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SPRING 2018 Brand New Light www.vts.edu | Virginia Theological Seminary Magazine 1 PAGE 14 Table of Contents Dr. Amy Dyer talks to seniors at commencement rehearsal in 2011, held in Calloway Chapel at Features Episcopal High School. 14 Brand New Light 30 Getting the Biblical Balance The recent installation of three stained glass How do Episcopalians find the biblical windows transform more than Immanuel balance? We start with the truth. Chapel. 19 The Spiritual Vocation of Dr. Amy Dyer We recognize Dr. Dyer’s impressive contributions and influence, which have taken on many forms over three decades. Virginia Theological Seminary Magazine is published three times per year (January, May, and September) for alumni and friends by the Communications Department, Virginia Theological Seminary, 3737 Seminary Road, Alexandria, VA 22304. Editorial comments should be directed to [email protected]. 37 The Rt. Rev. James J. (Bud) Shand retires from the VTS Board of Trustees. Community leader Lonnie Hamilton III and Departments NASA astronaut Charles F. Bolden Jr. were the recipients of the 2017 Dean’s Cross. 4 Dean’s Message 8 6 Faculty News 8 On Holy Hill ON THE COVER On Thursday, January 4, 2018, the three oculus windows 10 Academic Affairs and Student Life designed by artist Brian Clarke arrived from England and were installed in 12 Scene at VTS Immanuel Chapel, including this interpretation of the reflection of 23 Lifelong Learning the Parable of the Sower window in Canterbury Cathedral, which now rises 26 Center for Anglican Communion Studies above the Chapel’s south transept. The Rev. Barney Hawkins IV, Ph.D. writes 28 Advancing VTS more about these windows on page 14. Photo by Six Half Dozen Design 31 Alumni News & Notes 37 Board of Trustees FROM THE DEAN VIEWING THE FUTURE THROUGH THE PAST One secret of Virginia Theological opportunity for the Holy Spirit to transform our lives. Seminary is that over our almost Immanuel Chapel is the place where we worship, and it 200 year history we have been centers campus activity and community life. The journey ready to adapt and change. We from the 1881 Chapel to the beautiful Chapel Garden and want to be true to our core identity the new Immanuel Chapel has shaped VTS during these as cultivated in the past, but ready to be compelling and years leading up to the anniversary of our two centuries of attractive through appropriate adaption and change. So ministry and mission. welcome to Virginia Theological Seminary Magazine. For all of our alumni and friends, we hope that you still recognize As statements of faith have proliferated across theological everything you have enjoyed and appreciated from News education, we have kept our focus on the simplest and from the Hill. Our hope was to make improvements that clearest statement of our faith, recited every Sunday. We are were grounded in both clarity and mission. For all those a creedal seminary—a seminary which affirms the reality rectors and bishops who deliberately leave the magazine of the Triune God. We witness to the power of the Gospel, lying around in a reception area, we want the identity of the embodied in the agency of the Triune God, to form lives magazine to be obvious to those visiting. We are grateful to that transform communities of faith. Our need was for a Mari Foret for her help in redesigning the magazine. This is logo that captured the journey of 200 years, the centrality one of two changes that I want to share in this editorial. of worship, and our affirmation of the Triune God. In February 2017, the Board invited the administration to Drafts were shared with different groups. Professor create a logo to commemorate our 200th birthday in 2023. David Gortner, associate dean for church and community This invitation was accompanied by another challenge: engagement, began the process in early 2017. The Board of Has the time come perhaps to turn our focus away from Trustees gave initial reactions to a possible logo in February buildings? An image of Aspinwall Hall, with its Italianate 2017. Lifelong Learning provided valuable input. The Policy cupola and 19th-century classical architecture inspired by Administrative Group (PAM) offered their observations, as the 16th-century Italian Renaissance, has served as our logo did the team in Institutional Advancement. Thanks to the for a very long time. On the cusp of our third century of hard work of our Communications Department, led by service, we need a logo which connects our distinguished Mr. Curtis Prather, with the team at Six Half Dozen Design past with the future. Studio, we are now proud to present the bicentennial logo. Worship of the God revealed in Jesus Christ is at the heart The new logo is an interpretation of the Trinity windows of our campus life. Worship is central because we really in Immanuel Chapel seen through the window frames of believe that God is central. Our community acknowledges our 1881 Chapel. The Trinity window which honors God that spending time in the presence of God provides the the Creator features bold green oak leaves against a blue “We will always witness to the transformative nature of the Triune God in our lives. May our third century of service begin.” 