Virginia Theological Seminary graduated Elwood Jones, the first member of its descendant community to receive a degree from VTS, at its 203rd Commencement.
Though the scale has changed—Shrine Mont now attracts more than 15,000 guests each year—the mission remains largely the same: an opportunity for physical and spiritual renewal in a setting of pastoral splendor.
During the season of Lent, St. Paul’s Memorial Church is giving students and the greater Charlottesville community the space to engage in reflection and conversation about some of life’s biggest questions.
Two Iranian-born asylum-seekers who have been active for the past three years at an Episcopal church in suburban Washington, D.C., are fighting for their freedom after being detained by federal immigration agents and threatened with deportation.
The Claude Moore Charitable Foundation on Tuesday ramped up its support for a nine-week STEAM summer camp offered offer free of charge through St. Gabriel’s Church’s Educando con Amor—Educating with Love program.
Albemarle County Supervisor Mike Pruitt and his husband, the Rev. Will Dickinson, are defying the separation of church and state.
The rector could have no idea on Easter Sunday that two days after delivering his sermon that list of examples would grow longer, nor that the most recent addition would hit so close to home. Last Tuesday, three plainclothes federal agents… detained two men and loaded them into unmarked vehicles. The two men remain in custody at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Farmville.
Virginia Seminary’s project is a curriculum called Being With Science, which will help congregations explore scientific issues behind contemporary ethical questions. The Rev. Dr. Sarah Colvin, a priest and pathologist, is designing the program, which is supported by a $24,000 grant from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Occupying roughly 79 acres of rural landscape on the south bank of the Rappahannock River in central Middlesex County, Christchurch School includes the collection of buildings, structures, and designed landscapes that have comprised the school campus from its opening in 1921 to the present day.
The Executive Council of The Episcopal Church has awarded 19 grants, totaling $135,000, to young adult and campus ministries…. one grant recipient, The Pace Center at VCU, is a ministry partner of the diocese.
