VIRGINIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

JournalFall 2010

Leadership
in Mission

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of Asia, and early medical missionaries in China. The windows were given to the Seminary in 1999 in memory of the
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Left: The Rt. Rev. James

J. Shand, VTS chairman
of the board of trustees
and bishop of the Diocese
of Easton, Maryland,
blesses the crosses and
Class of 2010.

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Journal Fall 2010

In this issue:

Letter from the Dean and President 4

Forum Hour Photos 5
2010 Kreitler Environmental Lecture
“Momentum Builds for Saving the Bay: The Biggest Fight for
Clean Water This Nation Has Ever Seen” by Mr. William C. Baker 6
2010 Commencement Address
“Four Friendships” by the Rev. Brian McLaren 12
Missionary Society at VTS 18
Mission Articles:
“Blessed Are the Peacemakers” by the Rev. Robin Gulick 22
“Sticks and Stones, Boiled Wool, Borrowed Chairs, and a Straw Hat”
by the Rev. J. Barney Hawkins IV, Ph.D. 26
“Reflections on Tanzania” by James Livingston (VTS ‘11) 28
“Journey to Jerusalem” by Kathryn Glover 31
“Jerusalem’s Thick Places” by Amelia J. Dyer, Ph.D. 33
“VTS in Hong Kong: Learning About the Church in China” by the Rev. John Yieh 34
“God’s Restorative Justice in the Diocese of Florida” by the Rev. Thomas E. Beasley, Jr. 36
“Serving Skid Row: Urban Mission as Theological Education” by the Rev. Jason Cox 40
Article: “The Formidable Work of the Small Parish” by Dr. Marilyn Johns, D.Min. 44
Interview: “The World According to Jacques Hadler” by Susan L. Shillinglaw 46
Faculty Inaugural Lecture
“Receiving Christ: Reading the Bible Across Time and Culture” by the Rev. John Yieh, Ph.D. 48
Faculty News 53
Article: “Asset-Based Community Development: Finding and Mobilizing Your
Community’s Hidden Strengths and Power” by the Rev. David Gortner, Ph.D. 56
Virginia Theological Seminary 2009-2010 Annual Giving Report 60
Article: “Faith@Five: Can a Rite 3 Service Really Matter?” by Susan L. Shillinglaw 98
Article: “How Does Your Garden Grow?” by the Rev. David Gortner, Ph.D. 100

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“We are called to
serve this hurting
world and to bring,
in very practical
ways, hope and
possibilities to
those who are
struggling.”
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DEAN’S REPORT
T
he sense of mission at Virginia Theological Seminary is strong. Students cannot
help but have a mission focus given that they are expected (which is VTS language
for required) to sit in chapel every day staring at the Ascension window with the
words “Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel.” The Eucharist on the eve of
commencement is a service dedicated to the “Mission of the Church.” Mission matters
here.
But what exactly does a commitment to mission mean? It is interesting to look at the
different ways in which the word “mission” is used in the Episcopal Church. Those on
the left tend to mean social programs that make a difference to the poor, the marginal-
ized, and the excluded. Our youth go on mission trips, often serving deprived regions,
witnessing to Gospel values. Congregations have a mission budget, which often funds
outreach ministries to the homeless and hungry. This sense of mission is grounded in the
prophetic (just look at Amos) and Gospel (just look at Luke) witness that the Church is
called to identify with the poor.
Those on the right tend to stress evangelism. Mission means finding opportunities to talk
about your faith, inviting others to join your church, and bringing the healing power of
Jesus to a hurting world. This view of mission is grounded in the Great Commission that
surrounds our Ascension window. This is grounded in the great Biblical themes of hu-
man sinfulness and redemption through Christ on the cross.
Sometimes both sides tend to view the other with suspicion. Those on the right complain
that the left is turning the Church into a United Way with spirituality; those on the left
complain that the right turns people into “souls on legs,” has a preoccupation with the
afterlife, and forgets that there are bodies which need to be fed and housed in this world.
As on so many issues, Virginia Theological Seminary is a both/and place. Both of these
views of mission are Biblical. Both of these are important. We ground ourselves in the
Christian narrative of a loving God calling humanity out of their egotism and selfishness
to a redeemed life made possible through Christ; we also recognize that precisely because
of that narrative we are called to serve this hurting world and bring in very practical ways
hope and possibilities to those who are struggling; and finally, we want to introduce to
our friends and neighbors the life transforming possibilities of faith, especially as found
in the Episcopal tradition. It isn’t simply good enough to have a larger congregation; we
must also have more people available to help with outreach ministries.
This issue of the Journal focuses on mission. Both types of mission are found in its
pages. We are firmly committed to the Christian drama as our motive and witness; we
are also firmly committed to the obligation emerging from that drama to ensure a world
which is different - to anticipate the reign of God, where the hungry are fed and the
homeless housed.
Yours in Christ,
The Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, Ph.D.
Dean and President
 FORUMHOUR
The popular lunch forum hour once again welcomed a variety of voices that
included (pictured top left, clockwise) Stella Koch, Virginia Conservation
associate at the Audubon Naturalist Society, who spoke to students about
water conservation during Earth Week; students, Phil DeVaul, Bill Campbell,
Tim Baer, and Charles Browning listening to the lively and provocative Peter
Rollins (holding water glass) who discussed his theology of Biblical interpre-
tation and culture; the Rev. Milton Williams, priest in charge at St. Monica’s
and St. James’ Capitol Hill, who spoke about parish closures and mergers;
Joelle Norvey, director of Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Light, who
spoke about ways in which ordained and lay leaders can engage in interfaith
approaches to environmentalism; and the Rev. Philip E. Wheaton (VTS ‘52),
Latin American historian and theologian, who spoke to the students about the
Dominican Republic.

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 The 2010 Kreitler Environmental Lecture
“Momentum Builds for Saving the Bay: The Biggest
Fight for Clean Water This Nation Has Ever Seen”
presented by William C. Baker
President, The Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Let me tell you a story. Delegate Harvey
Morgan, of Virginia, tells the story of
being down in a little waterman’s church
on Mobjack Bay in Virginia. And outside
in the cemetery after the service, he was
noticing how grand the tombstones were.
Way over in the corner, there was a stone
that was overgrown with weeds, sort of
tilting to the side. He brushed the weeds
away and read the ephitat, which stated in
its entirety, “I told you I was sick.”
As delegate Morgan said, and I say today,
the Bay has been telling us she’s sick for
a long time, and in spite of promise after
promise, even a formal signed agreement
by top elected officials, we still have a
Chesapeake Bay that is dangerously out of
balance.
It’s time for a change. It’s been said that
the definition of insanity is doing the
same thing over and over and expecting a
different result. It’s time for our elected
officials to be held to a higher standard.
It is time for government to enforce the
law. And it is time for those who have
refused to obey the rule of law to suffer
the consequences.
And it is time for action. It’s time for all
of us who value clean water to stand up
and be counted. This is our time. This is
our children’s time, our grandchildren’s
time. It’s time for the biggest fight for
clean water this nation has ever seen, right
here on Chesapeake Bay.
And if we don’t wage this fight, I am
afraid that history will record that a well
meaning but ultimately timid society lost
the Chesapeake Bay in the early part of the
21st Century. If we fight, I guarantee that
we will succeed. Our time has come.
Let me tell you how I got into this war and
how I’ve made it my life’s career. After
college, I was doing my normal summer
job which was as a tree surgeon. I was 50-
70 feet up in an oak tree at a man’s house.
It was about a 110 degree July day and he
came out of the house with a tall glass of
ice tea and he asked, “Will, would you like
to save the Bay?” I responded “Yes, Mr.
Siemans, that would be fine.” He invited
me to come into the house to have a
conversation. Truman Siemans was on the
board of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
He invited me to come down to Annapolis
and Baltimore where I started work as an
intern, putting my plans to go to archi-
tecture school on hold. I got paid $200 a
month; my rent in downtown Annapolis
in 1976 was $105 a month. That left $95
a month for food and mostly beer.
Then I got married and had children. This
gets to the point of the story as to why I
really decided to make a career of saving
the Bay. I’ll never forget the day I was
down on the dock, near my house, with
my 5-year old son. I was trying to teach
him to net crabs off of the pilons. We
made three or four foiled attempts when a
few dead fish—Menhaden—came floating
by. Of course, my son grabbed the net and
immediately scooped up one of the Men-
haden and puts it on the dock to examine.
All of a sudden, it occurred to me, “That’s
his baseline growing up.” Dead fish in the
creek at the bottom of the hill. I thought
at that point, if I can really make a career
of this, if I can really be a part of a team, it
could make a difference in a system that’s
big enough to feel important but small
enough so that you think you’ve really
got a chance to make a difference in your
lifetime.
I want to cover three topics:
First, why the Bay is worth saving? Sec-
ond, “how it will be saved?”. And third,
“what each of you can do... no, must do
to save it.
Why it’s worth saving. Three reasons.
1. There is nothing like it in the world –
absolutely nothing. H.L. Mencken called
it an immense protein factory. Couldn’t be
more true.
2. It is fragile – extremely vulnerable to
damage.
And 3. Most importantly, the Chesapeake
Bay is our backyard. The Potomac River is
the second largest tributary with a network
of rivers and streams all flowing into the
main stem of the bay.
First, the legendary productivity. Have you
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heard the story about the group of
visiting Japanese scientists in the
1950s? After touring the Bay and
meeting with local scientists and
seafood harvesters, they stated that
if the Chesapeake Bay were in their
country, they could feed their en-
tire population. This story has been
cited in numerous books, articles,
and National Geographic; President
Reagan even mentioned it when he came
to Tilghman Island back in 1983.
Second, the vulnerability. Not just of
Chesapeake Bay but all of nature. Our
planet. It has been reported that when the
Apollo Thirteen astronauts came around
from behind the dark side of the moon,
Neil Armstrong looked out at that iconic
image of the earth – a small globe sus-
pended in the black of space – and he held
up his thumb and blocked out the entire
image. He says that it struck him right
then what a small planet earth really is. He
dedicated a great deal of his life, after that,
to conservation issues.
We think of the earth as enormous, as the
Water Planet with its great oceans. But
there’s not really as much water as we
might think. Some scientists at National
Geographic tried to figure out a way to de-
scribe to lay people how little water there
is in relation to the mass of the earth. They
calculated that if you take a 12” globe and
dunked it into a basin of water, took it out
and shook it, the amount of water remain-
ing, clinging to the surface of the globe,
would be representative of the amount of
water on planet earth. Not a great deal to
play with. It’s the same with the Chesa-
peake Bay. The watermen say that the
bottom lies right near the top.
And third, our backyard. It’s not some
far off esoteric conservation issue – we
are talking about our backyard! And it
is more than just a body of water. It is, to
quote an old beer commercial, “the land of
pleasant living!” Saving Chesapeake Bay
is really just a metaphor for addressing
our quality of life in this region. There is
nothing more important than clean water.
And think about it, if we cannot save a
national treasure like the Chesapeake Bay,
then where on earth can we generate the
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Did You Know?
Formed about 12,000 years ago as glaciers melted
and flooded the Susquehanna River valley, the Chesa-
peake Bay is North America's largest estuary and the
world's third largest.
The Chesapeake Bay watershed (the area of land that drains into the Bay)
is 64,000 square miles and has 11,600 miles of tidal shoreline, includ-
ing tidal wetlands and islands. The watershed encompasses parts of six
states. Approximately 17 million people live
in the watershed; about 10 million people live
along its shores or near them.
"Chesapeake" derives from the Native Ameri-
can "Tschiswapeki," which loosely translates
into "great shellfish bay."
What is the CBF?
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) is the largest conservation
organization dedicated solely to saving the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Its motto, Save the Bay, defines the organization’s mission and commit-
ment to reducing pollution, improving fisheries, and protecting and restor-
ing natural resources such as wetlands, forests, and underwater grasses.
CBF headquarters is in Annapolis, MD, and has state offices in Maryland,
Virginia and Pennsylvania.
political will to really get the job done – to First, stop taking more oysters, crabs, and
bring together environmental prosperity fin fish out of the Bay than nature can put
and economic good health– the essence of back in any given year. Just stop. Set the
sustainability? limits based on science, and then enforce
them. We made real progress here with
So let me tell you how it will be saved. rock fish in the 80s and now 25 years later
with blue crabs. But only after 4,000 jobs
It’s really very straightforward. Put sound had been lost due to the fishery’s decline.
science to work. We have the very best in Did you hear the good news? Thanks to
the world. Scientists can tell us precisely basic, science based conservation, the blue
what has damaged the Chesapeake Bay crab is enjoying a 60 % increase in the to-
and precisely how to bring it back to good tal population! The threshold catch is now
health. below what it used to be but the total catch

is larger because the base of population
has grown. So, the commercial fishermen
benefit, the crabs benefit, and the recre-
ational fishermen benefit. We have more
crabs in the Bay, more to take, and we’re
doing it more sustainably.
Second, stop destroying nature’s own el-
egant system of natural filters which at no
cost to the tax payer (zero!) – filter pollut-
ants before they get into the water. These
are the under water grasses, the emergent
wetlands, the streamside buffers, and of
course the great forests.
If filters must be sacrificed for “progress,”
require those “progressive” interests to
sacrifice a little bit of their profit to offset
the damage – and require it to be done
before the permits are issued. And require
a 2 to 1 offset, because restored wetlands,
for instance, are never as good as the
Creator’s own. Don’t let developers get
away with an empty promise to carry out
mitigation after the original damage has
been done. Require it up front!
And now, pollution. Thanks to public
pressure which grew out of the very first
earth day forty years ago, we have a clear,
concise basic law in America – the Federal
Clean Water Act of 1972. It promised that
waters Nationwide would be fishable and
swimmable by June 1, 1983. June 1! Not
June 2. The law goes on to say if a body
of water is impaired by pollution – and
impaired is a specific legal term - addi-
tional pollutants must not be added to that
body of water until, and only until, the
impairment is reversed. Think about it. It
just makes intuitive good sense. And in
Virginia we have 10,000 miles of impaired
waters.
But the law is not being enforced. CBF
has had to take the extraordinary step of
suing EPA to enforce the Clean Water Act
here on the Bay. We also sue polluters.
Kreitler Environmental Lecture
One case against the giant Philip Morris
Corporation was decided by the Virginia
Supreme Court – no bastion of environ-
mental extremism – when it ruled 8 to 0
in favor of CBF. In favor of an environ-
mental not-for-profit group doing govern-
ment’s job of enforcing the Clean Water
Act… what is going on here?
To repeat, we only take more fish and
shellfish in a given year than nature can
put back; we protect existing natural
filters and begin to restore those that have
already been lost; and third, we don’t add
additional sources of pollution to already
impaired waters. That’s the formula.
Now before I tell you what you can do,
let me try to answer a critical question.
Why haven’t these three simple steps been
taken in the past? Why hasn’t America
been able to save this national treasure?
My guess is that most of you are doing
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 Kreitler Environmental Lecture
Above: The Rev. Peter Gwillim Kreitler (VTS ’69), one of the founders of the Kreitler Environmental Fund, opened the lecture with
a reminder that the environment is in our hands; Will Baker answers questions from the audience about the future of the Bay.
your part to a large extent. But you, me,
all of us are part of a much larger system.
From the buildings we live and work in to
the products we buy and even the food we
eat, we are part of a society that’s waste-
ful and polluting. And there are more
and more of us every year – 6.8 billion
and counting. It wasn’t always this way.
In fact it took 3 million years to get the
first billion people on the planet. Only a
hundred years for the next billion. Today
we’re adding a billion people every 11
years. Seventeen million of us live in the
Bay watershed alone.
Sure we can all do more individually. I
didn’t ride my horse here. I don’t even
own a horse. But the real mega impact is
coming from fundamental decisions being
made at a level most of us feel impotent
to affect. While you are doing your part,
big money lobbyists – with the emphasis
on big money - are fighting to protect any
number of special interests - like develop-
ers, manufacturers, and even industrial
scale agriculture.
And whenever a watchdog organization
like CBF directs its advocacy towards one
of the special interests, the shrill response
repeated over and over is, “not me, not
me, it’s somebody else, a different sector.”
There is an endless stream of finger point-
ing. It’s always someone else’s fault that
the environment is degraded. It reminds
me of my children. When there’s a room
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full of kids playing and a lamp or a vase
has been knocked over, each of them will
look up and say to the adult, “not me, it
wasn’t my fault, Dad!”
Make no mistake, there are a lot of lobby-
ists out there, and there they have a ton of
money to spend. According to the Center
for Public Integrity, there are 35,000 lob-
byists in this country and they spend six
billion dollars a year.
Sometimes it feels like they are all here
working for special interests on the Bay.
Did I say its time for a change?
But don’t despair! We have a secret
weapon. We have something that every
special interest lobbyist wants. It’s you.
You are the secret weapon. Do you want
clean water? Do you think clean wa-
ter should be a right, something that we
should expect, like the right of freedom
of speech? Will you demand it? Will
you get angry? Can we count on you to
flex your muscles and to invest a modest
amount of time on a regular basis for clean
water? If you do, collectively, we can
be a force that will blow the big money
right off the table. There is absolutely no
way that paid lobbyists can compete with
concerned and committed voters.
If you don’t believe me, let me tell you a
story. Recently I was at one of these big
gala dinners and at our table sat a cap-
Photos by B. Cayce Ramey
tain of industry. As the butter man came
around putting butter on the butter plates,
one pat of butter per plate, the captain said
in a rather gruff tone, “I want two pats of
butter.” The butter man said everyone
gets one pat of butter. The CEO said he
wanted two. They went back and forth
like this for a few moments. Finally, the
exasperated industrialist said, “Young
man, do you have any idea who I am?”
To which the young many replied, “Yes
sir, you are a captain of industry.” And
then he said “And sir, do you know who I
am?” “No.” And the young man said, “I
am the butter man.”
You are all butter men and butter women.
You have powers that you don’t even real-
ize. Exercise those powers!
There is no better time to get involved
than right now. There are so many oppor-
tunities. And not all are insurmountable.
Let me mention just one. There is a piece
of legislation working its way through the
United States Congress that is the most
important for the Bay than any bill in
our lifetimes. It is the Chesapeake Clean
Water Act, introduced by Maryland Sena-
tor Ben Cardin and Congressman Elijah
Cummings.
In Virginia, Congressmen Gerry Con-
nolly, James Moran, and Robert Scott are
original cosponsors, but extraordinarily,
Senators Warner and Webb are still not
on the bill. Both of them are concerned
with what they feel might be the impact
on farmers. The American Farm Bureau
Federation – one of the strongest lobbying
arms in the Country, has been spreading
misinformation about the bill. They are
going to the rank and file farmer and mak-
ing them think that if this bill were to pass,
they’d lose their jobs and their farms, and
driven off their land by jack booted EPA
agents followed by citizens with lawsuits
in their hands. Sure farmers are part of the
problem. We all are. But if each of us
plays just a small role in reducing pollu-
tion, not one of us will be overburdened.
After all, the opposite of gluttony is not
starvation or even going hungry. It’s just
eating wisely. We have to eat wisely, both
literally and figuratively.
The idea that to save the environment
we would turn farms into strip malls is
patently absurd. But that is what the lob-
byists would have farmers believe is the
environmental motive. Scare tactics of the
most cynical kind.
Just like the successful strategy for blue
crabs, we need a bill that will do the fol-
lowing: put science to work, establish firm
standards, and require strict enforcement.
And that’s what this bill –the Chesapeake
Clean Water Act - SB 1816 and H 3852–
will do. It gives the states total flexibility
and only requires that the Federal Govern-
ment see that the states are meeting the
standards.
We need an army of citizen lobbyists –
citizens who will continue to push for this
legislation for the next several months
throughout the period of congressional
debate. Go to our website at www.cbf.org,
and find out specifically what you can do
to help.
There is a lot at stake. Consider a grand-
father I know, CBF member Bernie Voith.
On July 4, a few years ago, he was playing
in the Severn River with his grandson. A
day later, he developed an infection, his
temperature spiked above 105 degrees,
and he was diagnosed with a life threat-
ening bacterial blood infection. Doctors
determined that a small cut on his right
calf had allowed dangerous water born
bacteria to enter his body. If you’d like to
see gruesome pictures of his leg as he was
suffering, you can go to our website. The
pollution levels found in the river that day
were 30 times what EPA considers safe for
swimming.
There are so many more examples. I could
talk about Joe Stover, a real estate bro-
ker from Virginia Beach who suffered a
similar ailment in the Warwick River. He
spent 10 days in the hospital in 2008 after
a terrifying bout with a waterborne infec-
tion. These cases and others are document-
ed in our Bad Waters 2009 report which
can be found on the website.
I came across a quote awhile ago that went
something like this: “Our land, compared
with the way it once was, is like the skel-
eton of a body wasted by disease. The soft,
plump parts have vanished, and all that
remains is the bare carcass.” It was writ-
ten about Greece, in the fifth century, B.C.,
by Plato. My point is that history has a lot
to teach us if only we will listen.
We cannot take nature for granted. Mother
Nature is a working Mother, and she needs
some help. We need you to fight for the
Bay, to fight for your backyard, to fight
to protect your own health. It will be the
biggest fight for clean water this nation
has ever seen, because what we need to do
here on the Chesapeake Country has never
been done anywhere else in the country.
Let’s not just learn from history, let’s go
out and make some history! Let’s save
the Bay. The momentum is building. We
must seize the moment. Thank you!
After graduation from Trinity College in
1976, Will Baker came to work for the
Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) as
an intern at the request of one of CBF’s
trustees. Mr. Baker continues to dedicate
his career to saving the Bay, as President
and CEO of CBF since 1982, leading the
largest not-for-profit conservation orga-
nization dedicated solely to preserving,
protecting, and restoring the Bay.
For more information, visit www.cbf.org.
T
he Kreitler Environmental
Fund was established at
Virginia Theological Seminary in
2006 by the Rev. Peter Gwillim
Kreitler and his family members
in order to empower clergy and
the church with a strong environ-
mental ethic and to help con-
serve and preserve the environ-
ment.
“Our family initiated this Envi-
ronmental Fund because Virginia
Seminary has a long and distin-
guished heritage of sending men
and women in service to God
throughout all of God’s creation,”
said Kreitler, minister for the
Environment in the Diocese of
Los Angeles and creator of the
Southern California television
Series, Earth Talk Today. “This
legacy has inspired the Kreitler
family and friends to help foster
and embolden new leadership
informed by a strong environ-
mental ethic that will help form a
sustainable model for the future.”
The Kreitler Environmental
Lectures are held every other
year and explore the ways one’s
appreciation and stewardship of
the environment is enhanced by
informed theological beliefs.
Past lectures have included Dr.
Ellen F. Davis, professor of Bible
and Theology at Duke Divinity
School, and the Rt. Rev. James
Jones, bishop of Liverpool,
The Church of England. Visit
www.vts.edu for more informa-
tion about the lectures.
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 Commencement Address 2010

Four by the
Rev. Brian McLaren

Friendships

Jesus stepped into a boat, crossed over and came to his own town. Some men brought to him a paralytic, lying on a mat. When
Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.” At this, some of the teachers of the law
said to themselves, “This fellow is blaspheming!” Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, “Why do you entertain evil thoughts in
your hearts? Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? But so that you may know that the
Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins....” Then he said to the paralytic, “Get up, take your mat and go home.” And
the man got up and went home. When the crowd saw this, they were filled with awe; and they praised God, who had given such
authority to men.

Thank you so much, Dean Markham,
Bishop Shand, and the whole VTS, faculty
and staff, for this great honor, the honor
of receiving an honorary degree, and of
being invited to address the Class of 2010,
and their guests. I am deeply humbled and
grateful. And in fact, I would like to honor
some people who are with me to share in
this day.
And students … that I would be associ-
ated with a group of people like you is a
great honor in itself. Thanks for letting me
tag a long and become part of the class of
2010 for a day. When I considered what
direction my words for you should take,
several possibilities came to mind. First, I
considered talking about what I often call
the Episcopal Moment. I believe you are
graduating from seminary at a pregnant
moment in the history of the Episcopal
Church, and of the Church in America
and the Church worldwide. And our time
would be well spent considering your
opportunity to help the church seize the
opportunities that this moment provides.
But then I considered focusing on the
mission of the church – to remind you
that the church does not exist to satisfy
the religious tastes of its tithe-paying
members... much less its non-tithe paying
members. Nor does it exist for institu-
tional self-preservation. Nor does it exist
to provide clergy with fulfilling employ-
ment and generous remuneration and
an unparalleled retirement package. But
rather the church exists to join God in
God’s self-giving for the sake of the world
that is loved by God. As the church moves

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beyond a season of internal tension and
conflict, this is a prime time to focus on
our dual mission of disciple-formation and
disciple-deployment into the needs and
unseized potentials around us.
And then, I considered sharing some of
my own story – because I have a special
love for the Episcopal Church. The best
pastor I ever had was an Episcopal priest
in this diocese, and through his encourage-
ment I prayerfully considered coming to
this seminary about 30 years ago. Al-
though I felt I was led onto another path,
serving in nondenominational settings
over the years, I must admit that I have an
Anglican heart, shaped by the Prayer Book
and deepened by the Anglican liturgy, and
I would love to tell more about that story,
but the more I prayed and thought about
it, the more I felt that I should focus less
on something else entirely - God’s work
in your lives. I would like to talk to you
about how the words of Proverbs 4:23
apply to each of you graduates today and
through the years ahead:
Above all else, guard well your own heart,
for from it flow the wellsprings of life.
The Apostle Paul echoes these words in
the New Testament (1Timothy 4:16):
Pay close attention to yourself and to your
teaching; continue in these things, for in
doing this you will save both yourself and
your hearers.
Class of 2010, your greatest asset in the
years ahead, it turns out, won’t be the
certification and honor you receive today.
It won’t be the title conferred upon you.
It won’t even be the knowledge you’ve
gained through your studies, as valuable as
those things might be. Your greatest asset
in the years ahead will be your morale,
your internal climate, the purity and con-
stancy and buoyancy of the wellsprings
of life that spring up from your innermost
being. Through a strong and healthy
heart, you will make good use of all these
other assets, including what you celebrate
today and what you’ve learned over these
last few years. But without a strong and
healthy heart, so much will be wasted that
I felt today I should encourage you and
also warn you – as all of the veteran min-
isters in this room could do if they were in
my place – that your morale will be under
constant assault.
That’s especially evident in light of to-
day’s gospel reading. When Jesus comes
to his home town, he faces tremendous
human need – physical need epitomized
in a paralyzed man; social need evident
in the friends who carry his stretcher; and
spiritual need centered in sins needing
forgiveness. But the physical paralysis
of the man on the stretcher seems easy to
heal compared to the spiritual paralysis of
the teachers of the law who are stuck in a
cramped, critical mode and mindset. All
they can do as Jesus heals and forgives is
criticize – either for what he does, when
he does it, what he says, or how he says it.
And that, brothers and sisters, I can prom-
ise you is going to be your experience too.
You are leaving this place to go into the
world and proclaim the gospel, to address
multi-faceted human need in the Spirit of
the Lord Jesus Christ, and I can guarantee
that if you follow in his footsteps, if you
do your job right, there will always be for
you, as there was for the Lord, a crowd
of religious critics standing by to tell you
how you did it, when you did it, what you
said, and how you said it were not up to
their standards. You will learn that there
are two paths of martyrdom – one lead-
ing into the den of ravenous lions and the
other through the valley of nibbling ducks.
And as all the veterans of ministry will tell
you, unless you guard your heart well, un-
less you pay careful attention to your own
soul, you will be nibbled and hobbled and
worn down by the ducks at your ankles
just as effectively as by the lions at your
neck. The ducks can put you on a stretch-
er, like the man in the story, and leave you
paralyzed.
When they wear you down, you’ll stop
playing to win, and you’ll settle for fishing
for compliments instead of fishing for
men, and eventually you’ll be reduced
from playing to win to playing not to lose.
That’s why I want to share with you, as a
kind of last lesson in your seminary educa-
tion, four friendships that will guard your
heart, preserve your morale, and be sure
that the great assets you’ve gained at VTS
will be supported by a cheerful, constant,
and pure flow from the wellsprings of the
Spirit deep within you.
First Friendship
First, you must be a friend to yourself.
I had a kind of spiritual epiphany that
brought this lesson home to me about
ten years into pastoral ministry. I was
jogging – something I did not for the
love of exercise but for the hatred of fat.
Whenever I jog, my muscles and lungs
talk to me. They send me constant, chat-
tering messages: “OK,” they say, “that’s
enough of this. Get off of this exercise
kick. You’ve run quite far enough, you’re
already in good shape. In fact, let’s reward
you and go over to Dunkin Donuts for a
nice crème-filled donut.” I learned that the
only way to distract myself from the chat-
tering voices of my muscles and lungs was
to listen to podcasts on my iPod, except in
those days they were called cassette tapes
and you listened to them with a device
called a Walkman, which you can proba-
bly see in Smithsonian Institution if you’re
ever interested.
Anyway, I was running and listening to a
cassette tape and the speaker quoted Abra-
ham Lincoln who said these words:
“I desire to so conduct the affairs of this
administration that if, at the end ... I have
lost every friend on earth, I shall have one
friend left, and that friend shall be down
inside me.”
As I heard those words, it was as if the
Spirit of God took them and pierced me
to the marrow of my soul, and out of the
deepest part of me, completely unexpect-
edly, I suddenly felt a sob erupt. I realized,
as I stopped running and bent over in the
middle of the path, that I had no friend
down inside of me. I had an enemy.
If my friend made a mistake, I would tell
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him it was OK, and that nobody’s perfect.
But if I made a mistake, I constantly beat
myself up and mercilessly took myself to
task. If a friend was working too hard, I
would tell him, “take a day off, go fishing,
do something good for yourself.” But
down inside me was a cruel taskmaster
who was never satisfied. In fact, he prom-
ised me he would be satisfied as soon as
the last parishioner was satisfied.
If a friend had some weaknesses, I would
be gracious and compassionate to that
friend, but not so with myself. And so that
day I felt the Holy Spirit using a quote
from Abraham Lincoln to tell me that if I
was going to last in the ministry, I actually
needed to follow Jesus’ words about lov-
ing others as myself, which required me to
be a friend to myself.
Some time later, I came across a quote
from St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who talked
about the three stages of love. In the first
stage, we love God for our own sake, for
what God can do for us – this is the great
stage of televangelism. In the second
stage, we love God for God’s own sake,
for who God is in God’s own character
and glory and beauty. It’s hard to imag-
ine anything being greater than that, but
Bernard said in the third stage, we love
ourselves for God’s sake. It’s as if we join
with God in seeing ourselves with love
and compassion.
Brothers and sisters, another way of say-
ing above all else, guard well your heart,
for from it flow the wellsprings of life is to
say please be a friend to yourself. Real-
ize that you are responsible for your own
morale, and that if you aren’t a friend to
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yourself, you’ll sabotage the efforts of
anyone else to befriend you, and you will
fall pray to nibbling ducks.
One of the best ways you can be a friend
to yourself, of course, is to understand that
when you are paid by anybody, the first
thing that they’re paying you for is to be
your own manager and to be a friendly
manager.
Second Friendship
Right along with that, I would encour-
age you, Class of 2010, to give yourself
the gift of a few soul-friends. This is the
second soul-guarding friendship I want
to share with you. By soul-friends I mean
people with whom you experience what
one of my soul-friends calls a “non-
utilitarian relationships.” You care about
each other not for money, not for success,
not for self-interest, not for “ministry,”
but you care about each other because you
like each other and you want what’s best
for one another’s souls. These are people
you stay in touch with through the years.
You might not see each other for a year
or two or three but whenever you meet,
you pick up where you left off. You find
yourself following, consciously or not, the
old Quaker spiritual discipline of query,
and you ask one another, not just “How
is ministry?” or “How is the church?” but
rather “How goes it with your soul?”
My guess is that along with reams of notes
and the beginnings of a great library and a
fantastic GPA, you’ll take away with you
from VTS some soul-friends. My guess
is that, right now, you have them within
reach of your arms, soul-friends who will
be one of the greatest legacies of your
time here. They may even include a couple
of faculty members. I’ve accumulated a
half-dozen or so of these kinds of friends
through the years, and I’ll tell you the
truth: it’s worth buying a plane ticket and
traveling anywhere in the world to have
one day in the presence of a friend who
cares about your soul, who knows you,
and who will be your friend no matter
what.
So maybe before the day ends it wouldn’t
be a bad thing to pull aside one of your
fellow graduates and say, “Hey listen, let’s
make a pact.” Not just to be old friends
but to be soul-friends.
If you want to guard your heart well,
please be a friend to yourself, and please
make and keep a few lifelong soul friends,
and third – and this might surprise you
– please have some friends outside the
church.
Third Friendship
A few years into pastoral ministry, I
realized that all my friends were inside
the church. I didn’t have any margin for
friends on the outside. The truth is, I don’t
think you can be a very good Christian if
all your friends are Christians. And I don’t
think you can be a very good pastor if you
don’t have a life outside the church. Now
I’d say that any friend you make outside
the church would be really well-off having
a having a seminary-trained friend – they
come in handy in all kinds of times and
places.

But I’m less thinking of how they’ll need
you and more of how you’ll need them. Of
course, you’ll need them for perspective,
because intra-church life can too easily be-
come an obsession. You need to get out of
the goldfish bowl sometimes and swim in
the big river of the real world. Friends on
the outside will help you do that. They’ll
help you keep a life outside the church,
and that’s important for your life inside the
church.
My friend Rob Bell says it in a memorable
way that some of you won’t get (which
is probably a good thing.) He says,“You
have to smoke what you’re selling.” In
other words, you can become so busy as
a purveyor of the abundant life in Christ
that you run out of time to actually enjoy
the abundant life in Christ. You can get so
busy talking about life in the Kingdom of
God that you don’t participate in life in the
Kingdom of God. You can be so busy or-
ganizing other people’s experience of the
realm or dream of God that you actually
forget to be a part of it yourself. Here’s
how one of my mentors explained it to me:
Think of three circles. A big one, a smaller
one, and a smaller one still. The smallest
circle is your job. That’s what you get paid
to do. It’s important. It’s probably worth
it when you end up at your first assign-
ment to make sure that you know how
many hours a week you’re being paid to
work because if it’s 40, it’s important that
you don’t work 39; if it’s 40 then it’s also
important that you don’t work 60. You’re
paid to do something and that part of your
life is important. But the danger is that, if
you love your work as I did in my 24 years
as a pastor, it’s too easy to let that work
expand and soon take up the whole circle.
It is important for you to keep the work
that you are paid to do within boundaries.
“Your greatest asset
in the years ahead will
be your morale, your
internal climate, the
purity and constancy
and buoyancy of the
wellsprings of life that
spring up from your
innermost being.”
The larger circle is your ministry. Hopeful-
ly, your work is part of your ministry, but
that you also have ministry that you’re not
getting paid for. It’s one of the occupation-
al dangers of getting paid to be good. You
forget how to be good for nothing. And it’s
not good for the soul of a Christian—es-
pecially a Christian leader—if you only do
good when you’re being paid to do it.
That’s why a friend of mine, who was a
mega-church pastor for many years, would
sneak out on Saturday night, after the
sermon was done, and would go to a little
club that was the host for an Alcoholic’s
Anonymous meeting. While the addicts
Photos by B. Cayce Ramey
and alcoholics were having their meeting,
it was his spiritual discipline to go into
the bathrooms and scrub the toilets. And
it was his way, on a Saturday night, of
being a servant, off the clock. That helped
him get up on Sunday morning, knowing
that he had been good that week, that he
had done an active service that he wasn’t
getting paid for. So it’s important to have
your work that you’re paid for but to also
have a ministry that goes beyond.
Now, let’s turn to the biggest circle, the
circle of your life. That’s the circle that
includes your parenthood, your marriage,
your hobbies and interests. It’s the circle
where you are just a human being. Just
because you’re a Christian doesn’t mean
that you are not a human being. Just be-
cause you are a priest does not mean that
you are not a human being. This largest
circle is an expression of your humanity as
one of God’s creatures in God’s beautiful
and fascinating world. In the little circle,
you prepare sermons. In the larger circle,
you do good that you don’t get paid to do
– but in the largest circle you enjoy life.
You pursue a human interest in antique
cars or fishing or watercolor painting or
birdwatching or playing tennis or hiking
the Appalachian Trail or wine-making or
Chinese calligraphy or historical biogra-
phies or following Lost. And in the largest
circle you find friends outside the church
who are drawn together simply for the
love of that human interest.
It’s not good for a banker’s life to be
reduced to work. It’s not good for a real
estate agent’s life to be reduced to work.
It’s not good for a cabinet maker or doc-
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 Commencement Address 2010
B
rian McLaren graduated from
the University of Maryland with
degrees in English (BA, summa
cum laude, 1978, and MA, magna cum
laude, 1981). In addition to the Doctor
of Divinity Degree, honoris causa, that
he was awarded this year from VTS,
Brian was also awarded a Doctor of
Divinity Degree, honoris causa, from
Carey Theological Seminary in Vancou-
ver, BC, Canada in 2004.
He began his career teaching college
English. He left teaching in 1986 to
become founding pastor of Cedar
Ridge Community Church, an innova-
tive, transdenominational church in
the Baltimore-Washington region
(crcc.org). The church grew to involve
several hundred people, many of
whom were previously unchurched. In
2006, he left the pastorate to devote
full time to writing and speaking.
He has written several books including
The Secret Message of Jesus (Thomas
Nelson, 2006), followed in 2007
by Everything Must Change: Jesus,
Global Crises, and A Revolution of
Hope. In 2008, he released Finding
Our Way Again (Nelson, April 2008).
These three books lay out a contem-
porary approach to the Christian life,
message, and mission. In 2009, he
co-edited The Justice Project (Baker),
which brings together over 30 voices
on the biblical vision of social justice.
His 2010 book, A New Kind of Chris-
tianity: Ten Questions That Are Trans-
forming the Faith, has been identified
as one of his major works. In 2011, he
will be releasing an important book on
the spiritual life.
He has served on the international
steering team and board of directors
for emergent, a growing generative
friendship among missional Christian
leaders (www.emergentvillage.com),
and has served on several other non-
profit boards.
. to God as a person speaks with a friend.
Brian is married to Grace, and they
have four young adult children. His
website is www.brianmclaren.net.
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tor’s life to be reduced to work. And it is
not good for a clergy-person’s life to be
reduced to work, and some non-church
friends will help you be sure that doesn’t
happen, and that will be good for your
soul.
Fourth Friendship
One last friendship needs to be men-
tioned. Yes, you need to be a friend to
yourself, yes, you need a few soul-friends,
and you need some friends outside the
church too. But I was surprised to find
out, when I went from being an English
teacher bi-vocationally and being part of
a little church planting team to becoming
a full-time Christian pastor, how easy is
it let your friendship with the living God
languish. And that’s the fourth friendship
that I want to mention.
I want to tell you something, by way of
testimony, by way of proclamation. This
isn’t a proposition of scholarship that I can
prove to you. It’s a tenet of faith I can only
proclaim to you. Are you ready? Here it is:
God is friendly.
The living God is friendly.
That’s what Jesus reveals to us in the gos-
pel story that we heard a few minutes ago.
Jesus, the Word of God, Jesus, the image
of God, Jesus, the radiance of God’s glory,
Jesus, the incarnation of God, Jesus, word
made flesh … is friendly. And that means
God is friendly. When those friends bring
that paralyzed man on his stretcher to
Jesus, Jesus allies himself with them to
help the paralyzed man. Jesus joins their
friendship. He was known as a friend of
sinners, you’ll recall, and that’s good news
for all of us sinners.
People will sometimes bless you, some-
times betray you, sometimes forget about
you, and sometimes disappoint you. But
God is friendly and faithfully friendly.
Abraham knew this, and was called the
friend of God. Moses knew this, and spoke
That paralyzed man knew this, when Jesus
wasn’t bothered by the roof being opened
up, but healed him and forgave him that
day. And I know this, because I have ex-
perienced forgiveness and friendship from
God through Jesus Christ.
And so I ask you to imagine yourself as
that paralyzed man in the gospel story.
You’ve been lowered down from the roof
and are on the ground in your stretcher.
You look up to one corner, and there you
see your own face, because you have to be
a friend to yourself; you look to another
corner, and there you see a soul-friend,
maybe someone here in this room today,
someone who is going to stick with you
through the years ahead; you look to the
“But I was surprised to
find out... how easy
is it let your friendship
with the living God
languish.”
third corner, and there you see someone
who doesn’t go to church, just a normal,
regular human being with whom you
share an interest, and who is going to be
important in your spiritual life in the years
ahead; and then, you look in the fourth
corner. There, in the face of Jesus, you see
the friendliness of God radiating to you.
And so it is to God’s friendship that I com-
mend you now. Surrounded by those four
friends, your heart will be well guarded
in whatever you ministry will be, and the
wellsprings of life will flow, and all will
not be easy, but all will be well.
Amen.
The Rev. Brian D. McLaren is the, founder
of the Cedar Ridge Community Church in
Maryland and one of the founders of the
Emerging Church movement. He is also
an author, speaker, pastor, and networker
among Christian leaders, thinkers, and
activists. This year, Virginia Theological
Seminary conferred a Doctors in Divinity,
honoris causa upon Mr. McLaren.
Photo by B. Cayce Ramey
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 MISSIONARY
SOCIETY@VTS

Established in 1835, the Missionary Society at Virginia Theological Seminary

provides a link between those in the mission field and members of the seminary
community through grants, theological book drives, forums, presentations, interaction
with missionary organizations, prayer and an annual Eucharist.

