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Virginia Theological Seminary Alexandria, VA Autumn 2017 Center for Anglican Communion Studies Turns 20 Page 11 learning looks different for each person. We're here to support you. classes on campus January 2018 week-long intensives February-May 2018 quarter and semester courses webinars topics on formation & digital media for ministry workshops liturgy, music, social media, education & formation Lifelong Learning at Virginia Theological Seminary Center for Liturgy and Music Continuing Education Center for the Ministry of Teaching F I N D O U T M O R E : w w w . v t s . e d u OFFICERS Dr. David H. Charlton (2021) News from the Hill Chair of the Board The Very Rev. Phoebe A. Roaf (2022) Vice Chair of the Board Ms. Amy L. Curtis (2022) Treasurer The Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, Ph.D. Dean and President The Rev. J. Barney Hawkins IV, Ph.D. Vice President The Rev. Melody Knowles, Ph.D. Vice President Ms. Kathryn A. Glover, M.P.A. Vice President and Secretary Ms. Jacqueline F. Ballou, M.B.A. Vice President and Assistant Treasurer BOARD OF TRUSTEES Ms. Kirsten Prettyman Adams (2021) The Rt. Rev. J. Scott Barker (2021) Mr. David Booth Beers (2020) Mr. Julian M. Bivins, Jr. (2022) The Rev. Catherine M. Campbell (2019) The Rev. Canon Thomas G. Clarke (2022) The Rev. Dr. Harold J. Cobb, Jr. (2018) The Rev. C. Neal Goldsborough (2020) The Rev. Dr. Canon Michele V. Hagans (2019) Mr. Henry Lee Stanton Hobson (2019) The Rev. Angela S. Ifill (2021) The Rev. Kimberly S. Jackson (2022) Ms. Elizabeth Cabell Jennings (2019) The Rt. Rev. W. Michie Klusmeyer Mr. James R. Lowe, Jr. (2018) The Rev. Dr. Susan Ackley Lukens (2020) The Very. Rev. Troy D. Mendez (2022) The Very Rev. Andrew T.P. Merrow (2022) Mrs. Caroline Taylor Norman (2020) The Rev. Caroline S. Parkinson (2018) Ms. Sissy Poland (2022) The Rt. Rev. F. Neff Powell (2018) Top: This summer Dean Markham welcomed representatives of the Mother’s Union to The Rev. Dr. Stanley W. Sawyer (2019) Campus, including (from left to right) Rita Johnson (Conference Chair), the Rev. Kim The Rt. Rev. James J. Shand (2019) L. Coleman ’01 ( Honorary Mother’s Union Member and Conference Planner), Mrs. Dr. William G. Thomas III (2020) Lynne Tembey, (Worldwide Mothers Union President), and Mrs. Annie Beckley The Rev. Christine R. Whittaker (2018) (Mother’s Union Province USA President). Photo: Curtis Prather. The Rev. Dr. J. Douglas Wigner, Jr. (2019) Bottom: Gathering before Academic Convocation Evensong (left to right): Junior EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS Class President Mary Margaret Winn, ’20, and Sacristans: Randy Sellers, ’19, Andrew Arakawa, ’19, and Lisa Bornt, ’18. Photo: Shawn Evelyn, ’19. The Rt. Rev. Shannon S. Johnston The Rev. R. Bingham Powell (2018) News from the Hill is published three times per year (March, July, and November) for FACULTY REPRESENTATIVES alumni and friends by the Office of Communications, Virginia Theological Seminary, The Rev. James W. Farwell, Ph.D 3737 Seminary Road, Alexandria, VA 22304. Editorial comments should be directed to The Rev. Robert W. Prichard, Ph.D [email protected]. STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE On the Cover: Artifacts from the Center for Anglican Communion Studies 20th anniver- sary exhibition in Bishop Payne Library. Photos: Brian Maze. Ms. Kathleen Walker (Kathy) (’18) Student Body President News from the Hill · www.vts.edu 3 The Office of the Dean and President How to Define Success t is an extraordinary privilege to begin my second decade as denomination. The Dean and President at Virginia Theological Seminary. The trend line is clear. I am institution I inherited from my predecessors ten years ago required to accept my Iwas strong. The Seminary was positioned right in the center of role in this decline. We the Episcopal Church—the school that loved Jesus and at the are failing to make a same time received LGBT students. The faculty was solid and positive difference. good. Our finances were healthy. What can we do? We are Looking back on the decade, I am grateful to God for the many in the midst of a blessings. Watching a Chapel burn was painful; yet, it was a curriculum review. The delight watching friends, alums, and the Seminary community single greatest question for this review should be: Will this rally to build a new Chapel. It is good to see 38 new apartments change or that change help produce clergy with the energy, on the campus for families. We have seen some faculty go and faithfulness, imagination, and knowledge to grow the Episcopal others arrive. Our center of gravity remains the same—Jesus- Church? This means that we keep with the core curriculum that centered and affirmative of diversity. is required in order to train leaders who appreciate that the Bible was not written in English (and therefore have a Biblical Please allow me, however, to ask a pressing