As Virginia Theological Seminary prepares for its opening liturgy in the new Immanuel Chapel on February 12, the Seminary also reports a strong year for annual giving in the 2013-2014 fiscal year with a number of new gifts and stories focusing on the stewardship of theological education and the future of lay and ordained leadership in the Episcopal Church: “VTS is blessed […]
Day: January 22, 2015
Why I went to Israel
Harron Moghul, a Fellow at the New America Foundation and Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University’s Department of the Middle East, South Asian and African Studies, reflects in the Huffington Post about why he traveled to Israel and what he learned: Yes, I confess: I went to Israel. With the Shalom Hartman Institute, which is proudly Zionist, unlike […]
Speaking to the Soul: Bloom and Grow
“He also said, ‘The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. […]