E
ach year, grant requests from
around the world are submitted to
Virginia Theological Seminary’s
Missionary Society. The grant applica-
tions must demonstrate that the project
includes spreading the Good News of
Jesus Christ by word or deed as an im-
portant part of the overall effort; that the
project has well-defined goals and states
clearly how funds will be used; and that
the project will either be completed with
the funds given or stimulate further giving
on the part of other organizations. An-
other consideration is if the grant is for
meeting capital costs or can show that the
project will become self-supporting (rather
than remain dependent on outside mainte-
nance.)
A subcommittee of the Missionary Society
Council, chaired this year by George
Hinchliffe, met to review the grants and
make recommendations to the council.
The council then met for conversation
about the grants and voted to: "recom-
mend full funding of the following grant
proposals: Vision Conference on Sustain-
able Housing-Lakota Reservation, SD;
São Paulo Mission Bakery, Brazil; San
Marcos School, Dominican Republic; La
Resurrection, Gros Morne, Haiti." For the
week proceeding the annual Community

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 Eucharist and community vote, informa-
tion about the grants and council members
were made available during lunches in
Scott Lounge. A community vote approv-
ing the grants was cast on Friday, March
12th.
Grants Awarded this year:
São Paulo Mission Bakery – Brazil
Started by a small group of women,
the cooperative community bakery at
São Pedro Apostolo Mission Church in
Curitbia, Brazil bakes bread in the church
kitchen selling it to the residents of one
the cities poorest neighborhoods for "the
price people can afford to pay, sometimes
pennies and far less than the cost to pro-
duce it." The bakery currently receives no
outside support and this grant is primarily
for more modern baking equipment so that
this church kitchen which feeds the poor
and provides local employment can be
self-sustaining. Grant: $1,820
Photo by Leslie Steffensen
Vision Conference on Sustainable
Housing – Lakota Reservation, SD
The goals of this Conference are to con-
sider ways "to design a form of housing
that is economically sustainable; ecologi-
cally responsible; and culturally reso-
nant for the Lakota people." In the grant
application it is written that "conversation
about the project began as a result of a
series of events related to VTS: continuing
conversation over time between Border-
lands Director Linda Kramer and VTS
faculty member Bob Prichard, a cross-
cultural internship of a VTS student at the
Borderlands, increased discussion in the
role of ecology and religion sparked by the
Kreitler Lecture series, and the visit on the
VTS campus of Robert Two Bulls (who
will serve as chaplain to this project.) The
Conference has been funded by another
source, and this grant will provide scholar-
ships to Native Americans to attend the
conference. Grant: $1,000
San Marcos School – Dominican Republic
San Marcos Episcopal Church and School
in Haina, Dominican Republic is home
to 325 members and 750 school chil-
dren. The goal of this project to remove
hazardous electrical wiring and modernize
electricity for this church school. Members
of the congregation will provide the labor.
In addition to creating a safer environment
for those who use the space, this project
will enable San Marcos to increase its
school rankings and to receive short-term
mission groups. Grant: $3,000
La Resurrection School – Gros Morne, Haiti
La Resurrection School in Gros Morne,
Haiti serves 650 children and is supported
in part by a 25-year relationship with St.
Martin's-in-the-Fields Church (MD). The
original grant request was for funds to
finish the second story of several school
buildings; the grant is now for renovations
to restore the classrooms to full use.
Grant: $3,000
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Missionary Society
Grant Information

Established in 1835, The Missionary Society of Virginia Theological Seminary provides a link between those in
the mission field and members of the seminary community.

The funds for the Missionary Society grants are received from weekly offerings during the worship life of the
Seminary community. In the recent past, grants have averaged between $2,000 and $3,000.

Grant requests, including both the application form and the project description should be received by January
31st. The VTS Missionary Society will select the projects to be funded by April of the following year. All ap-
plicants will be notified as to whether or not they will receive a grant.

The Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia grants funding for certain
missionary projects. The following constitute the criteria for receiving funding of missionary projects:

To be eligible for consideration, grant applications MUST be able to demonstrate that: the project includes
spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ by word or deed as an important part of the overall effort and that the
project has well-defined goals and state clearly how funds will be used. In addition, applications must be com-
plete, including being approved and signed by the bishop or other appropriate authority, as determined by the
Mission Council; grants will not be made to the same program or site for more than two consecutive years; and
grants will not be awarded directly to any individual for personal use.

In order to select recipients among the applicants, preference will be given to projects which meet the greatest
number of the following criteria:

• Will either be completed with the funds given or stimulate further giving on the part of other organizations;

• If the grant is for meeting capital costs, through meeting capital costs, the project will become self-supporting
(rather than remain dependent on outside maintenance);

• Indicate pioneer efforts in facing new circumstances or strong opposition;

• Will be implemented outside the United States.

Those who would like to apply for a modest grant should complete the one page application form
and requested background information. Inquiries may be made by email
(missionarysociety@vts.edu), but applications must be mailed or faxed to:
The Missionary Society, Attn: Grants Committee
Virginia Theological Seminary
Seminary Post Office
Alexandria, Virginia 22304, U.S.A.
Fax: 703-370-6234

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Missionary Society Grant Application
(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPE)

Name and address of the organization (or individual) for which the grant is requested: ____________

_________________________________________________________________________________

Amount requested (in U.S. Dollars): ___________________________________________________

Are you requesting assistance from any other grant organization for this project ? Yes No
If yes, please describe:

Have you previously applied for or received a grant from VTS Missionary Society? Yes No
If yes, please describe:

What connection, if any, does the organization named above have to VTS?

The name, title, address and e-mail address of the person completing the form, along with your
relationship to the project.

Name: __________________________________________________________________________
Title: ___________________________________________________________________________
Address: ________________________________________________________________________
Email: __________________________________________________________________________
Relationship to Project: ____________________________________________________________

Please attach a one-to-two page, detailed description of the project. Include the project goals, a time
line of implementation, the number and type of people who would benefit and how the project relates
to the mission of the church. Photographs are welcome and may be submitted digitally.

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An Interreligious Peacebuilding Conference
sponsored by

Msalato Theological Seminary

& Virginia Theological Seminary

blessed are the

Peacemakers
by the Rev. Robin Gulick

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T
his summer, over 55 Chris-
tian and Muslim leaders from
Kenya, Malawi and Tanzania
gathered together for three days of
community building, networking
and professional development in
Dodoma, Tanzania. The conference,
largely focused on conflict analysis
and peacebuilding, was organized by
the Msalato Theological College in
Dodoma and the Virginia Theologi-
cal Seminary and hosted by Bishop
Mdimi Mhogolo and the Anglican
Diocese of Central Tanganyika.
“The foundations of our faiths - one
God, one world, one humanity and
one heaven – are strong and everlast-
ing realities that can enhance peace
on earth,” said Bishop Mhogolo in his
opening remarks. “We have to learn
to come together regularly and renew
ourselves for cooperation in keeping
and preserving peace in our world.”
Providing time for renewal was a pri-
mary goal of conference organizers.
There are so few opportunities to get
together for rest and renewal given
the busy demands of religious work
in Africa and around the globe. The
setting for the conference provided
beautiful grounds for Christian and
Muslim colleagues to get to know one
another more deeply, learn together
and share fellowship during meals,
tea breaks and World Cup Soccer.
It was also a time for VTS alumni to
get meet again! Four alumni from
Kenya, two from Malawi and two
from Tanzania gathered together for
this important conference. They ex-
pressed sincere gratitude for this rare
opportunity to see old friends and col-
leagues once more. During one eve-
ning meal, the VTS alumni gathered
with the Rev. Dr. Barney Hawkins to
talk about current and new directions
for VTS. Each alum was also given
a copy of either Christ and Culture,
Communion after Lambeth or Staying
One, Remaining Open: Educating
Leaders for a 21st Century Church
– two books which capture the work
VTS in Tanzania
and ministry of VTS and the Center for It is important not to be misled by this;
Anglican Communion Studies. although the peace-building process is
significantly assisted if the leaders on both
Along with participants from Msalato, sides are signed up to it, and what hap-
other theological schools throughout Tan- pened was the best possible start, there
zania and the Program on Christian and is nevertheless a mountain of ignorance,
Muslim Relations in Africa (PROCMU- superstition and potential ill-will out there
RA), each of the VTS alumni participating which it is frighteningly easy for an ex-
in the conference were invited to identify tremist on either side to manipulate.”
at least one Muslim counterpart from
their community to join them at the
conference. Because of these efforts,
over 20 Muslim clergy and scholars
from the three East African countries
came to Dodoma to participate in the
conference.
The professional development com-
ponent of the conference included
discussions of conflict analysis,
conflict transformation and reconcili-
ation. At the end of the conference,
participants were able to formulate
and develop action steps that will
allow relationships to deepen through
continued mutual engagement.
“The conference left me, and most
others I am sure, with a real sense
of optimism for future progress in
Christian-Muslim understanding,
friendship and reconciliation,” said
David Boorman, an English mission-
ary currently working with Msalato.
“Not only is this crucial for Africa’s
future peace and prosperity, there are
also common enemies in HIV/AIDS,
drug and alcohol addiction, family
breakdown, and poverty, which we can These sentiments expressed by Boorman
most effectively fight together.” echoed an earlier comment from Bishop
Mhogolo, “When the notions of domina-
“However, a note of warning should also tion, control and favoritism become the
be sounded,” cautioned Boorman. “The driving forces for political gain, a meet-
mood of the conference was very upbeat ing like this is very helpful in trying to
and positive, quite possibly more so than balance those destructive powers of greed,
anyone expected. However, it is easy to pride, and domination that threaten our
become lulled into a false sense of security countries.”
by a successful event, which was very well
led by a skilled team, held in beautiful and Each of the participants left the conference
comfortable surroundings, and attended having completed three days of conflict
by what was effectively the intelligentsia analysis and peacebuilding training. The
from both sides. This may well have conference was facilitated by a well-
created an impression for at least some of known theologian and peacebuilder, The
those present that the task ahead of us will Rev. Chris Ahrends. Rev. Ahrends was
be easy, or at least easier than anticipated. previously the Executive Director of the
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 Mission: Tanzania
Desmond Tutu Peace Centre in Cape
Town, SA; and Sub Dean at St. George’s
Cathedral, Cape Town and Chaplain to
Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
At the beginning of the conference, Rev.
Ahrends introduced himself as a bus
driver; he did not see himself as teacher
imparting his knowledge on the partici-
pants. Rather he saw himself as someone
guiding the participants on a journey.
Though he had a good idea of the terrain,
he only drove where his passengers told
him to go!
Whether it was providing helpful meta-
phors for describing conflict situations
or highlighting principles of successful
peacebuilding initiatives, the facilitation
was directed towards tapping into the
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profound knowledge and experience of the
leaders gathered together in the conference
hall. This way of organizing and lead-
ing a conference was new to many of the
participants, but it was very well received.
In their evaluations of the conference,
participants expressed the fact that they
felt like they were able to contribute a lot
of their own ideas and experiences, while
also learning new ways of thinking about
religion, conflict and peace.
In a reflection presented during an evening
ceremony a small group of participants
crafted a statement which read in part “We
need to work towards creating an atmo-
sphere of positive tolerance, acceptance,
respect for diversity, responsibility for
our actions or inactions, justice, equity,
harmony, tranquility, peace and peace-
Photos by Leslie Steffensen and James Livingston
ful coexistence. We as a group, commit
ourselves to these values, and call on our
fellow participants to buy into it and en-
sure that we propagate it far and wide, in
the recognition that peace is not something
for which we wish. It is something for
which we work and something for which
we live.” In a room filled with candlelight,
this reflection was presented alongside
poems, songs and readings from the Quran
and the Bible. The next day the rest of the
participants agreed it captured well the
will and feelings of all those gathered.
The conference was organized as part of
a three-year grant to VTS from the Henry
Luce Foundation. The overall goal of this
grant is to encourage greater interreligious
sensitivities at VTS and assist in foster-
ing interreligious understanding between
Anglican and Muslim communities around

the world through research, education and
dialogue. Two relevant objectives of the
grant that were met by this conference
include:
1. Introduce the challenge of inter-
religious dialogue to VTS and prepare
our students and other members of the
Anglican Church to engage in informed
dialogue with the Muslim community in
the United States and around the world,
considering the inherent tensions between
evangelism in the Anglican tradition and
respect for the other.
2. Provide opportunities for Anglican
and Muslim leaders to come together to
discuss difficult issues facing religious
communities worldwide, identify shared
values and religious convictions, and pave
a way forward built on mutual trust and
understanding. X
Impromptu Tour
by David Boorman
A
n inspiration by the host Bishop
Mhogolo (above, left) of Dodoma
on the first afternoon was a spur-
of-the-moment tour of Dodoma. Two
buses were conjured up at short notice
and we set off on a drive around the
currently under construction University
of Dodoma (spectacularly materializing
in the barren bush on a 50 square mile
site), followed by a tour of the biggest
Dodoma mosque, known as the Gad-
dafi mosque in honor of
its benefactor, Colonel
Gaddafi of Libya, and
finally one of the Anglican
cathedral. In true African
fashion the whole thing
was arranged on a whim
and implemented with no
consideration of time – in
the West the idea would
have been vetoed when
first mooted (early after-
noon) as the timetable
had been carefully arranged months
previously.
Off we all set at 15:45, and in view of
the ambitious itinerary being loudly for-
mulated off-the-cuff by the bishop and
other local delegates keen to show off
the place, clearly with no hope whatso-
ever of getting back to the conference
centre for dinner at 19:00! Ah well,
this is Africa, you go with the flow! The
incorrigible bishop did an absolutely
excellent job as tour guide, embarking
on a loud and hilarious commentary
which effectively broke any remaining
ice, cracking jokes in true Tanzanian
VTS in Tanzania
Back together again: Several VTS
graduates and friends attended the
conference including (from left to
right) Bishop Mhogolo, the Rev.
Yohana Mtokambali (‘09, Tanzania),
the Rev. Daniel Munene (‘08, Kenya),
Bishop Johannes Angela (‘88, Kenya),
the Rev. Evans Kachiwanda (‘04,
Malawi, crouched), the
Rev. Barney Hawkins
from Virginia Seminary,
the Rev. Samuel Sudhe
(‘07, Kenya), the Rev.
Mary Tororeiy (‘09,
Kenya), and the Rev.
Martin Kalimbe (‘06,
Malawi). Left: the Rev.
Robin Gulick (‘08) dis-
cusses the lecture plan
with facilitator, the Rev.
Chris Ahrends of South
Africa. The conference
took place at St. Gas-
pars conference center
in Dodoma, Tanzania.
fashion which would have had a Western
audience at such a “sensitive” event
wincing (e.g. – pointing at the grounds of
a passing mosque – “I think I will build
an even bigger cathedral here!” – to loud
guffaws from the assembled Christian
and Muslim delegates alike). We were
greatly honored by the way the Imam of
the Gaddafi mosque opened up his mag-
nificent building to us – it was stunningly
beautiful and quite possibly unheard of
for Christians – including women – to be
invited in and allowed to take photos. I
will cherish the memory of the Imam
posing for photos arm-in-arm with Angli-
can clergy.
The Anglican cathedral is less prepos-
sessing but the Muslims had largely
never been inside a Christian church
before and were clearly fascinated – I
overheard one saying with surprise after
looking through a prayer-book “They
really do confess their sins like us!” The
lengths to which both the bishop and
the Imam had gone to welcome those of
the other religion well demonstrated the
extent to which reconciliation is desired
by both sides.
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 Mission: Tanzania
STICKS AND STONES, BOILED WOOL,
BORROWED CHAIRS, AND A STRAW HAT
by the Rev. J. Barney Hawkins IV, Ph.D.
T
his summer I had the good
fortune of representing the
Seminary at a partnership
signing at St. George’s College in
Jerusalem. I also participated in a
Christian-Muslim Conference which
VTS sponsored in Dodoma, Tanzania.
I always learn so much when I travel.
I like connecting with old friends and
meeting new people. New cities give
me energy and I like to encounter the
cuisines of countries so very different
from our own.
I was reminded this summer that the
ministry of the Church and God’s
mission in the world are more about
faith in God and the hearts of people
than doctrine and resources. We talk
often about having adequate resources
for ministry. Sometime we mean people,
paid staff and volunteers who deliver the
Church’s ministry and who participate
in God’s mission in the world. Often,
however, we mean resources which help
people in their ministry and mission. For
example, a parish decides to do “Godly
Play” and goes on a buying spree to get all
the supplies; a community decides that it
wants to build a labyrinth and realizes the
cost can be quite high; when prayer books
get tattered in the pew, we replace them.
And so it goes.
People cannot “do” ministry without
resources—human and otherwise. That’s
a given. Yes, dioceses, churches, schools
and all the institutions of the Church need
resources. But I learned this summer that
faith and heart can make resources from
very little. Let me give you four examples
of using what we have to do the work that
God gives us to do.
While in Jerusalem, I took a solo walk one
afternoon in the lively Old City, trekking
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down the ancient Via Dolorosa, talking to
the vendors, and enjoying their wares in
little shops. As some of you know, I am
always looking for a crèche or nativity set
to add to my collection. In one shop, on
the floor, I found a rustic crèche that was
a cave with Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus,
and two lambs. I was told that it had
been made out of left-over boiled wool
by handicapped and mentally-challenged
children in war-torn Gaza, a place of
limited resources. It takes a lot of faith and
heart to make a crèche that inspires and
recalls the holy family—but it takes not
much more. Left-over wool will do. Of
course I bought the crèche.
In Dodoma, Tanzania, I participated in a
Christian-Muslim Conference which VTS
hosted with the Diocesan Bishop (The Rt.
Rev. Gmidimi Mhogolo of the Diocese of
Central Tanganyka) and our valued Angli-
can Communion partner, Msalato Theo-
logical College and its principal (The Rev.
Moses Matonya). One day I traveled with
the incredible Rev. Sandra McCann (VTS
‘03) across the country’s rugged ter-
rain to Handali, a rural village that I do
not think is even on the world’s map.
We had a healthy lunch of grilled goat,
spicy vegetables, rice and very fresh
bananas in the home of Deacon Ayubu
and his family. They borrowed spoons
and chairs to give us the best hospital-
ity possible. I learned that Christian
hospitality does not depend upon
elaborate resources, sterling silver ser-
vices, catered food and fresh flowers.
(I always preach to myself!) Deacon
Ayubu took what he had and borrowed
from neighbors to set a bountiful table.
My body and soul were graciously fed.
After lunch we went to church.
The building had a dirt floor and no
chairs or pews. The chairs from lunch
were brought from Ayubu’s house to the
sanctuary/chancel area for the service. The
sermon was given by Ms. Susan Lukens,
one of our gifted D.Min. students, with the
help of Anna, a very bright student from
Msalato Theological College. Susan and
Anna used Godly Play to tell the story of
the good shepherd which was the theme of
the day’s lessons. No fancy supplies—only
ordinary rope, ribbons, clay, sticks and
stones. It was a truly moving proclamation
of the Good News of Jesus Christ. With
faith, heart and imagination, Susan and
Anna found resources enough to commu-
nicate with a congregation eager to know
more about Jesus and his parables.
After the service, as we greeted the
congregation, I stood to the side, observ-
ing, seeking some shade, and wearing my
straw hat. Suddenly, I was surrounded
by small children—lots of them! For
some reason, I took off my fancy hat and
placed it on the head of a small child, then
another child and another—and a game of
the Straw Hat happened before my eyes.

Some children were reluctant to have a
hat on their head for the first time in their
lives. But there was lots of laughing and
lots of dancing. The game had energy,
noise, movement and not an end in sight!
At one point I said to Deacon Ayubu, “I
think I will give the children my hat.”
He quickly said, “Oh, they will tear it to
shreds for all of them want the hat!” I
decided to give the hat to Deacon Ayubu
and presented it to him as though it were a
great trophy of a new game in the village
of Handali. The children cheered, Deacon
Ayubu was grateful and my heart was
glad.
Games do not have to come from stores or
from boxes. Games can come from what
we already have. A fancy Straw Hat can
become a prop for a wonderful game—
creating moments of laughter and joy. I
shall never forget the game of the Straw
Hat in the village of Handali.
Utilizing what we have or can find—
boiled wool, borrowed chairs and spoons,
sticks and stones, and a straw hat—for
ministry and mission: that’s what I learned
this summer. The common is holy. Left-
overs can become works of art. The ordi-
nary can be quite beautiful. Even a Straw
Hat can become something for a game, or
a story, or perhaps a memory. Finally, we
can find Christ is such unlikely places: in
the handiwork of a simple crèche, in the
joy of a lunch lovingly served, in a sermon
of sticks and stones and in a game of the
Straw Hat. It was Frank Weston, bishop
of Zanzibar from 1908 until his death
in 1924 who once challenged his fellow
Anglicans to find Christ in the sacraments
but also in the deprived and destitute. He
VTS in Tanzania
pleaded with his Church: “You have your
Mass, you have your altars, you have
begun to get your tabernacles. Now go out
into the highways and hedges, and look
for Jesus in the ragged and the naked, in
the oppressed and the sweated, in those
who have lost hope, and in those who are
struggling to make good. Look for Jesus in
them….”
Weston’s invitation is worth hearing again.
While we look for Jesus in cities and
villages like Handali, I invite us to utilize
what we have already in hand for the
ministry and mission we are called to do.
We have enough already to do what God
wants us to do—or at least to get started. X
To view photos from the VTS Tanzania trip,
visit the Media Gallery at www.vts.edu.
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REFLECTIONS ON TANZANIA
by James Livingston (VTS ‘11)
Y
ou live in an Ivory Tower," the driv-
er said as we made our way through
Dodoma, Tanzania. The words were
not meant to offend, but they made me
defensive. I'm proud of the dear seminary
you're bashing, sir! I preferred to think of
my seminary doing great things, form-
ing God's people, preparing ourselves to
make a difference in the world in the name
of Christ. And indeed it has been, since
1823. Yet its history is not as pristine
as I would have hoped. Records of the
purchase of slaves for work are tangible,
a slave trade that wound its way through
Stonetown, Zanzibar, an island off the
east coast of Tanzania. There, slaves had
been marched for hundreds of miles from
the mainland, to wait in cramped, under-
ground pits that lie beneath the water level
so that the tide would wash out the waste
that accumulated in a barely ventilated
room. Where was their Ivory Tower, I
wondered? How can we reconcile past
atrocities with modern development?
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The story of slavery ended in Stonetown
in 1887 when the altar of the Anglican Ca-
thedral was erected atop the very spot that
slaves were shown, tested, beaten for sale.
In the narthex stands a baptismal font
replacing the well in which infant children
were sacrificed in hopes of better profit.
Half way between the font and altar,
reaching high to heaven, stands a stained-
glass window and beneath it, a well-pol-
ished plaque. Both are dedicated to a man
who is considered by the people of Zanzi-
bar to be instrumental in the abolishment
of the slave trade, by raising awareness in
the English people and amassing sup-
port from afar. This man was Dr. David
Livingstone, and I am his descendant. On
the opposite wall from this window stands
a cross made from the wood of a tree from
Zambia, the tree that is rumored to have
been planted and nourished by the heart of
David Livingstone after his death. As his
heart remains in Africa, so too does mine.
In the midst of abject poverty and an
endless struggle to provide for the basic
necessities of life, a village called Handali
stands 100 kilometers from the politi-
cal capital of Tanzania called Dodoma.
There the grounds are dusty and red, and
the wind that sweeps through in early
July serves only to stir up the dry ground
within the windowless and doorless
church that is the village center. And yet,
when amenities are furthest from your
reach, you are struck by the Spirit in a
place like this! The people greet you with
the radical hospitality that we are striving
for at coffee hour. Genuine, unabashed,
unreservedly eager faces smile at you from
hundreds of children and adults. And in
that place, sharing in the Eucharist with
the entire town, all pretenses are stripped
away. In Christ we are brothers and sisters
alike. The same meal of everlasting life
is shared, whether it be within an open
church with dirt floors or an Ivory Tower.
No matter what history I may carry in
my bloodline, the work of Christ remains
vibrant and alive, from Hindali to Holy
Hill. X
 a world of welcome
Virginia Theological Seminary celebrates 101 years of
welcoming international students from around the globe.
T
he Center for Anglican Communion
Studies is very pleased to welcome this
academic year’s incoming International
Students. This year is a “bumper crop” year as
we have five students entering the Master’s in
Theological Studies (MTS) program. Pictured in
order:
The Rev. Joel Ochieng Atong is a parish priest
and vicar of St. Paul's Church Kiembeni in the
Anglican Diocese of Mombasa. He has a wife
Tabitha and three children Grace, Rosemary, and
Phanuel. He is a graduate of St. Paul’s Universi-
ty, Limuru, Kenya. While at VTS, Atong intends
to concentrate on Biblical Studies with special
emphasis in New Testament. He discovered
VTS through our website. Atong says he was
impressed by VTS’ rich history.
Mr. Edgardo Cedeno is a lifelong Episcopalian
from Cuba. Cedona studied at the Seminario
Evangelico de Teologia in Matanzas, Cuba. He
soon became aware of the limited resources in
his homeland to further his studies in Angli-
canism. “The Church’s context and a global
understanding of the Anglican Communion
surfaced in my vocation as a central theme from
which I am call to minister,” says Cedeno. “The
Post Graduate Diploma in Theology at Virginia
Theological Seminary attracted me as a program
that will allow me a deeper understanding of this
great Anglican/Episcopal tradition and equip me
further to fulfill God’s call in my faith journey.”
He studied in an intensive English program at
the University of Toronto, Canada and complet-
ed the program this summer.
Ms. Florence Jee is Malaysian Chinese who has
been living and working in Hong Kong. She has
been most recently serving at the Holy Trinity
Cathedral of the Anglican (Episcopal) Diocese
of Eastern Kowloon, Province of Hong Kong.
Jee first heard about the MTS program at VTS
through meeting Dr. John Yieh, professor of
New Testament. She intends to concentrate on
Christian Education. Jee believes “VTS will not
only provide practical and relevant training for
ministry, it will enrich my understanding of the
Anglican Communion through the community
life and other learning experiences throughout
my campus life these two years.”
The Rev. Adolfo Moronta is originally from
New York City. His parents moved their large
family back to the Dominican Republic when he
was thirteen years old. Moronta has three bach-
elors’ degrees in Hotel Administration, Philoso-
phy and Theology. He is a deacon who has been
working in two congregations, San Pedro y San
Pablo and San Felipe Apóstol, parish communi-
ties “situated on the outskirts of the city of Santo
Domingo and in impoverished areas where
many people live on the banks of the Ozama
River.” He also works on the Communications
Committee of the Dominican Episcopal Church,
on the Church newspaper “Episcopax”, and on
the Micro Credit Committee that has provided
loans to 134 families in the past years. He first
heard of VTS through the January Term cross-
cultural immersion students at El Centro de
Esudios Teologicos.
The Rev. Sonley Joseph is from Lascahobas, a
town in central Haiti has a bachelor’s degree in
law which allowed him to work as a defender
of many poor people who could not pay for the
services of a regular lawyer in his hometown.
Joseph worked as a literature teacher from 2001
to 2005. He followed his call to the priesthood
in 2005 and studied at the Seminaire de The-
ologie de l’Eglise Episcopale d’Haiti. Through
a grant to VTS from the Carpenter Foundation,
Joseph has been living on campus since Janu-
ary 2010 while studying in an intensive ESL
course at Northern Virginia Community College.
Joseph wishes “to give a hearty thank you to my
generous sponsors for helping me accomplish
my academic goals.” Now entering the MTS
program, Joseph will concentrate on systematic
theology.
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journey to
jerusalem
By Kathryn Glover & Amelia J. Dyer, Ph.D.
T
his past June, Amy Dyer and I trav-
eled to Israel to represent the Dean
at the signing of an agreement
with St. George’s College in Jerusalem
which commits the two organizations to
providing educational opportunities for
members of the Seminary community
at St. George’s College. Bishop Suheil
Dawani, Anglican bishop in Jerusalem,
signed the agreement as we looked on.
The Rev. Barney Hawkins, representing
the North American Regional Committee
of St. George’s College which was holding
a meeting at the College, was also present
at the signing.
The agreement was prepared in consulta-
tion with Bishop Dawani and Dr. Stephen
Need, dean of St. George’s College, dur-
ing their visit to the VTS campus in late
February. Our conversations with Bishop
Dawani and Dean Need in February
encompassed the Seminary’s deep desire
to support St. George’s College invaluable
role and mission.
Our partnership with St. George’s for-
malizes a relationship that has been in
existence for many, many years. Students
and faculty from VTS have traveled to
Jerusalem to participate in a two-week
course focusing on the Gospel story of the
life of Jesus within the geographical con-
text of that story. The text of this important
agreement states:
In response to our kinship in Christ and
out of a shared commitment to the Gospel,
St. George’s College and Virginia Theo-
logical Seminary agree to work together
to provide educational opportunities for
members of the Seminary family. In part-
nership, VTS and St. George’s will provide
an important piece in the formation of
both current and future ordained and lay
Photo by Kathryn Glover
leaders of the Episcopal Church: the ap-
preciation of the significance of the Holy
Land both as part of our past and as part
of our future. This partnership will also
seek to deepen the future connection and
support of St. George’s College and the
Anglican Church in the Holy Land through
the extensive network of VTS alumni.
In support of the agreement, VTS guaran-
tees tuition for 10 participants each year
for three years for enrollment in a course
entitled Studies in the Land of the Holy
One. The course is open to all members of
the VTS community—students, faculty,
staff and alumni. Should 10 tuition paying
participants not emerge, VTS has agreed
to pay the tuition for the remaining places
guaranteeing income to the College in
support of its programs.
As part of its mission, VTS is committed
to serving the Anglican Communion and
the wider Church by providing an ecu-
menical, international, and cross-cultural
context for theological education.
Establishing partnerships with institutions
around the Anglican Communion is one
way in which VTS is creating, developing
and maintaining relationships with our
brothers and sisters whose cultural and re-
ligious contexts are different from that of
the Episcopal Church in the United States.
These partnerships offer a unique oppor-
tunity for VTS students to participate in
cross-cultural immersions as a means of
experiencing the Anglican Church in other
parts of the world and understanding better
the influence that indigenous cultures have
on religious expression.
On the following pages, Katie Lasseron
and Amy Dyer share their experiences dur-
ing their first trip to the Holy Land.
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 Mission: Jerusalem
Walking
In Faith
Reflections on a first-time
visit to the Holy Land.
by Kathryn Glover
L
ots of people I know have dreamt
about going to the Holy Land and
walking where Jesus walked. My
own trip to Israel and Jordan was not a
dream fulfilled but an opportunity I had
not expected to ever have. To stand in the
Dead Sea and to walk and wonder in Petra
were two things I never thought I would
do; I could not be more grateful for both
experiences. My time in the Holy Land
was more complicated than merely mar-
veling at God’s creation and the gift of in-
novation and skill that God has bestowed
upon each and every one of us.
Walking in the Old City of Jerusalem I
had a sense of people of different beliefs
and lifestyles living together with ease and
comfort, yet outside those same walls I
felt a sense of segregation and discomfort.
It left me feeling uneasy and this unease
only increased the day I traveled to Beth-
lehem. The source of my discomfort was
two-fold. First, there was the wall. Why?
Do we need a wall anywhere to separate
one people from another? Is anything
accomplished by building a wall? Does it
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other travelers.
Almost three weeks after
my departure from Israel
(by way of Ghana and
France) I found myself
sitting in a pew in my
parish church listening to
the parable of the Good
Samaritan. All of a sud-
den it clicked…I made
the connection. The way
from Jerusalem to Jericho
was no longer an idea but
a reality. I traveled the
road from Jerusalem to
Jericho and could now
picture it all as if I were
there. Now I get what
some of my fellow travel-
ers in Israel meant when
they said “you’ll get the
bug to come back.” I
have already said that I
would like to go back,
but the next time I will
go prepared…prepared
for the political and hu-
man reality that is Israel in its entirety and
really deter anyone from doing whatever prepared to have the story of our Lord
the wall has been erected to prevent? brought to life by merely being where he
Seeing the “Yes We Can” and “I have a was and walking where he and so many
dream” statements on the wall brought others have walked in faith. X
my thoughts to my own country where we
too are contemplating the construction of
a wall to keep out unwanted immigrants.
The juxtaposition left me with such mixed
emotions. How could we use God’s gifts
of innovation and skill to build walls to
separate God’s people one from another?
The second source of discomfort was my
own inability to feel anything at those
places which are believed to be the loca-
tion of the birth and crucifixion of our
Lord. To watch people venerate a place
or an actual spot left me wondering about
myself and my faith. I carried those doubts
and questions with me for the remainder
of my stay in Jerusalem and my gen-
eral discomfort only increased as I went
through the steps to leave Israel. The gen-
eral suspicion that I felt at moments walk-
ing through parts of East Jerusalem was
mirrored in the faces of the security guards
inspecting my luggage and questioning

Jerusalem’s Thick Places
T
his was my first trip to the Holy
Land. I had seen pictures and heard
stories from many who had visited
years ago and from those who had just
returned last January - how their time in
that place had transformed their lives. I
had also heard stories of the difficulties
in getting in and out of Israel and the ten-
sions that are ever present. I was traveling
alone, something I am used to doing, but
my anxiety increased as I set off from
London to Tel Aviv. Arriving in the early
afternoon, I learned that through some
miscommunication, I would not be met
at the airport but would have to make my
own way to Jerusalem and St. George’s
College. I did find my way thanks to an
American student traveling to the same
vicinity.
The land was hot and dry, the hills bar-
ren and brown. We traveled on highways
that could have been in the American
southwest. I arrived at St. Georges’ in the
cool of the evening and was surprised by
the beautiful gardens that occupied the
grounds.
Early the next
day I ventured
on my own into
the Old City
of Jerusalem, a
short walk from the college. There are no
street signs in the Old City, so I wandered
about, stopping at the British-owned Gar-
den of the Tomb and at a cafe where I had
the best falafel I’d ever tasted.
In the early afternoon I found my way
to the Church of the Resurrection and
entered with what seemed like thousands
of people into the coolness of the Church.
People were everywhere. I found myself
in a stream of humanity, speaking many
different languages, and wearing various
forms of dress. I had plenty of time to
observe as the line moved slowly for more
than an hour.
I have spent a great deal of time in “thin
places”— Iona in Scotland and Glendal-
ough, in Ireland, where people say that the
veil between heaven and earth is so thin
that you can almost move back and forth.
VTS in Jerusalem
by Amy J. Dyer, Ph.D.
I found the tomb to be a “thick place”
where layers and layers of tradition
and marble have defined this place for
centuries. To meet God in this sacred
place one has to peel back the layers of
tradition laid down by the many differ-
ent Christian churches that worship and
care for the Tomb. I had the same feel-
ing a few days later when I entered the
Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
In addition to the layers of Christian tra-
dition that cover these Holy Places, the
political layers and tensions of a place
sacred to three
major religious
faiths also helps
to create even fur-
ther distance from
what I believe
God wants for his
people. The metal
detector and secu-
rity checkpoint to
enter the portion
of the city where
the Western
Wall is located,
and then the prohibition of women from
getting near the wall, prevented me from
adding my prayers to those of others?
The security guard who stopped me from
walking down what seemed to be an or-
dinary street, saying “only Muslims”; the
modern Wall that now separates Jerusalem
from Bethlehem; and the tensions that are
present almost everywhere only seem to
separate people from God.
The agreement VTS has signed with St.
George’s can help leaders in the Church
to understand the situation and the issues
that are ever present in the Holy Land.
The streets where Jesus walked and the
places where he prayed can connect us
with the scriptures in a deeper way, but the
interactions with people of faith are the
main way that we in our time will come to
understand God’s call to us to seek peace
and justice in the world. X
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 Mission: China
VTS in Hong Kong:
Learning About the
Church in China
by the Rev. John Yueh-Han Yieh, Ph.D.
I
n the spring of 2008, I spent a semester
as visiting professor doing research for
my sabbatical project on Chinese bibli-
cal interpretation at the Chung Chi College
Divinity School of the Chinese University
of Hong Kong. While there, I began to
see the important ministry in education of
the Hong Kong Sheng Kong Hui (The An-
glican/Episcopal Church of Hong Kong)
that owns more than a hundred schools.
Since VTS had just started a D.Min. pro-
gram in Educational Leadership, with the
encouragement of Dr. Sedgwick and Dean
Markham, Dr. David Gortner and I began
to plan for a visit to Hong Kong.
Last year, on October 20-25, we visited
the Most Revd. Paul Kwong, and the
principal of Minghwa Theological Col-
lege, the Very Rev. Ian Lam, to introduce
our D.Min. programs to their clergy and
school chaplains. As a result, one priest
has committed to attend our D.Min. pro-
gram this year, and a student has entered
our M.Div. program. As we move forward,
more ways of cooperation and exchange
will be discussed to strengthen our rela-
tionship to that province. In Hong Kong,
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we also visited Lutheran Theological
Seminary and Chung Chi College Divinity
School, both of which expressed strong
desire to make connections with us, too.
On October 26-31, 2009, we traveled on
to China to visit the Rev. Kan Baoping,
Secretary General of the China Christian
Council in Shanghai and were invited to
give talks on biblical studies and evan-
gelism at Nanjing Union Theological
Seminary, receiving very warm hospitality
from their faculty and students.
VTS graduates were the first missionary
bishops in China in mid 19th century who
established churches, schools, and uni-
versities with good success. After a long
interval, it is high time for our seminary to
reconnect with the church in Hong Kong
and China. A cross-cultural and immer-
sion trip for our faculty, students, and
alums is being planned to visit Hong Kong
and China in May/June of 2011. It will be
a great opportunity to broaden our cultural
horizon as well as deepen our understand-
ing of God’s work in a radically changing
society and an emerging power in the
global south. X
Photo by Herman Chan
MEETING
CHINA
“It was the period between 1827
and 1841 that graduates went out to
Greece, to China, and to Africa. In later
years they would go to Japan, Brazil,
and indeed to all the world.
The distinction of being the first to em-
bark from Virginia Seminary for China
belonged to Francis R. Hanson of the
class of 1833. He, along with one Lock-
wood, was refused entrance into China
and withdrew to Java, where in time he
was join in October 1837 by William J.
Boone, class of 1835, and his wife.
Hanson and Lockwood returned to the
United States, leaving the Boones, who
studied language and arrived at Macao
in 1840. With this the China mission
of The Episcopal Church began, and in
1844 Boone became its first bishop.
From then on there was remarkable
growth. From the start, Boone sought
for an indigenous ordained ministry,
ordaining Wang Chi a deacon in 1851,
just six years after his arrival in Shang-
hai. As Stephen Neill says, ‘This con-
centration on the indigenous ministry
was of vital importance, and proved its
worth a century later in the general col-
lapse of missions in China.’”
- Excerpt from Mission and Ministry:
A History of Virginia Theological
Seminary by John E. Booty.
 Mission: Dominican Republic and Guatemala

Student Mission Trips

The Dominican Republic and Guatemala

Photos by Tracey Kelly and Colin Maltbie

From top left, clockwise: Rising senior,
Tracey Kelly (2nd from left, back row)
with members of St. John’s, McLean to
the city of Consuelo in the Dominican
Republic where they are partnered with
the Iglesia San Gabriel congregation; a
little boy cools off by catching rainwa-
ter falling from the roof; the Bocas Isla
slums in Guatemala; rising senior, Colin
Maltbie, preaching at a parish in Chan-
guinola, Guatemala; two little girls assur-
ing guests that the Episcopal Church in
the Dominican Republic welcomes you!

Fall 2010 35
 Mission: Prison Ministry

God’s Restorative
Justice in the
Diocese of Florida
by the Rev. Thomas E. Beasley, Jr. (VTS ‘74)

Lord, make me an
instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred,
let me sow love.
- Francis of Assisi time to mull over the question, I must add
O
ne of the more challenging ques-
tions that I have been asked since
becoming a prison missioner has
been this one: “What ever possessed you
to go into prison in the first place?” Im-
mediately, my response to the question
was, ”God.” Now that I have had some
to my initial reply this extension “. . . and
His great Cloud of Witnesses.” I add this
addition because, one Sunday back in the
early 1980s, I was sitting in my pew at
St. Catherine's, Jacksonville, minding my
own business, not bothering anyone when
I heard a sermon on prison ministry. The
preacher that Sunday was the Reverend
Deacon Joe Ryan, a vocational deacon
in the diocese ministering to inmates at
Union Correctional Institution. By the
time Joe had finished his sermon, I was
hooked on prison ministry.