question: Am I language); leaders who are Biblically, theologically, and pasto- succeeding as Dean and President of Virginia Theological rally aware; and leaders who are not only effective in liturgy and Seminary? Success means different things within the Episcopal preaching, but also committed to justice and peace and to Church. For some rectors and some bishops (and some holding up “the dignity of every human being.” The life of the Seminary Deans), it means just survival. Keeping on, keeping faith is as important as the life of the mind. Our lay and on. These are the clergy in increasingly secular parts of the ordained leadership should grasp social media, understand country where depopulation has become an issue because the congregational studies, and be effective innovators, imagining Episcopal Church placed buildings in the “wrong” locations for how to do Church differently for a new time. today’s demographics. As we enter into this review, please email me and offer your For others, success means more than just survival. It may mean suggestions. We need to get it right. q strengthening and growing the Episcopal Church. It is those moments when we succeed in crafting attractive and meaning- Yours in Christ, ful liturgies that connect people with the transcendent. For VTS, we expect that we should be judged by the latter measurement. We provide more clergy than any other seminary to the Episcopal Church. We should be helping to grow the Episcopal Church. The recent numbers from “815” make The Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, Ph.D. depressing reading. We are continuing to get smaller as a Dean and President Members of the 50th Reunion Class gather with Vice President Barney Hawkins and Dean Ian Markham for a celebratory photo (left to right): James Jones, Barney Hawkins, Joan Jones, Rt. Rev. Peter Lee, Kristy Lee, the Very Rev. Ian Markham, Laura Gardner, and Marvin Gardner. More from the 2017 Alumni Convocation begins on Page 24. Photo: Elizabeth Panox-Leach. 4 News from the Hill · Autumn 2017 News from the Hill · www.vts.edu 5 Faculty and Staff Sharon E. Heaney, Ph.D., Joins VTS Faculty as Visiting Professor in Hispanic/Latino Theology and Language, Instructor in D.Min. Studies, and Director of Academic Writing Virginia Theological Seminary is proud provided a springboard for emerg- to welcome Sharon E. Heaney, Ph.D., as ing practices. Visiting Professor in Hispanic/Latino Theology and Language, Instructor in “It should come as no surprise that the D.Min. Studies, and Director of Aca- work of our esteemed colleague, Sharon demic Writing, effective this September. E. Heaney, is well-known and appreci- ated by many, both within the closer VTS Dr. Heaney is a theologian with expertise community, and far beyond,” shared the in Latin American Protestantism. She Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, Ph.D., dean was involved in research, teaching, and and president of VTS. “Recently we were church service in Argentina, Ireland, visited by Lucila Crena, who volunteered Spain, Tanzania and the U.K. Before at VTS some time back helping with the expert practitioners in contextual coming to Northern Virginia, she was Spanish resources available at Bishop theology. When an opportunity to touch Senior Lecturer in Theology at St. John’s Payne Library and is now studying in a base with Dr. Heaney was offered, they University of Tanzania. She is the author doctoral program at the University of both replied, “THE Sharon Heaney?” of “Contextual Theology for Latin Virginia. She was joined by David Nacho, America” (Wipf & Stock). Published in the Dean of the Comunidad de Estudios Dr. Heaney is married to Dr. Robert S. 2008, it has become a core reading for Teológicos Interdisciplinarios (CETI) Heaney, also a faculty member at VTS, people engaging in theology “on the who was en-route to UVA to give a and they have a son, Sam. q ground” in Latin America, and has presentation in public theology. Both are Elizabeth Panox-Leach Joins Communications Office This August, Virginia Theological “Elizabeth’s background and experience Seminary welcomed Elizabeth Panox- were exactly what VTS needed,” said Leach to the Communication Office as Curtis Prather, director of Commun- the Communication Associate. A ications at VTS. “In the three months she “cradle” Episcopalian, Elizabeth is an has been here, Elizabeth has already experienced professional who comes to proven our initial impressions to be VTS after previously working at St. correct; she works collaboratively with Columba’s Episcopal Church, as well as all departments, evaluating and open to St. John’s Lafayette Square, both in new ideas, with an impressive knowledge Washington, D.C. Digital Commun- of existing and future ‘best practices.’” q ications is the focus for this position, which includes VTS websites, electronic newsletters, and social media accounts.
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