4 Virginia Theological Seminary Magazine | Spring 2018 FROM THE DEAN Our new logo, in both its full color and simplified versions, is an interpretation of the Trinity windows in Immanuel Chapel seen through the window frames of our 1881 Chapel. It connects the two great houses of worship which have been central to the Seminary’s life. sky. The Trinity window which honors God the Son is an (as incorporated into our seal, which continues to be our abstract interpretation of the fifteenth century glass found primary defining image). in Canterbury Cathedral, with the red of the cross of the Christ. The Trinity window which honors God the Holy The new logo calls us to do some hard work. We will Spirit has a soaring white dove against a blue sky. Viewing remember well the past but look in faith to the future. the Trinity windows through the frames of the windows in We will continue the work of formation through worship. the 1881 Chapel alerts us to our distinguished 200 years We will always witness to the transformative nature of of service to the Church and invites us to the future God the Triune God in our lives. May our third century of intends for the Seminary. service begin. The windows of the new chapel in the window frames of the old chapel connect the two great houses of worship which have been central to the Seminary’s life. The modern The Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, Ph.D. images of the Triune God highlight our commitment to Dean and President witness anew to the “faith once received by the saints” “We will always witness to the transformative nature of the Triune God in our lives. May our third century of service begin.” www.vts.edu | Virginia Theological Seminary Magazine 5 FACULTY NEWS Promotions & Appointments Linda Dienno Promoted fundraising travel to U.S. military installations across to Vice President for the globe including such places as Panama, Japan, and Institutional Advancement Bosnia. Dienno was responsible for marketing, fundraising After five successful years as materials, training, and recognition events. During her time director of development, Ms. with CFC-O, she raised more than $29 million. Linda Dienno was promoted to vice president for Institutional As Director of Development at VTS, she managed the Advancement effective annual giving campaign, which grew 10 percent under her December 1, 2017. leadership. In addition, she raised more than $350,000 in naming gifts for Additional Student Housing and secured With almost a quarter century more than $2 million in grants for VTS programs. experience in development and fundraising, Dienno came to VTS after working for seven years at Christ Church in Dean Markham said of Dienno: “She is a successful Old Town Alexandria as development director. In 1994, development leader who has raised more than $40 million Dienno managed the overseas federal fundraising program for various organizations. She is open to new ways of of the Combined Federal Campaign-Overseas (CFC-O) working and brings an administrative competence which is at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Dienno’s work included quite exceptional.” for more than 20 years Bishop Dyer was on the front lines Publications of the most contentious issues facing the church throughout the world, including ordination of women and homosexuals. A MAN CALLED MARK: He also was co-chair of the ecumenical dialogue between THE BIOGRAPHY OF the Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Churches, which BISHOP MARK DYER produced a landmark agreement after 17 years of meetings. Tom Linthicum Forward by Rowan Williams REASONABLE RADICAL? READING THE (Church Publishing, July 2018) WRITINGS OF MARTYN PERCY Edited by the Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, This official biography tells the Ph.D. and Joshua Daniel, Ph.D. ’18 compelling story of the Rt. Rev. Mark Dyer: Irish (Pickwick Publications, 2018) Catholic boy from New Hampshire; U.S. Navy vet; Roman Catholic then Episcopal priest, bishop, and seminary One of the most interesting voices in the professor; and one of the most influential, beloved leaders Academy and the Church today is the Very of the American Episcopal Church and the worldwide Rev. Martyn William Percy, B.A., M.Ed, Ph.D., the Anglican Communion. Following a dispute with 45th Dean of Christ Church, Oxford. A leading voice in the ecclesiastical authorities, Dyer left the Roman Catholic Anglican Communion, he is both theologically orthodox, Church for the Anglican Church of Canada.