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Shortly after my prison ministry epiphany
at St. Catherine’s, I moved to the Diocese
of West Virginia where I met the Rev.
Thomas Sites. Fr. Sites had had a similar
conversion experience listening to Chuck
Colson and enlisted my support in helping
to get Kairos Prison Ministry established
in the Diocese of West Virginia. Although
that first attempt to jump-start Kairos in
West Virginia did not succeed in establish-
ing prison ministry in the state, it did blaze
a trail through the gauntlet of government
requirements that would eventually lead
to a successful establishment of Kairos
Prison Ministry in West Virginia much
latter.
In 1990, I returned home to the Diocese
of Florida and reestablished connections
with my friends here in the diocese, many
of whom were already involved in prison
ministry. One particular friend, the Rev-
erend Paul David Kidd, invited me to go
to Union Correctional for the Department
of Corrections' orientation with him and
his wife Margaret and to stay after for the
reunion - prison version of a Cursillo Ul-
treya. And as they say, the rest is history.
By November of that year I had worked
my first Kairos weekend at Baker Cor-
rectional which has turned into twenty
years of continual blessings, great joy
and eventually priesthood in the Episcopal
Diocese of Florida.
My story is not so unusual. Many others
working in prison ministry will tell you
that they too are having the time of their
lives serving God and their brothers and
sisters in prisons throughout the Diocese
of Florida and all over the world. All who
have responded to Matthew's call to go
into prisons do so with the expectation of
being a blessing to those who live there
but return home humbled by the enormous
blessings they have received.
In Luke's gospel, we read, “When some-
one has been given much, much will be
required in return; and when someone has
been entrusted with much, even more will
be required.” (New International Version
12:48). The Diocese of Florida has been
given much, very much indeed. There are
currently 32 prisons, 28 jails and 11 youth
facilities located within the boundaries
of the Diocese of Florida. We have been
challenged by our Lord to tend to the
spiritual and pastoral needs of over 30,000
incarcerated individuals, their families and
loved ones and those who work with the
incarcerated within our borders.
The Diocese of Florida has indeed been
entrusted with much need but we have also
been given much to meet that need; much
in leadership and vision by our bishops:
†John Howard,†Frank Cerveny,†Charles
Keyser and †Steve Jecko (deceased); we
have been given much in our compassion-
ate and dedicated clergy: Paul Canepa†
(deceased), Joe Ryan† (deceased), Rich-
ard Turk†(retired), Grafton McFadden†
(retired), Dave Kidd†, Sandy Tull†, John
Owens†, Roy Minerva†, Allison Defoor†,
Jay Lauer†, Carrie English† (our deacon
currently studying hard for her M.Div.
at VTS), Ben Clance†, and myself; and
we have been given much in the many
dedicated and gifted lay men and women
who serve in our prisons from whom
William (Bill) Ross (retired) and Charles
Lewis (deceased) stand out for their help
in guiding and directing the Commission
on Prisons and Related Ministries from its
very beginning until recent times.
All these dedicated and gifted people al-
low the Diocese of Florida to minister in
the name of Jesus Christ in the following
areas: All Saints Chapel, Union Correc-
tional; The Community of St. Dismas,
Baker Correctional; The Episcopal Com-
munity of St. Teresa, Wakulla Correc-
tional; The Episcopal Community of St.
Teresa, Wakulla Work Camp; Brotherhood
of St Philip at Suwannee Correctional;
Brotherhood of St Philip at Suwannee
Work Camp; Franklin Correctional; The
Ministry at Florida State Prison; The
Ministry on death row, Union Correc-
tional; Chapel of Transformation at St.
John's County Detention Center; All Soul's
Community at Hastings Youth Academy;
The Ministry at Columbia Correctional;
The Ministry at Columbia Work Camp;
The Episcopal Community at Liberty
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 Mission: Prison Ministry

Correctional; The Ministry at Gadston

Lights Out! Correctional (women's); Jefferson Correc-
tional (ALPHA); New River Correctional
by Walter Pilgrim
(KAIROS); Florida State West Correc-
tional (KAIROS); Camp Saint Elizabeth's,
The door slams shut a camping experience for the children of
on my prison cell, incarcerated parents at Camp Weed.
A human invention,
The Diocese of Florida is also collaborat-
a man made hell. ing with Prisoners of Christ, an ex-offend-
Lights out! er transitional ministry, to turn around the
The darkness is complete terrible recidivism rate that occurs with
ex-felons.
Alone with my thoughts
and distant memories. What all of us bring into these settings
is the love of Christ and what do we find
Word of Life ignites a flame there? More love … more love than you
can imagine. And what has been the result
Expels the darkness, of all this effort? Lives are being changed,
reveals my shame. forgiveness and reconciliation take place
Sower of sorrows, and a little bit of restorative justice seeps
reaper of time into our criminal justice system because
Mother Theresa was right: “Small things
The chiefest of sinners, done with great love will change the
guilty of crimes. world.”
Below: the Kairos teams that work
in the Diocese of Florida’s prison system,
serving the spiritual and pastoral needs
of over 30,000 incarcerated individuals,
their families, and loved ones. The teams
are comprised of Episcopalians, Roman
Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, a
Baptist and some Anglicans. “We all work
together in spite of our differences,” says
Fr. Tom, “because we concentrate on what
we have in common and not what divides
us. Many inmates come to Kairos to see
if all these diverse church people can func-
tion with out fighting. What they witness
is the power of the Holy Spirit at work in
their midst and it has resulted in many a
conversion. Bottom: Fr. Thomas Beasley
blesses a colleague.

If you want to learn more about prison

Who can pay the price,
the sacrifice supreme?
I have no excuse,
how can I be redeemed?
Lights out! The darkest of dark
Then the light of the world
came into my heart.
Washed in the blood, born again
The Lord Jesus Christ
forgave my sin.
Bought with a price,
no longer my own
Loved of my Father who rules
from the throne.
ministry in the Diocese of Florida, do what
Jesus said to do, “come and see.” Come to
the Diocese of Florida and see what God
can do with his love. X
The Rev. Tom Beasley (VTS ‘74) serves
as a prison missioner in the Diocese of
Florida in the following prisons: Baker
Correctional Institution's Main Camp
and Work Camp; Columbia Correctional
Institution; and Suwannee Correctional
Institution's Main Camp and Work Camp.
He can be reached via email:
beesknees@earthlink.net ; Facebook;
Twitter; and on the web: http://home.
earthlink.net/~beesknees/index.htm

The cell door slams shut,

lights out!
I’m no longer in darkness
but a light to be seen,
Praise the Lord Jesus
for rescuing me. Photos provided by Fr. Thomas Beasley.

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A Prayer for an Execution
by Dale S. Recinella

Lord Jesus Christ,

In all of human history, You are the only God Who

- Has sat in the death house,

- Walked the “Perp” walk to the place of your killing,
- And suffered execution.

As I sit on the cold, concrete floor of this death cell,

Prison Ministry at VTS
Barely twenty feet from where I will be killed,
I have nothing

- Not a cup,
- No property,
- Not even a sheet.
T he Prison Ministry team at VTS is currently entering its third
year of providing services to inmates at the Alexandria Jail. The
ministry, sponsored by the VTS Chapter of the Beatitude Society, is
The clothes on my back belong to the state. co-chaired this year by Patricia Sexton (‘11) and Kyle Oliver (‘12).
My very body belongs to the state.
Lord Jesus, You also were stripped The Beatitudes Society purchases Bibles and other material for
and left with nothing.
There are crowds outside the prison distribution to inmates, as well as leading Bible study and discussion
chanting for my death. groups for both men and women. Each jail volunteer is trained by jail
Lord Jesus, You also heard the crowds
chanting for your death. personal in security policy and procedures, as well as other topics to

And, there are my mother and a keep the volunteer safe and effect in their mission. Both men and
few friends—very few friends—
women being held at the jail have embraced the programs provided
standing by me to the end.
My Lord Jesus, your Blessed Mother by VTS students and eagarly look forward to each week's visit. Our
and the holy women
and John—only John—stood by you to the end. volunteers have been active in sharing the love of God with the Jail

And, there are the guards. inmates and proclaming the the untiring message that God loves
Some have been kind. them! The participation in this ministry has been a blessing for in-
Some have not been kind.
So it was with You, Jesus, and the guards mates and students alike and has provided an opportunity for hands
on your death squad.
Some mocked and struck You. on application of what the students have learned and what they
Yet others testified to your divinity. believe. The students currently involved in this ministry are Patricia
Oh Lord, they are coming for me.
They are coming to take me and kill me. Sexton (‘11), Kati Nakamura (‘11), Shivaun Wilkinson (‘12), Kyle Oli-
I am terrified.
ver (‘12), Josiah Rengers (‘10), and George Hinchliffe (‘11). The Rev.
My Lord, You have traveled this ground before.
A. Katherine Grieb, Ph.D., professor of New Testament, serves as the
Stay with me, Jesus.
They are here, Lord. group’s faculty advisor.
Oh please, lead me through this, Jesus.
Oh my God, they are really killing me.
Lord, remember me in your kingdom.
And forgive them, Lord. “Prison ministry has meant a lot to me,” says Rengers, “It gives me
an opportunity to practice ministry outside the seminary world while
They do not know what they are doing.
using the tools and skills I learn at seminary. It is a beautiful experi-
Amen.
ence to share our lives and ministry in the prison system.”
© 2006 Dale S. Recinella
Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. (Photo by Griska Niewiadomski)

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 Mission: Urban Ministry
Serving Skid Row:
Urban Mission as Theological Education
I n August 2002, I boarded the Sunset
Limited in Houston, Texas, bound for
Union Station in Los Angeles, California.
The train wasn’t actually cheaper than fly-
ing, but I thought it would be nice to have
the extra time for reflection along the jour-
ney. And Amtrak didn’t weigh my lug-
gage or charge me extra for the handful of
boxes I brought with me. I was moving to
L.A. for a year to participate in something
called the Episcopal Urban Intern Pro-
gram (EUIP), which brings young adults
together for a year of simple, community
living and service to those in need. EUIP
was founded in 1991 at Holy Faith Church
in Inglewood, a multicultural urban parish
in a community that borders South Central
Los Angeles. That same year, another
program was started at the National Ca-
thedral, which would eventually develop
into the Trinity Volunteer Corps, based at
Trinity Church in Washington, DC. For
many years, these two programs were the
only options for young adult service in
The Episcopal Church.
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by the Rev. Jason Cox (VTS ‘07)
“I had seen a year of service, a time
of giving back. I didn’t
shantytowns think of my family as
rich, but I knew that I
on the out- had certain advantages
that others lacked. A
skirts of college education, for one.
And coming from a small
Mexico City--but town in Texas, I knew I was
from the right side of the tracks...
this was the United literally. The side where the white people
lived.
States, the land of plenty!
My heart had been pierced in college by
What in God’s name was the preaching I heard at Christ Church
Cathedral, in Houston. Love God, the first
going on here?” commandment. The second, love your
neighbor. On these two commandments
hang all the law and the prophets. It was
On that long train ride, through miles and this commandment to love that compelled
miles of desert, I thought about the life me to get on that train, to go to Los Ange-
I was leaving behind, family and friends les and spend a year learning how to love
in Texas. A job as a music director in a my neighbor—not from a distance, not
medium-sized parish in Houston. And I with my money, but with my hands, with
thought about what I was moving towards: my presence, face to face.
I thought I knew what I was getting myself
into when I disembarked at Union Station
under an impossibly blue sky, palm trees
swaying in the temperate L.A. breeze. I
had no idea.
Union Station is located across from Olve-
ra Street, where Spanish settlers founded
El Pueblo de Nuesta Señora Reina de los
Ángeles in 1781. Although Olvera Street
itself remains a Disneyland-style monu-
ment to L.A.’s Spanish heritage, Latinos
haven’t really lived there for more than a
century. El Pueblo is surrounded on all
sides by L.A.’s Chinatown. Other ethnic
enclaves radiate from the historic core:
Historic Fillipinotown. Thai-town. Little
Tokyo. Little Armenia. Koreatown. And
these are just the groups that have neigh-
borhoods named after them. If you come
from the South, or the mid-Atlantic, or
the mid-West, you think you know what it
means to be American, where the cultural
fault-lines are, the ways we have hurt and
healed over two centuries. Then you come
to L.A., and find a foreign country. Things
are different here.
There’s another way L.A. is different from
most other parts of the country. Just a few
blocks south of Union Station, centering
around San Pedro and 5th, is L.A.’s infa-
mous Skid Row. That’s not a slang term,
either: its how we referred to the place on
country documents. Skid Row has well
defined borders. In those 50 or so city
blocks, 7,000-8,000 people sleep on the
streets every night. And that’s just a small
fraction of the total homeless population
in L.A., estimated to be about 48,000 total.
L.A. is the homelessness capital of the US.
Skid Row is where I was assigned to work
as an intern, in a transitional housing facil-
ity called the Weingart Center. The Wein-
gart is at the corner of 6th and San Pedro,
in what was once the El Ray Hotel, back
in the days when many hotels lined the
streets south of Union Station, when many
more trains arrived every day bringing
all sorts of people chasing the American
dream into the golden west. As I learned
from my clients during my year of service,
these days, if you’re coming to L.A. and
your destination is Skid Row, you’re more
likely to arrive on a Greyhound Bus. Of
course, everyone knows that you can still
head to L.A. to chase your dreams; what
I didn’t realize is that there are busloads
of desperate people arriving every day,
from Mobile or Atlanta or Little Rock,
for whom Skid Row is the dirty promised
land, the last hope for salvation. Skid
Row is one of the last remaining patches
of what passes for a safety net in this
country: if you can get to L.A. and survive
for fifteen days, the county will put you
on General Relief and give you $221 a
month.
On Labor Day, I drove over to Skid Row
from Inglewood, to get the lay of the land
and see where I was supposed to report
to work the next morning. Nothing could
have prepared me for what I saw there.
It was a hot day in L.A., and the car
the program provided for me wasn’t air
conditioned, so the windows were down.
Skid Row stank of human waste. I had
not thought of what you would have to do
if you didn’t have access to a bathroom,
any bathroom at all. The sidewalks were
mostly blocked by makeshift shelters,
tents and tarps held up with sticks. People
slept in doorways or up against walls.
There was a fire in a trashcan, and trash
was everywhere, on the sidewalk, in the
gutter, on the street.
The number of desperate people was
overwhelming. I had no idea there was
poverty like this in our country. There
were homeless people here and there
on the streets of Houston, but nothing
like this. I had seen shantytowns on the
outskirts of Mexico City—but this was the
United States, the land of plenty! What in
God’s name was going on here?
I was devastated, angry, and terrified.
What on earth could I give these lost
people? At the beginning of my service
year, I wasn’t able to offer very much. I
was a “case manager,” responsible for
coordinating care and services for people
admitted to a bed in the facility. I was
also supposed to check in with my clients
weekly to make sure they were follow-
ing program rules and working toward
targeted program goals. But at the begin-
The Episcopal Urban
Intern Program (EUIP),
Los Angeles, is a year-long
service learning project of
the Jubilee Consortium, a
group of inner city Episco-
pal parishes in LA working
together to effect meaningful social change
within their communities. Each fall, EUIP
gathers a new class of young adults from
across the United States to live in Christian
community and to work for change by serv-
ing in some of LA County’s most innovative
and effective social service agencies.
EUIP's mission is to raise up a new
generation of change leaders for the church
and the world who will spend their whole
lives working to expand God’s reign of peace
and justice for all people. EUIP prepares
young adults to become such leaders.
For more information, contact:
Episcopal Urban Intern Program
6128 Yucca Street
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Contact: Jason Cox
Phone: 323.469.3993
Email: jcox@euip.org
Website: www.euip.org
The Episcopal Service Corps (ESC) is a
federation of young adult service programs
across the United States. We invite you to
learn more about us. Perhaps you or some-
one you know is searching for just what we
offer.
ESC helps young adults discern the inner
“voice” that is calling them to their life’s
work, and to develop the skills to listen and
respond through a life of service.”
Contact: Kim Lamberty
Email: kim@episcopalservicecorps.org
Website: www.episcopalservicecorps.org;
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 Mission: Urban Ministry

Right: Los Angeles’ Skid Row.

ning of the year, I didn’t know where the

12-step groups met if my clients were in
recovery and needed to go to a meeting.
If they needed mental health services, I
could tell them to go to Downtown Mental
Health or a county agency. I could even
show them where it was on a map but I’d
never walked the four or five blocks over
there myself. I didn’t know who greeted
you when you went in the door, or what
the procedure was to get an appointment.
I didn’t know that, at a minimum, I needed
to call DTMH ahead to let them know to
expect someone and that, in some cases, I
really needed to walk over there with my
client myself to make sure they made it
okay.
As the year went on, I got better. Some
clients were easy to work with, and grate-
ful for whatever help I could give them. I
held on to these positive encounters; they
reminded me why I wanted to be doing
this work to begin with. Other clients,
the majority, were harder. They had been
on the streets a long time. They were
suspicious of my motives, and not always
honest. The program I worked in had
penalties for not meeting program goals,
like completing a certain job prep class, or
saving a certain amount of income every
month. And there was zero tolerance
for drug or alcohol use. Sifting through
forged signatures and studying urinalysis
reports were a regular part of my routine.
When I first stepped foot on Skid Row, I
promised myself I would treat my clients
the way God treats us: welcoming, non-
judgmental. Generously. Always forgiv-
ing. But I soon realized a hard fact about
the difference between God’s economy
and ours: God’s resources are infinite.
Ours are not.
“I soon realized a hard
fact about the difference
between God’s economy
and ours: God’s resources
are infinite. Ours are not.”
This realization really bothered me. How
was I supposed to imitate God, when the
game was so different between heaven
and earth? I’ve never fully resolved this
question. It still burns inside me. But I’ve
come to see this burning, this agitation and
dissatisfaction with the world the way it
is, as one of the greatest blessings of my
year of service. Like Jacob after wrestling
with the angel, I haven’t quite been the
same since I spent a year on Skid Row. I
move through the world differently, a little
wounded, but I believe my eyesight is
better; I see things in a way I could never
have seen them before.
Listening to the cries of the poor, face to
face, one on one, is a transformational
experience. Seeking out those whom the
world accounts the least, and abiding with
them, trying to hear what they are really
saying: this is the surest way I know to
discern God’s voice in the world. I be-
lieve this experience was a key component
of my theological education, giving me a
framework for understanding who Jesus is
for us, why he was killed, and how we can
join him in resurrection. Everything
I learned at Virginia Seminary was colored
by the lessons I brought with me from
Skid Row.
Jesus teaches us to pray for God’s King-
dom to come on earth. I believe our
country has sufficient resources to meet
the needs of all the people suffering on
Skid Row, and all the other places where
praying for daily bread is a physical real-
ity, rather than a spiritual metaphor. The
burning, unresolved question my year
with EUIP left me was this: why isn’t the
Kingdom here yet? And what can I do
to participate with God in making God’s
Kingdom a reality?
After my year of service, I came to VTS to
complete the other part of my theological
education, to hone my skills in interpret-
ing God’s word and leading worship, so
I could teach others about discerning the

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way of Jesus in their lives, and inspire
A SUMMER OF
CPE
them to follow it. I’m grateful that I can
read New Testament Greek (a little) and
can speak with some confidence about the GROWTH &
4th century controversies that produced
the Nicene Creed. But it is my experi- LEARNING
ence on Skid Row that causes me to think,
whenever I’m writing a sermon: how is
this Good News I’m trying to share going
to push these people, God’s people, out
of this church and into the streets, where
the real Gospel preaching happens? Is it
pushing me?

When I returned to the Diocese of Los

Angeles after graduation, the Bishop
appointed me Executive Director of
EUIP. Over the past few years, we have
worked hard, both locally and nationally,
to expand opportunities for young adult
service in the Episcopal Church. Together
with Trinity Volunteer Corps in DC, and
a handful of other service programs that
sprung up over the years based on our
model, the Episcopal Service Corps (ESC)
was formed in 2008. With funding from
Trinity Wall Street and the Fund for Theo-
logical Education, five new programs are
Hospital Chaplains: VTS students at the Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericks-
opening this fall, expanding our reach to
burg, Virginia: Andrew Terry (far left), Caleb Lee (2nd from left), Chris Cole (2nd
eleven locations around the country. Fur-
from right), and Peter Doddema (far right).
ther expansion is planned for the future.
In Los Angeles, EUIP will expand to serve
15 interns next year, up from 6.

ESC’s mission is to raise up leaders who

will transform the church and the world. I
came to LA thinking that I would spend a
year on Skid Row giving back, then move
on with my life. But my experience on
Skid Row ended up changing me far more
than the change I was able to make in my
short time there. Which I now realize
is the real point of service, to allow the
world’s need to change and transform us.

We don’t want one year from the vol-

unteers who come to ESC. We want a
lifetime. X

The Rev. Jason Cox graduated from

Virginia Theological Seminary in 2007 Finishing CPE - VTS students at CPE graduation at Goodwin House, Bailey’s
and now serves as the Executive Director Crossroads: Shawn Strout (3rd from left), Jo Belser (4th from left), Josiah Rengers
of the Episcopal Urban Intern Program. (3rd from right), and Anne Dale (2nd from right.) Photo by Lenore Funkhouser.

Fall 2010 43
The Formidable Work
of the Small Parish:
Farewell to the Summer Collegium
by Dr. Marilyn Johns, D.Min.
F
or the past five years, Virginia Semi-
nary has been the grateful recipient
of a Lilly Endowment grant to sup-
port small congregations. This grant has
enabled the seminary to offer the Summer
Collegium, a nine-day conference for
the pastors of small congregations in all
Christian denominations across the U.S.
and Canada, and their spouses or part-
ners. Each year, 25 applicants are selected
to come to VTS, with all expenses paid
by the grant, to be part of the program.
Included in the project are follow-up
visits to each of the churches to meet and
encourage congregation members in their
ministry. We have also hosted a Small
Church Religious Arts Festival each sum-
mer as part of the Collegium, lifting up the
connection between faith and the arts to
the surrounding community.
There were specific goals for the project,
and specific parameters outlined in the
grant, written with great foresight and care
by the Rev. Dr. Roger Ferlo and others.
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The project was designed to:
• Be ecumenical. Each year we worked
to send application invitations to as many
denominations as we could find. Over
the last five years we received applica-
tions from 27 different denominations;
welcomed participants from 18 denomina-
tions; and utilized a faculty from 16.
• Include spouses and partners. We
believed that the greatest support in min-
istry comes from one’s spouse or partner,
and although we encountered some resis-
tance at times (“my spouse isn’t part of
this church; my spouse won’t come, etc.),
we have stuck to that vision. The partners
and spouses who attend overwhelmingly
agreed that they should be there. We also
welcomed single people.
• Serve healthy small churches. The
vision of the Summer Collegium was
not to serve congregations in trouble, but
to serve those congregations who could
Photo by G. Scholiers
model healthy small churches to others as
a result of their participation in the Colle-
gium. This has happened to a large extent.
Through our rather extensive application
process, we were able to determine which
congregations were healthiest. I recently
met with a United Methodist pastor who
was part of the Summer Collegium in
2006, and she said that, since her time
here, she has led eight workshops on small
church ministry in her conference and in
ecumenical settings. Many others in the
program have done the same.
• Include Sabbath and refreshment.
The grant acknowledged the relentless
demands on small church clergy and their
families in their congregations, as well as
the pressure they feel from judicatories
and society to grow numbers in order to be
successful. So, in addition to keynotes by
experts in the field of small church minis-
try, we treated participants to a theatre out-
ing as well as a dinner on the town. They
were housed in a five-star hotel for part of

their stay, and were treated with matchless
VTS hospitality.
• Celebrate ministry in the small
church. So often events for small congre-
gations focus on how to grow the church
to become a medium or large-size church.
Our goal was to celebrate healthy small
churches and their unique and valuable
gifts. More than one clergy participant
has remarked: “When I came to Virginia
I was kind of ashamed of being a small
church pastor. Now I’m proud to be living
my call in the small church.”
Now, the five year project is coming to a
close. The final residents have left, and
the final follow-up visits are beginning.
Final reports are being written, and final
plans are being made. Much has been
learned about life in the small church since
our first residency in 2006. For one thing,
we have learned how necessary it is to of-
fer support to small congregations. These
parishes are doing interesting and innova-
tive ministry, and thrive on the intimate
relationships that are the backbone of the
small church. The stereotypical inward-
focused, older, dying small church is out
there, but the participants in the Collegium
have shown that there is another side to
the small church – the church that, in
addition to traditional Sunday worship,
offers a “street church” every Sunday
afternoon, setting up in the middle of
town, and preaching and serving Com-
munion and lunch to the street people who
choose to participate; the church that was
formed when two small churches merged,
one African-American and one Cauca-
sian, and maintains a 50-50 racial balance
(and it works!); the church that had been
Institute for Christian Formation & Leadership
saving for years
to someday get a
full-time priest, but
after discernment
decided to use the
money to start a
women’s shelter in-
stead. This is a very
different picture
than much of the lit-
erature on the small
church portrays.
Another important lesson is that small
church issues are for the most part not
denominationally determined. Everyone
has the same joys and concerns, whether
in an Anglican church or a Missionary
Baptist church. Seeing each of the five
Summer Collegium groups bond together
was a true joy of this project. It helped
increase awareness of the global nature of
the Christian church, and helped these pas-
tors envision ecumenical ministry in their
communities.
One of the ways the Institute for Christian
Formation and Leadership is planning to
continue to support small churches after
the project has officially ended is that we
have converted our website into a re-
source for small congregations. The new
website contains monthly commentary
from former participants or faculty, with a
link to a Facebook fan page so that readers
can discuss the article further. In addition,
there are bibliographic resources and web-
sites that have good information on small
congregations, and we are developing a
way to post the videos we have taken of
keynotes and workshops over the years, to
make them available to pastors, their lead-
ers, and anyone interested in small church
ministry at no cost. We may also include
a book review section. One of the main
issues for many small church clergy is that
they do not have the resources to attend
continuing education events; this website
will offer ways they might get a taste of
the Summer Collegium without the cost of
attending a conference.
Small churches are here to stay – their
numbers increase every year, even if their
size doesn’t! It has been a privilege to
work on this important project in support
of these churches which are home to mil-
lions of faithful Christians. In mainline
denominations, the number of churches
with fewer than 100 in worship on an
average Sunday is from 50-75%. The vast
majority of clergy graduating from semi-
naries will be called to a small church at
some time in their ministry. Some will be
called there for their entire ministry. The
Summer Collegium has allowed Virginia
Seminary to support small church clergy
and show them that this call is important
and needed.
As for my work with the Summer Collegi-
um, well, how many clichés can you think
of to denote the ending of something?
Folks have tried to make me feel better
about the last residency of the Collegium
by saying, “Well, all good things must
come to an end,” or “breaking up is hard
to do.” I’d prefer the more positive cliché:
“it ain’t over ‘til it’s over.” There’s much
still to be done! There are the 25 site visits
to small churches all over the U.S. and
Canada - times to preach and teach and
bring a word of hope to these congrega-
tions who are concerned about shrinking
numbers and budgets. We have a new
website devoted to providing free, online
resources to small congregations – it’s
still a work in progress, but check it out
at www.vts.edu/smallchurches. And this
project, as successful and life-changing
as it has been, has potential for new life.
VTS has birthed something unique, and
although it may not look exactly the same,
I am hopeful that God is not done with this
support for small churches yet. Perhaps
the more appropriate cliché is “where
there is life, there is hope. There is indeed
life, and hope abounds!” X
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 Interview: Jacques Hadler
“We must be global
Christians with a
global vision because
our God is a global God.”
The World
according to
Jacques Hadler
by Susan L. Shillinglaw
O
n July 31, 2010, the Rev. Jacques
Hadler Jr. retired from Virginia
Theological Seminary where he
had worked for the past 17 years as Direc-
tor of Field Education. His service to VTS
was multi-faceted: he taught in the Depart-
ments of Practical Theology and Global
Christianity, taught family systems theory
in the Doctor of Ministry program, offered
a seminar for clergy on Congregational
Leadership, and led Cross-cultural Intern-
ships to Tanzania.
“I have often heard from our alums the
impact that Jacques had on their ministry,”
said the Very Rev. Ian Markham, dean
and president of Virginia Seminary, “As
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— John Stott
Field Education Director he treated each
student as a distinct individual needing the
perfect match for his or her gifts. He had
real insight and wisdom as he worked with
each student.”
Hadler completed his M.Div. at the Epis-
copal Theological School in Cambridge,
Massachusetts and earned his B.A in
History at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison. He is a long time participant
in the Post Graduate Seminar in Family
Emotional Process founded by Dr. Edwin
Friedman.
Before joining the faculty at VTS, Fr.
Hadler served on the faculty of St. Philip’s
Photo by Curtis Prather
Theological College, Kongwa, Tanzania,
as a lecturer in Church History. He has
also served the Episcopal Church as rector,
priest-in-charge or assistant at parishes in
Waldorf, Hyattsville, and Laurel—all in
Maryland—as well as Trinity in Manassas,
Virginia, and All Souls in DC.
He has written two articles, Genogram
of a Congregation and Two-way Bridge:
The Cross-cultural Colloquy at Virginia
Seminary.
I sat down with Fr. Hadler to find out more
about his past, how his experiences shaped
his ministry, and what he planned to do in
the future.
SS: Tell me about your past, how you got to
Tanzania and to VTS.
JH: Raised an Episcopalian, I was involved
in two parishes in the Diocese of Washing-
ton where I served as an acolyte and in the
choirs. In college, I became an atheist and
sought to find the meaning of life through
science. I majored in math and nuclear
physics, mainly because I was good with
numbers, but also because the University
of Wisconsin allowed science majors to
take history and humanities courses as
well – subjects which also piqued my
interest.
In my sophomore year, I felt the desire to
reexamine Christianity but wanted to do it
outside of the United States. After spotting
an ad on the wall for a work camp in the
Diocese of Central Tanganyika, I applied
for grants and was soon off to Tanzania
where I worked to build classrooms and a
chapel in a theological college. I was even
given an African name—Chedego—by
one of the African students. With the
acceptance of the Australian missionary
Bishop, Alfred Stanway, I decided to stay
for another year and teach English at the
theological college.
During that year I met Nathaniel Kamu-
nye, a Kikuyu student who’d migrated to
Tanzania after fighting in the Mau Mau
independence movement of the 1950s
in Kenya and who had taken the oath to
kill white people. However he had been
impressed by the faith of a Presbyterian
pastor who would not take the oath even
on threat of death. After release from an
imprisonment, Nathaniel opened the door
to Jesus.
When Nathanial told me about his own
conversion and the aliveness of Jesus to
him, and I saw the way he treated people,
generously sharing his food with the locals
during a time of famine, I saw that Jesus
was real and could really affect someone’s
life.
A number of months after that meeting, I
had an awakening of my own and soon felt
a call to the priesthood. When I returned to
the states, I switched my major to history
and then went to seminary at the Episcopal
Theological School
in Cambridge, Mas-
sachusetts, now
Episcopal Divinity
School.
In my first year at
seminary, I was sort
of an oddball because
I had done mission
work, something that
was, at the time, seen
as imperialism and
not valued at all by
my fellow students. It
was an eerie environ-
ment. I dropped out
after a year and a half, and, for the next
two and a half years, worked in a state
mental hospital with alcoholics and then
took an intern year of CPE in a general
hospital. After that, I returned to seminary
and earned an M.Div. in 1972.
After seminary, I became a deacon-in-
training at St. Matthews, Hyattsville with
Larry Harris (a current VTS Field Ed
supervisor). In 1975, I was invited back
to Kongwa to teach Church History in the
theological college there. This time, how-
ever, I brought my wife, Susan, and two
children, 6 and 4 (Jacques and Sarah). We
had three very good family years, there.
Even though we were often without water
and certain provisions, even with these
hardships, it was a good time for us.
Ten months after returning to the States in
1979, I was called to St. Paul’s in Waldorf,
Maryland where I worked for 12 years. It
was there that I began to supervise semi-
narians under the VTS system.
Then, it was my turn to follow Susan
with her career. We moved to Washington
where she had a counseling practice. In
1991, I was called to All Souls in DC to
be the interim. A year later, I was called to
St. Phillips in Laurel, Maryland, as interim
after Jane Dixon was elected a bishop. It
was there that I received a call from the
then Dean of VTS, Dick Reid, who asked
me to serve as an interim Field Ed Direc-
tor, which I did. When the Rev. Martha
Horne was elected Dean of VTS a year
later, she asked me if I would continue in
Above: the Rev. Jacques Hadler is given
a chicken in honor of his visit.
the Field Ed position as a full-time faculty
member. I began my first official term in
January 1995.
SS: How has the practice of Field Ed changed
over the years?
JH: The foundation of VTS’ field Ed pro-
gram was laid down in 1967 by Gordon
Charleton. The same structure continues–
and it’s a gifted structure. What changes is
the content with which we fill the structure
- the flesh is different but the structure
is the same. For example, when I went
through the training to be a FE supervisor
in the early 80s, our first year of training
focused around doing verbatims and on
the one-to-one relationship – this is still
the same today. The second year, however,
was very focused around parish programs.
Since then, I’ve completely changed this
formula from being program-based to
focusing on the dynamics of the parish—
family systems—the way a parish has
functioned in its history from founding
to the present. Now, rather than study a
current parish program, we study the his-
tory of a congregation’s relationship to its
clergy, to its environment, and how it does
its mission.
SS: What one thing would you change in terms
of what students are learning in their Field Ed
parishes?
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 Faculty Inaugural Lecture
Receiving Christ:
reading the bible
across time
and culture
An abridged version
of the Inaugural
Lecture of the
Rev. Dr. John Yieh,
professor of New
Testament.
March 3, 2010
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F
or all of us at VTS, there is no need
to argue how important the Bible
is for Christian life and ministry.
The church regards the study of the Bible
as absolutely essential for the spiritual
growth of the newly baptized (BCP 304).
Diligent study of the Bible affords the
priests with necessary knowledge to serve
as faithful and competent ministers of
Christ (BCP 532) and will lead the bishops
to find the mind of Christ so that they may
instruct the minds and conscience of God’s
people (BCP 518).
1. Jesus Christ and the Bible
The Bible is believed to be the inspired
“word of God,” and to say so is to ac-
cept it as a divine revelation with divine
authority (2 Tim 3:16-17). In church
language, the “word of God” has been
used in reference to three different things:
Jesus Christ, the Bible, and the sermons.
In Karl Barth’s scheme, Jesus Christ is the
living Word of God who alone has seen
God, is close to the Father, and through
incarnation has become the exegesis of the
invisible God (John 1.18). The Bible is
the written word of God, which acquires
a derived authority by virtue of its unique
testimony to Jesus Christ. A sermon
can be called the word of God, because
it proclaims Jesus Christ on the basis of
biblical witnesses. There is a hierarchy of
authority among the three. Jesus Christ
has the supreme authority, then the Bible,
and finally preaching. Hence, the Bible
has a unique role to play in the church. It
testifies to Jesus Christ on the one hand,
and informs the church’s proclamation on
the other. How we read the Bible that we
may know Christ and make Christ known,
however, involves a complicated process
and requires humble and careful efforts.
How can we read the Bible faithfully and
critically in order to receive Christ in our
hearts and minds so that our lives may be
transformed? This is the main question I
want to address in this lecture.
2. Critical Studies of the Bible
Very early in its history, church lead-
ers have vigorously searched for proper

ways to interpret the Bible. Origen, for
instance, compiled the Hexapla, with six
OT versions in parallel columns: Hebrew,
Hebrew transliterated in Greek, and four
Greek versions edited by Aquila, Sym-
machus, LXX, and Theodotion. This was
one of the earliest tools for textual-critical
studies. Augustine also produced many
commentaries and homilies on biblical
books, and wrote De Doctrina Christiana
in four books (AD 397, 426) to teach the
rules of interpretation including how to
discover the meaning and signs in the
scripture and how to express them in ef-
fective rhetorical styles. Luther’s exegeti-
cal study of Romans and Galatians and his
re-discovery of Paul’s theological teaching
of justification by faith started the Ref-
ormation that changed the course of the
history of the church. Since Schleierm-
acher, general theory of hermeneutics was
applied to the interpretation of the Bible,
so rules and methods used in analyzing
linguistics, history, and philosophy are
also used to study biblical text. Critical
studies of the Bible as a scientific disci-
pline became possible.
Since the 19th century, critical
studies of the NT have focused
on the formation history of the
text and its source traditions,
believing that knowledge of the
“Vorleben” (previous life or pre-
history) of the biblical books may
shed light on the composition of
the writing and thus the purposes
of the writers/editors and the
meaning of the text. Taking the
Gospels as an example, a robust
interest in finding historical facts
leads to the development of
critical methods, such as source criticism,
form criticism and redaction criticism, and
discover the Sitz im Leben, church activi-
ties, and theological debates of the earliest
Christian communities that produced and
preserved the oral and written traditions
of Jesus (Luke 1.1-4). Many methods
devised with such a “traditioning” history
in mind become useful tools for exegesis.
In comparison to the pre-history of biblical
text, much less attention has been paid to
the “Nachleben” (after life), i.e. the recep-
tion history of the Bible. Textual critics,
for instance, have combed through ancient
manuscripts and versions produced in
later centuries to create a “restored text”
for translation and interpretation. Quite
often, however, NT scholars forget that
those manuscripts and versions, though
produced after the NT books, were the
very Bibles that were read, interpreted,
and used by church fathers to preach the
gospel, teach Christian life, debate the her-
etics, and create the creeds. They reflect
the ideas of those centuries. Most impor-
tant of all, we are all inheritors of one or a
John Yieh, Ph.D.
few theological thoughts and interpretive
traditions which have conditioned our
reading lenses. As biblical scholars and
preachers, we are at great peril, therefore,
if we ignore the reception history of the
Bible.
In this light, we may have been wrong to
assume that, once a preacher has done ba-
sic exegetical study of a biblical text, he or
she is ready to connect the ancient biblical
ideas with our contemporary world, flying
over the two thousand years in between
as if nothing has ever happened in that
span of time and as if we have never been
touched by the traditions of the church
developed in that period of time. This is
where I find a huge gap that needs to be
closed in a hermeneutical process.
In recent biblical scholarship, there are
two shifts of interest worth noticing: from
text to context, and from author to reader.
Insofar as “context” is concerned, some
studies investigate biblical texts for the
purpose of uncovering the social-cultural
world behind the text (e.g. sociological
studies of early Christian communities,
anthropological studies of the ancient
Mediterranean culture), the literary world
in the text (e.g. narrative criticism, rhetori-
cal criticism), and the social world in front
of the text (e.g. social location and theo-
logical position of today’s reader). These
recent efforts enhance our exegetical task.
Insofar as “reader” is concerned, biblical
texts are critically examined in order to
address the theological concerns of the
church (e.g. theological interpretation
or particular themes) and contemporary
issues of particular groups (e.g. liberation-
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theological, feminist, and postcolonial).
The passionate interest in the reader,
especially today’s reader, reflects an
earnest attempt to connect the meaning of
biblical text to the theological challenges
and social concerns facing us today, so it
advances interpretive task.
Giving high priority to the reader in the in-
terpretive process, however, scholars need
to consider two potential problems. First,
there is a tendency among ideological crit-
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ics to privilege their self-interest as reader
over the meaning of the Bible. Their read-
ing posture as advocates for worthy causes
sometimes turn too quickly into hostility
against the Bible. Consequently, their
reading of the Bible becomes an inter-
rogation rather than interpretation. The
result is an ideological battle about the
Bible rather than honest wrestling with the
Bible. The second challenge is the danger
of “privatizing” reading. Like some stub-
born fundamentalists, some passionate
ideological critics run the risk of privatiz-
ing their interpretation, to read the Bible
with a tunnel vision and address only the
issues of their personal interest without
considering the proper framework and ma-
jor concerns of the Bible itself. As such,
there is still room for biblical scholars to
improve their interpretive efforts. Two
additional approaches are important.
3. History of Effects Approach
The first approach is the Wirkungsge-
schichte (history of effects or conse-
quences) , which Ulrich Luz began to
advocate in Matthew in History: Interpre-
tation, Influence and Effects (1994). What
motivates him? Luz finds several texts in
Matthew whose controversial interpreta-
tions have caused theological disputes
and religious wars between Catholics and
Protestants in Europe. Mt 16.18 is a case
in point. After confessing Jesus as the
Christ and the Son of the living God, Jesus
renamed Simon as Peter and said to him,
“on this rock I will build my church.” The
Roman Catholic Church thus interprets
Peter to be the rock of the church and cites
it to support Peter’s apostolic primacy and
by association the papacy for the Bishop
of Rome. The Lutheran church, on the
other hand, interprets this verse to insist
that Peter’s confession of Jesus as “the
Christ and the Son of God” is the founda-
tion of the church. The Lutherans are
quick to point out that almost immediately
Peter was called Satan because he refused
to accept Jesus’ prediction of crucifixion.
As a consequence, the two interpretations
divide the church into two rival camps
and result in many wars. In Europe, Luz
also witnesses anti-Semitism culminating
in the Holocaust. What the Jewish crowd
said to Pilate against Jesus: “His blood be
on us and on our children!” (Mt 27.25) has
played a role in creating the anti-Semitic
prejudice and discrimination. Facing the
two problems, Luz begins to realize that
historical and literary studies may be able
to answer some exegetical questions of the
Bible, but they are inadequate in dealing
with interpretive issues.
What is “history of effects”? The Bible is
ancient, authoritative, and has been influ-
ential in many ways for a long time, so its
meanings and interpretations have infiltrat-
ed into every aspect and level of the life
of the church, the society, and the culture
in West civilization. All readers in the
West, even an atheist, have been shaped
by the language, ideas, and values of the
Bible, before they open it to read. Like a
fish in the water, the readers cannot think
or act without the influence of the Bible
that is part of their culture. The “history
of effects” includes both the history of
interpretation (found in commentaries and
theological writings) and the history of
influence (attested in the sermons, hymns,
arts, and practice of the church). Studying
the history of effects, Luz seeks to achieve
two aims: to clarify the readers’ pre-
understanding of the text and to correct the
wrong interpretations in history.
This approach has two noteworthy as-
sumptions about biblical text: “A Biblical
text is not a reservoir or a cistern, with
a fixed amount of water in it that can be
clearly measured. Rather it resembles a
source, where new water emerges from the
same place.” (Luz, Matthew in History,
19). Because the meaning of biblical
text is not limited or fixed to the histori-
cal locus where it was first written, Luz
further writes: “I would propose to under-
stand the meaning of a biblical text as an
interaction of a ‘kernel of meaning,’ which
corresponds to the given structures of a
text, and a ‘directional meaning,’ which
gives a present direction to the readers on
their way to new lands.” (Luz, Matthew in
History, 20). The division of “kernel of
meaning” and “directional meaning” may
be simplistic from a hermeneutical point
of view, but they provide useful categories
for the implementation of interpretive

