Muslims and Jews is deeply moving. A lunchtime program on Anti-Semitism, which is very timely. The Dean of Canterbury Cathedral will be present at the Companions CACS Dinner, and guests from Tanzania and Pakistan will be on the campus.
The global and interfaith perspective is vitally important for us all. In northern Virginia, we can easily delude ourselves into thinking everyone we meet is an Episcopalian. Thanks to the remarkable team in CACS, we have this vitally important reminder that this is not the case. Mark your calendars now. Do please make the most of these extraordinary opportunities.
The Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, Ph.D.
Dean and President of Virginia Theological Seminary and the President of The General Theological Seminary