When I arrived at Virginia Theological Seminary last summer, it took only a few days before I was the target of organizing efforts. Casey Jones, president of the student organization the Justice and Reconciliation Society, emailed me with a request to meet. Jessica Sarriot, co-lead organizer of Virginians Organized for Interfaith and Community Engagement (VOICE), […]
Having shared some highlights from our ’24-’25 program year and our May Anglican Commentaries, today we shift to a look forward and some of the projects we are working on this summer. Through our Trinity grant project, we have completed on-line leadership training with 5 cohorts of young leaders from Kenya, Mexico, Diocese of Jerusalem, […]
CACS has long hoped to establish a regular Cross-Cultural Education Program with Ghana, especially with the area of the coastal Slave Forts. David Smith used his spring break to travel to Ghana with support from Seminary Consultation on Mission (SCOM) and the Reverend Akua Ofori-Boateng, Diocese of Accra, who was a VTS Communion Sabbatical visitor […]
One of the ways CACS works to engage the VTS community and our partners and friends is through our Anglican Commentaries.. Today we’d like to share one of our Anglican Commentaries for May from our 2025 Anglican Communion Prize recipient, Addie Budnick Tapp. Prior to coming to VTS, I had very little understanding of the […]
The Center for Anglican Communion Studies hosted the Women Mentoring Women Conference three months ago, from Feb 24-28. From regions and continents across the Anglican Communion and with support from Trinity Wall Street, this conference brought together lay and ordained women leaders who are passionate about mentoring and learning from others. We had an incredibly […]
The Center for Anglican Communion Studies-Rumi Forum Scriptural Reasoning (SR) series for ’24-’25 has ended and we’re very happy with the results. From September- April the partnership hosted 8 monthly discussions based on the Rose Castle Foundation’s “12 Habits of Reconciliation”. Our numbers have grown this year from an average 10 – 15 participants to […]
Senior Vice President Nicky Burridge is in the middle of a whirlwind set of presentations. There is an acute debate amongst specialists in faith-based higher education about how best to communicate the achievements and witness of their programming. Nicky Burridge has just returned from a conference in London, where she gave the keynote address. And […]
If you track down a copy of the Washington Post for today, then you will see a very interesting advert. It is an advert placed by Virginia Theological Seminary to recognize the extraordinary achievement of our graduates. Each year, we send out a new group of congregational leaders who will bring an energy and passion […]
Yesterday afternoon we had a good plenary. The first half was focused on “the state of the seminaries”. The second half was focused on “research at VTS”. Our practice in these plenaries is that from time to time we will focus on a particular school. We will be reflecting on research at GTS in the […]
It is amazing. These gifted men and women make the journey to the campus to ensure that VTS and GTS are run appropriately and effectively. They do so as volunteers. In fact, the expectation is that they will all make a gift to two seminaries. But they do so because they believe in theological education […]