practice. Luz also proposes that the ulti-
mate standard by which to assess the truth
of a “kernel of meaning” in any biblical
text is the criterion of “Christological con-
sistency,” whether it consists with Jesus
Christ and the truth he represents. The
final judgment on the validity of a “direc-
tional meaning” is the criterion of “love,”
whether it leads to the consequence of
love, loving God and loving neighbors
as the Bible has attested to be Jesus’ new
commandments.
What is to be gained, if we take this
approach? (1) Broaden hermeneutical
horizons. Recognizing the hermeneuti-
cal presuppositions in the readers, this
approach urges us not to over-privilege
our own perspectives or to preclude other
interpretations. (2) Sensitize ethical
concerns. Learning from historical cases
the social impact of biblical interpretation,
this approach has the potential to sensitize
our ethical concerns in using biblical texts.
(3) Enhance ecumenical relationship.
Reflecting on the reason and impact of
biblical interpretation in different ecclesial
bodies in the contexts of their doctrines,
disciplines, and missions, this approach
may deepen our ecumenical understanding
and enhance ecumenical relationship.
This approach requires knowledge of
several disciplines of study. Besides the
usual training in biblical hermeneutics,
linguistics, literature, philosophy, history,
and sociology, we will need familiar-
ity with church history, doctrine, theol-
ogy, ethics, and arts. Because this is an
integrated approach to the interpretation
of the Bible, it will also require team work
among scholars. This approach seeks to
learn how the Bible has exercised its influ-
ence in the history of its reception. So, it
is particularly important and necessary for
a preacher who reads and interprets the
Bible for the church.
4. Cross-Cultural Approach
If the history of effects approach closes the
gap between the ancient biblical world and
the modern day readers, another approach
that seeks to bridge different worlds also
deserves to be considered, namely, the
cross-cultural study of the Bible. More
than before, we are living in a small global
village, with easier mobility of popula-
tion, faster international communication,
and frequent cultural exchanges that make
cross-cultural interpretation not only desir-
able but necessary.
I would venture to say that no one else
knows and appreciates the importance of
cross-cultural interpretation of the Bible
more than Anglicans or Episcopalians.
Recent controversy on sexuality and
ordination has driven everybody to see the
significant difference in varied cultural
interpretations of the Bible. Clearly,
biblical interpretation lies right under the
surface of controversy. It is not simply the
authority of the scripture or the methods of
reading, but also cultural assumptions and
social impact that shape one’s particular
interpretation of the Bible. Every inter-
pretation is culture-specific and culturally
conditioned, be it Northern-American or
African. We may be able to overcome
some misunderstanding and learn from
one another, if we approach biblical inter-
pretation with a cross-cultural sensitivity
and proficiency.
Culture is an amalgamation of racial-
ethnic identity, linguistic-literary ex-
pression, social-ethical experience, and
historical-political heritage that a group of
people share and value over time. Some
cultural practices and expressions can be
easily observed like the tip of an iceberg,
but many more cultural assumptions and
values are hidden from outsiders and very
hard to articulate. In order to bridge the
cultural gap, one needs to be generous
with each other, especially when dealing
with uncertainties and controversies. It
is living in tension with both similarities
and particularities that is the hallmark of a
cross-cultural experience.
The Apostle Paul have had to deal with
cross-cultural debates between Jewish
and Gentile members of his church, the
subjects ranging from the doctrine of
salvation, the rite of circumcision, dietary
law and table fellowship. In modern days,
many divisions remain in the life of the
church universal, so there are at least three
John Yieh, Ph.D.
good reasons why a cross-cultural ap-
proach to the Bible is necessary and good.
(1) To deepen our experience of God. We
believe in God as Creator of heaven and
earth and Father of all peoples. God loves
the world and God’s love can be under-
stood in all cultures. Learning how the
scripture speaks to each culture (i.e. how
it is interpreted in different cultures) can,
therefore, enhance our understanding of
God’s work among all peoples. (2) To en-
rich our understanding of the Bible. One
should not forget that people in different
cultures share much in common, such as
fear, hope, aspiration, and need, so biblical
interpretation in each culture can make
contributions to people living in other
cultures. It can be very affirming indeed
if one interpretation proves to be helpful
to others. It is also true that, by virtue of
their distinctive cultural experience, some
people have closer affinities with the Bible
in certain ways. For instance, African
Christians living in a tribal system may
understand the conquest narrative in the
OT in a more personal way than Western
scholars. The house-church Christians in
China may appreciate the persecution of
the Johannine community in the Book of
Revelation in a way more intimate than
most of the readers in other parts of the
world. Some Chinese readings of the
scripture can therefore be inspiring for us,
just as our penetrating analysis of theol-
ogy, developed in the scholarly tradition of
the West can be informative to the church-
es in Asia. (3) To prevent misunderstand-
ing among believers. Equally important is
the function to prevent brothers and sisters
in the church universal to misunderstand
one another. A cross-cultural sensitivity
may bring people to an empathetic under-
standing of other biblical interpretations
and avoid unnecessary dispute. Even as
they continue to debate, both sides may be
better informed.
Several things should be borne in mind,
when we try to learn from “others” with
a cross-cultural reading of the Bible. (1)
Border-crossing. By definition, a cross-
cultural approach is a border-crossing
experience, a journey out of one’s famil-
iar territory and comfort zone in order
to explore and discover new things and
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maybe dangerous ideas from others. On
this journey, one will risk changes by what
he or she sees and hears in other cultures.
So, the willingness to take risks and be
changed is a prerequisite. (2) Comparison
and contrast. When one tries to under-
stand interpretations made in different
cultures, one will have to compare and
contrast. It is in the dialectic exchange of
two or more interpretations that we may
learn new things about the Bible and about
ourselves. So, honesty and fairness are
necessary. (3) No relativism. In order to
benefit from a cross-cultural interpretation,
one needs to be confident in his or her own
views while respecting other opinions, but
that does not mean a conscientious wres-
tling with the text and the contexts can be
lightly spared. Cross-cultural approach
does not seek compromise or relativism
at the expense of truth, but rather the
chance for all cultural interpretations to be
confirmed or corrected to serve as faithful
messengers of God’s word.
5. The Sermon on the Mount as an
example
When we use the traditional historical and
literary methods to read the Sermon on the
Mount (Matt 5-7) that follows the narra-
tive sequence of slaughtered babies, flight
from Egypt, and crossing the water of
Jordan into the desert (Matt 1-4), we can
find in Matthew’s Jesus a “New Moses”
giving new laws on a mountain to God’s
people with authority.
When we take on a history of effects ap-
proach, we ask a different set of questions.
Why did Augustine consider the Sermon
“perfect measure of the Christian life” and
the Beatitudes as “ascending steps to per-
fection for the human soul”? (Augustine,
On the Sermon on the Mount, 1) Why did
Luther claim that it “only brings us to the
knowledge of ourselves, the knowledge
that by our own ability we cannot properly
fulfill an iota of it . . . We can never take
our stand before God on this basis, but we
must always creep to Christ”? (Luther,
Luther’s Works, Vol 21: 72) And how can
Hauerwas argue that it “is not addressed
to individuals but to the community that
Jesus begins and portends through the
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calling of the disciples. The sermon is
not a heroic ethic. It is the constitution of
a people. . . . a description of the life of
a people gathered by and around Jesus”
(Hauerwas, Matthew, 61)? These three
interpretations represent three influen-
tial traditions: Catholic, Protestant, and
Anabaptist. With which interpretation do
I agree or disagree, and why? What do I
learn from each of them? What images
of Jesus do they present? Together, these
influential interpreters remind us of impor-
tant themes (Beatitudes) and issues (law
or gospel) in Matthew’s text that we may
otherwise overlook. They also provide a
range of fresh questions which demand
further consideration (spiritual sphere vs.
secular sphere; individual ethics or com-
munity witness).
When we think about the Sermon on the
Mount cross-culturally, Ghandi’s use of
the non-violence principle to defeat the
occupying army of the British Empire
in India comes first to mind. It was not
Jesus the “Jewish lawgiver” but his moral
wisdom that empowers the people of India
to peaceably obtain independence from
a ruthless colonial power. In China, we
can also find a few remarkable interpreta-
tions of Jesus who gives the Sermon on
the Mount. Hong Xiuquan, a rebel king,
established a quasi-Christian kingdom in
Nanjing in 1850 called Taiping Tianguo
(the Great Peace Kingdom of Heaven)
and used the principle of brotherhood and
equality to make new laws. Both Ghandi
and Hong were attracted to Jesus when
they sought freedom for their suffering
people oppressed by ruthless empires,
perhaps because they found in him the
same compassion for the Jewish peas-
ants suffering under the iron rule of the
Roman Empire. Wu Leichuan, a Chinese
scholar, considered Jesus a “messianic
revolutionary turned wise sage” who
inspired his followers by example and by
words to cultivate their moral character
in order to build an ideal society of self-
sacrifice. Watchman Nee, an influential
leader of an indigenous church, believed
that Jesus was the savior of the world who
came to save his people from sins; but he
also taught them how to live a Christian
life. Nee regarded the high demands in
the Sermon on the Mount as challenging
“tests” meant to reveal the strength of our
inner life. Like Luther, he believed that no
one can be saved by obeying the Sermon
on the Mount; nonetheless, it is a grace to
train and enable us to live a Christian life
worthy of the name.
Conclusion
Reading the Bible across time and across
culture takes time and energy, but it will
surely reward us with generous prizes
and good surprises. This reading process
leads us to some important hermeneuti-
cal insights. (1) On the Bible. There are
a wide range of views of Jesus and his
words in the scriptures. Jesus is many
things to many people. (2) On the reader.
With critical appreciation, our under-
standing of Jesus can be broadened and
deepened. Some interpretations affirm us;
others challenge us, but all show how the
scripture as the word of God may speak
to people in their needs and crisis. (3)
On interpretive differences. Not every
interpretation is right, appropriate or good,
but by trying to understand others in their
particular contexts we may at least prevent
some misunderstanding, disputes or mis-
takes. (4) On cultural differences. There
are indeed significant differences between
cultures just as there are many similarities
between the West and the East in cultural
milieu, social experiences, and theological
convictions. They however enrich each
other in understanding the messages and
influence of the Bible as the word of God.
This lecture represents one of my recent
reflections on biblical scholarship. What
I am calling for is an “interdisciplin-
ary and integrated” approach to Biblical
studies that utilizes as many disciplines as
necessary, attends to interpretive goal as
well as exegetical task, consults influential
interpretations and evaluate their effects
with critical appreciation, and focuses on
the localized concern with a broad cross-
cultural horizons, so that the voice of God
can be better heard, the image of Christ
be more clearly seen, and the touch of the
Holy Spirit be more intimately felt as we
open the Bible to preach its good news to
the world. X
FACULTY NEWS
Left to right: Mitzi
Budde, Stephen Cook,
and David Gortner.
Mitzi Budde, D.Min.
• Authored “The Marks as Signposts of the Jour-
ney to Unity in Mission,” Journal of Ecumenical
Studies 42:2 (Spring 2010): 218-226; and “Unity
in Mission: Introduction,” co-authored with Don
Thorsen, same issue: 178-182.
• Authored “The Vocation for Unity in Theological
Education,” in Staying One, Remaining Open, ed-
ited by J. Barney Hawkins, IV & Richard J. Jones.
New York: Church Publishing, 2010, pp. 89-108.
• While on sabbatical during the month of Febru-
ary, 2010, was part of a delegation accompanying
the President of the Lutheran World Federation,
ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson, on an
ecumenical pilgrimage to visit international church
leaders in London, Istanbul, Rome, and Geneva.
Stephen Cook, Ph.D.
• Authored “Haggai,” “Zechariah,” and “Malachi”
in The New Interpreter’s Bible One-Volume Com-
mentary (ed. Beverly Roberts Gaventa and David
Petersen; Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 2010). See
http://biblische.blogspot.com/2010/08/now-in-print-
nib-one-volume-commentary.html
• Authored the introduction and annotations to
“Ezekiel,” in The New Oxford Annotated Bible:
New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha
(Fully Revised Fourth Edition; eds. M. Coogan,
et al; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010)
1159–1232. See
http://biblische.blogspot.com/2010/03/now-in-print-
noab-fully-revised-fourth.html.
• Authored “Theological Exegesis of Genesis 22:
Wrestling with a Disturbing Scripture,” in Stay-
ing One, Remaining Open: Educating Leaders for
a 21st-Century Church (ed. Richard J. Jones and
J. Barney Hawkins IV; New York: Morehouse,
2010) 125–138. See http://biblische.blogspot.
com/2010/05/now-in-print-staying-one-remaining-
open.html
• Developed “The Yale Bible Study: Second
Isaiah,” eight 15-30 minute online video conversa-
tions with Robert R. Wilson of Yale University
supplemented with a series notebook containing
an introduction, interpretation essays, and supple-
mental materials (February 2010). Yale Bible Study
Homepage: http://www.yale.edu/yalebiblestudy/.
The Rev. David Gortner, Ph.D.
• Led diocesan and clergy conferences on evange-
lism for the Episcopal Church in Greenville, South
Carolina, Vancouver, British Columbia, Estes Park,
Colorado, and Jackson, Michigan.
• With Alban Institute president Jim Wind, led a
consultation on congregational vitality for the
diocesan council of the Diocese of Washington.
• At last November's "Fridays at the Seminary," led
a discussion of his documentary, Feast in the Des-
ert: Five Approaches to Young Adult Ministry (to
be posted soon on the “VTS Without Walls” portion
of the VTS website).
• Wrote Retraining Ourselves in Thought and Ac-
tion, his second of two articles on leadership in the
Anglican Theological Review (Winter 2010).
• Primary author of Around One Table, the first
report from the Episcopal Identity Project funded
by CREDO and the College for Bishops.
• Initiated the first VTS online / hybrid course,
Reading and Exegesis of Congregations and Con-
texts of Ministry, which now guides D.Min. Min-
istry Development students through a multi-view
process for their congregational studies.
• Helped launched a two-year reading course, Vi-
sions of Societal and Soulful Transformation, to
help ground all D.Min. students’ studies and proj-
ects in deep biblical, theological, and philosophi-
cal consideration of the ultimate aims in Christian
ministry.
• Organized and led the first Second Three Years
gathering last November at the Maritime Center in
Baltimore.
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• With John Yieh, co-taught "Asian Christian and
Anglican Experience."
• Continue to serve as the principal investigator for
the nationwide research project, funded by the Lilly
Endowment, to study the impact of post-seminary
training and continuing education on clergy leader-
ship.
• Completing a book Varieties of Personal Theolo-
gies: The Beliefs and Values of American Young
Adults, to be published by Ashgate Publishing.
Jonathan Gray, Ph.D.
• Published “The Sixteenth-Century Background to
the Current ‘Oath’ of Conformity of the Episcopal
Church,” Journal of Episcopal Church Canon Law
1 (2010): 33-59.
• Awarded a Mayers Fellowship at the Huntington
Library. Spent a month there as a research fellow.
• Taught an adult education class this spring at St.
Columba’s Church in DC on the English Reforma-
tion.
The Rev. J. Barney Hawkins IV, Ph.D.
• Attended the AAR in Montreal where VTS and
Ripon College Cuddesdon, one of our Anglican
Communion Partners, offered a panel discussion
under the banner, “The Society for the Study of
Anglicanism.”
• Went on a number of development trips to culti-
vate friends for the Dean’s Roundtables: Houston,
Dallas/Fort Worth, San Diego, Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Richmond, and Atlanta.
• Preached at the December 2009 service at which
the Rev. David Umphlett was installed as the Rec-
tor of St. Mary’s, High Point, North Carolina, and
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Left to right: Jonathan
Gray, Barney Hawkins,
Ruthanna Hooke, and
Ian Markham.
at the ordinations of George Roberts in Columbia,
South Carolina; Christopher Street in Rochester,
New York; and Patrick Perkins in West Hartford,
Connecticut.
• This summer, attended the signing ceremony,
representing the Dean, with Dr. Amy Dyer and
Ms. Kathryn Glover for our partnership with St.
George’s College, Jerusalem, VTS’ newest Angli-
can Communion Partner.
• Participated in VTS’ Christian-Muslim Confer-
ence in Dodoma, Tanzania.
• Co-edited, with Richard Jones, Staying One,
Remaining Open: Educating Leaders for a 21st
Century Church.
• Helped edit Christ and Culture: Communion
After Lambeth.
The Rev. Ruthanna Hooke, Ph.D.
• Published Transforming Preaching (Church Pub-
lishing) in the spring of 2010.
The Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, Ph.D.
• Interviewed on BBC Radio Ulster.
• A profile of Dean Markham appeared in the
Washington Examiner.
• “A Discussion: Richard Burridge’s Jesus: Imitat-
ing Jesus: reading the Eternal Word” in the Scottish
Journal of Theology, volume 63, issue 03, Summer
2010 pp 340-345.
• Published Against Atheism: Why Dawkins, Hitch-
ens, and Harris Are Fundamentally Wrong (Black-
well, 2010.)

The Rev. Robert W. Prichard, Ph.D.
• Created and launched the Journal of Episcopal
Church Canon which can be found on the VTS
website.
The Rev. William B. Roberts, D.M.A.
• Attended the annual conference of the Association
of Anglican Musicians in Hartford and New Haven.
•Presented two sessions at the national convention
of the American Guild of Organists in Washington.
• Presented at the Mississippi Conference on
Church Music and Liturgy.
• Conducted a children’s choir camp for the Diocese
of East Carolina.
• Completed a commissioned choral composition
for Oxford-University United Methodist Church,
Oxford, Mississippi.
• Studied Spanish for two weeks in Oaxaca,
Mexico.
Timothy Sedgwick, Ph.D.
• Published Theological Commentary, Feasting on
the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lection-
ary, Year A, Volume 1 (Westminster John Knox
Press,2010), 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Sundays in Epiphany,
(ICor.1:1-9, 1Cor.10-18, and Acts 10:34-43)
• Published “Exploring the Great Divide: Sex,
Ethics, and Ecumenism,” Journal of Ecumenical
Studies 45:3 (Summer 2010).
• Continues to work with the Roman-Catholic
Faculty Update
Left to right: Bob
Prichard, Bill Roberts,
Tim Sedgwick, and
John Yieh.
Anglican – USA bilateral ecumenical dialogue on
matters of the church, Christian life and ethics.
• Continues to serve on the Board of Directors for
the College for Bishops.
The Rev. John Yieh, Ph.D.
• As newly appointed full Professor of New Testa-
ment, delivered his Inaugural Lecture entitled
“Receiving Christ: Reading the Bible across Time
and Culture” on March 3.
• Was the keynote speaker at the Mackay Memorial
Lectureship with five lectures on “Encounter and
Transformation: Jesus and Women Disciples in the
Gospel of John,” at Taiwan Theological Seminary
in Taipei, Taiwan from May 10-12.
• Traveled to China to give a lecture “Bible as
Literature: Current Approaches to Jesus’ Parables
in the West” at the Institute of Biblical Literature,
Henan University, on May 26, and at the Institute of
Jewish Studies, Peking University, on June 2.
• Presented a paper Conflict and Concord: Mean-
dering on Biblical Visions of Social Relations in
the Fourth International Colloquium on Chinese
Biblical Studies held at Peking University, Beijing,
May 31 - June 3.
• Presented a paper on “Wirkungsgeschichte (His-
tory of Effects)” at the bi-annual meeting of the
Ethnic Chinese Biblical Colloquium held at Princ-
eton Theological Seminary June 9-12.
• Visited Taiwan to review a Chinese Study Bible
project co-sponsored by the Bible Society in Tai-
wan and the American Bible Society. Also preached
and lectured at the Good Shepherd Episcopal
Church in Taipei on August 8.
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 Institute for Christian Formation & Leadership
Asset-Based Community Development
Finding and Mobilizing Your Community’s Hidden Strengths and Power
by the Rev. David Gortner, Ph.D.
I
n mid-June, 2010, the Institute for
Christian Formation and Leadership
at VTS hosted a conference led by the
Asset-Based Community Development
(ABCD) Institute. The conference, “Find-
ing and Mobilizing Your Community’s
Hidden Strengths and Power,” brought
together 22 clergy, lay leaders, and semi-
narians from across the United States. For
three days, participants learned how to
discover and gather people’s gifts and ca-
pacities within communities, for the sake
of building their own stronger communi-
ties. Leaders of the conference, Dr. John
(Jody) Kretzmann and the Rev. Damon
Lynch III, are nationally renowned leaders
in this approach to community develop-
ment. Jody (a dedicated Lutheran) and his
colleague, Dr. John McKnight, formed the
ABCD Institute at Northwestern Univer-
sity in Evanston, Illinois. Damon, senior
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pastor of New Prospect Baptist Church
in Cincinnati, has been one of their core
instructors for many years.
The asset-based approach grew out of the
community organizing movements born
in Chicago – but differs in philosophy
and practice from traditional community
organizing networks that have followed
the agitation and confrontation methods of
Saul Alinsky. It also differs significantly
from the relief-oriented approach most
social service and government agencies –
and for that matter, most churches – take.
In short, an asset-based approach to com-
munity development works to bring the
assets, strengths, and gifts that exist within
a community to the surface and mobilizes
them for the sake of the common good.
These assets may be hidden or obvious,
in individuals, families, groups, informal
networks, and agencies or institutions.
Most other community organizing efforts
attempt to uncover, clarify, and amplify
neighborhood concerns and passions –
usually related to what residents perceive
as problems. While most service and
government organizations focus primar-
ily on needs and deficits, a sort of “glass
half-empty” perspective on communities,
the asset-based approach practices a “glass
half-full” philosophy. This does not mean
that the asset-based approach is simply
Pollyanna: asset-organizers recognize the
brokenness and dysfunction in the com-
munity, but primarily through the perspec-
tive that the many gifts and capacities
available in individuals and a community
have not been tapped, mustered, or col-
lectively recognized.
An example that Kretzmann uses is the
case of Maria, a young pregnant woman
not yet graduated from high school. A
needs-based approach might ask, “What
problems is Maria facing, and where does
she need assistance?” Maria would then
be understood as high-risk, a potential re-
cipient of medical and financial assistance,
and possibly needing counseling. An
interest-based approach might ask, “What
does Maria care most about?” Maria
would then be understood in terms of her
concerns for the future of her child and
herself, and the social forces and policies
that fail to support her as much as they
might. Through both of these approaches,
we know nothing of Maria’s capacities.
But an asset-based approach might ask,
“What are Maria’s gifts, and what can she
contribute?” Here, we learn that Maria
is a singer recognized by her peers and
neighbors for her beautiful voice. Maria
becomes understood as an artist, a valued
new member of a neighborhood church
choir, and a mother-to-be in a network of
experienced mothers who already have
an established informal associations of
mutual support.
Kretzmann began his
career in sociology as a
community organizer,
and was an early pro-
tégé of his long-term col-
league, John McKnight.
Kretzmann and McKnight
together learned commu-
nity organizing alongside
Saul Alinsky in the heady
and high-impact days
of Alinsky’s Industrial
Areas Foundation (IAF),
the largest community
organizing network in
America. But they both
came to recognize that
there were limits to the
long-term effectiveness of
Alinsky’s model, particu-
larly in terms of helping
communities develop their own power for
self-direction and self-governance.
ABCD grew out of Kretzmann and McK-
night’s gentle critique of the traditional
community organizing movements, as
well as a severe critique of the top-down
“specialist” approach to community devel-
opment taken by governments, universi-
ties, and many non-profit organizations.
ABCD’s basic approach is that every
person, physical space, group, and organi-
zation in a community has capacities that
have yet to be tapped and brought together
for the common good (note: ABCD has a
lot of similarities to Appreciative Inquiry,
but moves beyond this to focusing on
building relationships between different
individuals, informal groups, agencies,
and institutions.)
When social service agencies, community
organizers, and churches focus principally
on deficits or problems, people are cast in
helpless or needy roles which deny their
own capacities, and force agencies to
import solutions from outside the com-
munity. Such a deficit-based approach
serves institutions by helping them fulfill
their missions, and thus keeps them alive.
But in the process, the focus on deficits
denigrates people to a position of needi-
ness and habitual readiness to be helped.
In contrast, the asset-based approach rec-
ognizes that people in America and around
the world are particularly artful at forming
associations and groups to address their
own needs and interests, and that the un-
tapped power is in these groups could do
great work for their communities.
Damon Lynch III is the senior pastor of
New Prospect Baptist Church in the Over-
the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, an
area that has continued to face challenges
of poverty, crime, and under-employment
for many years – similar to neighborhoods
and communities found across the country.
Over the past 20 years, Lynch has become
a recognized leader in this community
and a formidable voice in the world of
Cincinnati politics. He has become one of
the core community pastors. “It took me
10 years to get to the point of becoming a
pastor of the broader community,” he said.
Like Kretzmann, Lynch had been trained
in traditional community organizing. But
he became dissatisfied with the limited
focus of traditional methods. “You know,
it’s fun to put those ‘action items’ together,
and to get the officials you are confronting
to sit in a chair in front of a crowd and ask
them questions that they are supposed to
go on record answering ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’ It
feels good, like you’re getting something
done. And sometimes, you are. But there
is a lot of work that isn’t getting done in
your community while you’re busy focus-
Photo by Curtis Prather
Above: ABCD conference participants
listen to a case study on the asset-based
method of working in within
communities.
ing on those ‘action items.’”
Lynch helped participants in the confer-
ence focus on the theology of asset-based
community development. He began with
a powerful interpretation of the parable
of the talents. “These three servants of
the master did not exist in isolation. They
existed in a social system, a surrounding
community. And we have to ask our-
selves, ‘How did the servant with one tal-
ent survive? What in the system allowed
him to assume that he could bury his
talent? Was he relying on handouts from
well-meaning sympathizers? Who else is
responsible for the plight of the servant
with one talent, by allowing that servant to
get away with burying his talent?’”
Lynch related a story that resonated deeply
with the priests, pastors, lay leaders, and
seminarians in the room. He said, “This
asset-based approach seems easy. But it is
not. It is so easy to drift back into deficit-
based thinking and to focus on what
someone needs rather than what someone
has to contribute. I still slip back into that
thinking, even after years as an ABCD
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 Institute for Christian Formation & Leadership
Photo by Curtis Prather
organizer and teacher. I met a man—let’s
call him Hank—who was known in the
community as an alcoholic. He came by
one day, asking for money. I decided to
get all pastoral with him. I said, ‘Hank,
why don’t you come on into church this
Sunday? There are some people I’d love
for you to meet, and you might find this a
really good place for you.’ I was telling
him what he really needed, right? But I
was really thinking about the problems
Hank had and how the church could help
him. Hank responded by mumbling that
he’d been meaning to get around to com-
ing to church but hadn’t done it in a while,
and that he’d try to make it. Then, I gave
him some money and told him I expected
to see him in church. He didn’t come, of
course. This went on periodically over
several months – Hank would appear, I’d
get all pastoral, and he’d respond with
embarrassment and make a vague promise
to come.
“I was getting frustrated and dreaded
seeing Hank. But then, remembering
my training, I started asking questions in
the neighborhood. To people who knew
Hank, I would ask what they knew about
him. I heard again and again that he was
a tuck-pointer. So, the next time I saw
Hank and he asked for money, I told him,
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Left: Damon Lynch III, senior pastor of
New Prospect Baptist Church in Cincin-
nati, tells the story of “Hank” and his
integration into the church.
‘No, Hank, I’m through doing things for
you. Now, what are you going to do for
me?’ Hank was surprised by my response,
and started telling me all about his needs
and problems. I kept saying, “No, Hank,
I’m not giving you anything more. What
can you give me?” And, when he was
about to turn away, I said, ‘You know,
Hank, I heard you were a tuck-pointer.’
Hank looked at me, and asked, ‘How did
you know that?’ I said, ‘People in this
community told me. I started asking about
you, and they told me.’ Hank straightened
up and said, ‘Let me tell you – I’m not
just a tuck-pointer. I’m the Brick Doctor.’
And he began to tell me all the ways in
which he was able to work with bricks and
fix walls.
“Well, we had just gotten some office
spaces for the church in a building nearby.
I decided then and there that I would hire
Hank to put the brick façade on the front
of the building. I broke all the rules – I
didn’t go to my church board, because
they would have gotten all hung up about
insurance (even though they didn’t worry
about insurance when people from the
church volunteered to do stuff like this).
So, I hired him then and there. And he got
to work. And he did a fantastic job.
“And, the Sunday after the job was fin-
ished, there was Hank in one of the front
rows in church, in a pressed white shirt.
And I could tell he was listening intently
to every word.
“When I started by trying to get Hank
the alcoholic to come to church, I got
nobody. But when I called on Hank the
tuck-pointer to help me, Hank the tuck-
pointer came to church. And when Hank
the tuck-pointer came, Hank the alcoholic
came with him.”
These and other stories throughout the
conference helped demonstrate the power
of calling forth and releasing people’s
capacities. And, as conference partici-
pants wrestled with applying the asset-
based principles in their own settings, they
realized how challenging it was to shift
their thinking. One team from a parish
in DC realized that they had only begun
to scratch the surface in forming relation-
ships with people in their surrounding
neighborhoods; a vestry leader from
Richmond said that he saw direct applica-
tions to the work he did with the board
of education; two Doctor of Ministry
students brought their learning from this
conference directly to their work with
their congregations and dioceses; and a
seminarian said that he had experienced a
breakthrough, a kind of conversion, in his
thinking about people whom he wished to
serve.
Lay leaders Ford Rowan and Patty
Johnson, from a network of lay social
activists known as The Committee of
Seventy (based in part at the National
Cathedral but with members in cities
across the United States), said that this
conference helped them realize the power
of the asset-based approach in expanding
the service and advocacy work they were
doing. They – and we – are eager to take
the next step. As Lynch said, learning to
work with communities in this way takes
years of unlearning, and a steady practice
of seeing people, groups, and institutions
through the lenses of potential and gifted-
ness rather than through they lenses of
deficit and disorder. It is my hope that this
approach will become an integral part of
VTS’s education, formation, and training
with our students. X
This conference was supported in part by
The Committee of Seventy, a network of
laypeople engaged in significant social
relief, advocacy and action, based at the
National Cathedral.
VTS Faculty Member
Receives Lilly Research Grant
Professor to Study Impact of Transition into Ministry Programs
H
ow important are the years im-
mediately following seminary
in the development of strong,
committed, wise pastoral leaders? What
key things should new priests and pastors
learn during their first years, and what
impact do the experiences of those years
have on new clergy? Virginia Theological
Seminary has received a grant of $597,000
from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help find
out. The Rev. David T. Gortner, Ph.D.,
professor of evangelism and Christian
leadership and director of the Doctor of
Ministry Programs, will lead the research
to explore these questions in depth.
The project has a focus that is particularly
important: a thorough exploration and
study of the impact that the “Transition
into Ministry” (TiM) programs have had
on clergy leadership. For over 10 years,
Lilly Endowment has funded 30 programs
dedicated to supporting new clergy in their
transition from student to pastor and fos-
tering further development of their skills
and habits for strong pastoral leadership.
These programs range from residency-
styled programs based in training congre-
gations (such as the residency program at
Christ Church in Alexandria) to peer- and
mentor-support programs located in semi-
naries (such as VTS’ Second Three Years),
judicatories, and geographic regions.
It is already clear that these programs,
which have touched the lives and voca-
tions of nearly 1000 clergy, across many
different Christian denominations, have
had an impact. Participants in TiM
programs are far less likely to drop out of
ministry than are seminary graduates who
have no network of support, learning, or
accountability. New clergy who benefitted
from these programs seem to be carrying
with them the insights gained and prac-
tices learned. But more questions remain:
Why are these programs working? Which
ones have the greatest impact on new
clergy? What skills and habits for Chris-
tian leadership do these programs foster?
How do new pastors and priests bring their
new insights and practices for Christian
leadership into their congregations? And
where is the impact in the congregations
served by these new clergy?
Gortner is no stranger to Lilly Endow-
ment. For five years, he worked with
Prof. John Dreibelbis at Seabury-Western
Theological Seminary on an early major that institutions of the church avoid a
Endowment-funded study of clergy leader- real examination of their own habits. We
ship effectiveness and congregational would do well to make a closer study of
vitality. In this study, they developed our own work of mission, ministry, and
interviews and surveys that focused on leadership.”
identifying how clergy thought and acted
most effectively in a variety of leader- The Transition Impact Study will become
ship situations. Their research has been a primary focus for Gortner and a team
published in several journals and is being of project staff for the next three years.
used for leadership development in several They will conduct surveys, interviews,
Episcopal dioceses across the United and observations with clergy who have
States. Gortner also worked on other participated in TiM programs, as well
Endowment-funded projects including as with clergy who did not benefit from
the PLSE initiative (Pastoral Leadership such programs. They will also conduct
Search Effort) to help congregations foster surveys, 360 evaluations, and interviews
and encourage young leaders, and his own with members of the congregations that
study of how young adults form unique TiM participants now serve. What they
faith communities. learn will be distributed for church leaders
through web-based and print publications.
Trained as a developmental and organiza- “We hope to identify the practices and
tional psychologist, he has little patience habits of leadership that the TiM programs
for blind faith when it comes to processes foster,” Gortner explains. “We think
and results of training. “We in the church that what we learn will have a significant
(and in any institution) are tempted to impact on seminary and post-seminary
hold onto untested assumptions about training across denominations, for years to
what constitutes strong leadership and come.” X
what experiences are important in the
development of leaders,” he said. “But
these assumptions may simply be ways
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The Virginia Theological Seminary
ANNUAL GIVING REPORT
July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010
T
he 2010 Virginia Theological Semi-
nary Annual Report set within this
Journal reflects on the Seminary’s
role in God’s mission in the world. Mis-
sion is a word that has many meanings.
When I was a child, I remember mis-
sionaries coming home on furlough and
telling fascinating tales of faraway places.
They brought more photographs than you
wanted to see and they could talk forever.
The traditional missionary, however, who
journeyed out from western Christendom
to heathen Africa has gone by the way-
side.
There is a new sort of missionary going
forth from VTS these days. We recognize
increasingly that mission includes parish
ministry, school chaplaincy and the church
plant. Mission is adapting the liturgy to
reach our teenagers. Mission is support-
ing Christians in other countries who are
making a difference and doing the work of
social justice in our own cities.
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The missionaries or missioners who go
forth from VTS are taught that God’s
mission in the world of the 21st century
involves conversation as well as conver-
sion. Effective leaders trained at VTS
will listen carefully to those with whom
they disagree. Conversation that practices
Anglican tolerance is much needed in our
diverse, multi-cultural world. Today’s
students are exposed on campus to leaders
from other faith traditions because we
believe that effective leaders must respect
a person who lives out of another faith
tradition, even as they learn to state clearly
and to believe the core doctrines and
values of the Christian tradition. But it is
a fact: Conversion is not out-of-date. We
are called as Christians to share the faith
that is within us. We are not custodians
of a tradition that needs no converts. It is
meet and right to be a missioner who leads
others to Jesus Christ.
Ministerial and missional formation at
VTS has never been about denominational
survival or housebound clergy who serve
only the needs of the people who already
“belong.” VTS graduates must be gifted
preachers and teachers. They should be
liturgists who attend carefully to worship
details. Our graduates lead best when they
understand the importance of pastoral care
and appreciate fully that administering a
parish or school or institution is also min-
istry in Christ’s holy name. But a leader,
lay or ordained, shaped at VTS must also
discover what it means to go into the
Church and the world to preach the good
news of Jesus Christ as a modern-day
missioner.
Training a new generation of missionaries
requires funds we do not have. So, your
gifts to Virginia Theological Seminary
help us shape leaders who are effec-
tive in the household of the Church and
in the world that God loves so much. I
am pleased to report that the overall
giving of alumni, friends and parishes,
exclusive of foundation grants and
bequests, reached $1,332,670, exceed-
ing $1 million for the fifth year in a
row. Undesignated giving to the Annual
Fund reached a new high of $780,250,
a 6% increase in a year when many
non-profits saw a decline in their An-
nual Fund. We are grateful for 260 new
donors. There have been many workers in
the vineyard: class stewards; phonathon
callers; Monina Pangan in the office of
Institutional Advancement; Ray Sabalis,
director of Development and the Rev.
Charles L Fischer III, director of Alumni,
Annual Fund and Church Relations. These
good people join me in being grateful for
your generous hearts.
Overall Annual Giving for the year,
including foundation grants and bequests,
was $1,657.852. The Annual Fund is a
critical income stream for VTS and it
must grow to insure effective leaders for
the Episcopal Church in the years be-
fore us. Let me highlight our society for
planned giving; two new scholarships
which will help us form effective leaders;
the Dean’s Roundtable and VTS Chapters
initiative; and the 21st Century Fund for a
21st Century Seminary.
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY SOCIETY
Please remember the Francis Scott Key
Society. We are grateful for those individ-
uals who during their lifetime have made
provisions in their estate plans for the
future of the Seminary. Mrs. Jesse Trotter
and the Rt. Rev. A. Theodore Eastman,
distinguished leaders in our Seminary
Community, continue to serve as co-chairs
of the Society. They are currently 282
members of the FSK Society with 17 new
members this past year.
THE BRAGG AND FULLER SCHOLARSHIPS
The family of the Rev. Dr. Reginald Fuller
established a scholarship for a student who
has promise in New Testament Studies.
Dr. Fuller was Professor Emeritus of New
Testament at VTS and world-renowned
scholar and teacher. In May 2010 the fam-
ily of Wayne Gladstone Bragg established
a scholarship for an M.Div. student who
feels called to minister with the poor and
disenfranchised. Dr. Wayne Bragg
spent his life in servant ministry
working with the poor and under-
stood the transformational power
of engaging in this work.
DEAN’S ROUNDTABLE AND VTS
CHAPTERS
Virginia Theological Seminary is
a Seminary for the nation and the
world. We have never really been a
regional seminary; North Carolina
comes in second to Virginia with
a large number of alumni. We
want our numbers to continue to
increase as we connect with every
state and every diocese of the
Episcopal Church. The initiative
of the Dean’s Roundtables seeks to
bring together old and new friends
across the country who love the
Episcopal Church; who care about
theological education and the forma-
tion of leaders; and who recognize that be—if we listen to people of the Episcopal
VTS needs a very large friend base and a Church. Dean’s Roundtables and Chapters
much larger Annual Fund to carry out its are “outposts” for listening as the Semi-
ministry and mission. Dean’s Roundtables nary finds its way of service.
have been established in Houston, Dal-
las, Atlanta, and, of course, Alexandria. THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY FUND
We are on the cusp of having two west
coast roundtables in Southern California We continue to look for donors who will
and San Francisco. There will be Dean’s give us $1,000 annually. We’d like to have
Roundtables in Richmond, Washington 2,100 such donors for our 21st Century
and a few other urban centers. The Dean Fund. We are glad that our donor base is
will visit each Roundtable once each year growing. We still need to move beyond
for five years—and hopefully beyond. the 175 or so who give us at least $1,000
Others from the Holy Hill will connect annually.
with the Roundtable on a second annual
visit. We are already welcoming members God has a mission in the world, and we
of the Dean’s Roundtables to the cam- humbly believe that Virginia Theologi-
pus—and it is a great privilege to intro- cal Seminary is part of it. At one of our
duce newcomers to VTS. recent cultivation events for a new Dean’s
Roundtable, a trustee remarked: “…at a
While we welcome friends to join the time when people can get depressed about
Dean’s Roundtables, we are encourag- the state of the church, the guests last
ing our alumni/ae to form VTS Chapters night left feeling encouraged and enthusi-
across the country. We are providing a astic that VTS is alive and well and has a
“small purse” to assist each chapter in hopeful story to tell.” It cannot be said bet-
its meetings. The Chapters will always ter. Thank you for helping us tell the story!
meet at the same time as the Roundtables.
Clearly, we can have more Chapters than The Rev. J. Barney Hawkins IV, Ph.D.
Roundtables—and Charles Fischer will Vice President of Institutional Advancement
be working on this great challenge. We
can be the Seminary God wants us to
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Photo by Curtis Prather

The following recognizes gifts received by Virginia Seminary between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010. Much care has been given to the preparation
of this report. The names and titles listed are as requested by our friends and graduates. Errors or updates should be referred to the Office of
Institutional Advancement at 703-461-1730 or by email at manderson@vts.edu. Thank you for your continued support.

