Virginia Theological Seminary

11/21/2024

Are you ready to gain fresh insights into your ministry and elevate your leadership skills? If so, discover how VTS’s Doctor of Ministry and Doctor of Educational Ministry programs can transform your journey. Join us for a webinar on Tuesday, December 2, at 4 p.m., featuring faculty, staff, and students eager to connect with you!
Sign up here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_a3FLsl33TUOK8HvuqCZo8A #/registration

Join Virginia Seminary's Doctoral Program Faculty, Staff, Alums, and Current Students for an informational webinar!

11/19/2024

“Celebrating the joy of diversity at during ”
- Nonhlanhla Shezi

11/18/2024

Please join us for a series of events, including a lecture by Aaron Scott, The Episcopal Church Staff Officer for Gender Justice, on Trans Identity, Advocacy, and Activism in the Episcopal Church, a Meditation on Trans Lives by the Rev. Dr Eric Thomas, Assistant Professor of Bible at The General Theological Seminary, and a Requiem Mass.
Click here for more information:
https://wp.me/sfi2KO-jars

11/13/2024

Deepen Your Faith at Virginia Theological Seminary!
Join our online informational webinar on Thursday, November 21st at 4:00 pm and discover how taking a course at VTS can help inform and enhance your faith journey. With an exceptional faculty, an inclusive community dedicated to learning, and a formation experience that is second to none, Virginia Seminary welcomes you to our beautiful campus in Alexandria. For more information, contact Kurt Ellison ([email protected]) or call 703-461-1705

Forming Leaders, Living in Community, Serving the Church and the World

11/12/2024

“Last Saturday, we had the annual gathering of the Seminaries at Gettysburg for the flag football competition also known as the Luther Bowl! The team was sent off with a blessing in the Friday Eucharist. We had nineteen players and three coaches. It was a coming together of the VTS community.”
- Dean Ian Markham

11/08/2024

A team from Lifelong Learning Preaching Congregations Initiative (PCi) recently returned from Hawai'i, where the Rev. Ruthanna Hooke and the Rev. Rich Nelson led an Education Day and two-day training session for clergy and lay leaders to kickstart the PCi grant initiative. PCi aims to help clergy become more creatively engaged in preaching and support lay people in being more active participants in proclamation ministry.

11/07/2024

We are excited to welcome potential students to campus for Fall Visit Day this Friday! The day offers the chance to connect with current students, meet faculty, join chapel worship, and explore the campus. If you can't make Fall Visit Day but would like to visit VTS, please contact admissions on [email protected]

11/06/2024

The VTS Board of Trustees reaffirms the Seminary’s commitment to Gospel values, grounded in the dignity of all human beings, in our work to form lives for the service of God. We remain dedicated to LGBTQIA+ inclusion, we strive for racial justice, and we support the work of Episcopal Migration Ministries.
Dean Markham said: “God reveals the truth of eternity through the Eternal Word made flesh. As Christians, our obligation is always to keep the divine perspective in view, never losing sight of the value of all human beings, the centrality of love, and the need for community. As we interpret the election, our obligation as a Church is to focus on our primary responsibility to bring Christ’s love to a hurting world and to reflect the values of Christ through our own lives.”

11/04/2024

Costan Lectures Preview LIVE!

11/01/2024

alum:
Jeremy Bradley’22
Joanna Unangst’22
Gregory Cross’24
Gavin Tomlin’23
Addison McMillian’24
Maria Teresa Bautista-Berrios’24 with Dr. Grieb at the The Episcopal Diocese of Texas clergy conference!

10/31/2024

The African American Episcopal Historical Collection gives thanks for the leadership and support of the Most Rev. Micheal Curry as the 27th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. Join us at we walk the Way of Love and lift up the contributions of Black Episcopalians to the Jesus Movement.

10/30/2024

"I was honored to represent VTS at the 30th annual general meeting of the Compass Rose Society. The two-day event, held in London and Canterbury, and graced by the presence of many church leaders, including Bp. Daniel Gutierrez, President of Compass Rose, Secretary General Bp. Anthony Poggo and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, was exciting and life-giving. I learned much about what is going on in the communion and where our support is needed by our siblings in Christ around the globe. I am very excited to be a part of a faith communion that so powerfully witnesses to the inbreaking love of Christ in our broken and beautiful world. And I am grateful to the Center for Anglican Communion Studies at VTS (CACS) and Dean Ian Markham for trusting me to represent the seminary well." - Eliza Brinkley, VTS student
Read more about Elizas' experience here:
https://vtsnews8.wordpress.com/2024/10/30/compass-rose-reflection-by-eliza-brinkley/

10/29/2024

and The Center for Anglican Communion Studies at VTS are delighted to host The Science Commission of the Anglican Communion Forum on campus this week!

10/28/2024

In a moving service on Saturday, VTS alum the Rev. Harry Stock ’78 was restored to his ministry as Priest in The Episcopal Church after being deposed almost 40 years ago. Stocks’ Holy Orders were removed in 1987 after he publicly declared his love for his now-husband, Mark. He was given a formal apology and reinstated by Bishop Cowden of West Virginia. Dean Ian Markham also participated in the service and apologized for the way VTS has treated LGBTQIA+ students in the past. Stocks’ story is preserved in the Called and Holy: The Virginia Theological Seminary LGBTQIA+ Oral History Project, which aims to give voice to those who experienced the love and grace of God, but also pain and harm regarding their sexual and gender identity. You can see it here: https://youtu.be/q8R0MnJemMM?si=GUdr3nWzqL_Lo7zC

10/25/2024

Don't miss this opportunity to hear the Rev. Canon Dr. Judith Maltby, Emerita Fellow of Corpus Christi College, the University of Oxford, deliver the 2024 Costan Lectures on the Poetry and Theology of Vassar Miller. Register here to attend in person or online: https://vtsnews8.wordpress.com/2024/10/01/costan-lectures-with-judith-maltby/?mc_cid=513530f41c&mc_eid=5ebf1128a4

November 11, 12 and 13, 6pm at VTS.

10/24/2024

It is Giving Day at ! Our students are expressing their immense gratitude for your donations and gifts!
If you haven’t already donated, please do so here:
https://give.vts.edu/page.aspx?pid=298&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaY59_yCxYs8YLC43B5Zu9jtRH50BfFye-qOgzqmcnZaYjsOtZqd7i5mRtI_aem_pVH4kNaRM_

10/23/2024

Tomorrow is Giving Day!
Listen in as our students share how your contributions impact them!

Donate now: https://give.vts.edu/page.aspx?pid=298