Date: May 1, 2025
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 work with the VTS Community.
Every Thesis and Summative Capstone Project is a process of dedication, resilience, and growth.
From the creation of a proposal sent for approval to the Masters Committee, to the meticulous work of research, writing and revision, these pieces represent a serious undertaking. To focus, to persevere and to produce a Thesis or Summative Capstone Project is indeed admirable. I am conscious of the determined effort made by our students and by those who have guided them across the finish line.
A range of fascinating, exciting and global subjects have been addressed this year:
Beyond Legal Requirements: Embracing Disability in the Episcopal Church, U.S.A.; Hear Our Children’s Cry: Reimagining Children’s Formation in the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands through a Postcolonial Lens; Hearing God in Journey and Place: Pilgrimage as Embodied Connection with God; Reimagining Ministerial Formation in the Anglican Church of Ghana; Queer Reconciliation: Re-Membering LGBTQIA+ Experiences at Virginia Theological Seminary; Benedict and the Bible: A Quantitative Analysis of Benedict’s Biblical Hermeneutic, and No Work in Sheol: Lordship, Labor and the Divine Economy.
I warmly invite you to join with me in recognizing their achievement as we hear the student presentations and celebrate together in Addison 101with light summer refreshments.
The Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, Ph.D.
Dean and President of Virginia Theological Seminary and the President of The General Theological Seminary