VTS GIVING SOCIETIES St. Andrew's Episcopal Church,

Burke, VA
St. Christopher's Church,
Emmanuel Episcopal Church,
Southern Pines, NC
Mr. and Mrs. A. Hugh Ewing III
LETTIE PATE WHITEHEAD EVANS SOCIETY: $25,000 + Gladwyne, PA Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
St. John's Episcopal Church, The Rev. and Mrs. George A. Hull, ‘81
BISHOP MEADE SOCIETY: $10,000 - $24,999 McLean, VA Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill,
DEAN’S SOCIETY: $ 5,000 - $ 9,999 St. John's Episcopal Church, Alexandria, VA
Montgomery, AL Mr. James R. Lowe, Jr., (H) ‘05
HENRY ST. GEORGE TUCKER SOCIETY: $ 2,500 - $ 4,999 St. Paul's Episcopal Church, The Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, Ph.D.
WILLIAM SPARROW SOCIETY: $ 1,000 - $ 2,499 Mobile, AL and Mrs. Lesley Markham
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Mrs. Lockhart B. McGuire
ASPINWALL TOWER SOCIETY: $ 500 - $ 999 Arlington, VA Mr. and Mrs. S. Ford Rowan
SEMINARY HILL SOCIETY: $ 150 - $ 499 Mr. and Mrs. Alexander H. St. John's Episcopal Church,
Slaughter Ocean Springs, MS
The Rev. and Ms. Wesley S. St. Mark's Episcopal Church,
LETTIE PATE WHITEHEAD St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Williams, Jr. San Antonio, TX
EVANS SOCIETY Richmond, VA Ms. Caroline T. Woods St. Mary's Episcopal Church,
The Rev. and Mrs. James W. H. Mrs. Kathleen C. Woods Arlington, VA
Hamilton Baskerville Trust Sell, ‘69 Ms. Margaret C. Woods St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
Mrs. Ann K. Bragg The Rev. Robert Morgan Shaw, ‘43 Mrs. G. Cecil Woods Lynchburg, VA
Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Robert L. Young Trust St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
The Constance Dundas Foundation TUCKER SOCIETY Kansas City, MO
Lettie Pate Evans Foundation DEAN’S SOCIETY St. Timothy's Episcopal Church,
Mrs. Ilse B. Fuller All Saints' Episcopal Church, Wilson, NC
The Rt. Rev. Carolyn Tanner Irish, ‘83 Suzanne S. Brock Hershey, PA The Rev. and Mrs. Patrick H.
The Rev. Irene Clifford Jones, ‘03 The Cartinhour Woods Founda- Mr. and Mrs. David Booth Beers Sanders, Jr., ‘59
The Henry Luce Foundation tion Ms. Ana-Mita Betancourt Mr. and Mrs. Roland S. Szadokierski
Clarence J. Robinson Foundation Christ Church Cathedral, Ms. Elizabeth D. Camp The Rev. Janet E. Tarbox, ‘92 and
Trust Indianapolis, IN Ruth Camp Campbell Foundation Mr. Talmadge M. LeGrand
George C. Thomas Trust Dr. and Mrs. Dale Cloyd Calvary Episcopal Church, Mr. and Mrs. William G. Thomas
The Rev. Michele V. Hagans Memphis, TN Trinity Episcopal Church,
BISHOP MEADE SOCIETY The Rev. Dr. J. Barney Hawkins IV Mary and J. P. Causey, Jr. New York, NY
The Rev. Linda Wofford Hawkins Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, NC Trinity Episcopal Church,
The Rev. John Paul Carter, ‘47 Mrs. Martha W. High Christ Church, Raleigh, NC Natchez, MS
The Rev. Charles Carroll Eads, ‘47 Holmes I. Goode Trust Christ Church Christiana Mr. David F. Wright, ‘77
Robert G. C. Eads The Rev. Canon and Mrs. Peter G. Hundred, Wilmington, DE
Jean Lykes Grace Foundation Kreitler, ‘69 Ellason and Molly Laird Downs SPARROW SOCIETY
The Rev. and Mrs. James M. L. Louise P. Overby Trust Perpetual Charitable Trust
Grace, ‘05 Ms. Sissy Poland The Rt. Rev. James M. Dyer Mr. and Mrs. A. Marshall Acuff, Jr.
Mr. Thomas M. Moore, ‘71 Mrs. Ellen W. Polansky Dr. Amelia J. Gearey Dyer, Ph.D. The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Gladstone B.
Jane Litle Peters Trust Ely Fund Adams III, ‘80
Mrs. Sherodd Albritton

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All Saints' Episcopal Church-
Sharon Chapel, Alexandria, VA
All Saints' Episcopal Church,
Atlanta, GA
All Saints' Episcopal Church,
Greensboro, NC
The Rev. Gina Arents, ‘09
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Robert P.
Atkinson, ‘53
Baltimore Community Foundation
Auguste and David Bannard
Robinson F. and Mary Haskins
Barker Charitable Foundation
The Rev. Christopher H. Barker, Ph.D., ‘70
and Mrs. Mary P. Barker
The Rev. Dr. Richard L. M. Barry, ‘68
The Rev. Cynthia O. Baskin, ‘95
The Rt. Rev. Nathan D. Baxter
The Rt. Rev. Scott A. Benhase, ‘83
Mr. and Mrs. R. Dyke Benjamin
The Rev. James G. Birney, ‘53
Mr. and Mrs. Julian M. Bivins, Jr.
Charles Blair Testament Trust
The Rev. Anne B. Bonnyman, ‘82
Mrs. Caroline Y. Brandt
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Braswell
Mr. David N. Brown, ‘09
The Rev. Lila B. Brown, ‘96
Col. and Mrs. Richard H. Brownley
Mr. and Mrs. J. Stewart Bryan III
Buck Mountain Episcopal Church,
Earlysville, VA
Mrs. Robert A. Burch
The Rev. Augustus M. Burt, ‘59
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin P. Bush
Cathedral of All Souls, Asheville, NC
The Rev. Michael D. Chalk, ‘73
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. John B.
Chane, (H) ‘03
Dr. and Mrs. David H. Charlton
Mr. Tak-Kei Cheong, ‘91
Christ & Grace Episcopal Church,
Petersburg, VA
Christ Church Cathedral,
Houston, TX
Christ Church Cathedral,
Springfield, MA
Christ Church Glendale,
Glendale, OH
Christ Episcopal Church,
Roanoke, VA
Church of St. John the Evangelist
Episcopal, Flossmoor, IL
Church of the Good Shepherd,
Knoxville, TN
Church of the Good Shepherd,
Rangeley, ME
Church of the Holy Apostles,
Collierville, TN
Church of the Holy Family,
Chapel Hill, NC
Emmanuel Church at Brook Hill,
Richmond, VA
Emmanuel Episcopal Church,
Greenwood, VA
Emmanuel Episcopal Church,
Keyser, WV
Episcopal Church of the Redeemer,
Bethesda, MD
The Rev. Canon Thomas G. Clarke, ‘70
The Rev. and Mrs. Thomas D. Clay
The Rev. Dr. Timothy B. Cogan, ‘59
Mr. Garrett V. Coleman
The Rev. Kim L. Coleman, ‘01
The Community Foundation
The Rev. Jan Naylor Cope
Dr. John R. Cope
The Rev. and Mrs. James R.
Crowder, ‘59
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tradewell
Davis, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Talmage Day
Dr. Lynwood D.I. Day
Diocesan Missionary and Church
Extension Society
Mrs. Julie M. Dokell
Mr. W. Carter Doswell
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. A. Theodore
Eastman, ‘53
The Rev. Beth H. Echols, ‘89
The Rev. Don Raby Edwards, D.D., ‘58
Ms. Elizabeth H. Farquhar
The Rev. Charles W.B. Fels, ‘05
The Rev. and Mrs. Michael B.
Ferguson, Sr., ‘93
The Rev. Paul W. Gennett, Jr., ‘92
Ms. Dolores R. Goble
Grace Episcopal Church,
Kilmarnock, VA
Grace Memorial Episcopal
Church, Lynchburg, VA
The Rev. L. Roberts Graves, Jr., ‘63
The Rev. Dr. Rowan A. Greer, (H) ‘02
The Rev. A. Katherine Grieb,
Ph.D., ‘83
Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, Jr.
Mrs. William B. Hastings
The Rev. Louis B. Hays, ‘99
The Rev. Judith A. Hefner, ‘96
The Historical Society of the
Episcopal Church
Col. and Mrs. William Michael Hix
Dr. and Mrs. William A. Hobbs, Jr.
The Rev. Nelson B. Hodgkins, ‘60
The Rt. Rev. Herman Hollerith IV
The Very Rev. Martha J. Horne, ‘83
Dr. McDonald K. Horne III
Ms. Elizabeth Cabell Jennings
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Shannon S.
Johnston, ‘08
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Richard J.
Jones, ‘72
Mrs. Alexander D. Juhan
Ms. Anne M. Karoly, ‘97
The Rev. John I. Kilby, ‘59
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. W. Michie
Klusmeyer, (H) ‘02
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Kozlowski, ‘11
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Edward H.
Kryder, ‘53
The Rev. Lauren E. Kuratko. ‘05
The Rev. Ryan P. Kuratko, ‘06
Mr. Brian E. Ledgerwood
The Rev. Mary Jayne Ledgerwood, ‘01
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Peter James
Lee, ‘67
The Rev. Canon W. Grainger
Lesesne, Jr., ‘01
The Rev. T. Stewart Lucas, ‘01 and
Mr. Douglas Campbell
The Rev. and Mrs. James Hugh
Magers, ‘68
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. James R.
Mathes, ‘91
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Matz
The Rev. George M. Maxwell, ‘61
The Rev. Roma W. Maycock, ‘83
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Gerald N.
McAllister, ‘51
Dr. and Mrs. J. Kenneth McDonald
The Rev. Jennifer G. McKenzie, ‘04
Mr. Kenneth McKenzie
The Rev. Margaret McNaughton, ‘82
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. C. Thomas
Midyette III, ‘66
The Rev. Ann C. Miller, ‘89
Mrs. Sally C. Miller, ‘54
The Rev. Catharine W. Montgomery, ‘98
Joan and Frank Mount
The Hon. and Mrs. Robert J. Murray
Olivet Episcopal Church,
Alexandria, VA
The Rt. Rev. George E. Packard, ‘74
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Pardoe
Dr. and Mrs. Allan M. Parrent, (H) ‘84
The Honorable and Mrs. Thomas
R. Pickering, (H) ‘93
The Rev. John R. Pitts, ‘87
Left: Participants in the 2010
Summer Collegium for small
church leaders give each other
an enthusiastic greeting at the
start of the program.
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Mr. Charles H. Prioleau
The Very Rev. and Mrs. Harry H.
Pritchett, Jr., ‘64
The Rt. Rev. Lawrence C. Provenzano
Mr. and Mrs. Laurance M. Redway
Mr. Benjamin Reid
The Rev. Jennie L. Reid, ‘99
Mr. Robert B. Rice
The Rev. Edward G. Robinson, ‘53
Ray and Robert Sabalis
St. Aidan's Episcopal Church,
Virginia Beach, VA
St. Alban's Episcopal Church,
Annandale, VA
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church,
Newport News, VA
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church,
Boca Grande, FL
St. Anne's Episcopal Church,
Winston-Salem, NC
St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church,
Upper Marlboro, MD
St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church,
Annandale, VA
St. Barnabas Episcopal Church,
Greenwich, CT
St. David's Episcopal Church,
Glenview, IL
St. Georges Episcopal Church,
Bossier City, LA
St. James' Episcopal Church,
Potomac, MD
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St. John the Baptist Episcopal
Church, York, PA
St. John the Divine Episcopal
Church, Houston, TX
St. John's Church-Lafayette
Square, Washington, DC
St. John's Episcopal Church,
West Point, VA
St. Johns Episcopal Church,
Tulsa, OK
St. Luke's Episcopal Church,
Durham, NC
St. Mark's Cathedral, Shreveport, LA
St. Mark's Episcopal Church,
Louisville, KY
St. Mary's-on-the-Highlands,
Birmingham, AL
St. Michael and All Angels
Episcopal Church, Dallas, TX
St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
Delray Beach, FL
St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
Smithfield, NC
St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
Winston-Salem, NC
St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
Alexandria, VA
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock
Creek Parish, Washington, DC
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church,
Winston-Salem, NC
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church,
Oxford, NC
The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts
Schori, (H) ‘08
The Rev. A. Wayne Schwab, ‘53
Mrs. Frederic W. Scott
Dr. Timothy F. and Mrs. Martha
W. Sedgwick
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. James J.
Shand, ‘99
The Rev. Alfred R. Shands III, ‘54
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Shannon
Judith H. Shaw
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. William R.
Shiflet, Jr., ‘72
Ms. Susan L. Shillinglaw
Mrs. Gregoria D. Smith
The Rt. Rev. Philip A. Smith, ‘49
Mr. and Mrs. Ron Smith
The Rev. Dr. Allison St. Louis, ‘00
State Farm Companies Foundation
Mrs. Sarah D. Steptoe
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Stettinius
The Memorial Church of the
Prince of Peace, Gettysburg, PA
Dr. and Mrs. William G. Thomas III
Mrs. Stephen A. Trentman
Trinity Church in the City of
Boston, Boston, MA
Trinity Episcopal Church,
Upperville, VA
Left: Senior, Julia Messer, leads
the process out of Chapel at the
end of the Service of Lessons and
Carols last December.
Mrs. Jesse M. Trotter
The Rev. Peggy E., ‘95 and Mr. Jon
F. Tuttle
The Most Rev. Desmond M. Tutu,
(H) ‘98
The Rev. David A. Umphlett, ‘04
Mr. and Mrs. E. Massie Valentine
Vanguard Charitable Endowment
Program
The Rev. V. Alastair and Rhoda
Votaw, ‘64
Dr. Mary Frances Wagley
Ms. Betty J. Ward
The Very Rev. and Mrs. Alan Kim
Webster, ‘98
The Revs. Michaeland Helen
White, ‘08, ‘95
The Rev. Christine R. Whittaker, ‘90
The Rev. Dr. J. Douglas Wigner, Jr.,
‘72 and Ms. Nancy J. Hein
The Rev. Barbara C. Willis, ‘05
The Rev. Herbert A. Willke, ‘54
Dr. and Mrs. Robert K. Wineland
The Rev. and Mrs. Frank W.
Young, ‘74
Ms. Heather Zdancewicz
Mr. Donald Zdancewicz
The Rev. Janet L. W. Zimmerman, ‘09
Zion Episcopal Church, Charles
Town, WV
ASPINWALL TOWER SOCIETY
The Rev. and Mrs. S. F. James
Abbott, ‘66
The Rev. Ronald G. Abrams, ‘82
The Rev. Peter K. Ackerman, ‘07
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Adams
The Rev. and Mrs. Charles D.
Aiken, Jr., ‘63
The Rev. Stephen G. Alexander, ‘65
All Saints' Episcopal Church,
Roanoke Rapids, NC
All Souls' Church, Ansonville,
Wadesboro, NC
The Rev. and Mrs. George E.
Andrews II, ‘71
Ascension Episcopal Church,
Amherst, VA
Roxana and Jim Atwood, ‘77
The Rev. Mariann C. Babnis, ‘04
The Rev. Katharine E. Babson, ‘92
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Bartlett, ‘04
The Rev. James P. Bartz, ‘99
The Rt. Rev. Larry R. Benfield, ‘90
The Rev. and Mrs. Errol K. Booth, ‘84
Victor A. Brown (USA Ret.)
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. George M.
Calvert, ‘86
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Winston B.
Charles, ‘74
Christ Church Episcopal and
Trinity Lutheran Church,
Sheffield, MA
Christ Episcopal Church, Bowling
Green, KY
Christ Episcopal Church,
Denmark, SC
Church of the Epiphany,
Richmond, VA
Church of the Good Shepherd,
Burke, VA
Church of the Holy Comforter,
Burlington, NC
Church of the Holy Innocents,
Henderson, NC
Church of the Messiah, Mayodan, NC
Class of 2010
The Rev. Carlotta Cochran, ‘93
Mr. Thomas Cochran
Cole & Denny Incorporated
The Community Foundation for
the National Capital Region
The Rev. David Copley, ‘03
The Rev. Susan Copley, ‘03
Mr. John H. Cox
Cunningham Chapel Parish,
Millwood, VA
Below: The Rev. Anne-Marie
Jeffery (VTS ‘04) greets MTS
student, Wisnel Dejardin, at
the Organization for Black
Episcopalians conference held
at VTS this past spring.
Mrs. Helen Weems Daley, ‘89
Mr. Thomas M. Daley
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Robert S.
Dannals, ‘81
Dr. Barbara Day, ‘04
The Rev. Charles C. Demeré, ‘54
The Rev. Thomas T. Diggs, ‘59
The Rt. Rev. Jane Holmes Dixon, ‘81
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. C. Andrew
Doyle, ‘95
Mrs. Edward R. Dyer, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. John Elwood
The Rev. Dr. Margaret A. Faeth, ‘96
Mr. Paul Faeth
The Rev. Dr. Roger A. Ferlo and
Ms. Anne C. Harlan
The Rev. and Mrs. Louis C.
Fischer III, ‘59
The Very Rev. Zachary W.M.
Fleetwood, ‘87
The Very Rev. H. Douglas Fontaine, ‘59
Mrs. Jeanne Fontaine
Ms. Susan Ford
The Rev. Richard P. Fowler, ‘59
Frederick E. and Jane A. Gilbert
The Rev. J. Carlyle Gill, ‘76
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. M. Douglas
Girardeau, ‘62
Ms. Kathryn A. Glover
Mr. and Mrs. R. Edward Godsey
The Rev. Dr. David T. Gortner and
The Rev. Heather A. Vandeventer
Grace & Holy Trinity Church,
Richmond, VA
Grace Episcopal Church,
Weldon, NC
The Rev. and Mrs. Lee Graham, Jr., ‘48
Ruth Tomlin Gronneberg, ‘59
The Rt. Rev. Edwin F. Gulick, Jr., ‘73
The Rt. Rev. E. Ambrose Gumbs, ‘87
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Hahn and Mr.
Thomas S. Hahn
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton IV
The Rev. Canon Victoria T. Hatch, ‘75
Charles and Barbara Heath
The Rev. C. Read Heydt, ‘79
The Rev. John C. Humphries, Jr., ‘60
Mrs. Gretel T. James
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. James
The Rev. Canon Anthony H.
Jewiss, ‘92
Ms. Elizabeth A. Johnson
Dr. Karl Johnson
The Rev. Connie Jones, ‘01
The Rt. Rev. David B. Joslin
The Rev. Patterson Keller, ‘56
The Rev. and Mrs. Pierce W.
Klemmt
Mrs. Alfred T. Knies, Jr.
The Rev. Thomas Alonzo "Lonnie"
Lacy, II, ‘06
The Rev. Dr. Richard B. Lampert, ‘00
The Very Rev. William B. Lane, ‘63
Ms. Donna R. Lefeve
Mrs. David H. Lewis
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Lewis
The Rev. Dr. Lloyd A. Lewis, Jr., ‘72
Mrs. Angelica D. Light
Mr. and Mrs. S. William
Livingston, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Long, Jr.
The Rev. Louise J. Lusignan, ‘88
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Andrew J.
MacBeth, ‘00
Dr. and Mrs. Preston C. Manning, Jr.
The Rev. and Mrs. David A.
Marshall, ‘03
The Rev. Nancy Horton McCarthy, ‘88
Mr. John A. McColley, ‘74
The Rev. Dr. Judith M. McDaniel
Mr. Jackson McDaniel
The Rev. Beth C. McNamara, ‘86
Mr. and Mrs. Bowman Miller
The Rev. Dr. Genevieve M.
Murphy, ‘98
The Rev. Julie F. Nelson, ‘94
The Rev. Dr. Murray L. Newman,
(H) ‘72 and Mrs. Janice Newman
Mr. and Mrs. Blake T. Newton III
Ms. Monica L. Parry
The Rev. Michael R. J. Pipkin, ‘02
The Rev. Dr. Sam A. Portaro, ‘73
and Christopher Dionesotes
The Rev. Dr. Peter R. Powell, Jr., ‘76
The Rev. Paul A. Price, ‘04
The Rev. Grant H. Robinson, ‘69
Mr. and Mrs. Bret E. Russell
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Russell, Jr.
St. Chad's Episcopal Church,
Albuquerque, NM
St. Clement's Church, Berkeley, CA
St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church,
McLean, VA
St. James Episcopal Church,
Danbury, CT
St. James' Parish, Wilmington, NC
St. John's Episcopal Church,
Waynesboro, VA
St. John's Episcopal Church,
Wytheville, VA
St. John's Episcopal Church,
Wake Forest, NC
St. Luke's Church, Simeon,
Charlottesville, VA
St. Luke's Episcopal Church,
Lebanon, PA
St. Mark's Episcopal Chapel,
Storrs, CT
St. Mark's Episcopal Church,
Mount Kisco, NY
St. Mark's Episcopal Church,
Jonesboro, AR
St. Mary Magdalene, Seven Lakes, NC
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church,
Salisbury, NC
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church,
Kernersville, NC
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church,
Sunbury, PA
St. Michael's Episcopal Church,
Tarboro, NC
St. Paul's Memorial Chapel,
Lawrenceville, VA
St. Peter's Episcopal Church,
Oxford, MS
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church,
Birmingham, AL
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church,
Durham, NC
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church,
Heathsville, VA
St. Thomas' Episcopal Church,
Rochester, NY
St. Timothy's Episcopal Church,
Washington, DC
St. Timothy's Episcopal Church,
Herndon, VA
St. Timothy's in the Valley Episcopal
Church, Hurricane, WV
The Rev. Canon Louis C.
Schueddig, ‘73
The Rev. Susan L. Scranton, ‘94
The Rev. and Mrs. Jeffrey S.
Shankles, ‘05
The Rev. Melody W. Shobe, ‘06
The Rev. Robert C. Shobe, ‘06
Mr. and Mrs. E. Lee Showalter
Mr. John W. Sinwell
The Rev. Gail S. Smith, ‘93
Mr. David Smith
Dr. W. Eugene Stern
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Symes III
The Rev. John G. Tampa, ‘98
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Elvira Tate
Mrs. Janise C. Taylor
Mr. and Mrs. Volney M. Taylor
The Rev. William B. Taylor, Jr., ‘86
The Rev. Adam P. Thomas, ‘08
Trinity Episcopal Church, Scotland
Neck, NC
Trinity Episcopal Church,
Indianapolis, IN
Trinity Episcopal Church,
Arlington, VA
Trinity Episcopal Church,
Iowa City, IA
Trinity Episcopal Church,
Charlottesville, VA
Trinity Episcopal Church,
Natchitoches, LA
Trinity Memorial Episcopal
Church, Binghamton, NY
Ms. Marian Trotter
The Rev. and Mrs. James L. Tucker, ‘52
The Rev. Diane E. Vie, ‘07
The Rev. Todd M. Vie, ‘07
The Rev. Dr. Franklin E. Vilas, Jr., ‘59
Mr. Michael Vreeland
Ware Episcopal Church,
Gloucester, VA
The Rev. and Mrs. Mark D.
Wilkinson, ’04, ‘04
Mrs. Daphne R. Williams
The Rev. Ann B. Willms, ‘09
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas G. Wilson III
The Rev. William A. Yon, ‘55
The Rev. Luther Zeigler, ‘07
SEMINARY HILL SOCIETY
Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Abbott, ‘92
The Honorable and Mrs. Charles
D. Ablard
Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Abrecht
Mr. and Mrs. J. Marshall Acee, Jr.
Mr. Anthony B. Adams
The Very Rev. and Mrs. Jerry D.
Adinolfi, Jr., ‘96
The Rev. and Mrs. Martin L.
Agnew, Jr., ‘67
Dr. and Mrs. Perry B. Alers
The Rev. and Mrs. John D.
Alfriend, ‘59
Mr. Matthew Anderson
The Rev. William C. Anderson, ‘02
The Rev. Robert Hancock
Armstrong, ‘63
The Rev. Dr. Robert D. Askren, ‘66
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Ayres, ‘83
The Rev. Canon Nathaniel Luke
Back, ‘02
The Rev. Brett P. Backus, ‘08
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Douglass M.
Bailey III, ‘64
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The Rev. and Mrs. Edwin P. Bailey, ‘55
The Rev. John Patrick Baker, ‘84
The Rev. Dr. Edna J. Banes, ‘88
The Rev. and Mrs. Donald S.
Barrus, ‘52
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Allen L.
Bartlett, Jr., ‘58
The Rev. Robert L. Bast, ‘47
The Rev. Dr. Ralph W. Bayfield, ‘59
The Rev. Rosemary E. Beales, ‘05
Dr. Graham Beard
Mrs. Marcia H. Bennett
The Rev. Gloria K. Berberich, ‘76
Steve and Ginny Bergen
The Rev. and Mrs. Alden Besse, ‘51
The Rev. and Mrs. James C.
Blackburn, ‘59
Mr. Duncan W. Blair
The Rev. Barbara K. Blakemore, ‘90
Mr. William A. Blakemore
Mrs. William W. Blood, ‘62
The Rev. Dr. William E. Blottner, ‘56
The Rev. Robert S. Blumenstock, ‘88
The Very Rev. Kathleen M.
Bobbitt, ‘93
The Rev. Mitchell and Beth
Bojarski, ‘08, ‘08
The Rev. Vaughan P. L. Booker, ‘92
The Rev. Dr. Thomas D. Bowers, ‘56
The Rt. Rev. David C. Bowman, ‘60
The Rev. Dr. Locke E. Bowman, Jr.
Mrs. Cynthia R. Boyer
Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Barrows
The Rev. Kenneth H. Brannon, ‘03
The Rev. Anne Elizabeth
Bridgers, ‘98
Mr. J. D. Bridgers III
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bridges, Jr.
Ms. Annie W. Brock
The Rev. Charles F. Brock, ‘07
The Rev. and Mrs. John T. Broome, ‘58
The Rev. and Mrs. Dewey E.
Brown, Jr., ‘01
The Rev. and Mrs. Percival G.
Brown, ‘72
Mrs. Joseph L. Brown, Jr.
The Rev. and Mrs. Wm. Hill
Brown III, (H) ‘79
The Rev. Robert F. Browning, Jr., ‘06
The Rev. J. Todd Bruce, ‘07
The Rev. John Budde
Dr. Mitzi J. Budde
Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Buford
Mr. Charles H. Bullock
Ms. Pamela J. Jewett-Bullock
Mrs. Jere Bunting, Jr.
Mrs. Beryl O. Burke
The Rev. Mary R. Busse, ‘00
The Rev. and Mrs. Ralph M.
Byrd, Jr., ‘63
Randolph and Mary Kay Cabell
Ms. Yvonne D. Callahan
The Rev. Catherine M. Campbell, ‘88
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh L. Campbell
Ms. Stacy Carlson
The Rev. Alison C. Carmody, ‘00
The Rev. Diane P. Carroll, ‘03
Ms. Betty F. Carter
The Rev. Rodney L. Caulkins, ‘66
Mr. Don A. Chamblee, ‘79
The Rt. Rev. Gordon T. Charlton, Jr., ‘49
The Rev. Dr. Barbara T. Cheney, ‘80
The Rev. K. Dexter Cheney
Mrs. Leslie B. Chisholm
Christ Church Cathedral,
Lexington, KY
Christ Church, I. U. Parish,
Worton, MD
Christ Episcopal Church,
Poughkeepsie, NY
Christ Episcopal Church,
Denmark, SC
Church of the Advent,
Williamston, NC
Church of the Epiphany,
Summerville, SC
Church of the Incarnation,
Mineral, VA
Church of the Redeemer,
Baltimore, MD
Church of the Transfiguration,
Braddock Heights, MD
The Rev. Albert L. Clark, ‘58
The Rev. Dr. Cheryl L. Clark, ‘02
Mr. Warren Clark, Jr., ‘05
The Rev. Frederick C. Clarkson, ‘08
The Hon. and Mrs. George M.
Cochran
Mrs. Sarah Hill Langhorne
Colhoun
The Community Foundation of
Greater Memphis
The Community Foundation of
Louisville
The Rev. Alan B. Conley, ‘59
The Rev. Doyt L. Conn, Jr., ‘03
The Rev. Robert D. Cook, ‘61
Mr. and Mrs. Clarke T. Cooper, Jr.
Ms. Mary Grace Corey
The Rev. and Mrs. John D.
Crandall, ‘69
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Robert H.
Crewdson, ‘60
Mr. and Mrs. Ian Croft
Mr. and Mrs. David Crosby, ‘12
The Rev. Richard S. Crowell
The Rev. and Mrs. Carleton S.
Cunningham, Jr., ‘71
Mr. and Mrs. George A. Currie
The Rev. Irving T. Cutter IV, ‘98
Mrs. Rae W. Dahlinger
The Rev. Randolph K. Dales, ‘66
The Rev. Dr. Alexander S. Daley
The Rt. Rev. Clifton Daniel, 3rd, ‘72
Ms. Elaine F. Davies
Dr. Ellen F. Davis and Dr. Dwayne
Huebner
Col. and Mrs. James W. Davis, Jr.
Ms. Gail Dawson, ‘03
The Rev. George H. Dawson, ‘61
The Rev. J. William DeForest, ‘96
The Rev. Nancy DeForest, ‘96
The Rev. Robert B. Dendtler, ‘83
The Rev. John Denham, ‘56
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Denious
Mrs. W. Gilbert Dent
The Rev. Whitney J. DeVine, ‘88
Mr. Craig DeVine
The Rev. Lark S. Diaz
The Rev. Robert W. Dickey, ‘60
Mrs. John H. Diehl III
Ms. Sara A. Dillich
The Rev. Philip M. Dinwiddie, ‘02
Diocese of Rhode Island
Diocese of Southwestern Virginia
Mrs. Charles J. Dobbins
The Rev. Robin D. Dodge, ‘99 and
Mrs. Therese M. Saint-Andre
Mrs. Dorothy L. Dodson
Ms. Louise Day Dodson, ‘99
The Rev. and Mrs. H. Arthur
Doersam, ‘53
The Very Rev. Todd M. Donatelli, ‘87
The Rt. Rev. Herbert A. Donovan, ‘57
Dr. Mary S. Donovan
The Rev. Sara H. Dover, ‘87
Mr. Julian R. Dugas, Esq.
The Rev. Dr. Rosemarie L.
Duncan, ‘05
The Rev. William M. Duncan-
O'Neal, ‘62
The Rev. Dr. Frank G. Dunn, ‘09
and Joseph A. Casazza
The Rev. and Mrs. Lester E. Durst, ‘90
Mrs. Claude F. DuTeil, ‘49
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Charles F.
Duvall, ‘60
The Rev. Daniel W. Eckman, Jr., ‘72
The Rev. Stephen B. Edmondson
and Ms. Cynthia Hess
The Rev. and Mrs. William F.
Egelhoff, ‘57
The Rev. Robert G. Eidson, ‘61
The Rev. Amanda B. Eiman, ‘07
Mr. Earl E. Eisenhart, Jr.
The Rev. William T. Elliott, ‘51
The Rev. Eleanor L. Ellsworth, ‘90
The Rev. Dr. Keith R. Emerson, ‘87
The Rev. Sandra L. Etemad, ‘06
The Rev. and Mrs. Donald L.
Farrow, ‘53
The Rev. James C. Fenhagen II, ‘54
The Rev. Richard E. Fichter, Jr., ‘01
The Rev. and Mrs. Charles L
Fischer III, ‘09
The Wayne Gladstone Bragg Scholarship Fund
The Rev. Jeff W. Fisher, ‘04
The Rev. J. William Flanders, Jr., ‘62 In May 2010 the family of Wayne Gladstone Bragg established a scholarship fund at Virginia
The Rev. Jonathan H. Folts, ‘96 Theological Seminary in his honor. The purpose of this fund is to enable a seminarian studying for
The Rev. Kimberly S. Folts, ‘94 a Masters of Divinity, who feels called to minister with the poor and disenfranchised, to continue
Catherine and Alan Ford his or her course of study; or to support a seminarian for a Masters of Divinity who wishes to
Foundation For The Carolinas
The Rev. Dr. Allie Washington spend a summer internship in a project or ministry in a developing country. Such project or minis-
Frazier, Jr., ‘61 try shall be affiliated with an Episcopal or Anglican diocese, parish, or church-related institution.
The Rev. Leonard W. Freeman, ‘69
Dr. John L. Fuller Dr. Wayne Bragg was a man who spent his life in servant ministry and had a special interest in
The Rev. J. Gary Fulton, ‘72 working with people from Latin American countries. As a professor of Sociology, he taught Third
The Rev. Fran Gardner, ‘06
World Issues and spent much of his academic life setting up internships for students in developing
The Rev. John B. Gardner, ‘02
The Rev. Rachel E. Gardner countries. He mentored and encouraged his student interns to share the lives and cultures of the
The Rev. Denise D. Giardina, ‘79 people they were serving and to work on sustainable development projects in the host countries.
The Rt. Rev. Wendell N. Gibbs, Jr. He developed and directed an innovative HNGR program (Human Needs and Global Resources)
The Rev. Dr. Elizabeth M. Gibson, ‘08 at Wheaton College in 1976 that sent college students around the world to help those in need. He
Mrs. Charles Waters Gilchrist
had a passion for working with the poor and understood the transformational power of engaging in
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Gillett
Mrs. Kay G. Glenday such work.
Dr. and Mrs. Raymond F. Glover,
(H) ‘86 At Wheaton College this past May for those having completed their HNGR program internships and
The Rev. C. Neal Goldsborough, ‘81 were graduating, his granddaughter included in those being honored, they gave a brief history of
The Rev. Sarabeth Goodwin, ‘05 the program and Wayne’s contribution, summing it this way: “Dr. Wayne Bragg was HNGR’S first
The Rev. Linda K. Gosnell, ‘05
director. He lived and breathed Matthew 25 -- ‘I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I
The Rev. Samuel F. Gouldthorpe, Jr., ‘57
The Rev. and Mrs. N. Brooks was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you invited me in. I needed
Graebner, ‘85 clothes and you clothed me. I was sick and you looked after me. I was in prison and you came to
Grace Episcopal Church, visit me.’“ His children wrote that he “..... selflessly dedicated his life work, heart and soul, to help
Hopkinsville, KY educate and enhance the lives of others. He will be sorely missed not only by his family, friends,
Grace Episcopal Church,
and associates; but, also by a world community that has been touched by his life.” That was Wayne.
Middleway, WV
The Rev. Earnest N. Graham, ‘01
and The Rev. Shirley E. Smith-
Graham, 02
The Rt. Rev. Duncan M. Gray III, ‘75
The Rev. Giulianna M. Gray, ‘08
The Rev. Peter W. Gray, ‘08
The Rev. Timothy H. Grayson, ‘07
The Rev. Paula C. Green, ‘04
Mrs. Anna S. Greenwood
The Rev. and Mrs. David J. Greer, ‘55
Mrs. Reginald C. Groff
Mr. and Mrs. Bradley H. Gunter
Mrs. Grace D. Guthrie
Capt. and Mrs. William S. Guthrie,
USN (Ret)
The Rev. Robert L. Haden, Jr., ‘64
The Rev. Jacques B. Hadler
Dr. Susan L. Hadler
Mrs. Jane M. Hague, ‘84
The Rev. Dr. William Hague, ‘80
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin King Hall
The Rev. Samuel L. Hall, ‘56
The Rev. Jay D. Hanson, ‘62
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Donald G.
Hanway, Jr., ‘71
Capt. and Mrs. William D.
Harkins, USN (Ret)

