This coming week, we will have the privilege of welcoming to VTS an extraordinary incoming class of 47 new full-time students, hailing from 24 dioceses across the USA and three countries (Israel, Kenya, and Taiwan). After months of discerning, applying, waiting, reading, packing, and moving, these 31 Master in Divinity, six Master of Arts, four […]
The work of the Center for Anglican Communion Studies is enriched by the participation and leadership of scholars and practitioners from VTS and around the globe. To be fully aligned with the mission of VTS, and to be responsive to the needs of the church, it is vital that VTS faculty and others help shape […]
As I look back at my time at VTS, I feel grateful for my experience as a seminarian. Now, as an alum, I am grateful to be on the AAEC. It has been quite a journey from postulant to alum. After being made a postulant, I was concerned about finding a seminary that would accept […]
When one is preparing for their seminary journey, spiritual formation and excelling at one’s academic work are top priorities for the incoming seminarian. They leave the comforts of their homes, their sponsoring parishes, and their diocese, and make a new home at VTS with the commitment to do very well in these endeavors. But during […]
In 2006, I attended the National Association of Episcopal Schools Conference in Hollywood, CA. I saw several people wearing buttons that read, “Ask me about the D.Min. program in Educational Leadership at Virginia Theological Seminary.” I asked a button-wearing person about the program, and when they started to describe the experience, I knew immediately the […]
When I started at VTS in August term 2015, little did I know the continuing ride that I would be on with God and the amazing human beings I would meet during my time at VTS – human beings I still pray for and with, human beings I miss, and human beings I may not […]