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Above: Middlers (from left to
right,) Meghan Holland, Rebecca
Edwards, Matthew Kozlowski,
and Andrew D’Angio White at
the fall Variety Show.
The Rev. Anne M. Harris, ‘08
The Rev. and Mrs. John C. Harris, ‘55
The Rev. Ladd K. Harris, ‘66
Ms. Kathleen Hartnett and Ms.
Ellen Marcus
The Rev. W. Scott Harvin, ‘57
The Rev. Nanese A. Hawthorne, ‘03
The Rev. Valerie J. Hayes, ‘09
The Rev. Bret B. Hays, ‘08
The Rev. Stephen D. Hein, ‘80
The Rev. Daniel R. Heischman, D. Min.
The Rev. Dr. James R. Henry, ‘65
The Rev. and Mrs. Joseph H.
Hensley, Jr., ‘07
Mrs. Robert D. Herzog
The Very Rev. and Mrs. Archibald
M. Hewitt, ‘54
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Hewson, Jr.
The Rev. Mellie Hussey Hickey, ‘77
The Rev. Nancy S. Hildebrand, ‘07
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Hitchcock
Mary Buford and Frederick Hitz
Ms. Margret Hjalmarson
Mr. James E. Hoben
Miss Ethel P. Hoffman
The Rev. and Mrs. Harry L.
Hoffman III, ‘57
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Mr. and Mrs. John Holden
The Rev. Sarah D. Hollar, ‘03
The Rev. Richard H. Holley, ‘64
Dr. William F. Honaman, (H) ‘93
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Hook
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Hoover
The Rev. Charles K. Horn, ‘55
The Rev. Peter M. Horn, ‘61
The Rev. and Mrs. Lance C. Horne, ‘01
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Hoven
Mrs. Boyd R. Howarth
The Rt. Rev. Sam B. Hulsey, ‘58
The Rev. Richard M. Humm, ‘08
The Rev. and Mrs. Frederic D.
Huntington, ‘79
The Rev. Preston B. Huntley, Jr., ‘68
The Rev. Jeffrey C. Huston, ‘05
IBM International Corporation
The Rev. and Mrs. Russell W.
Ingersoll, ‘65
The Rev. and Mrs. Clyde L.
Ireland, ‘54
Ms. Kimberly S. Jackson, ‘10
Ms. Jean Jackson-Mason
Mr. James P. Jarrard
The Rev. Kedron D. Jarvis, ‘02
The Rev. George W. Jenkins, ‘65
Jenzabar, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas F. John
Dr. Marilyn T. Johns, D. Min., ‘05
The Rev. Doris B. Johnson, ‘99
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon O. F. Johnson
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Robert H.
Johnson, ‘63
The Rev. Andrew B. Jones, ‘02
The Rev. Constance M. Jones, ‘03
The Rt. Rev. David C. Jones, ‘68
Vernon and Lillian Jones, ’48, ‘47
The Rev. Katherine H. Jordan, ‘92
The Rev. Linda M. Kapurch, ‘02
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Kelly
The Rev. Marguerite S. Kenney, ‘77
The Rev. and Mrs. Walter W.
Kesler, ‘79
Joel T. and Mary Elizabeth T. Keys, ‘73
The Rev. and Mrs. Charles E.
Kiblinger, ‘66
Dr. Elisabeth M. Kimball, Ph.D.
King of Peace Episcopal Church,
Kingsland, GA
The Rev. Ruth L. Kirk, ‘89
The Rev. Jessica T. Knowles, ‘10
Ms. Ann Korky
Dr. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid
The Rev. Thomas M. Kryder-Reid, ‘86
La Iglesia El Buen Pastor,
Durham, NC
The Rev. Christy E. Laborda, ‘07
Elizabeth Fleming Lacy
The Rev. Peter M. Larsen, ‘74
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Lawrence
The Rev. and Mrs. Robert
Lawthers, ‘59
The Hon. James A. Leach, (H) ‘00
Mrs. Chrishelle Leonard
The Rev. Sean T. Leonard, ‘06
Mr. Charles W. Leslie, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Russell J.
Levenson, Jr., ‘92
The Rev. Dr. Sandra M. Levy, ‘94
and Dr. Leon H. Levy
John G. Lewis, ‘97 and Patricia G.
Bridwell
The Rev. Richard H. Lewis, ‘63
The Rev. Sarah V. Lewis
Mr. Theodore M. Lewis
The Rev. Allison S. Liles, ‘06
The Rev. Eric J. Liles, ‘07
The Rt. Rev. Gary R. Lillibridge, ‘82
Mrs. Sara Ann Lindsey
Thomas and Dorothy Linthicum
Kevin and Julia Lloyd, ’00, ‘01
The Rev. Dr. Harold J. Lockett, ‘04
Mrs. Nancy I. Long
The Rev. Thomas M. Long, ‘75
The Rev. Richard A. Lord, ‘81
The Rt. Rev. Henry I. Louttit, Jr., ‘63
The Rev. David W. Lovelace, ‘76
The Rev. Ronald J. Lynch, ‘67
Mrs. Arthur L. Lyon-Vaiden
Mr. Arthur W. Machen, Jr.
The Rev. Morgan M. MacIntire, ‘08
The Rev. Anne S. MacNabb, ‘04
Robert L. and Jean A. Major
Janet Malcolm
The Rev. Gary B. Manning, ‘02
Mrs. C. Gresham Marmion, ‘33
The Rev. Ann F. Martens, ‘05
The Rev. and Mrs. Samuel A.
Mason, ‘73
The Rev. and Mrs. Claud W.
McCauley, ‘55
The Rev. John S. McDuffie, ‘87
The Rev. Dr. Michael T. McEwen, ‘88
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. H. Coleman
McGehee, Jr., ‘57
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Y. McGehee, ‘12
The Rev. Clifton J. McInnis, Jr., ‘56
The Rev. Sheila N. McJilton, ‘99
Mrs. Dorris W. McNeal
The Rev. Charles C. McNeer, ‘63
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Charlie F.
McNutt, Jr., D.D., ‘56
The Rev. Canon Glenda R.
McQueen Dawkins, ‘03
Mr. and Mrs. Robert McQuie
The Rev. Dr. Joyce A. Mercer and
The Rev. Dr. Lawrence Golemon
The Rev. Patricia Merchant, ‘74
Merchants Hope Episcopal
Church, Hopewell, VA
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh S. Meredith
The Rev. Susan L. Merrin, ‘05
The Rev. Andrew T. P. Merrow, ‘81
The Rev. James P. Metzger, ‘63
The Rev. Dr. Charles W. Midkiff, ‘87
The Rev. Luther D. Miller, Jr., ‘50
The Rev. Bollin M. Millner, Jr., ‘79
Minor Foundation, Inc.
Rabbi and Mrs. Jack L. Moline
Mrs. Ronald C. Molrine
The Rev. Anne Duval Monahan, ‘82
Mr. Robert L. Montague III
The Rt. Rev. James W. Montgomery
The Rev. Jennifer G. Montgomery,
‘98 and The Rev. Joseph Glaze
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Robert M.
Moody, ‘66
The Rev. Michael O. Moore, ‘65
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Edward
Morgan III, ‘55
Mr. Gerald Morgan, Jr.
The Rev. James C. Morgan, ‘69
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Charles H.
Morris, ‘57
Mr. and Mrs. Sedgwick L. Moss
The Rev. Gwynneth J. Mudd, ‘92
The Rev. George D. Muir, ‘82
Mrs. Kay C. Murray
Mrs. Beatrice W. Myers
Mrs. Susan M. Nelsen
Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Kinloch Nelson
The Rev. John W. Newton IV, ‘08
Mr. Christopher Northrup
The Rev. Rachel A. Nyback, ‘04
The Rev. Dr. Carol Pinkham Oak
The Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Oak
The Rev. Cesar S. Olivero, ‘03
Mrs. Robert Matthew Olton, ‘33
The Rt. Rev. Benjamin O.
Omosebi, ‘82
The Rev. John J. Ormond, ‘53
Mrs. H. Paul Osborne
The Rev. Janne Alro Osborne, ‘94
The Rev. Jennifer Ovenstone-
Smith, ‘03
The Rev. Ronald M. Owen, ‘08
Mr. Merlin W. Packard
The Rev. Beth A. Palmer, ‘03
Mrs. Monina B. Pangan
Mrs. Everett Parke
Mrs. Jean Parkins-Edens
The Rev. William C. Parnell, ‘89
The Very Rev. Charles F.
Parthum III, ‘87
Ms. Barbara A. Passut
The Rev. J. Frederick Patten, ‘67
Mr. Arthur E. Peabody, Jr.
The Rev. and Mrs. William N.
Peabody, ‘63
Jack and Penny Pearson
Mrs. Sharon Ely Pearson, ‘03
The Rev. and Mrs. Charles F.
Penniman, Jr., ‘57
The Rev. J. Joseph Pennington, Jr., ‘71
The Rev. Cynthia M. Peterson-
Wlosinski, ‘82
The Rev. Stephen S. Wlosinski
The Rev. Joy Ogburn Phipps, ‘88
Mr. Mark Pilling
Mrs. Olivine J. Pilling
Dr. Harry W. Pollock, ‘69
The Rev. Philip G. Porcher, Jr., ‘57
The Rev. Blanche L. Powell, ‘75
The Rev. Robert D. Price, ‘60
The Very Rev. Dr. Randall L. Prior, ‘70
Marjorie M. and Jerome F.
Prochaska
The Rev. Judith Harris Proctor, ‘96
The Rev. Robert A. Pruitt, ‘07 and
The Rev. Jessica K. Hitchcock
Dr. Frederick Rahal
The Rev. William L. Rawson, ‘67
Mrs. Judith L. Reddig
The Rev. Michael D. Reddig, ‘02
Mr. and Mrs. Gant Redmon
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. David B.
Reed, ‘51
The Rev. and Mrs. Manney C.
Reid, ‘51
The Very Rev. and Mrs. Richard
Reid, (H) ‘72
The Rev. and Mrs. F. Lee Richards, ‘51
Mrs. Robert H. Richardson
The Rev. Dr. Hill C. Riddle, ‘64
The Rev. W. Blake Rider, ‘04
The Rev. Dr. Anne Gavin Ritchie, ‘78
The Rev. Michael E. Robinson, ‘92
Dr. and Mrs. Dudley F. Rochester
Ms. Ann F. Roebuck
Mr. and Mrs. Donald V. Romanik
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Sean W.
Rowe, ‘00
The Rev. Stephen L. Rudacille, ‘66
The Rev. Jan C. Rudinoff, ‘72
The Rev. Gary B. Rundle, ‘62
Mrs. Marianne Van Vorst Ryan
The Rev. David W. Sailer, ‘67
St. Alban's Episcopal Church,
Waco, TX
St. Anne's Episcopal Church,
Tifton, GA
St. Edward's Episcopal Church,
San Jose, CA
St. James' Episcopal Church,
Montross, VA
St. James Episcopal Church,
Mooresville, NC
St. James the Less Episcopal
Church, Ashland, VA
St. John's - St. Mark's Church,
Grifton, NC
St. John's Episcopal Church,
Battleboro, NC
St. John's Episcopal Church,
Holbrook, MA
St. John's Episcopal Church,
Murray, KY
St. Katherine's Episcopal Church,
Williamston, MI
St. Luke's Episcopal Church,
Grants Pass, OR
St. Mark's Episcopal Church,
Plainview, TX
St. Mark's Episcopal Church,
Hampton, VA
St. Mary's Episcopal Church,
Speed, NC
St. Mary's Episcopal Church,
Madisonville, KY
St. Matthias' Episcopal Church,
Grafton, WV
St. Michael and All Angel's
Episcopal Church, Columbia, SC
St. Michael's Episcopal Church,
Milton, MA
St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
Thomasville, NC
St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
Altus, OK
St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
Montvale, NJ
St. Paul's-on-the-Hill Episcopal
Church, Winchester, VA
St. Peter's Episcopal Church,
Del Mar, CA
St. Philip's Episcopal Church,
Circleville, OH
St. Stephen's Cathedral,
Harrisburg, PA
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church,
Huntsville, TX
St. Thomas' Episcopal Church,
Reidsville, NC
St. Thomas' Episcopal Church,
McLean, VA
St. Thomas' Episcopal Church,
Hamilton, NY
St. Thomas Episcopal Church,
Garden City, KS
St. Thomas' Parish, Hancock,
Hancock, MD
The Rev. Lisa A. Saunders, ‘07
The Rev. and Mrs. Frederick E.
Scharf, Jr., ‘88
Mr. Peter Schultheis
Schwab Charitable Fund
The Rev. Jack S. Scott, ‘58
The Rev. Carol Westerberg
Sedlacek, ‘94
The Rev. Marcia A. Sessions, ‘91
Mrs. John W. Shackleton
Major Stuart G. Shafer, ‘78
The Rev. John Edward Shields, ‘84
The Rev. Harrison T. Simons, D.D., ‘07
Mr. David L. Simpson, Jr., ‘88
Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Simpson, Sr.
The Rev. Dr. Carey E. Sloan III, ‘65
The Rev. Frank F. Smart, Jr., ‘41
The Rev. Dr. Benjamin B. Smith,
LHD, ‘54
Jane Barber Smith
The Rev. Father J. Larrie Smith, ‘73
The Rev. Dr. Leslie C. Smith, ‘69
The Rev. and Mrs. Ralph W. Smith, ‘50
The Rev. Thomas R. Smith, ‘57
The Rev. Shirley E. Smith-Graham,
‘02 and The Rev. Earnest N.
Graham III, ‘01
The Rev. Thelma A. Smullen, ‘84
and Mr. John Smullen
The Rev. Robin Thomas Soller, ‘89
and Mr. Jon Soller
Mr. Peter Frederick Spalding, ‘98
The Rev. Fr. Benjamin E. Speare-
Hardy II, ‘90
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Leon P.
Spencer, Jr., ‘89
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. John S.
Spong, ‘55
The Rev. Dr. Virginia F. Stanford, ‘93
The Rev. John R. Stanton, ‘53
The Rev. Isabel F. Steilberg, ‘92
The Rev. Canon Edward L. Stein, ‘72
The Rev. Kyle D. Stillings, ‘07
Ms. Margaret P. Stillman
The Rev. and Mrs. Steven R.
Strane, ‘78
The Rev. Canon Mary C. Sulerud,
‘88 and Mr. Peder A. Sulerud
The Rev. Catherine W. Swann, ‘99
and Mr. Robert Swann
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. William E.
Swing, ‘61
The Rev. Charles R. Sydnor, Jr., ‘70
The Venerable Charles B. Tachau, ‘63
The Rev. John D. Talbird, Jr., ‘65
The Rev. Elizabeth P. Tappe, ‘77
The Rev. James M. Taylor, ‘94
The Rev. William N. Tedesco, ‘74
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. C. Cabell
Tennis, ‘64
The Rev. Dr. Patricia M. Thomas,
‘79 and Dr. Hoben Thomas
The Rev. Dr. Peter G. Thomas, ‘63
The Rev. Sherry Hardwick
Thomas, ‘89
The Rev. Catherine M. Thompson, ‘00
The Rev. Michael K. Thompson, ‘67
The Rev. Mary Brennan Thorpe,
‘09 and The Rev. Dr. Douglas
Thorpe
Mrs. R. Carmichael Tilghman
The Rev. Edward J. Tracy, ‘95 and
Mrs. Lee A. Tracy
The Rev. James A. Trimble, Jr., ‘56
The Rev. Sarah M. Trimble, ‘89
Trinity Ecumenical Parish,
Moneta, VA
Trinity Episcopal Church,
Staunton, VA
Trinity Episcopal Church,
Meredith, NH
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Trinity Episcopal Church,
Fuquay-Varina, NC
Trinity Episcopal Church,
Glen Arm, MD
Trinity Episcopal Church,
Wauwatosa, WI
Mr. William P. Trotter
The Rev. and Mrs. Malcolm E.
Turnbull, ‘70
The Rev. Clair F. Ullmann, ‘95
Mr. and Mrs. E. Massie Valentine, Jr.
The Rev. Canon Samuel Van Culin,
Jr., ‘55
The Rev. Sven L. vanBaars, ‘08 and
The Rev. Jennifer S. Kimball, ‘04
Kathleen vanEsselstyn
Mr. and Mrs. Grant B. Varner, Jr.
Vauters Church, Loretto,
Champlain, VA
The Rev. and Mrs. Robert
Vickery, Jr., ‘76
The Rt. Rev. Charles G.
vonRosenberg, ‘74
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Francis H.
Wade, ‘66
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. James E.
Waggoner Jr., ‘79
Joyce Bogardus Walker, ‘85
The Rt. Rev. Orris G. Walker, Jr.
The Rt. Rev. Leigh A. Wallace, Jr., ‘62
The Rev. Cynthia B. Walter, ‘03
The Rev. Dr. Charles L. Walthall, ‘01
Captain and Mrs. Raymond E.
Ward
The Rev. Oran E. Warder, ‘88
Mr. Guilford D. Ware
Mrs. Marshall T. Ware (Tricia)
Mr. Gerald L. Warren, ‘04
The Rev. Dr. Emery
Washington, Sr., ‘61
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. William J.
Watson III, ‘03
The Rev. and Mrs. David F.
Wayland, ‘62
The Rev. Joseph T. Webb III, ‘64
The Rev. Eileen E. Weglarz, ‘02
Mrs. Sarah White
The Rev. Canon and Mrs. Marlin
L. Whitmer, ‘55
The Rev. Antoinette R. Wike, ‘82
Miss Jane F. Williams
The Rev. and Mrs. Stephen G.
Williamson III, ‘65
The Rev. and Mrs. Frederick W.
Willis, Jr., ‘65
The Rev. Thomas L. Wilson, ‘08
Ms. Maureen Wilson-Jarrard
The Rev. Canon Flora Winfield, (H) ‘10
Mrs. Donnan Wintermute
The Rev. and Mrs. Rhett Y.
Winters, Jr., ‘49
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The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. John W.
Wires, ‘72
The Rev. Canon Nancy H. Wittig,
D. Min., ‘72
The Rev. and Mrs. Robert F.
Wollard, ‘63
The Rev. and Mrs. Daniel O.
Worthington, Jr., ‘76
Ms. Ann McJimsey Yarborough, ‘96
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. John Y. Yieh
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Alexander
C. Zabriskie, Jr., ‘56
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ziegler
FRIENDS OF THE SEMINARY
Ms. Aurie Acciavatti
Ms. Jennifer C. Addington
The Rev. Orlando J. Addison, ‘00
The Rev. Edward T. Adkins, ‘45
The Rev. Richard L. Aiken, ‘56
Dr. and Mrs. Lee S. Ainslie, Jr., (H) ‘98
The Rev. and Mrs. John H.
Albrecht, ‘59
The Rev. Conor M. Alexander, ‘07
The Rev. and Mrs. James T. Alves
The Rev. Robert M. Alves, ‘89
The Rev. John Alvey, ‘09
The Rev. Paul J. Andersen, ‘77
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. David T.
Anderson, ‘00
Mrs. Mary Anderson
Ms. Priscilla Andre-Colton
The Rev. Anthony F. Andres, ‘64
The Rev. Jennifer N. Andrews-
Weckerly, ‘09
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Mark S.
Anschutz
The Rev. Deborah D. Apoldo, ‘03
Mr. Jacob P. Asma
Mr. Kenneth F. Athey, Jr., ‘07
The Rev. Canon Henry L. Atkins,
Jr., D.Min., ‘64
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Patrick P.
Augustine, ‘08
The Rev. Stephen P. Austill, ‘54
The Rev. Henry W. Austin
The Rev. Benjamin Axleroad, Jr., ‘44
The Rev. Timothy W. Backus, ‘09
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Baer, ‘11
Mr. Frederick F. Baker, ‘95
The Rev. R. Louise Baker, ‘98
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Baldwin
The Rev. and Mrs. Harry W.
Baldwin, Jr., ‘48
Mrs. Lynn H. Banks
The Rev. Dr. Graham F. Bardsley, ‘81
The Rev. Webster G. Barnett, ‘51
Mr. Thomas M. Barr
The Rev. Dr. Lisa S. Barrowclough, ‘09
The Rev. Harwood Bartlett, ‘62
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Bartol
Mrs. Lois Barton
Mrs. William A. Beal
The Rev. Carl H. Beasley III, ‘76
The Rev. Dr. George C. Bedell II, ‘53
Ms. Jo J. Belser, ‘12
Mrs. William R. Belury
Mrs. W. Tapley Bennett
The Rev. Kathleen S. Benson, ‘85
Mr. and Mrs. John Berger
The Rev. and Mrs. Earl D.
Beshears, ‘01
The Rev. Dr. Charles A. Bevan, Jr.
The Rev. Michael Billingsley, ‘92
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. John E.
Bird, Jr., ‘93
The Rev. James G. Birney III, ‘79
The Rev. Robert W. Black, Jr., ‘09
The Rev. and Mrs. Judd H. Blain, ‘60
Dr. Barbara Blakistone
The Rev. J. Paul Board, ‘95
Ms. Paula Bokros
The Rev. Michele B. Bond, ‘89
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. John E.
Booty, ‘53
Mr. and Mrs. Jon B. Boss
Dr. Herman Bostick
The Rev. Dr. James T. Boston, ‘02
The Rev. Dr. Lynn E. Bowdish, ‘91
The Rev. Paul Roger Bowen, ‘68
The Rev. and Mrs. Robert J. Boyd, Jr.
Ms. Beverly A. Bradley, ‘91
The Rev. and Mrs. William M.
Branscomb, Jr., ‘63
Mr. C. Madison Brewer
The Rev. Diane Britt, ‘02
The Rev. and Mrs. William M.
Brock, ‘86
Mr. Philip R. Brooks, ‘00
The Rev. David C. Brown, ‘92
The Rev. Donna H. Brown, ‘93
The Rev. Canon Dwight L. Brown, ‘81
The Rev. Ervin A. Brown III, ‘65
Ms. Kaye Brown
The Rev. Paige R. Buchholz, ‘88
Above: The Rt. Rev. Carolyn Tanner
Irish (VTS ‘83, left) and Mr. David
Pitts, recipients of the 2009 Dean’s
Cross Award, are congratulated by
he Rev. Canon Rosemari Sullivan
(VTS ‘85.)
The Rev. Judith F. Burgess, ‘84
The Rev. and Mrs. Douglas G.
Burgoyne
Mr. Arnold D. Burke
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Cyril C.
Burke, Sr.
Dr. Barbara Burkhardt
Mr. Craig S. Burkhardt
The Rev. Ann Lyn Burns, ‘06
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Glenn E.
Busch, ‘71
The Rev. and Mrs. Richard A.
Busch, (H) ‘84
The Rev. Katherine M. Bush, ‘03
Mr. Larry D. Bussey, ‘82
The Rev. Andrew G. Butler III, ‘08
The Rev. Ronald C. Byrd, ‘07
The Rev. and Mrs. J. Michael
Cadaret, ‘03
Amelie and Charles Cagle
Calvary Episcopal Church,
Cairo, NY
The Rev. David W. Cammack, ‘55
Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Caress
The Rev. and Mrs. Peter M. Carey, ‘07
Ms. Diane Carl
The Rev. Katherine A. Carlson, ‘00
and Mr. Wendell Lynch
The Rev. Douglas M. Carpenter, ‘60
Mrs. John Paul Carter
The Rev. and Mrs. John F. Carter II, ‘84
The Rev. R. Douglas Carter, ‘76
Cathedral Church of St. John,
Wilmington, DE
The Rev. David M. Chamberlain, ‘71
The Rev. Nan E. Chandler, ‘85 The Rev. and Mrs. Robert E. Daly, Jr. The Rev. Ballard Dorsee, ‘67 The Rev. H. Barry Evans, ‘62
Dr. Ernest E. Chapman, ‘89 Mrs. Lori Daniels The Rev. and Mrs. William S. Mr. H. Bradley Evans, Jr.
The Rev. and Mrs. Willie A. Ms. Cynthia Darling Douglas, ‘53 The Rev. and Mrs. Theodore H.
Chappell, Jr., ‘74 The Rev. Dr. Ronald David, ‘03 The Rev. J. Thomas Downs, Jr., ‘74 Evans, Jr., ‘61
Peg Garner Cheadle, ‘80 Mrs. Nancy M. D. Davidson, ‘09 Mr. and Mrs. W. Harding Drane, Jr. The Rev. William D. Evans III, ‘75
The Rev. Bruce D. Cheney, Sr., ‘06 Mr. Thomas E. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Draycott Mr. Steven L. Everett
The Rev. Peter G. Cheney, ‘75 The Rev. Mary H. T. Davisson, ‘04 The Rev. and Mrs. Christopher R. The Rev. and Mrs. William M.
Ms. Hope S. Childs The Rev. Carl P. Daw, Jr., ‘09 Duncan, ‘09 Fay, ‘51
The Rev. Canon and Mrs. William Mrs. May B. Daw The Rev. G. Edward Dunlap, ‘72 Dr. Judy Fentress-Williams and
P. Chilton, ‘66 Ms. Susan D. Dawson Mrs. Jennifer Durant, ‘11 Dr. Kevin Williams
The Rev. Kathleen D. Chipps, ‘84 The Rev. and Mrs. Walter W. Ms. Lynn B. Dutton The Rev. Floyd W. Finch, Jr., ‘54
Christ Episcopal Church, Dawson, ‘73 Mrs. Mary E. Duvall The Rev. Susan M. Flanders, ‘85
Walnut Cove, NC The Rev. David C. Dearman, ‘87 Mr. Severn P. C. Duvall The Rev. and Mrs. Peter W.
Church of Our Saviour, Mrs. Margaret Demchuk The Rev. Dr. Patty T. Earle, ‘89 Fleming, Jr., ‘54
Milton, MA Col. Sergi L. Demchuk The Rev. John G. Earls, ‘04 Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Flemming
Church of the Good Shepherd, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Denkinger Mr. James A. Eastwood The Rev. Roger L. Foote, ‘81
Cooleemee, NC The Rev. and Mrs. Frederick D. Ms. Jane Edwards Ms. Barbara A. Forbes
Church of the Nativity, Devall IV, ‘96 Ms. Nancy K. Ehlke The Rev. Canon David R. Forbes, ‘53
Cedarcroft, Baltimore, MD The Rev. Michael F. DeVine, ‘77 Chaplain Robert M. Elder The Rev. Richard B. Ford
Colonel Robert H. Clagett, Jr. and Ms. Mariana M. Bauman The Rev. Gates Elliott, ‘09
Ms. Florence Clark Mrs. Margaret S. Diederich, ‘83 Ms. Lynn D. Ellison
The Rev. Holland B. Clark, ‘54 The Rev. Rebecca W. Dinan, ‘80 Mrs. Elizabeth B. Elmore Below: President of the Episco-
The Rev. Walter D. Clark, Jr., ‘67 Ms. Wilhelmina S. Dixon Emmanuel Episcopal Church, pal Church Foundation, David V.
Ms. Maggie Alston Claud The Rev. Dr. William L. Dols, Jr., ‘58 Woodstock, VA
Romanik, leads a session at VTS’
The Rev. Charlotte D. Cleghorn, ‘86 Mr. Brian D'Onofrio The Rev. Gail A. Epes, ‘87
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Patrick R. Ms. Danica D'Onofrio, ‘01 Episcopal Church Women - Saturday School for Leadership,
Close, ‘84 Ms. Vivian T. Dooley-Burney Diocese of Virginia a program run by the Seminary’s
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Harold J. The Rev. Mary Anne Dorner, ‘89 Mrs. Carl N. Ettinger, Jr. Institute for Christian Formation
Cobb, Jr., ‘90 Alexandra Dorr Allene and H. Bradley Evans and Leadership.
Mr. Nicholas H. Cobbs
Mrs. Malinda W. Collier, ‘09
Mr. Haley D. Collums
The Rev. and Mrs. William L.
Combs, ‘03
The Rev. and Mrs. Joshua T.
Condon, ‘03
The Rev. Robert F. Coniglio, ‘10
The Rev. Edward W. Conklin, ‘49
The Rev. Alexandra K. Conrads, ‘01
Kenneth and Jane Cook
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Cook, Ph.D.
Mrs. J. Finley Cooper
Mrs. Rebecca P. Cooper, ‘01
Cople Episcopal Parish, Hague, VA
The Rev. Dr. Robert T.
Copenhaver, ‘62
The Rev. Dr. James A. Corl, ‘92
Mrs. Isabel Souder Correll
The Rev. Hilary "Pete" Costello, Jr.
The Rev. Frances F. Cox, ‘81 and
The Rev. Edwin M. Cox
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Peyton G.
Craighill, ‘54
The Rev. Rebecca T. Crites, ‘07
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Crooks, Jr.
The Rev. John W. Crossin O.S.F.S.
Mr. Robert C. Crowl
Mrs. Jeffrey T. Cuffee
The Rev. David P. Culbertson, ‘04
The Rev. Christopher T.
Cunningham
The Rev. Jeunee L. Cunningham, ‘00
The Rev. Raymond D. Custer, ‘00

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Mr. William Forester
Mr. George E. Fox, ‘79
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Andrew M.
France, Jr., ‘66
The Rev. and Mrs. David J. C.
Frazelle, ‘04
The Rev. John T. Frazier, ‘05
The Rev. Sollace M. Freeman, Jr., ‘65
Ms. Pamela G. Frick, ‘00
Mr. and Mrs. C. Craighead
Fritsche, Sr.
Mr. David R. Fronk
Mr. Carter B. S. Furr
The Rev. John C. Gale, ‘66
The Rev. Stephen C. Galleher, ‘70
The Rev. Fr. Liston A. Garfield, ‘85
Mr. George C. Garikes
The Rev. Sarah K. Gaventa, ‘05
Ms. Diane H. Gay
Left: The Rev. Canon Angela
Ifill (VTS ‘95), pictured here
will the Rev. Willis Foster
(VTS ‘10), will serve as the
new AAEC President for the
2010 term.
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Mrs. Margaret H. Gibson
Dr. and Mrs. Timothy B. Gilbert
The Rev. Ann H. Gillespie, ‘07
The Rev. Dr. Cynthia A. Gilliatt, ‘88
The Rev. and Mrs. Charles M.
Girardeau, ‘82
The Rev. Dr. William S. Glazier II, ‘52
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Edward
Stone Gleason, ‘60
Ms. Sarah Glenn
The Rev. Holly M. Gloff, ‘06
Dr. Susan H. Godson
The Rev. Lisa Goforth, ‘03
Dr. and Mrs. Albert S. Gooch, Jr.,
(H) ‘02
Ms. Laine Covington Goren
Mr. Oscar A. Gottscho
Grace Episcopal Church,
Ridgway, PA
Grace Episcopal Church,
Lewiston Woodville, NC
The Rev. Canon Blount H. Grant, Jr., ‘62
The Rev. Dr. J. Segar Gravatt, ‘85
Dr. Jonathan M. Gray, Ph.D.
Mr. Bentley C. Gregg
The Rev. Norman E. Griffith, Jr., ‘68
Mr. David A. Griswold
Mr. and Mrs. Max Guggenheimer, Jr.
The Rev. and Mrs. Matthew
Gunter, ‘96
The Rev. Jane T. Gurry, ‘80
Mr. David Q. Hall
The Rev. and Mrs. Sidney J. Hall, ‘89
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Hal E. Hallgren
Mrs. Jane E. Halpern
Dr. Paul J. Halpern, ‘02
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Hamilton, Jr.
The Rev. Canon Michael P.
Hamilton, ‘55
The Rev. and Mrs. Robert L.
Hammett, ‘54
Dr. Hobart G. Hansen
The Rev. Dr. Norma D. Hanson, ‘94
The Rev. John Hardaway IV, ‘95
The Rev. Susan Louttit Hardaway, ‘93
The Rev. Robert A. Hargreaves, ‘62
Mr. and Mrs. John Harkins
Mr. Daniel L. Harmon
Ms. Jennifer Harper
The Rev. and Mrs. Lawrence R.
Harris, Jr., ‘65
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Stephen D.
Harris, ‘69
Mrs. Georgia H. Hart
The Rev. Dorothy C. Hartzog, ‘94
The Rev. Elizabeth S. Hasen, ‘91
The Rev. and Mrs. Edward M.
Hasse III, ‘89
The Rev. Rebekah Bokros Hatch,
‘04 and Dr. Anthony Hatch
The Rev. Adele M. Hatfield, ‘05
The Rev. Charles J. Hatfield, ‘05
Mrs. Stanley F. Hauser
Mr. Franklin Hawkins
The Rev. Victoria R. T. Heard, ‘82
Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Hedges
Dr. and Mrs. John H. Hedley
The Rev. Meredith T. Heffner, ‘08
Ms. Dorothy F. Heil, ‘98
Mr. Bruce G. Helmer
The Rt. Rev. Dorsey F. Henderson,
Jr., ‘77
Cdr. and Mrs. Douglas D. Henry
Mr. and Mrs. James P. Henry
The Rev. Erin S. Hensley, ‘07
Mr. Sam Hensley
The Rev. and Mrs. Gary S. Herbst, ‘76
The Rev. Lynda S. Hergenrather
Ms. Mary Hickert Herring, ‘03
Mrs. Charles Henry Hewitt
The Rev. John D. Hiers, Jr., ‘78
The Rev. John S. Hill, ‘98
Harvey Hillin, Ph.D., ‘69
The Rev. John M. Hines, ‘70
Mr. Michael B. Hinson, ‘05
Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. G.
Hobson
The Rev. Wayne C. Hodge, Sr., ‘89
The Rev. Lucy L. Hogan, Ph.D., ‘81
Mrs. Charles B. Hoglan, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Yerby R. Holman
Mr. and Mrs. Yuille Holt III
Holy Trinity Parish, Decatur, GA
The Rev. Dr. Ruthanna B. Hooke
and Dr. Judy Adkins
The Very Rev. Alan B. Hooker, ‘76
The Rev. John K. Hooper, ‘58
The Rev. James R. Horton, ‘67
The Rev. Theodore B. Howard, ‘07
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart M. Hoyt, Jr.
Mr. Charles H. Huettner
The Rev. Richard H. Humke, ‘56
Mr. and Mrs. John O. Hummel
Mr. and Mrs. Rollin L. Huntington
Col. and Mrs. C. Powell Hutton
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Robert W.
Ihloff, (H) ‘96
Intelliscan, Inc.
The Rev. John E. Isbell III, ‘71
Mr. Kenneth P. Isler
The Rev. and Mrs. Fielder
Israel, Jr., ‘75
Mrs. Marlowe K. Iverson
The Rev. Dr. Carol J. Jablonski, ‘06
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Jackle
Mrs. Solomon N. Jacobs
Ms. Doris E. James
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney J. Jarvis
Ms. Susan Jaskot
The Rev. Kathryn E. Jenkins, ‘02
Ms. Carolyn A. Johnson
The Rev. Marta Dove-Vila
Johnson, ‘08
Mr. Robert E. Johnson, Jr.
Ms. Caroline F. Johnston
The Rev. David K. Johnston, ‘61
The Rev. Robert O. Johnston, ‘70
Mrs. Elizabeth Root Jones
Mr. John T. Jones, ‘06 and
The Rev. Dr. Carol J. Jablonski
The Rev. Barbara Jordan
The Rev. Noel Julnes-Dehner, ‘77
and Mr. Joseph Julnes-Dehner
Mr. Joseph W. Karlson
Mrs. Lenore F. Karnis
The Rev. and Mrs. Joseph
Keblesh, Jr., ‘85
The Rev. Kate E. Kelderman, ‘04
The Rev. John S. Keller, ‘75
The Rev. Meaghan M. Kelly, ‘07
Ms. Tracey E. Kelly, ‘11
The Rev. Dr. Howard F.
Kempsell, Jr., ‘80
The Rev. Dexter W. Kessler, ‘86
Ms. Mary S. Kimball
Mr. Billy W. Kingery
The Rev. William M.
Kirkland, Ph.D., ‘54
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Knight
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Knight

Dr. and Mrs. H. Donald Knox, M.D.
Mr. Fritz-Alan Korth
The Rev. Linda J. Kramer, ‘87
The Rev. and Mrs. Robert A.
Krogman
The Rev. Kenneth C. Kroohs, ‘95
The Rev. Dr. Charles D. Krutz, ‘95
The Rev. and Mrs. Barry P. Kubler, ‘97
The Rev. Howard A. La Rue, ‘67
The Rt. Rev. Robert L. Ladehoff, ‘80
The Rev. Joseph H. Laird, ‘53
Mr. Lester Lamb
Ms. Linda L. Lanam, ‘09
The Rev. James J. Lanter, ‘08
The Rev. Dr. William M.
Lawbaugh, ‘07
Dr. and Mrs. C. Rodney Layton, Jr.
Father Lazarus, O.I.C., ‘80
Ms. Cheri J. Leberknight
The Rev. Dr. Luis Leon, ‘77
Mr. Andrew G. Levchuk
Mrs. Beryl Levy
Mr. Merle Levy
The Rev. Canon Richard C. Lief,
D. Min., ‘65
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. A. Heath
Light, ‘54
The Rev. Thomas C. Lincoln, ‘66
The Rev. Mark A. Linder, ‘73
The Rev. C. Lloyd Lipscomb III, ‘62
The Rev. I. Mayo Little, Jr., ‘60
The Rev. Arthur and Mrs. Susan S.
Lloyd, ‘56
The Rev. Lucia K. Lloyd, ‘05
Mrs. Barton M. Lloyd
The Rev. Laura K. Lockey, ‘92
Mr. Russell G. Lockey
The Rev. Candyce J. Loescher, ‘07
Mr. Warren Loescher
The Rev. Bruce A. Lomas, ‘92
The Rev. Canon A. Adams
Lovekin, Ph.D., ‘54
The Rev. Donald A. Lowery, ‘87
Mr. Roye L. Lowry
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Lubelfeld, ‘78
The Rev. Nicholas P. N. Lubelfeld, ‘78
The Rev. and Mrs. Robert H. Lyles, ‘57
The Rev. Alexander H. MacDonell, ‘68
Mr. and Mrs. Mark MacGougan
The Rev. Albert H.
MacKenzie, Jr., ‘62
Mr. Eddie Mackey III
The Rev. Robert A. Mackie, ‘66
Dr. and Mrs. Cooper R. Mackin, ‘12
The Rev. and Mrs. Jeffrey B.
MacKnight, ‘84
Mrs. John D. Macomber
The Rev. Alexander D. MacPhail, ‘02
The Rev. Karin MacPhail, ‘04
Alice and Ralph MacPhail, Jr.
Capt. Janet Lewis Maguire, ‘80
The Rev. Timothy Malone, ‘09
Mr. Joseph L. Manson, ‘79
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Markham
Mr. and Mrs. S. Keith Markham
The Rev. Wm. Parker Marks, ‘60
The Rev. Gayle M. Marsh, ‘89
Mr. and Mrs. M. Lee Marston
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Edward
Martin, Jr., ‘71
Mrs. Roy B. Martin, Jr.
The Very Rev. Richard J.
Martindale, ‘95
Mrs. Charles O'Fallon Mastin
Mrs. Judith Wright Mathews
The Rev. Lex S. Mathews, ‘60
The Rev. Ernest G. Matijasic, ‘78
Mr. and Mrs. Richard V. Mattingly, Jr.
The Rev. James H. Maxwell, ‘64
The Rev. and Mrs. David P.
McBride, ‘50
The Rev. Dr. Richard L.
McCandless, ‘70
The Rev. Dr. John F. McCard, ‘07
The Rev. Carla B. McCook, ‘04
The Rev. Robert M. McCoy
Ms. Sharon McCray
Ms. Patricia M. McDermott
The Rev. Canon and Mrs. John S.
McDowell, Jr., ‘71
The Rev. Charles R. McGinley, ‘57
The Rev. Tara L. McGraw, ‘05
Dr. and Mrs. Hunter H. McGuire, Jr.
The Rev. Helen K. McKee, ‘06
The Rt. Rev. Jack M. McKelvey, ‘66
Ms. Dorothy H. McLachlan
Ms. Lucinda A. McLaughlin
The Rev. William P. McLemore, ‘65
Mr. William McMillen, ‘12
Ms. Dorothy S. Mcrae
Ms. Laura Y. Meagher, ‘80
Mr. Roy Mendez
Left: Dean Markham’s lunch-
time forums for the VTS Com-
munity are well attended and
address issues within the life of
the Seminary.
The Rev. Troy Mendez, ‘09
Dr. Dorothy Merrill
The Rev. Richard H. Merrill, ‘71
The Rev. Dewayne J. Messenger,
‘07 and Mr. Raymond Knapp
The Rev. Catherine A. Metivier,
D.D.S., ‘05
The Rev. Garrett M. Mettler, ‘02
The Rev. Martha Z. Miller, ‘87
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Irvin S.
Mitchell, ‘69
Professor Emmet V. Mittlebeeler, ‘92
The Rev. Ann L. Moczydlowski, ‘00
The Rev. Karen B. Montagno, ‘95
The Rev. Alex G. Montes, ‘05
Mrs. Lillian H. Moore
Ms. Margaret D. Moore, ‘02
The Rev. Dennis L. Morgan, ‘08
Dr. Lyman W. Morgan
The Rev. Randall C. Morgan, ‘85
Dr. Florence M. Morrill
The Rev. Dr. James E. Morris, ‘00
The Rev. and Mrs. Robert D.
Morrison, Jr., ‘71
Ms. Patricia P. Moser
Mr. and Mrs. Frank F.
Mountcastle, Jr.
The Rev. Laureen H. Moyer, ‘04
Ms. Elizabeth Mueller
The Rev. and Mrs. Charles F.
Mullaly, Jr., ‘94
Mr. John D. Muller
The Rev. Peter A. Munson, ‘91
The Rev. Milton H. Murray, ‘58
The Rev. and Mrs. G. Thomas
Mustard, ‘77
Mrs. Shirley S. Mustard
The Rev. Annwn H. Myers, ‘84
The Rev. Elizabeth W. Myers, ‘71
Ms. Nancy Myrick
The Rev. Anne M. Natoli, ‘98
Mrs. Caroline H. Neal
The Rev. Walter E. Neds, ‘62
Mr. David S. Nelson, ‘05
The Rev. Rita B. Nelson, ‘99
The Rev. Melana Nelson-Amaker
Mrs. Marie-Lynn Neville, ‘96 and
Mr. Thomas A. Neville
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Neville, ‘83
Sarah and Don Noble
Ms. Betty M. Noer
The Rev. Steve and Sandy Norcross
The Rev. Worth E. Norman, Jr.
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North Farnham Episcopal Church,
Farnham, VA
The Rev. J. Ellen Nunnally, ‘76
Mr. Lynwood T. Oakes
The Rev. Elizabeth P. O'Callaghan, ‘09
The Rev. Andrew T. O'Connor, ‘05
Mrs. Samuel S. Odom
The Rev. and Mrs. Donnel
O'Flynn, ‘85
Ms. Anita D. Ogden, ‘89
The Rev. and Mrs. Lloyd F.
O'Keefe, ‘67
Mr. Kyle M. Oliver, ‘12
Mr. Ralph E. Olson
Mrs. Phyllis O'Quinn
Mrs. Walter R. O'Quinn
Ms. Margaret D. Orem
The Rev. Richard N. Ottaway, ‘57
The Rev. Harrison H. Owen, ‘60
The Rev. Shelby O. Owen, ‘05
The Rev. Jeffrey A. Packard, ‘95
The Rev. James L. Pahl, Jr., ‘05
Mr. James A. Palmer
The Rev. and Mrs. Steven J.
Pankey, ‘07
The Rev. Barbara D. Parini, ‘88
The Rev. Cynthia Park, ‘08
The Rev. and Mrs. Howard F.
Park III, ‘62
The Rev. Allan C. Parker, Jr.
Mrs. Margaret A. Parker
The Rev. William P. Parrish, ‘59
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Timothy H.
Parsons, ‘68
Mr. Oliver B. Patton and Ms.
Barbara Van Gelder
Mr. and Mrs. William S. Peebles IV, ‘04
The Rev. Donald H. Peet, ‘58
The Rev. Scott B. Petersen, ‘07
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Peterson
Mr. Gordon P. Peyton
Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Pierce
Dr. and Mrs. Richard N. Pierson III
The Rev. and Mrs. Clifford A. Pike, ‘71
Ms. Meredith Pilling
Mrs. J. Edwin Pippin, ‘72
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Albert C.
Pittman, ‘81
The Rev. Jane D. Piver, ‘00
Ms. Mae Barbee Pleasant
The Rev. J. Richard Pobjecky, ‘75
The Rev. Rollin S. Polk, Jr., ‘45
The Rev. Robert Pollard III, ‘54
The Rev. John M. Porter-Acee III, ‘05
Mr. Christopher Pote
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. F. Neff
Powell, (H) ‘97
The Rev. Mark M. Powell, ‘07
The Rev. Murray R. Powell, ‘77
The Rev. R. Bingham Powell, ‘07
The Rev. Woodson Lea Powell IV, ‘60
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The Rev. John S. Prater, ‘58 St. Barnabas' Church, Berlin, NH Mrs. Michelle M. Sanderson, ‘03
Mr. Curtis Prather St. Clement's Church, Mrs. David E. Satterfield III
The Rev. and Mrs. William S. Greenville, PA The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Stanley W.
Pregnall, ‘58 St. John the Evangelist Church, Sawyer, ‘76
The Rev. Dr. Gary K. Price, ‘47 Dunbarton, NH The Rev. Miriam S. Saxon, ‘07
The Rev. George N. Price, ‘60 St. Mark's Episcopal Church, The Rev. Dr. Lee P. Schaefer, ‘83
The Rev. John W. Price, ‘64 Grand Rapids, MI The Rev. Carleton Schaller, Jr., ‘57
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. St. Matthias Episcopal Church, The Very Rev. Robert D.
Prichard Sault Sainte Marie, MI Schenkel, Jr., ‘60
Dr. Betty Carr Pulkingham, ‘06 St. Paul's Cathedral, Ms. Cynthia R. Schlattmann
The Rev. C. Michael Pumphrey, ‘81 Oklahoma City, OK The Rev. Carolyn J. Schmidt, ‘87
The Rev. and Mrs. Thomas C. St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Dr. Barbara B. Schnorrenberg
Pumphrey, ‘04 Louisville, KY Dr. John Schnorrenberg
The Rev. Sarah T. Putnam, ‘97 St. Paul's Episcopal Church, The Rev. Beverly C. Schroeder, ‘09
Mrs. Lynn Ellen Queen Cheney, WA The Rev. George H. Schroeter, ‘56
The Rev. William Queen, Jr., ‘94 St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Mr. H. Richard Schumacher
The Rev. Alison J. Quin, ‘01 Washington, NC
Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo C. Rand, Jr. St. Stephen's Episcopal Church,
Ms. Frances Randall Richmond, VA
Mr. and Mrs. Russell V. Randle Ms. Jamie Samilio, ‘05 Below: Nothing is more precious
Ms. Carlin Rankin and Dr. Alfred The Rev. Dr. Richard E. Sanders, ‘85 than giving out candy to the
P. Morgan The Rev. Holladay Sanderson, ‘01 Butterfly House Trick or Treaters.
Ms. Barbara Read
Ms. Gretchen A. Redmond
Mr. and Mrs. A. Crenshaw Reed, Jr.
The Rev. Mary E. Reese, ‘08
The Rev. Dr. Robert E. Reese, ‘74
The Rev. and Mrs. Alwin
Reiners, Jr., ‘54
Mr. Russell R. Reno, Jr.
The Very Rev. Joe D. Reynolds, ‘74
The Rev. Grady W. Richardson, Jr., ‘68
Mrs. Robert E. Richardson
The Rev. Dr. Charles M.
Riddle III, ‘63
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Ridenour
The Honorable and Mrs. Stephen
W. Rideout
Mr. and Mrs. J. Fred Rippy III
The Rev. Phoebe A. Roaf, ‘08
Ms. Frances L. Robb
George and Zara Roberts
The Rev. William B. Roberts, D.M.A.
Mr. Kenneth M. Robison
Ms. Virginia V. Rocen
Ms. Cynthia J. Rogers, ‘06
Mr. and Mrs. N. Pendleton Rogers
The Rev. Canon Charles M. Roper, ‘56
Mr. James M. Rose, Jr.
Mr. William Alfred Rose, Jr., ‘96
Mr. William Roth, ‘88
The Rev. John Henry Rule, ‘05
The Rev. Joseph M. Rushton, ‘07
Ms. Ann Ryan
The Rev. and Mrs. Henry M.
Sabetti III, ‘98
Penelope deBordenave Saffer
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church,
Mount Jackson, VA
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church,
Tuskegee Institute, AL
The Rev. Matthew R. Scott, ‘07
The Rev. C. Perry Scruggs, Jr., ‘74
Mr. Narcis J. Sebikwekwe, ‘10
Mrs. Marshall E. Seifert
The Rev. and Mrs. Jeffrey H.
Seiler, ‘86
Ms. Patricia Sexton, ‘11
The Rev. and Mrs. William M.
Shand III, ‘81
The Rev. Andrew J. Sherman, ‘92
Mrs. Edward S. Shirley
The Rev. John G. Shoemaker, ‘54
Mr. James F. Shook
Mrs. Hilary Shostal
Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Shostal
The Rev. Canon and Mrs. David I.
Shoulders, ‘75
The Rev. Nicholas N. Sichangi, ‘07
Mr. William H. Simons
Mr. Alan B. Sinclair
The Rev. and Mrs. Roderick D.
Sinclair, ‘66
Mrs. Nancy Siridavong
Mrs. Mary L. Sivertsen
Mrs. Anthony E. Skopac
The Rev. Timothy K. Small, ‘82
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Alfred H.
Smith, Jr., ‘88
Ms. Claire E. Smith
Mr. Ether D.G. Smith
The Rev. Manning Lee Smith, ‘68
Dr. Newland F. Smith, 3rd, ‘07
The Rev. P. Kingsley Smith, ‘56
Ms. Sarah L. O. Smith
The Rev. and Mrs. Taylor M.
Smith, ‘96
The Rev. and Mrs. John R.
Smucker, 3rd, ‘58
Mrs. Margaret J. Soleau, ‘52
The Rev. William M. Sowards, ‘07
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sowden
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Spahr
Ms. Bette Spencer
Ms. Margaret E. Sperow, ‘91
The Rev. Phyllis A. Spiegel, ‘04
The Rev. Carol H. Spigner, ‘85
Mrs. Barbara M. Stafford
The Very Rev. Dr. William S.
Stafford, (H) ‘05
The Rev. and Mrs. Stephen R.
Stanley, ‘82
The Rev. Donald G. Stauffer, ‘54
The Rev. Frederick Stecker IV, ‘72
Ms. Leslie Charlotte Nunez
Steffensen, ‘06
Mr. Luke M. Stephens
The Rev. Caroline R. Stewart, ‘06
The Rev. J. Bruce Stewart, ‘78
The Rev. Joseph Stewart-Sicking,
Ed. D., ‘03
The Rev. Megan Stewart-Sicking, ‘03
Mrs. George C. Stierwald
The Rev. David A. Storm, ‘65
Mrs. Joseph M. Stoudenmire
Ms. Tina Strauss
The Rev. Ann J. Stribling, ‘82
The Rev. Dr. Charles M. Stuart II, ‘83
Mrs. Geraldine M. Stuhr
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald D. Sullivan
Mr. Edmund J. Sullivan, Jr.
The Rev. Canon Rosemari G.
Sullivan, ‘85
Mrs. Susan G. Sullivan, ‘99
The Rev. and Mrs. H. Howard
Surface, ‘51
Mr. Donald Sutherland, ‘57
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Suttle, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. David Swann
The Rev. and Mrs. Craig C.
Sweeney, ‘01
The Rev. Canon Walter Szymanski
Mr. and Mrs. George Taft
Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Taggart
The Rev. Erika L. Takacs, ‘07
Mr. and Mrs. Richard N.
Taliaferro, Jr., ‘03
The Rt. Rev. John T. Tarrant, ‘83
The Rev. Cynthia N. Taylor, ‘86
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar R. Taylor, Jr.
The Rev. Gregory B. Taylor, ‘63
Mrs. Roberta Taylor, ‘11
The Rev. and Mrs. Timus G.
Taylor, Jr., ‘63
The Rev. A. Dawson Teague, Jr., ‘55
Mrs. Herman Templin
The Rev. Shelley-Ann Tenia, ‘05
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Terzian
The Rev. David H. Teschner, ‘86
The Teagle Foundation
The Rev. Ellie and Bob Thober, ‘04
The Rev. Canon and Mrs. James
M. Thomas, Jr., ‘01
The Rev. Robert L. Thomas, ‘50
The Rev. William T. Thomas, ‘57
Mrs. Florence E. Thompson
Mrs. Mary B. Thornburgh
The Honorable Patricia S. Ticer
Mr. David Tomkinson
Mr. George J. Tompkins
The Rev. Lewis W. Towler, ‘55
Mr. Vincent D. Travaglini
The Rev. Canon Warner R.
Traynham, ‘61
Ms. Carol E. Tsou
Mrs. Robert Tsu
The Rev. Beverley D. Tucker, ‘48
Mrs. Beverley D. Tucker
The Rev. Julia M. Tucker
Mr. Charles F. Tucker
The Rev. Julia M. Tucker
Mr. Arthur M. Turner
The Rev. Claude S. Turner, Jr.
The Rev. Linnea S. Turner, ‘89
The Rev. and Mrs. Melvin E.
Turner, ‘77
Mr. Jack Upper and Mrs. Claudia
R. Upper
Ms. Ruby Van Croft
The Rev. Gardner W. Van Scoyoc, ‘58
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Frank R.
VanDevelder, ‘63
The Rev. and Mrs. Joshua Varner, ‘01
Varina Episcopal Church,
Henrico, VA
Mrs. Frank H. Vest, Jr.
The Rev. Leigh C. Vicens, ‘09
The Rev. Samantha A. Vincent, ‘05
Mrs. William A. Vogely
The Rev. Edwin H. Voorhees, Jr., ‘75
The Rev. Anne F. Vouga, ‘08
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Wagenius
The Rev. and Mrs. Kenneth E.
Wagner-Pizza, ‘02
The Rev. Mark E. Waldo, Sr., ‘51
The Rev. Mark E. Waldo, Jr., ‘88
The Rev. Dr. Raymond J.
Waldon, Jr., ‘95
Ms. Gwendolyn L. Walker
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Arthur E.
Walmsley
The Rev. Dr. James I. Walter, ‘59
The Rev. and Mrs. Edwin M. Ward, ‘55
The Rev. Edward S. Warfield, ‘62
Mrs. Mary R. Warfield
The Rev. Frederick J.
Warnecke, Jr., ‘58
The Rev. Janet C. Watrous
Mr. Andrew B. Watt, ‘96
Mrs. Marion S. Wattenbarger
Mr. Raymond A. Wedlake
The Rev. Charles S. Weiss, ‘97
The Rev. and Mrs. George H.
Welles, Jr., ‘64
The Rev. David D. Wendel, Jr., ‘59
Mrs. R. Mark Wenley
The Rev. Carolyn K. West, ‘93
The Rev. Philip E. Wheaton, ‘52
The Rev. Elisa D. Wheeler, ‘81
The Rev. Burton K. White, Jr., ‘09
Above: Former seniors, Charles
Garcia, Corry Weierbach, and
Susan Sowers, enjoy a round of
good-hearted teasing before
getting formal portraits taken.
The Rev. Cyril E. White, Sr., ‘95
Mrs. Dorothy D. Whitmire
The Rev. John W. Wigle, ‘56
The Very Rev. and Mrs. C. Preston
Wiles, ‘48
The Rev. Canon Larry G. Wilkes, ‘92
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Huntington
Williams, Jr., ‘52
The Rev. Shearon S. Williams, ‘03
Mr. Robbie Williams
Mrs. Rolf Williams
Mrs. Sarah C. Williamson
Mr. Rance R. Willis
Mrs. Vera L. Willis
Ms. Isabel Wilner
Mrs. David W. C. Graham, ‘35
Ms. Sandra H. Wilson
The Rev. Dr. Marian K. Windel, ‘79
The Rev. Arthur K. Wing III, ‘61
Mrs. William D. Winn
The Rev. Cheryl A. Winter, ‘87
Mr. Robert W. Wiseman
The Rev. Robert C. Wisnewski, Jr., ‘83
The Rev. and Mrs. David B. Wolf, ‘96
The Rev. Stuart C. Wood, ‘87
Mrs. Wendell W. Woodbury
The Rev. James P. Woodson, Jr., ‘53
The Rev. Dr. John F. Woolverton, ‘53
The Rev. Middleton L.
Wootten III, ‘69
The Rev. Anne M. Wrede
The Rev. Richard C. Wrede, ‘90
Ms. Hallie E. Wright
The Rev. John A. Wright, Jr., ‘65
The Rev. Wesley Wubbenhorst, ‘89
The Rev. George S. Yandell, ‘79
Mr. Dorsey Yearley
Ms. Anne J. Yellott
Ms. Patricia R. York
The Rev. George Zabriskie II, ‘54
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1941
The Rev. Frank F. Smart, Jr.
1943
The Rev. Robert Morgan Shaw
1944
The Rev. Benjamin Axleroad, Jr.
1945
The Rev. Edward T. Adkins
The Rev. Rollin S. Polk, Jr.
1947
The Rev. Robert L. Bast
The Rev. John Paul Carter
The Rev. Charles Carroll Eads
Mrs. Lillian C. Jones
The Rev. Dr. Gary K. Price
1948
The Rev. Harry W. Baldwin, Jr.
The Rev. Lee Graham, Jr.
The Rev. Vernon A. Jones, Jr.
The Rev. Beverley D. Tucker, Jr.
The Very Rev. C. Preston Wiles, Ph.D.
1949
The Rt. Rev. Gordon T. Charlton, Jr.
The Rev. Edward W. Conklin
The Rt. Rev. Philip A. Smith
The Rev. Rhett Y. Winters, Jr.
1950
The Rev. David P. McBride
The Rev. Luther D. Miller, Jr.
The Rev. Ralph W. Smith
The Rev. Robert L. Thomas
1951
The Rev. Webster G. Barnett
The Rev. Alden Besse
The Rev. William T. Elliott
The Rev. William M. Fay
The Rt. Rev. Gerald N. McAllister
The Rt. Rev. David B. Reed
The Rev. Manney C. Reid
The Rev. F. Lee Richards
The Rev. H. Howard Surface, Jr.
The Rev. Mark E. Waldo, Sr.
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1952
The Rev. Donald S. Barrus
The Rev. Dr. William S. Glazier II
The Rev. James L. Tucker
The Rev. Philip E. Wheaton
The Rt. Rev. Huntington Williams, Jr.
1953
The Rt. Rev. Robert P. Atkinson
The Rev. Dr. George C. Bedell II
The Rev. Dr. William R. Belury
The Rev. James G. Birney
The Rev. Dr. John E. Booty
The Rev. H. Arthur Doersam
The Rev. William S. Douglas
The Rt. Rev. A. Theodore Eastman
The Rev. Donald L. Farrow
The Rev. Canon David R. Forbes
The Rev. Dr. Edward H. Kryder
The Rev. Joseph H. Laird
The Rev. Samuel S. Odom
The Rev. John J. Ormond
The Rev. Edward G. Robinson
The Rev. A. Wayne Schwab
The Rev. John R. Stanton
The Rev. James P. Woodson, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. John F. Woolverton
1954
The Rev. Stephen P. Austill
The Rev. Holland B. Clark
The Rev. Dr. Peyton G. Craighill
The Rev. Charles C. Demeré
The Rev. James C. Fenhagen II
The Rev. Floyd W. Finch, Jr.
The Rev. Peter W. Fleming, Jr.
The Rev. Robert L. Hammett
The Very Rev. Archibald M. Hewitt
The Rev. Clyde L. Ireland
The Rev. William M. Kirkland, Ph.D.
The Rt. Rev. A. Heath Light
The Rev. Canon Arthur A.
Lovekin, Ph.D.
The Rev. Claudius Miller III
The Rev. Robert Pollard III
The Rev. Alwin Reiners, Jr.
The Rev. Alfred R. Shands III
The Rev. John G. Shoemaker
The Rev. Dr. Benjamin B. Smith, LHD
The Rev. Donald G. Stauffer
The Rev. Herbert A. Willke
The Rev. George Zabriskie II
Bob Cook, class of 1961, at the
Alumni Convocation.
1955
The Rev. Edwin P. Bailey
The Rev. David W. Cammack
The Rev. David J. Greer
The Rev. Canon Michael P. Hamilton
The Rev. John C. Harris
The Rev. Charles K. Horn
The Rev. Claud W. McCauley
The Rev. Dr. Edward Morgan III
The Rt. Rev. John S. Spong
The Rev. A. Dawson Teague, Jr.
The Rev. Lewis W. Towler
The Rev. Canon Samuel Van Culin, Jr.
The Rev. Edwin M. Ward
The Rev. Canon Marlin L. Whitmer
The Rev. William A. Yon
1956
The Rev. Richard L. Aiken
The Rev. Dr. William E. Blottner
The Rev. Dr. Thomas D. Bowers
The Rev. Jere Bunting, Jr.
The Rev. John Denham
The Rev. Samuel L. Hall
The Rev. Richard H. Humke
The Rev. Patterson Keller
The Rev. Arthur S. Lloyd
The Rev. Clifton J. McInnis, Jr.
The Rt. Rev. Charlie F. McNutt, Jr.
The Rev. Canon Charles M. Roper
The Rev. George H. Schroeter
The Rev. P. Kingsley Smith
The Rev. James A. Trimble, Jr.
The Rev. John W. Wigle
The Rev. Dr. Alexander C.
Zabriskie, Jr.
1957
The Rt. Rev. Herbert A. Donovan, Jr.
The Rev. William F. Egelhoff
The Rev. Samuel F. Gouldthorpe, Jr.
The Rev. W. Scott Harvin
The Rev. Harry L. Hoffman III
The Rev. Robert H. Lyles
The Rt. Rev. H. Coleman
McGehee, Jr.
The Rev. Charles R. McGinley
The Rev. Dr. Charles H. Morris
The Rev. Richard N. Ottaway
The Rev. Charles F. Penniman, Jr.
The Rev. Philip G. Porcher, Jr.
The Rev. Carleton Schaller, Jr.
The Rev. Thomas R. Smith
Mr. Donald Sutherland
The Rev. William T. Thomas
1958
The Rt. Rev. Allen L. Bartlett, Jr.
The Rev. John Tol Broome
The Rev. Albert L. Clark
The Rev. Dr. William L. Dols, Jr.
The Rev. Don Raby Edwards, D.D.
The Rev. John K. Hooper
The Rt. Rev. Sam B. Hulsey
The Rev. Milton H. Murray
The Rev. Donald H. Peet
The Rev. John S. Prater
The Rev. William S. Pregnall
The Rev. Jack S. Scott
The Rev. John R. Smucker, 3rd
The Rev. Gardner W. Van Scoyoc
The Rev. Frederick J. Warnecke, Jr.
Above: Members of the class
of 1969 (from left to right), Ed
Covert, Bob Hardman, Mid
Wootten, and Grant Robinson.
1959
The Rev. John H. Albrecht
The Rev. John D. Alfriend
The Rev. Dr. Ralph W. Bayfield
The Rev. James C. Blackburn
The Rev. A. Moody Burt
The Rev. Dr. Timothy B. Cogan
The Rev. Alan B. Conley
The Rev. James R. Crowder
The Rev. Thomas T. Diggs
The Rev. Louis C. Fischer III
The Very Rev. H. Douglas Fontaine
The Rev. Richard P. Fowler
The Rev. John I. Kilby
The Rev. Robert Lawthers
The Rev. William P. Parrish
The Rev. Patrick H. Sanders, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Franklin E. Vilas, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. James I. Walter
The Rev. David D. Wendel, Jr.
1960
The Rev. Judd H. Blain
The Rt. Rev. David C. Bowman
The Rev. Douglas M. Carpenter
The Rev. Dr. Robert H. Crewdson
The Rev. Robert W. Dickey
The Rt. Rev. Charles F. Duvall
The Rev. Dr. Edward Stone Gleason
The Rev. Nelson B. Hodgkins
The Rev. John C. Humphries, Jr.
The Rev. I. Mayo Little, Jr.
The Rev. Wm. Parker Marks
The Rev. Lex S. Mathews
The Rev. Harrison H. Owen
The Rev. Woodson L. Powell IV
The Rev. George N. Price
The Rev. Robert D. Price
The Very Rev. Robert D. Schenkel, Jr.
1961
The Rev. Robert D. Cook
The Rev. George H. Dawson
The Rev. Robert G. Eidson
The Rev. Theodore H. Evans, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Allie Washington
Frazier, Jr.
The Rev. Peter M. Horn
The Rev. David K. Johnston
The Rev. George M. Maxwell
The Rt. Rev. William E. Swing
The Rev. Canon Warner R. Traynham
The Rev. Dr. Emery Washington, Sr.
The Rev. Arthur K. Wing III
1962
The Rev. Harwood Bartlett
The Rev. Dr. Robert T. Copenhaver
The Rev. William M. Duncan-
O'Neal
The Rev. H. Barry Evans
The Rev. J. William Flanders, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. M. Douglas Girardeau
The Rev. Canon Blount H. Grant, Jr.
The Rev. Jay D. Hanson
The Rev. Robert A. Hargreaves
The Rev. C. Lloyd Lipscomb III
The Rev. Albert H. MacKenzie, Jr.
The Rev. Walter E. Neds
The Rev. Howard F. Park III
The Rev. Gary B. Rundle
The Rt. Rev. Leigh A. Wallace, Jr.
The Rev. Edward S. Warfield, Jr.
The Rev. David F. Wayland
1963
The Rev. Charles D. Aiken, Jr.
The Rev. Robert H. Armstrong
The Rev. William M. Branscomb, Jr.
The Rev. Ralph M. Byrd, Jr.
The Rev. L. Roberts Graves, Jr.
The Rt. Rev. Robert H. Johnson
The Very Rev. William B. Lane
The Rev. Richard H. Lewis
The Rt. Rev. Henry I. Louttit, Jr.
The Rev. Charles C. McNeer
The Rev. James P. Metzger
The Rev. William N. Peabody
The Rev. Dr. Charles M. Riddle III
The Venerable Charles B. Tachau
The Rev. Gregory B. Taylor
The Rev. Timus G. Taylor, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Peter G. Thomas
The Rev. Dr. Frank R. VanDevelder
The Rev. Robert F. Wollard
1964
The Rev. Anthony F. Andres
The Rev. Canon Henry L.
Atkins, Jr., D.Min
The Rev. Dr. Douglass M. Bailey III
The Rev. Robert L. Haden, Jr.
The Rev. Richard H. Holley
The Rev. James H. Maxwell
The Rev. John W. Price
The Very Rev. Harry H. Pritchett, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Hill C. Riddle
The Rt. Rev. C. Cabell Tennis
The Rev. V. Alastair Votaw
The Rev. Joseph T. Webb III
The Rev. George H. Welles, Jr.
1965
The Rev. Stephen G. Alexander
The Rev. Ervin A. Brown III
The Rev. Ronald C. Davis
The Rev. Sollace M. Freeman, Jr.
The Rev. Lawrence R. Harris, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. James R. Henry
The Rev. Russell W. Ingersoll
The Rev. George W. Jenkins
The Rev. Canon Richard C. Lief, D. Min.
The Rev. William P. McLemore
The Rev. Michael O. Moore
The Rev. Armistead C. Powell
The Rev. Dr. Carey E. Sloan III
The Rev. David A. Storm
The Rev. John D. Talbird, Jr.
The Rev. Stephen G. Williamson III
The Rev. Frederick W. Willis, Jr.
The Rev. John A. Wright, Jr.
1966
The Rev. S. F. James Abbott
The Rev. Dr. Robert D. Askren
The Rev. Rodney L. Caulkins
The Rev. Canon William P. Chilton
The Rev. Randolph K. Dales
The Rev. Dr. Andrew M. France, Jr.
The Rev. John C. Gale
The Rev. Ladd K. Harris
The Rev. Charles E. Kiblinger
The Rev. Thomas C. Lincoln
The Rev. Robert A. Mackie
The Rt. Rev. Jack M. McKelvey
The Rev. Dr. C. Thomas Midyette III
The Rt. Rev. Robert M. Moody
The Rev. Stephen L. Rudacille
The Rev. Roderick D. Sinclair
The Rev. Dr. Francis H. Wade
1967
The Rev. Martin L. Agnew, Jr.
The Rev. Walter D. Clark, Jr.
The Rev. Ballard Dorsee
The Rev. James R. Horton
The Rev. Howard A. La Rue
The Rt. Rev. Peter James Lee
The Rev. Ronald J. Lynch
The Rev. Lloyd F. O'Keefe
The Rev. J. Frederick Patten
The Rev. William L. Rawson
The Rev. David W. Sailer
The Rev. Michael K. Thompson
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1968
The Rev. Dr. Richard L. M. Barry
The Rev. Paul Roger Bowen
The Rev. Norman E. Griffith, Jr.
The Rev. Preston B. Huntley, Jr.
The Rt. Rev. David C. Jones
The Rev. Alexander H. MacDonell
The Rev. James Hugh Magers
The Rev. Dr. Timothy H. Parsons
The Rev. Grady W. Richardson, Jr.
The Rev. Manning L. Smith
1969
The Rev. John D. Crandall
The Rev. Leonard W. Freeman
The Rev. Dr. Stephen D. Harris
Harvey Hillin, Ph.D.
The Rev. Canon Peter G. Kreitler
The Rev. Dr. Irvin S. Mitchell
The Rev. James C. Morgan
Dr. Harry W. Pollock
The Rev. Robert E. Richardson
The Rev. Grant H. Robinson
The Rev. James W. H. Sell
The Rev. Dr. Leslie C. Smith
The Rev. Middleton L. Wootten III
1970
The Rev. Christopher H. Barker, Ph.D.
The Rev. Canon Thomas G. Clarke
The Rev. Stephen C. Galleher
The Rev. John M. Hines
The Rev. Robert O. Johnston
The Rev. Dr. Richard L. McCandless
The Very Rev. Dr. Randall L. Prior
The Rev. Charles R. Sydnor, Jr.
The Rev. Malcolm E. Turnbull
1971
The Rev. George E. Andrews II
The Rev. Dr. Glenn E. Busch
The Rev. David M. Chamberlain
The Rev. Carleton S. Cunningham, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Donald G. Hanway, Jr.
The Rev. John E. Isbell III
The Rev. Dr. Edward Martin, Jr.
The Rev. Canon John S. McDowell, Jr.
The Rev. Richard H. Merrill
Mr. Thomas M. Moore
The Rev. Robert D. Morrison, Jr.
The Rev. Elizabeth W. Myers
The Rev. J. Joseph Pennington, Jr.
The Rev. Clifford A. Pike
1972
The Rev. Percival G. Brown
The Rt. Rev. Clifton Daniel, 3rd
The Rev. G. Edward Dunlap
The Rev. Daniel W. Eckman, Jr.
The Rev. J. Gary Fulton
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The Rev. Dr. Richard J. Jones
The Rev. Lloyd A. Lewis, Jr., Ph.D.
The Rev. Jan C. Rudinoff
The Rev. Dr. William R. Shiflet, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Frederick Stecker IV
The Rev. Canon Edward L. Stein
The Rev. Dr. J. Douglas Wigner, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. John W. Wires
The Rev. Canon Nancy H. Wittig,
D. Min.
1973
The Rev. Michael D. Chalk
The Rev. Walter W. Dawson
The Rt. Rev. Edwin F. Gulick, Jr.
The Rev. Joel T. Keys
The Rev. Mark A. Linder
The Rev. Samuel A. Mason
The Rev. Dr. Sam A. Portaro, Jr.
The Rev. Canon Louis C. Schueddig
The Rev. J. Larrie Smith
1974
The Rev. Willie A. Chappell, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Winston B. Charles
The Rev. J. Thomas Downs, Jr.
The Rev. Peter M. Larsen
Mr. John A. McColley
The Rev. Patricia Merchant
The Rt. Rev. George E. Packard
The Rev. Dr. Robert E. Reese
The Very Rev. Joe D. Reynolds
The Rev. C. Perry Scruggs, Jr.
The Rev. William N. Tedesco
The Rt. Rev. Charles G. vonRosenberg
The Rev. Frank W. Young
1975
The Rev. Peter G. Cheney
The Rev. William D. Evans III
The Rt. Rev. Duncan M. Gray III
The Rev. Canon Victoria T. Hatch
The Rev. Fielder Israel, Jr.
The Rev. John S. Keller
The Rev. Thomas M. Long
The Rev. J. Richard Pobjecky
The Rev. Blanche L. Powell
The Rev. Canon David I. Shoulders
The Rev. Edwin H. Voorhees, Jr.
1976
The Rev. Carl H. Beasley III
The Rev. Gloria K. Berberich
The Rev. R. Douglas Carter
The Rev. J. Carlyle Gill
The Rev. Gary S. Herbst
The Very Rev. Alan B. Hooker
The Rev. David W. Lovelace
The Rev. J. Ellen Nunnally
The Rev. Dr. Peter R. Powell, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Stanley W. Sawyer
The Rev. Robert Vickery, Jr.
The Rev. Daniel O. Worthington, Jr.
1977
The Rev. Paul J. Andersen
The Rev. Dr. Roxana M. Atwood
The Rev. Michael F. DeVine
The Rt. Rev. Dorsey F. Henderson, Jr.
The Rev. Mellie Hussey Hickey
The Rev. Noel Julnes-Dehner
The Rev. Marguerite Shirley Kenney
The Rev. Dr. Luis Leon
The Rev. G. Thomas Mustard
The Rev. Murray R. Powell
The Rev. Elizabeth P. Tappe
The Rev. Melvin E. Turner
Mr. David F. Wright
1978
The Rev. John D. Hiers, Jr.
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Lubelfeld
The Rev. Nicholas P. N. Lubelfeld
The Rev. Ernest G. Matijasic
The Rev. Dr. Anne Gavin Ritchie
Major Stuart G. Shafer
The Rev. J. Bruce Stewart
The Rev. Steven R. Strane
1979
The Rev. James G. Birney III
Mr. Don Allen Chamblee
Mr. George E. Fox
The Rev. Denise D. Giardina
The Rev. C. Read Heydt
The Rev. Frederic D. Huntington
The Rev. Walter W. Kesler
Mr. Joseph L. Manson
The Rev. Bollin M. Millner, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Patricia M. Thomas
The Rt. Rev. James E. Waggoner Jr.
Above: from left to right,
Melody Shobe (‘05), Allison
Liles (‘06), Jessica Hitchcock
(‘05), Lauren Kuratko (‘05),
and Sarah Gaventa (‘05), meet
up for a girls weekend away.
The Rev. Dr. Marian K. Windel
The Rev. George Shaw Yandell
1980
The Rt. Rev. Gladstone B. Adams III
Mrs. Peg Cheadle
The Rev. Dr. Barbara T. Cheney
The Rev. Rebecca W. Dinan
The Rev. Jane T. Gurry
The Rev. Dr. William Hague
The Rev. Stephen D. Hein
The Rev. Dr. Howard F. Kempsell, Jr.
The Rt. Rev. Robert L. Ladehoff
Father Lazarus, O.I.C.
Capt. Janet Lewis Maguire, (Ret)
Ms. Laura Y. Meagher
1981
The Rev. Dr. Graham F. Bardsley
The Rev. Canon Dwight L. Brown
The Rev. Frances Fosbroke Cox
The Rev. Dr. Robert S. Dannals
The Rt. Rev. Jane Holmes Dixon
The Rev. Roger L. Foote
The Rev. C. Neal Goldsborough
The Rev. Lucy L. Hogan, Ph.D.
The Rev. George A. Hull
The Rev. Richard A. Lord
The Rev. Andrew T. P. Merrow
The Rev. Dr. Albert C. Pittman
The Rev. C. Michael Pumphrey
The Rev. William M. Shand III
The Rev. Elisa D. Wheeler
1982
The Rev. Ronald G. Abrams
The Rev. Anne B. Bonnyman
Mr. Larry D. Bussey
The Rev. Charles M. Girardeau
The Rev. Victoria R. T. Heard
The Rt. Rev. Gary R. Lillibridge
The Rev. Dr. Margaret McNaughton
The Rev. Anne D. Monahan
The Rev. George D. Muir
The Rt. Rev. Benjamin O. Omosebi
The Rev. Cynthia M. Peterson-
Wlosinski
The Rev. Timothy K. Small
Mrs. Jacqueline H. Stanley
The Rev. Stephen R. Stanley
The Rev. Ann J. Stribling
The Rev. Antoinette R. Wike
Below: Ketlen Solak (‘05) and
Charles Brock (‘07) attended
the Youth Ministry Conference
at VTS this summer.
1983
Mr. Robert A. Ayres
The Rt. Rev. Scott A. Benhase
The Rev. Robert B. Dendtler
Mrs. Margaret S. Diederich
The Rev. A. Katherine Grieb, Ph.D.
The Very Rev. Martha J. Horne
The Rt. Rev. Carolyn Tanner Irish
The Rev. Roma W. Maycock
Mr. Thomas A. Neville
The Rev. Dr. Lee P. Schaefer
The Rev. Dr. Charles Moore Stuart II
The Rt. Rev. John T. Tarrant
The Rev. Robert C. Wisnewski, Jr.
1984
The Rev. John Patrick Baker
The Rev. Errol Kent Booth
The Rev. Judith F. Burgess
The Rev. John F. Carter II
The Rev. Kathleen D. Chipps
The Rev. Dr. Patrick R. Close
Mrs. Jane M. Hague
The Rev. Jeffrey B. MacKnight
The Rev. Annwn H. Myers
The Rev. John E. Shields
The Rev. Thelma A. Smullen
1985
The Rev. Kathleen S. Benson
The Rev. Nan E. Chandler
The Rev. Susan M. Flanders
The Rev. Fr. Liston A. Garfield
The Rev. N. Brooks Graebner
The Rev. Dr. J. Segar Gravatt
The Rev. Joseph Keblesh, Jr.
The Rev. Randall C. Morgan
The Rev. Donnel O'Flynn
The Rev. Dr. Richard E. Sanders
The Rev. Carol H. Spigner
The Rev. Canon Rosemari G. Sullivan
Joyce Bogardus Walker
1986
The Rev. William M. Brock
The Rev. Dr. George M. Calvert
The Rev. Charlotte D. Cleghorn
The Rev. Dexter W. Kessler
The Rev. Thomas M. Kryder-Reid
The Rev. Beth C. McNamara
The Rev. Jeffrey H. Seiler
The Rev. Cynthia N. Taylor
The Rev. William B. Taylor, Jr.
The Rev. David H. Teschner
1987
The Rev. David C. Dearman
The Very Rev. Todd M. Donatelli
The Rev. Sara H. Dover
The Rev. Dr. Keith R. Emerson
The Rev. Gail A. Epes
The Very Rev. Zachary W.M.
Fleetwood
The Rt. Rev. E. Ambrose Gumbs
The Rev. Linda J. Kramer
The Rev. Donald A. Lowery
The Rev. John S. McDuffie
The Rev. Dr. Charles W. Midkiff
The Rev. Martha Z. Miller
The Very Rev. Charles F. Parthum III
The Rev. John R. Pitts
The Rev. Carolyn J. Schmidt
The Rev. Cheryl A. Winter
The Rev. Stuart C. Wood
1988
The Rev. Dr. Edna J. Banes
The Rev. Robert S. Blumenstock
The Rev. Paige R. Buchholz
The Rev. Catherine M. Campbell
The Rev. Whitney J. DeVine
The Rev. Dr. Cynthia A. Gilliatt
The Rev. Louise J. Lusignan
The Rev. Nancy Horton McCarthy
The Rev. Dr. Michael T. McEwen
The Rev. Barbara D. Parini
The Rev. Joy Ogburn Phipps
Mr. William Roth
The Rev. Frederick E. Scharf, Jr.
Mr. David L. Simpson, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Alfred H. Smith, Jr.
The Rev. Canon Mary C. Sulerud
The Rev. Mark E. Waldo, Jr.
The Rev. Oran E. Warder
1989
The Rev. Robert M. Alves
The Rev. Michele B. Bond
Dr. Ernest E. Chapman
Mrs. Helen W. Daley
The Rev. Mary Anne Dorner
The Rev. Dr. Patty T. Earle
The Rev. Beth H. Echols
The Rev. Sidney J. Hall
The Rev. Edward M. Hasse III
The Rev. Wayne C. Hodge, Sr.
The Rev. Ruth L. Kirk
The Rev. Gayle M. Marsh
The Rev. Ann C. Miller
Ms. Anita D. Ogden
The Rev. William C. Parnell
The Rev. Robin Thomas Soller
The Rev. Dr. Leon P. Spencer, Jr.
The Rev. Sherry Hardwick Thomas
The Rev. Sarah M. Trimble
The Rev. Linnea S. Turner
The Rev. Wesley Wubbenhorst
1990
The Rt. Rev. Larry R. Benfield
The Rev. Barbara K. Blakemore
The Rev. Lee H. Bristol III
The Rev. Dr. Harold J. Cobb, Jr.
The Rev. Lester E. Durst
The Rev. Eleanor Lynch Ellsworth
The Rev. Fr. Benjamin E. Speare-
Hardy II
The Rev. Christine R. Whittaker
The Rev. Richard C. Wrede
1991
The Rev. Dr. Lynn E. Bowdish
Ms. Beverly A. Bradley
Mr. Tak-Kei Cheong
The Rev. Elizabeth S. Hasen
The Rt. Rev. James R. Mathes
The Rev. Peter A. Munson
The Rev. Marcia A. Sessions
Ms. Margaret E. Sperow
1992
Mr. Richard G. Abbott
The Rev. Katharine E. Babson
The Rev. Michael Billingsley
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The Rev. Vaughan P. L. Booker
The Rev. David C. Brown
The Rev. Dr. James A. Corl
The Rev. Paul W. Gennett, Jr.
The Rev. Canon Anthony H. Jewiss
The Rev. Katherine H. Jordan
The Rev. Dr. Russell J. Levenson, Jr.
The Rev. Laura K. Lockey
The Rev. Bruce A. Lomas
Professor Emmet V. Mittlebeeler
The Rev. Gwynneth J. Mudd
The Rev. Michael E. Robinson
The Rev. Andrew J. Sherman
The Rev. Isabel F. Steilberg
The Rev. Janet E. Tarbox
The Rev. Canon Larry G. Wilkes
1993
The Rev. Dr. John E. Bird, Jr.
The Very Rev. Kathleen M. Bobbitt
The Rev. Donna H. Brown
The Rev. Carlotta A. Cochran
The Rev. Michael B. Ferguson, Sr.
The Rev. Susan L. Hardaway
The Rev. Gail S. Smith
The Rev. Dr. Virginia F. Stanford
The Rev. Carolyn K. West
1994
The Rev. Kimberly Spire Folts
The Rev. Dr. Norma D. Hanson
The Rev. Dorothy C. Hartzog
The Rev. Dr. Sandra M. Levy
The Rev. Charles F. Mullaly, Jr.
The Rev. Julie F. Nelson
The Rev. Janne Alro Osborne
The Rev. William L. Queen, Jr.
The Rev. Susan L. Scranton
The Rev. Carol Westerberg Sedlacek
The Rev. James M. Taylor
1995
Mr. Frederick F. Baker
The Rev. Cynthia O. Baskin
The Rev. J. Paul Board
The Rt. Rev. C. Andrew Doyle
The Rev. John B. Hardaway IV
The Rev. Kenneth C. Kroohs
The Rev. Dr. Charles D. Krutz
The Very Rev. Richard J. Martindale
The Rev. Karen B. Montagno
The Rev. Jeffrey A. Packard
The Rev. Edward J. Tracy
The Rev. Peggy E. Tuttle
Right: Congratulations to the
Rev. Jimmy Abbott (‘10) and
his wife, Maggie, who were
married on June 12, 2010.
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The Rev. Clair F. Ullmann
The Rev. Dr. Raymond J. Waldon, Jr.
The Rev. Cyril E. White, Sr.
The Rev. Michael S. White
1996
The Very Rev. Jerry D. Adinolfi, Jr.
The Rev. Lila B. Brown
The Rev. J. William DeForest
The Rev. Nancy P. DeForest
The Rev. Frederick D. Devall IV
The Rev. Margaret A. Faeth
The Rev. Jonathan H. Folts
The Rev. Matthew Gunter
The Rev. Judith A. Hefner
Mrs. Marie-Lynn Neville
The Rev. Judith Harris Proctor
Mr. W. Alfred Rose, Jr.
The Rev. Taylor M. Smith
Mr. Andrew B. Watt
The Rev. David B. Wolf
Ms. Ann McJimsey Yarborough
1997
Ms. Anne M. Karoly
The Rev. Barry P. Kubler
The Rev. Dr. John G. Lewis
The Rev. Sarah T. Putnam
The Rev. Charles S. Weiss
1998
The Rev. R. Louise Baker
The Rev. Anne H. Bridgers
The Rev. Irving T. Cutter IV
Ms. Dorothy F. Heil
The Rev. John S. Hill
The Rev. Catharine W. Montgomery
The Rev. Jennifer Glaze
Montgomery
The Rev. Dr. Genevieve M. Murphy
The Rev. Anne M. Natoli
The Rev. Henry M. Sabetti III
Mr. Peter F. Spalding
The Rev. John G. Tampa
The Very Rev. Alan Kim Webster
1999
The Rev. James P. Bartz
The Rev. Sandra DePriest
The Rev. Robin D. Dodge
Ms. Louise Day Dodson
The Rev. Louis B. Hays
The Rev. Doris B. Johnson
The Rev. Adam P. Kradel
The Rev. Sheila N. McJilton
The Rev. Rita B. Nelson
The Rev. Jennie Lou Reid
The Rt. Rev. James J. Shand
Mrs. Susan G. Sullivan
The Rev. Catherine W. Swann
2000
The Rev. Orlando J. Addison
The Rev. Dr. David T. Anderson
Mr. Philip R. Brooks
The Rev. Mary R. Busse
The Rev. Katherine A. Carlson
The Rev. Alison C. Carmody
The Rev. Jeunee L. Cunningham
The Rev. Raymond Dale Custer
Ms. Pamela G. Frick
The Rev. Dr. Richard B. Lampert
Ms. Julia Ann Lloyd
The Rev. Dr. Andrew J. MacBeth
The Rev. Ann L. Moczydlowski
The Rev. Dr. James E. Morris
The Rev. Jane D. Piver
The Rt. Rev. Sean W. Rowe
The Rev. J. Allison St. Louis, Ph.D.
The Rev. Catherine M. Thompson
2001
The Rev. Earl D. Beshears
The Rev. Dewey E. Brown, Jr.
The Rev. Kim L. Coleman
The Rev. Alexandra K. Conrads
Mrs. Rebecca P. Cooper
Ms. Danica D'Onofrio
The Rev. Richard E. Fichter, Jr.
The Rev. Earnest N. Graham III
The Rev. Lance C. Horne
The Rev. Connie Jones
The Rev. Mary Jayne Ledgerwood
The Rev. Canon W. Grainger
Lesesne, Jr.
The Rev. Kevin M. Lloyd
The Rev. T. Stewart Lucas
The Rev. Arlene Lukas
The Rev. Alison J. Quin
The Rev. Holladay Sanderson
The Rev. Craig C. Sweeney
The Rev. Canon James M. Thomas, Jr.
The Rev. Joshua Varner
The Rev. Dr. Charles L. Walthall
The Rev. Melissa Wilcox

2002
The Rev. William C. Anderson
The Rev. Canon Nathaniel Luke Back
The Rev. Dr. James T. Boston
The Rev. Diane Britt
The Rev. Dr. Cheryl L. Clark
The Rev. Margaret Kay Dagg
Mr. Adam L. Dagg
The Rev. Philip M. Dinwiddie
The Rev. John B. Gardner
Dr. Paul J. Halpern
The Rev. Kedron D. Jarvis
The Rev. Kathryn E. Jenkins
The Rev. Andrew B. Jones
The Rev. Linda M. Kapurch
The Rev. Alexander D. MacPhail
The Rev. Gary B. Manning
The Rev. Garrett M. Mettler
Ms. Margaret D. Moore
The Rev. Michael R. J. Pipkin
The Rev. Michael D. Reddig
The Rev. Shirley E. Smith-Graham
The Rev. Kenneth E. Wagner-Pizza
The Rev. Eileen E. Weglarz
2003
The Rev. Deborah D. Apoldo
The Rev. Kenneth H. Brannon
The Rev. Katherine M. Bush
The Rev. J. Michael Cadaret
The Rev. Diane P. Carroll
The Rev. William L. Combs
The Rev. Joshua T. Condon
The Rev. Doyt L. Conn, Jr.
The Rev. David Copley
The Rev. Susan Copley
The Rev. Dr. Ronald David
Ms. Gail Dawson
The Rev. Lisa Goforth
The Rev. Nanese A. Hawthorne
Ms. Mary Hickert Herring
The Rev. Sarah D. Hollar
The Rev. Irene C. Jones
The Rev. Constance M. Jones
The Rev. David A. Marshall
The Rev. Canon Glenda R.
McQueen Dawkins
The Rev. Cesar S. Olivero
The Rev. Jennifer Ovenstone-
Smith
The Rev. Beth A. Palmer
Mrs. Sharon E. Pearson
Mrs. Michelle M. Sanderson
The Rev. Megan Stewart-Sicking
The Rev. Dr. Joseph Stewart-
Sicking, Ed. D.
Mr. Richard N. Taliaferro, Jr.
The Rev. Cynthia B. Walter
The Rev. Dr. William J. Watson III
The Rev. Shearon S. Williams
2004
The Rev. Mariann C. Babnis
Mr. John L. Bartlett
The Rev. David P. Culbertson
The Rev. Mary H. T. Davisson
Dr. Barbara Day
The Rev. John G. Earls
The Rev. Jeff W. Fisher
CORPORATIONS &
FOUNDATIONS
Bank of America Matching
Gifts Program
Cole & Denny Incorporated
IBM International Corporation
Intelliscan, Inc.
Jenzabar, Inc.
McGriff, Seibels & Williams Inc.
State Farm Companies Foundation
FACULTY/STAFF
The Rev. David J. C. Frazelle
The Rev. Paula C. Green
The Rev. Rebekah B. Hatch
The Rev. Kate E. Kelderman
The Rev. Jennifer S. Kimball
The Rev. Dr. Harold J. Lockett
The Rev. Anne S. MacNabb
The Rev. Karin L. MacPhail
The Rev. Carla B. McCook
The Rev. Jennifer G. McKenzie
The Rev. Laureen H. Moyer
The Rev. Rachel A. Nyback
Mr. William S. Peebles IV
The Rev. Paul A. Price
The Rev. Thomas C. Pumphrey
The Rev. W. Blake Rider
The Rev. Phyllis A. Spiegel
The Rev. Ellie Thober
The Rev. David A. Umphlett
Mr. Gerald L. Warren
The Rev. Mark D. Wilkinson
Mrs. Wendy J. Wilkinson
2005
The Rev. Rosemary E. Beales
Mr. Warren Clark, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Rosemarie L. Duncan
The Rev. Charles W. Fels
The Rev. John T. Frazier
The Rev. Sarah K. Gaventa
The Rev. Sarabeth Goodwin
The Rev. Linda K. Gosnell
The Rev. James M. L. Grace
The Rev. Charles J. Hatfield
Above: The Revs. Amy Porter-
field and Brian Palmer (both
from the class of 2010), mar-
ried on July 10, 2010 by the
Rt. Rev. W. Michie Klusmeyer,
bishop of West Virginia, were
surrounded by a number of
VTS classmates, faculty mem-
bers, and alums.
The Rev. Adele M. Hatfield
Mr. Michael B. Hinson
The Rev. Jessica K. Hitchcock
The Rev. Jeffrey C. Huston
Marilyn T. Johns, D. Min.
The Rev. Lauren E. Kuratko
The Rev. Lucia K. Lloyd
The Rev. Ann F. Martens
The Rev. Tara L. McGraw
The Rev. Susan L. Merrin
The Rev. Catherine A. Metivier, D.D.S.
The Rev. Alex G. Montes
Mr. David Nelson
The Rev. Andrew T. O'Connor
The Rev. Shelby O. Owen
The Rev. James L. Pahl, Jr.
The Rev. John M. Porter-Acee III
The Rev. John Henry Rule
Ms. Jamie Samilio
The Rev. Jeffrey S. Shankles
The Rev. Shelley-Ann Tenia
The Rev. Samantha A. Vincent
The Rev. Barbara C. Willis
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2006
The Rev. Robert F. Browning, Jr.
The Rev. Ann Lyn Burns
The Rev. Bruce D. Cheney, Sr.
The Rev. Sandra L. Etemad
The Rev. Fran Gardner
The Rev. Holly M. Gloff
The Rev. Dr. Carol J. Jablonski
Mr. John T. Jones
The Rev. Ryan P. Kuratko
The Rev. Thomas A. Lacy II
The Rev. Sean T. Leonard
The Rev. Allison S. Liles
The Rev. Helen K. McKee
Ms. Cynthia J. Rogers
The Rev. Melody W. Shobe
The Rev. Robert C. Shobe
Ms. Leslie Charlotte Nunez
Steffensen
The Rev. Caroline R. Stewart
2007
The Rev. Peter K. Ackerman
The Rev. Conor M. Alexander
Mr. Kenneth F. Athey, Jr.
The Rev. Charles F. Brock
The Rev. J. Todd Bruce
The Rev. Ronald C. Byrd
The Rev. Peter M. Carey
The Rev. Rebecca T. Crites
Mr. John D. Daniels
The Rev. Amanda B. Eiman
The Rev. Ann H. Gillespie
The Rev. Timothy H. Grayson
The Rev. Joseph H. Hensley, Jr.
The Rev. Erin S. Hensley
The Rev. Nancy S. Hildebrand
The Rev. Theodore B. Howard
The Rev. Meaghan M. Kelly
The Rev. Christy E. Laborda
The Rev. Dr. William M. Lawbaugh
The Rev. Eric J. Liles
The Rev. Candyce J. Loescher
The Rev. Dr. John F. McCard
The Rev. Dewayne J. Messenger
The Rev. Steven J. Pankey
The Rev. Scott B. Petersen
The Rev. R. Bingham Powell
The Rev. Mark M. Powell
The Rev. Robert A. Pruitt
The Rev. Joseph M. Rushton
The Rev. Lisa A. Saunders
The Rev. Miriam S. Saxon
The Rev. Matthew R. Scott
The Rev. Nicholas N. Sichangi
The Rev. William M. Sowards
The Rev. Kyle D. Stillings
The Rev. Erika L. Takacs
The Rev. Diane E. Vie
The Rev. Todd M. Vie
The Rev. Luther Zeigler
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2008
The Rev. Dr. Patrick P. Augustine
The Rev. Brett P. Backus
The Rev. Mitchell T. Bojarski
Mrs. Beth Bojarski
The Rev. Andrew G. Butler III
The Rev. Frederick C. Clarkson
The Rev. Dr. Elizabeth M. Gibson
The Rev. Giulianna M. Gray
The Rev. Peter W. Gray
The Rev. Anne M. Harris
The Rev. Bret B. Hays
The Rev. Meredith T. Heffner
The Rev. Richard M. Humm
The Rev. Marta Dove-Vila Johnson
The Rev. James J. Lanter
The Rev. Morgan M. MacIntire
The Rev. Dennis L. Morgan
The Rev. John W. Newton IV
The Rev. Ronald M. Owen
The Rev. Cynthia Park
The Rev. Mary E. Reese
The Rev. Phoebe A. Roaf
The Rev. Adam P. Thomas
The Rev. Sven L. vanBaars
The Rev. Anne F. Vouga
The Rev. Helen M. White
The Rev. Thomas L. Wilson
2009
The Rev. John Alvey
The Rev. Jennifer N. Andrews-
Weckerly
Ms. Gina Arents
The Rev. Timothy W. Backus
The Rev. Dr. Lisa S. Barrowclough
The Rev. Robert W. Black, Jr.
Mrs. Malinda W. Collier
Mrs. Nancy M. D. Davidson
The Rev. Christopher R. Duncan
Mrs. Casey C. R. Duncan
The Rev. Dr. Frank G. Dunn
The Rev. Gates Elliott
The Rev. Charles L Fischer III
The Rev. Valerie J. Hayes
Ms. Linda L. Lanam
The Rev. Timothy Malone
The Rev. Troy Mendez
The Rev. Elizabeth P. O'Callaghan
The Rev. Beverly C. Schroeder
The Rev. Mary B. Thorpe
The Rev. Leigh C. Vicens
The Rev. Burton K. White, Jr.
The Rev. Ann B. Willms
The Rev. Janet L. W. Zimmerman
STUDENT GIFTS
2010
The Rev. Mary K. Babcock
Ms. Gillian R. Barr
Ms. Barbara A. Bassuener
The Rev. Pierre-Henry Buisson
Ms. Lynn M. Campbell
The Rev. Robert F. Coniglio
The Rev. Philip H. DeVaul
The Rev. Geoffrey D. Doolittle
The Rev. Geoffrey P. Evans
The Rev. Christine M. Faulstich
The Rev. Leslie C. Ferguson
The Rev. Stephen D. Foisie
The Rev. Kenneth N. Forti
The Rev. Willis R. Foster, Sr.
The Rev. Lauren M. Kilbourn
Gaudette
The Rev. Patrick J. Greene
The Rev. Matthew R. Hanisian
The Rev. Catherine D. Hicks
The Rev. Meredith L. Holt
Ms. Marian T. Humphrey
The Rev. Kimberly S. Jackson
The Rev. Jessica T. Knowles
The Rev. Catherine C. L. Lemons
Mr. Richard D. Meadows, Jr.
The Rev. Julia W. Messer
Ms. Sayama Naw Lwin Thida Myint
The Rev. Sara E. Palmer
The Rev. Dr. Susan M. Prinz
Mr. Christopher M. Robinson
The Rev. Narcis J. Sebikwekwe
Mr. Benson E. Shelton
The Rev. Janis H. T. Shook
Ms. Julie A. Simonton
Mrs. Sonya K. Sowards
Above: Members of the VTS
Ultimate Frisbee Club included
(front row, from left to right)
Blake Woods, Jimmy Abbott,
Phil DeVaul, Julia Messer;
(2nd row) Lara Shine and
Patrick Funston; and (back row)
Matthew Kozlowski, Tim Dang,
Andrew Terry, and Mike Angell.
The Rev. Susan R. Sowers
The Rev. Richard A. Tucker
The Rev. Amy P. Turner
The Rev. Brian W. Turner
The Rev. Matthew Venuti
The Rev. Alexander H. Webb II
The Rev. Cornelia M. Weierbach
The Rev. Canon Flora Winfield
The Rev. Janis E. R. Yskamp
2011
Mrs. Kirsten Baer
Mr. Timothy Baer
Mrs. Jennifer Durant
Ms. Tracey E. Kelly
Mr. Matthew Kozlowski
Ms. Patricia Sexton
Mr. Edgar Taylor
Mrs. Roberta Taylor
Dr. Norman Whitmire, Jr.
2012
Ms. Jo J. Belser
Mr. David Crosby
Mrs. Mary R. Mackin
Mr. Stephen Y. McGehee
Mr. William McMillen
Mr. Kyle M. Oliver
STAFF/FACULTY
GIFTS
Mr. Matthew Anderson
Mitzi J. Budde, D. Min.
Ms. Diane Carl
Stephen L. Cook, Ph.D.
Mrs. Lori Daniels
Ms. Wilhelmina Dixon
Judy Fentress-Williams, Ph.D.
The Rev. Roger A. Ferlo, Ph.D.
The Rev. Charles L Fischer III, ‘09
Amelia J. Gearey Dyer, Ph.D.
Ms. Sarah Glenn
Ms. Kathryn A. Glover
The Rev. Dr. David T. Gortner, Ph.D.
Jonathan M. Gray, Ph.D.
The Rev. A. Katherine Grieb, Ph.D., ‘83
The Rev. Jacques B. Hadler, Jr.
The Rev. J. Barney Hawkins IV, Ph.D.
Mrs. Deborah Hewson
The Rev. Ruthanna B. Hooke, Ph.D.
Marilyn T. Johns, D. Min., ‘05
Ms. Anne M. Karoly, ‘97
Elisabeth M. Kimball, Ph.D.
The Rev. Lloyd A. Lewis, Jr., Ph.D., ‘72
Mrs. Dorothy Linthicum
The Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, Ph.D.
The Rev. Judith M. McDaniel, Ph.D.
The Rev. Joyce A. Mercer, Ph.D.
The Rev. Melana Nelson-Amaker
Mrs. Monina B. Pangan
Ms. Meredith Pilling
Mrs. Olivine Jan Pilling
Mr. Christopher Pote
Mr. Curtis Prather
The Rev. Robert W. Prichard, Ph.D.
Mrs. Julia E. Randle
The Rev. William B. Roberts, D.M.A.
Ms. Ann F. Roebuck
Ms. Ray W. Sabalis
Timothy F. Sedgwick, Ph.D.
Ms. Susan L. Shillinglaw
Mrs. Nancy Siridavong
Ms. Bette Spencer
The Rev. J. Allison
St. Louis, Ph.D., ‘00
Ms. Leslie Charlotte Nunez
Steffensen, ‘06
The Rev. Alexander H. Webb II, ‘10
Ms. Maureen Wilson-Jarrard
The Rev. John Y. Yieh, Ph.D.
Ms. Heather Zdancewicz
GIFTS IN KIND
Ms. Evelyn Bence
The Rev. Dr. Thomas D. Bowers, ‘56
The Rev. Mary W. Brake, ‘78
The Rev. and Mrs. Richard A.
Busch (H), ‘84
Mr. Hershel F. Connally IV
Mr. Murray Dewart
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Robert D.
Friend, ‘76
Mrs. Nancy Gilbert
The Rev. Susan E. Goff
The Rev. Dr. David T. Gortner and
The Rev. Heather A. Vandeventer
The Rev. A. Katherine Grieb, Ph.D., ‘83
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Stephen D.
Harris, ‘69
The Rev. J. Barney Hawkins IV, Ph.D.
The Rev. and Mrs. Frederic D.
Huntington, ‘79
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Richard J.
Jones, ‘72
The Rev. Robert J. Kerner
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Kozlowski, ‘11
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Peter James
Lee, ‘67
The Rev. Herbert K. Lodder, ‘58
and Mrs. Frances Pinter Lodder
Mr. and Mrs. Francis March
The Rev. Loren B. Mead, ‘55
The Very Rev. Charles Osberger
Mrs. Barbara Porterfield
The Rev. Dr. Susan M. Prinz, ‘10
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Pruet
The Rev. and Mrs. Frederick E.
Scharf, Jr., ‘88
The Rev. Kenneth E. Schnepp, Jr.
Left: Congratulations to rising
seniors, Katie Nakamura and
Josiah Rengers who were
married on May 26, 2010 in
Birmingham, Alabama.
Ms. Margaret Shannon
Mr. and Mrs. Barry Stauffer
The Rev. Mary Brennan Thorpe,
‘09 and The Rev. Dr. Douglas
Thorpe
The Rev. Adam T. Trambley, ‘04
The Rev. Brian W. Turner, ‘10
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Frank R.
VanDevelder, ‘63
Kathleen vanEsselstyn
Homer and Charlotte Lloyd
Walkup
Dr. Norman Whitmire, Jr., ‘11
FOUNDATIONS
Baltimore Community
Foundation
Robinson F. and Mary Haskins
Barker Charitable Foundation
Hamilton Baskerville Trust
Charles Blair Testament Trust
Ruth Camp Campbell Foundation
The Cartinhour Woods Foundation
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
The Community Foundation
The Community Foundation for
the National Capital Region
The Community Foundation of
Greater Memphis
The Community Foundation of
Louisville
Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
Elliason and Molly Laird Downs
Perpetual Charitable Trust
The Constance Dundas Foundation
Ely Fund
Lettie Pate Evans Foundation
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Foundation For The Carolinas
Holmes I. Goode Trust
Jean Lykes Grace Foundation
The Henry Luce Foundation
Minor Foundation, Inc.
The Norfolk Foundation
Louise P. Overby Trust
Payne Foundation
Jane Litle Peters Trust
Clarence J. Robinson Foundation
Trust
Schwab Charitable Fund
The Fuller Foundation
The Teagle Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment
Program
Robert L. Young Trust
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IN HONOR OF
GIFTS
The Rt. Rev. C. Fitzsimons Allison
The Rev. Dr. Edna J. Banes
Mr. Peter Schultheis
The Rev. Robert C. Ayers, Ph.D.
Mr. Joseph W. Karlson
The Rev. Harry W. Baldwin, Jr.
60th anniversary as an Episcopal
priest
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Baldwin
William Basom
Dr. Karl Johnson
Biblical Studies Faculty
Ms. Gail Dawson
The Rev. William P. Billow, Jr.
The Rev. Luther Zeigler
Bishop Payne Library Staff
Mr. James Kotora
The Rev. Dr. John E. Booty
The Rev. James P. Metzger
The Rev. Dr. Thomas D. Bowers
Mr. and Mrs. R. Dyke Benjamin
The Rev. Dr. Thomas D. Bowers
Mrs. Josephine H. Carter
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Crooks, Jr.
Mrs. Jennifer Durant
Ms. Jane U. Henry
Ms. Carlin Rankin and Dr. Alfred
P. Morgan
Mr. and Mrs. A. Crenshaw Reed, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Bret E. Russell
Mr. and Mrs. David Swann
Mr. and Mrs. W. Wardlaw
Thompson, Jr.
The Rev. Matthew B. Bradley
St. John's Episcopal Church,
Murray, KY
The Rev. Mary Kay Brown
Ms. Monica L. Parry
The Rt. Rev. Edmond L. Browning
The Rev. Robert O. Johnston
Dr. Mitzi J. Budde
Mr. and Mrs. Russell V. Randle
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The Rev. Dr. Richard A. Busch
The Rev. Dr. Richard B. Lampert
Class of 1950
The Rev. Luther D. Miller, Jr.
Class of 1953
The Rev. Canon David R. Forbes
Class of 1959 – 50th Reunion
The Rev. and Mrs. John H. Albrecht
The Rev. and Mrs. John D. Alfriend
Mrs. Lynn H. Banks
The Rev. Dr. Ralph W. Bayfield
The Rev. and Mrs. James C.
Blackburn
The Rev. Augustus M. Burt
The Rev. Dr. Timothy B. Cogan
The Rev. Alan B. Conley
The Rev. and Mrs. James R.
Crowder
Mrs. Jeffrey T. Cuffee
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Denkinger
The Rev. Thomas T. Diggs
The Rev. William B. Easter
The Rev. and Mrs. Louis C. Fischer III
The Very Rev. H. Douglas Fontaine
and Mrs. Jeanne Fontaine
The Rev. Richard P. Fowler
Ruth Tomlin Gronneberg
The Rev. John I. Kilby
The Rev. and Mrs. Robert
Lawthers
The Rev. William P. Parrish
The Rev. and Mrs. Patrick H.
Sanders, Jr.
Mrs. Mary B. Thornburgh
The Rev. Dr. Franklin E. Vilas, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. James I. Walter
The Rev. David D. Wendel, Jr.
Mrs. Sarah C. Williamson
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. R. Stewart
Wood
Class of 1981
The Rev. Lucy L. Hogan, Ph.D.
Class of 1989
Dr. Ernest E. Chapman
Class of 2001
The Rev. Alison J. Quin
The Rev. Joseph M. Constant
The Rt. Rev. Nathan D. Baxter
Mrs. Robert A. Burch
The Rev. Joseph M. Constant and
Family
Mr. Julian R. Dugas, Esq.
Bev Costello
The Rev. Hilary "Pete" Costello, Jr.
The Rt. Rev. Kenneth Cragg
Mrs. Grace D. Guthrie
Mrs. Nancy M. D. Davidson
Ms. Priscilla Andre-Colton
Ms. Carol Dawson
Dr. Barbara Day
The Rt. Rev. James M. Dyer
The Rev. Burton K. White, Jr.
Mr. Robert G. C. Eads Family
The Rev. Charles Carroll Eads
Robert G. C. Eads
The Rev. Dr. Roger A. Ferlo
Catherine and Alan Ford
The Rev. Dr. John F. McCard
The Rev. Andrew T. O'Connor
The Rev. Charles L Fischer III
Ms. Susan Ford
The Rev. Jerry W. Fisher
St. Anne's Episcopal Church,
Winston-Salem, NC
Mrs. Ilse B. Fuller
Mrs. Grace D. Guthrie
The Rev. Charles M. Girardeau
All Saints' Episcopal Church,
Atlanta, GA
The Rev. Dr. M. Douglas Girardeau
Dr. and Mrs. C. Rodney Layton, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Edward Stone Gleason
Alexandra Dorr
People of Grace Church,
Plymouth, NC
The Rev. David A. Umphlett
The Rev. A. Katherine Grieb, Ph.D.
The Rev. Michael D. Chalk
St. Mark's Episcopal Church,
San Antonio, TX
The Rev. Jacques B. Hadler, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Frank G. Dunn and
Joseph A. Casazza
The Rev. Cynthia Park
Mr. Edwin King Hall
Alexandra Dorr
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Symes III
Below: Members of the class
of 1959, pictured with their
spouses, celebrated their 50th
reunion this past October.
The Rev. Rebekah B. Hatch
Ms. Paula Bokros
The Rev. Dr. J. Barney Hawkins IV
The Rev. Canon Nathaniel Luke
Back
The Rev. Dr. John F. McCard
The Rev. Catherine D. Hicks
Mr. Charles H. Bullock and Ms.
Pamela J. Jewett-Bullock
The Rev. Jessica K. Hitchcock
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Hitchcock
The Rev. Geoffrey M. St. J. Hoare
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Y. McGehee
Katherine Hoben
Mr. James E. Hoben
The Rev. Canon Robert E.
Holzhammer
Ms. Tina Strauss
Trinity Episcopal Church,
Iowa City, IA
The Very Rev. Martha J. Horne
The Rev. Katherine M. Bush
The Very Rev. and Mrs. Alan Kim
Webster
Mrs. Robert A. Burch
The Rev. Peter G. Cheney
The Rt. Rev. Jane Holmes Dixon
Dr. and Mrs. Preston C. Manning, Jr.
The Rev. Janet C. Watrous
Mrs. Donnan Wintermute
Dr. McDonald K. Horne III
Dr. and Mrs. Preston C. Manning, Jr.
The Rt. Rev. Sam B. Hulsey
St. Michael and All Angels
Episcopal Church, Dallas, TX
Temmie Jarrett
Ms. Dorothy H. McLachlan
The Rt. Rev. Shannon S. Johnston
Mr. and Mrs. N. Pendleton Rogers
The Rev. Dr. Richard J. Jones
The Rev. Timothy W. Backus
The Rev. Lila B. Brown
The Rev. J. Todd Bruce
Amelie and Charles Cagle
Ms. Cynthia Darling
Dr. Barbara Day
The Rev. Eleanor L. Ellsworth
Dr. and Mrs. Raymond F. Glover
Mr. and Mrs. Max Guggenheimer, Jr.
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Hal E.
Hallgren
The Rev. Judith A. Hefner
Mr. and Mrs. Yuille Holt III
The Hon. James A. Leach
Mrs. Chrishelle Leonard
The Rev. Sean T. Leonard
The Rev. Allison S. Liles and
The Rev. Eric J. Liles
The Rev. Gayle M. Marsh
The Rev. Carla B. McCook
The Rev. Peter A. Munson
The Rev. Judith Harris Proctor
Dr. Newland F. Smith, 3rd
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Leon P.
Spencer, Jr.
The Rev. Leigh C. Vicens
Miss Jane F. Williams
Mrs. David W. C. Graham
Ministry of The Rev. and Mrs.
Richard J. Jones
The Rev. C. Lloyd Lipscomb III
Dr. Elisabeth M. Kimball
Ms. Mary S. Kimball
The Very Rev. Harry E. Krauss
Ms. Adrienne Southgate
Ms. Linda L. Lanam
Ms. Priscilla Andre-Colton
The Rev. Robert Lawthers on the
50th anniversary of his ordination
The Rev. and Mrs. Robert
Lawthers
Mr. Caleb Lee
Mr. and Mrs. J. Fred Rippy III
The Rt. Rev. Peter James Lee
Elizabeth Fleming Lacy
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Bartol
Dr. Barbara Day
The Rev. Richard E. Fichter, Jr.
The Rev. and Mrs. David J. Greer
The Rev. Charles R. Sydnor, Jr.
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Peter James Lee
The Rev. Alexander D. MacPhail
and The Rev. Karin MacPhail
The Rev. Dr. Harold Lewis
The Rev. Canon Walter Szymanski
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Lewis
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. C. Cabell
Tennis
The Rev. Dr. Lloyd A. Lewis, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Cyril C.
Burke, Sr.
The Rev. Steve and Sandy Norcross
Mr. and Mrs. George M. Scott, Jr.
The Rev. and Mrs. Frank W. Young
The Rev. Canon John A. Logan, Jr.
Christ Church Cathedral,
Houston, TX
The Rev. Samuel M. Logan
The Rev. William D. Evans III
The Rev. Robert H. Lyles
The Rev. Harrison T. Simons, D.D.
MACE
Mrs. Malinda W. Collier
The Rev. Morgan M. MacIntire
Mr. Michael S. Lockaby
The Rev. Anne S. MacNabb
Ms. Miriam Turner
The Rev. Alexander D. MacPhail
Alice and Ralph MacPhail, Jr.
The Rev. Karin L. MacPhail
Alice and Ralph MacPhail, Jr.
The Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, Ph.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin King Hall
Mr. and Mrs. Mark MacGougan
Mr. and Mrs. S. Keith Markham
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Draycott
Mr. Anthony Markham
Ms. Deborah Markham
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Markham
Ms. Abbie Sowden
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sowden
Mrs. Rosemary Sowden
Shireen Markham
Mr. S. Keith Markham
The Rt. Rev. Gerald N. McAllister
The Rev. Mark E. Waldo, Sr.
Mr. Stephen Y. McGehee
Mrs. Caroline Y. Brandt
The Rev. Sheila N. McJilton
Dr. and Mrs. C. Rodney Layton, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Joyce A. Mercer
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Wagenius
The Rev. Andrew T. P. Merrow
Ms. Gretchen A. Redmond
St. Mary's Episcopal Church,
Arlington, VA
The Rev. Bollin M. Millner, Jr.
The Rev. and Mrs. Robert J. Boyd, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Burton Newman
The Rev. Dr. Richard B. Lampert
The Rev. Dr. Murray L. Newman, Jr.
Victor A. Brown (USA Ret.)
The Rev. Kristin E. Orr on 15th
Anniversary of Ordination
Ms. Harriet S. Clowes
Church of St. John the Evangelist
Episcopal, Flossmoor, IL
The Rev. Robert Outman-Conant
St. John's Episcopal Church,
Holbrook, MA
Palmer Memorial Episcopal
Church
Mrs. Gregoria D. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Ron Smith
Mrs. Monina B. Pangan
The Rev. and Mrs. James C.
Blackburn
Harry P. Porter, Jr., Ph.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Sedgwick L. Moss
The Rev. John M. Porter-Acee III
Mr. and Mrs. J. Marshall Acee, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Susan M. Prinz
Ministry at St Michael's and All
Angels' Episcopal Church, SC
St. Michael and All Angel's
Episcopal Church, Columbia, SC
The Very Rev. and Mrs. Harry H.
Pritchett, Jr. 50th Wedding
Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Y. McGehee
The Rev. Robert A. Pruitt
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Hitchcock
Mrs. Julia E. Randle
Alexandria Committee Of
Colonial Dames, Alexandria, VA
The Very Rev. Richard Reid
The Rev. James P. Metzger
The Very Rev. Joe D. Reynolds
Christ Church Cathedral,
Houston, TX
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The Rt. Rev. Sean W. Rowe
The Rev. Katherine A. Carlson
and Mr. Wendell Lynch
The Rev. Henry M. Sabetti III
Ms. Frances Randall
The Rev. Cecelia Carlile Schroeder
Ms. Susan Jaskot
Dr. Timothy F. Sedgwick
Cathedral of All Souls,
Asheville, NC
The Rt. Rev. James J. Shand
Dr. and Mrs. C. Rodney Layton, Jr.
The Rev. Sheila N. McJilton
Mrs. Stephen G. Shepherd
Rabbi and Mrs. Jack L. Moline
The Rt. Rev. Andrew D. Smith
The Rev. Bret B. Hays
The Rt. Rev. Philip A. Smith
The Rev. Paul Roger Bowen
Ms. Susan D. Dawson
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Robert M.
Moody
The Rev. and Mrs. Malcolm E.
Turnbull
The Rev. Dr. Katherine Sonderegger
The Rev. Constance M. Jones
St. Luke's and St. Anne's Episcopal
Church
The Rev. David A. Umphlett
The Rev. Canon Edward L. Stein
Christ Church Cathedral,
Houston, TX
The Rev. Bradley J. Sullivan
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald D. Sullivan
The Rev. Kristin L. Sullivan
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald D. Sullivan
The Rev. Canon Rosemari G.
Sullivan
The Rev. Rebecca W. Dinan
The Rev. Robert L. Tate
Ms. Carolyn A. Johnson
The Rev. Dr. Frank R.
VanDevelder
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Richard J.
Jones
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The Rev. Eleanor D. Whitelaw
The Rev. Kedron D. Jarvis
Dr. Norman Whitmire, Jr.
Mrs. Dorothy D. Whitmire
The Rev. Barbara C. Willis
Ms. Carole L. Frey
Ms. Susan G. Swartz
The Rt. Rev. Don Wimberly
The Rev. and Mrs. David J. Greer
The Rev. Rhett Y. Winters, Jr.
The Rev. Edward W. Conklin
The Honorable and Mrs. Ronnie
A. Yoder
Mrs. Mary Anderson
MEMORIAL
GIFTS
The Rev. John T. Arms IV
Mr. David F. Wright
Suzanne E. Bagley
The Rev. Ann B. Willms
The Rt. Rev. Scott Field Bailey
Mr. Fritz-Alan Korth
William O. Bailey, Jr., MD
The Rev. and Mrs. Edwin P. Bailey
The Rev. D. Clifton Banks, Jr.
Mrs. Lynn H. Banks
Christopher K. Barrus
The Rev. and Mrs. Donald S. Barrus
The Rev. Donald R. Barton
Mrs. Lois Barton
Mrs. Joan J. Bayfield
The Rev. Dr. Ralph W. Bayfield
The Rev. William A. Beal
Mrs. William A. Beal
The Rev. Dr. William R. Belury
Mrs. William R. Belury
Tom Bennett
The Rev. Denise D. Giardina
Peggy Bosmeyer
The Rev. Patricia Merchant
Mrs. Jean Laverack Bowie
Ms. Heather Zdancewicz and Mr.
Donald Zdancewicz
The Rev. Dr. Ralph P. Brooks, Jr.
Mr. Donald Sutherland
The Rev. Robert A. Burch
Mrs. Robert A. Burch
Alexandra Dorr
Mr. Robert W. Wiseman
The Rev. Perry C. Burton
Mrs. Sally C. Miller
Mary Butler
Ms. Barbara A. Forbes
The Rev. Dabney J. Carr III
Alexandra Dorr
The Rev. Cynthia N. Taylor
The Rev. John D. Chamblin
The Rev. Beth H. Echols
Those who have died in the
Class of 1961
The Rev. Dr. Emery Washington, Sr.
The Rev. E. Dudley Colhoun, Jr.
Mrs. Sarah Hill Langhorne
Colhoun
Mrs. Bertram C. Cooper
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Dunbar, Jr.
The Rev. J. Finley Cooper, Jr.
Mrs. J. Finley Cooper
The Rev. Charles V. O. Covell
Judith H. Shaw
Mrs. Marilyn F. Crowell
The Rev. Richard S. Crowell
The Rev. Robert Alan Croxson
Mrs. Sarah C. Williamson
The Rev. Jeffrey T. Cuffee
Mrs. Jeffrey T. Cuffee
Mary A. Currin
Ms. Jean Jackson-Mason
Wilma Dando
Mrs. Mary E. Duvall
Tien V. Dang
Alexandra Dorr
The Rev. Canon Richard W.
Daniels
The Rev. John I. Kilby
Mr. and Mrs. George C. Dannals
Mrs. Cortez T. Dannals
Dr. Vernon Perdue Davis
Dr. Lyman W. Morgan
Mrs. Cyane D. deBordenave
Penelope deBordenave Saffer
The Rev. Ernest A. deBordenave, Jr.
Penelope deBordenave Saffer
The Rev. Dr. Ellin K. Deese
The Rev. Cynthia B. Walter
The Rev. Marshall Esty Denkinger
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Denkinger
The Rev. W. Gilbert Dent III
Mrs. W. Gilbert Dent
The Rev. Canon John H. Diehl III
Mrs. John H. Diehl III
The Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix
Mr. Kenneth P. Isler
The Rev. Charles J. Dobbins
Mrs. Charles J. Dobbins
The Rev. Herbert Alcorn
Donovan, Sr.
The Rt. Rev. Herbert A. Donovan
and Dr. Mary S. Donovan
The Rev. Charles H. Douglass
The Rev. Frank F. Smart, Jr.
Nancy Carter Dugan
Mr. David Q. Hall
The Rev. Claude F. DuTeil
Mrs. Claude F. DuTeil
Mrs. Helen Hobbs Duvall
Mr. Severn P. C. Duvall
Mr. Edward R. Dyer, Jr.
Mrs. Edward R. Dyer, Jr.
Mr. John M. Eads, Sr.
The Rev. Charles Carroll Eads
Robert G. C. Eads
Mr. John M. Eads, Jr.
The Rev. Charles Carroll Eads
Robert G. C. Eads
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Mr. Lewis C. Eads
The Rev. Charles Carroll Eads
Robert G. C. Eads
Mrs. Rosina N. C. Eads
The Rev. Charles Carroll Eads
Robert G. C. Eads
The Rev. William D. Eddy
Dr. Harry W. Pollock
The Rev. Craig E. Eder
The Rev. Benjamin Axleroad, Jr.
Robinson F. and Mary Haskins
Barker Charitable Foundation,
Pittsburgh, PA
The Rev. Christopher H. Barker,
Ph.D. and Mrs. Mary P. Barker
Mrs. Helen B. Eisenhart
Mr. Earl E. Eisenhart, Jr.
Mrs. Catherine G. Elliott
The Rev. William T. Elliott
Marian Elliott
The Rev. William T. Elliott
The Rev. Canon Roy Enquist
The Rev. and Mrs. Richard A.
Busch
Robert Erickson
The Very Rev. and Mrs. Jerry D.
Adinolfi, Jr.
The Rev. William C. Farrington
The Rev. and Mrs. Frederick E.
Scharf, Jr.
David G. Fritsche
Mr. and Mrs. C. Craighead
Fritsche, Sr.
The Rev. Canon John R. Frizzell, Jr.
Colonel Robert H. Clagett, Jr.
The Rev. and Mrs. Alwin Reiners, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Reginald H. Fuller
Emmanuel Church at Brook Hill,
Richmond, VA
Mrs. Grace D. Guthrie
Ms. Dori Selene Rockefeller
Margaret Gaughan
The Rev. Rebecca W. Dinan
The Rev. Churchill J. Gibson, Jr.
Ms. Jane Edwards
Mrs. Carl N. Ettinger, Jr.
The Rev. C. Neal Goldsborough
Dr. and Mrs. C. Rodney Layton, Jr.
Mr. Luke M. Stephens
The Rev. Charles W. Gilchrist
Mrs. Charles Waters Gilchrist
Mr. Adam P. Goren
Christ Church Cathedral,
Lexington, KY
The Rev. Dr. Rosemarie L. Duncan
Ms. Laine Covington Goren
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Hitchcock
The Rev. Jeffrey C. Huston
The Rev. J. Patrick Gray
The Rev. C. Neal Goldsborough
The Rev. James M. Green
The Rev. John Denham
Mrs. Alice E. Griffith
The Rev. Norman E. Griffith, Jr.
The Rev. Reginald C. Groff
Mrs. Reginald C. Groff
The Rev. Pettigrew V. Hamilton
Mrs. Antoinette S. Hamilton
Archer E. Hansen
Dr. Hobart G. Hansen
The Rt. Rev. Stanley F. Hauser
The Rev. Benjamin Axleroad, Jr.
Mrs. Stanley F. Hauser
The Rev. Robert D. Herzog
Mrs. Robert D. Herzog
The Rev. Charles H. Hewitt
Mrs. Charles Henry Hewitt
Elizabeth P. Hobbs
Mr. Severn P. C. Duvall
Frederick H., Jr. and Elizabeth
Hobbs
Mr. Severn P. C. Duvall
William A. Hobbs
Dr. and Mrs. William A. Hobbs, Jr.
The Rev. Charles B. Hoglan, Jr.
Mrs. Charles B. Hoglan, Jr.
Mr. Christopher M. Horne
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Mark S.
Anschutz
Ms. Jane Edwards
Above: Dorothy Linthicum,
program coordinator for the
Center for the Ministry of
Teaching, leads a course for
Christian educators on navigating
the curriculum maze.
Marjorie Hutchinson
Mrs. Beryl O. Burke
Robert J. Ingram
Dr. Lynwood D.I. Day
The Rev. Marlowe K. Iverson
Mrs. Marlowe K. Iverson
The Rev. Christopher Jones, Jr.
Mrs. Elizabeth Root Jones
The Rev. Dr. John H. Jordan, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Crooks, Jr.
Robert Kasle
The Rev. William M. Duncan-
O'Neal
Marie Kazigian
Ms. Florence Clark
The Rev. Dr. Robert O. Kevin
Mrs. William A. Vogely
The Very Rev. Edward Felix
Kloman
The Rev. P. Kingsley Smith
Mrs. Daphne R. Williams
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The Rev. Alfred T. Knies, Jr.
Mrs. Alfred T. Knies, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Knight
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Knight
John Henry Kreitler
Mrs. Mary Anderson
Ms. Lynn D. Ellison
The Rev. Canon and Mrs. Peter G.
Kreitler
Dr. and Mrs. Dudley F. Rochester
Muriel (Billie) Gwillim Kreitler
Mrs. Mary Anderson
Ms. Lynn D. Ellison
The Rev. Canon and Mrs. Peter G.
Kreitler
Dr. and Mrs. Dudley F. Rochester
Mrs. Catherine M. La Rue
The Rev. Howard A. La Rue
Mr. Merle Levy
Mrs. Beryl Levy
The Rev. Dr. Charles H. Long, Jr.
Mrs. Nancy I. Long
The Rev. James L. Lowery, Jr.
The Rev. and Mrs. Louis C. Fischer III
Jay Phelps Lukens
Ms. Susan A. Lukens
The Rev. Arthur L. Lyon-Vaiden
Mrs. Arthur L. Lyon-Vaiden
The Rt. Rev. C. Gresham
Marmion
Mrs. C. Gresham Marmion
The Rt. Rev. William H.
Marmion
The Rev. and Mrs. Claud W.
McCauley
Betty Marquis
St. Barnabas' Church, Berlin, NH
The Rev. Arthur H. Marsh, Jr.
Col. and Mrs. Richard H.
Brownley
Peter T. Marston
Mr. F. Page Nelson
The Rev. and Mrs. David F.
Wayland
The Rev. Charles O'Fallon Mastin
Mrs. Charles O'Fallon Mastin
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The Rev. Lex S. Mathews
Mrs. Judith Wright Mathews
Pat McCandlish
Mr. Robert L. Montague III
The Rt. Rev. William Meade
The Rev. Henry W. Austin
Dr. Marianne H. Micks
The Rt. Rev. E. Ambrose Gumbs
The Rev. John C. Millen
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Frank R.
VanDevelder
The Rev. Claudius Miller III
The Rev. and Mrs. Alwin Reiners, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Benjamin B. Smith, LHD
James B. Miller
The Rev. Dr. Sandra M. Levy and
Dr. Leon H. Levy
Lane G. Millner
The Very Rev. Kathleen M. Bobbitt
The Rev. Albert T. Mollegen
The Rev. Blanche L. Powell
The Rev. Dr. Ronald C. Molrine
The Rev. and Mrs. Fielder Israel, Jr.
Mrs. Ronald C. Molrine
The Rev. Jane A. Morse
Marjorie M. and Jerome F.
Prochaska
The Rev. P. Emmett Mullen
The Rev. and Mrs. Frederick W.
Willis, Jr.
Dr. Peter James Thor Nelsen
Mrs. Susan M. Nelsen
The Rev. Samuel S. Odom
Mrs. Samuel S. Odom
The Rev. William H. Olsen
The Rev. Frances F. Cox and
The Rev. Edwin M. Cox
Elis and Signe Olsson
Mary and J. P. Causey, Jr.
The Rev. Robert M. Olton
Mrs. Robert Matthew Olton
Miss Louise Paggi
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ziegler
Parents of Capt. and Mrs.
William Harkins
Capt. and Mrs. William D.
Harkins, USN (Ret)
The Rev. Reynell M. Parkins
Mrs. Jean Parkins-Edens
The Rev. Timothy Pickering
The Rev. Webster G. Barnett
The Rev. J. Edwin Pippin
Ms. Patricia P. Moser
Edythe Platt
Mr. Kyle M. Oliver
The Rev. Dr. Charles P. Price
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Winston B.
Charles
Mrs. Margaret S. Diederich
The Rev. J. Carlyle Gill
The Rev. Anne Duval Monahan
The Rev. Blanche L. Powell
The Rev. Carolyn J. Schmidt
Mr. Bruce Stewart and Ms. Andra
Jurist
The Rev. Graham Pulkingham
Dr. Betty Carr Pulkingham
Aimee L. Punchak
The Rev. Dr. William M. Lawbaugh
Carolyn W. Quigley
Ms. Diane H. Gay
The Rev. Robert E. Richardson
Mrs. Robert E. Richardson
The Rev. Robert H. Richardson
Mrs. Robert H. Richardson
Erma Riddle
The Rev. Dr. Charles M. Riddle III
Nancy F. Robinson
The Rev. Michael E. Robinson
Ms. Joyce Rowe
The Rev. Michele B. Bond
The Rt. Rev. B. Sidney Sanders
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas G. Wilson III
Dr. and Mrs. Bertram Sauerbrunn
Ms. Jennifer Harper
The Rev. Howard W. Saunders III
Ms. Margaret D. Moore
The Rev. Richard H. Schoolmaster
Mrs. Marcia H. Bennett
The Rev. Canon Marshall E.
Seifert
Mrs. Marshall E. Seifert
Mr. James W. Shaw
Judith H. Shaw
The Rev. Dr. Edward S. Shirley
Mrs. Edward S. Shirley
The Rev. Frank Morgan Smith, Jr.
The Rev. Robert L. Bast
David Soleau
Mrs. Kay G. Glenday
The Rev. John E. Soleau
Mrs. Kay G. Glenday
Mrs. Margaret J. Soleau
The Rev. W. Holt Souder
Mrs. Isabel Souder Correll
The Rev. Dr. Clifford L. Stanley
The Rev. Lewis W. Towler
Elaine P. Stephens
Mr. Luke M. Stephens
The Rev. Charles Yancey Steptoe
Mrs. Sarah D. Steptoe
The Rev. Thomas M. Stuhr III
Mrs. Geraldine M. Stuhr
The Rev. Sydney C. Swann, Jr.
The Rev. Catherine W. Swann and
Mr. Robert Swann
Betsey Taliaferro Capraro
Mr. and Mrs. Richard N.
Taliaferro, Jr.
Dale Terwilliger
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bridges, Jr.
The Rev. Conway Decavanac
Thornburgh
Mrs. Mary B. Thornburgh
John T. Ticer
The Honorable Patricia S. Ticer
The Rev. Hollier G. Tomlin
Ruth Tomlin Gronneberg
The Rev. Jesse M. Trotter
The Rev. and Mrs. George E.
Andrews II
The Rev. and Mrs. James C.
Blackburn
The Rev. J. Ellen Nunnally
Mrs. Stephen A. Trentman
Mrs. Jesse M. Trotter
Ms. Marian Trotter
Mr. William P. Trotter
The Rev. Robert Tsu
Mrs. Robert Tsu
The Rt. Rev. Beverly Dandridge
Tucker
Mr. and Mrs. W. Harding Drane, Jr.
The Rev. Francis Bland Tucker
The Rev. A. Dawson Teague, Jr.
Lydia Patrice Turner
The Rev. and Mrs. Melvin E.
Turner
The Rev. Sylvester M. Vaughan
The Rev. Richard H. Lewis and
The Rev. Sarah V. Lewis
The Rt. Rev. Frank H. Vest, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Robert S.
Dannals
The Rev. Jay D. Hanson
Mr. and Ms. F. Brook Voght
Ms. Virginia V. Rocen
The Rev. John O. Von Hemert
Mr. and Mrs. Bowman Miller
The Rev. E. Judson Wagg, Jr.
The Rev. Canon and Mrs. Marlin
L. Whitmer
The Rt. Rev. John Thomas Walker
Mrs. Gretel T. James
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. James
Albert and Naomi Walthall
The Rev. Dr. Charles L. Walthall
The Rev. Marshall T. Ware
Mrs. Marshall T. Ware (Tricia)
Jeannette Louise Rawles Weems
Mrs. Helen Weems Daley and
Mr. Thomas M. Daley
Wallace E. Weems
Mrs. Helen Weems Daley and
Mr. Thomas M. Daley
Mr. Rolf Williams
Mrs. Rolf Williams
The Rev. Frederic C. Wood, Jr.
Jane Barber Smith
BEQUESTS
The Rev. John Paul Carter, ‘47
Mrs. Robert N. Downs III
The Rev. Irene C. Jones, ‘03
The Rev. James L. Lowery
Eleanor M. Neumayer
The Rev. William H. Olsen
The Rev. Robert Morgan Shaw, ‘43
George C Thomas Trust
Alfred E.W. Wheeler, Estate
GIFTS FOR THE
PORTRAIT OF
THE REV. LLOYD
A. LEWIS, JR.
The Rev. Peter K. Ackerman
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Gladstone B.
Adams III
The Rev. Deborah D. Apoldo
Mr. and Mrs. David Booth Beers
Ms. Jo J. Belser
The Rev. and Mrs. Errol K. Booth
The Rev. Kenneth H. Brannon
The Rev. Charles F. Brock
The Rev. Canon Dwight L. Brown
The Rev. and Mrs. Percival G.
Brown
Dr. and Mrs. David H. Charlton
Mr. Warren Clark, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Patrick R.
Close
The Rev. Kim L. Coleman
Mr. and Mrs. David Crosby
The Rt. Rev. Clifton Daniel, 3rd
The Rev. and Mrs. Walter W.
Dawson
Dr. Barbara Day
The Rev. Rebecca W. Dinan
Diocese of Southwestern Virginia
The Very Rev. Todd M. Donatelli
The Rt. Rev. Herbert A. Donovan
and Dr. Mary S. Donovan
The Rev. Dr. Rosemarie L. Duncan
The Rev. John G. Earls
The Rev. Dr. Margaret A. Faeth
and Mr. Paul Faeth
Elizabeth H. Farquhar
The Rev. J. Gary Fulton
The Rev. Fran Gardner
The Rev. Fr. Liston A. Garfield
The Rev. C. Neal Goldsborough
The Rev. J. Barney Hawkins IV, Ph.D.
The Rt. Rev. Dorsey F. Henderson, Jr.
Joan Holden
The Very Rev. Martha J. Horne and
Dr. McDonald K. Horne III
Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill,
Alexandria, VA
Ms. Kimberly S. Jackson
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Shannon S.
Johnston
Mr. John T. Jones and The Rev. Dr.
Carol J. Jablonski
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Richard J.
Jones
The Rev. Dexter W. Kessler
The Rev. Allison S. Liles and The
Rev. Eric J. Liles
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Lubelfeld
The Rev. Nicholas P. N. Lubelfeld
The Rev. T. Stewart Lucas and Mr.
Douglas Campbell
Dr. and Mrs. Cooper R. Mackin
Capt. Janet Lewis Maguire
Mr. Joseph L. Manson
The Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, Ph.D.
and Mrs. Lesley Markham
Mr. and Mrs. M. Lee Marston
The Rev. and Mrs. Samuel A.
Mason
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. James R.
Mathes
The Rev. Nancy Horton McCarthy
The Rev. Helen K. McKee
Mr. William McMillen
The Rev. Susan L. Merrin
The Rev. Dewayne J. Messenger
and Mr. Raymond Knapp
The Rev. Catherine A. Metivier, D.D.S.
The Rt. Rev. James W. Montgomery
The Rev. Laureen H. Moyer
The Rev. and Mrs. Donnel O’Flynn
Mr. Kyle M. Oliver
The Rev. Shelby O. Owen
The Rev. Barbara D. Parini
The Rev. William C. Parnell
Mrs. J. Edwin Pippin
Ms. Sissy Poland
The Very Rev. and Mrs. Richard
Reid
The Rev. Jan C. Rudinoff
Ray Sabalis
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. James J.
Shand
The Rev. and Mrs. William M.
Shand III
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. William R.
Shiflet, Jr.
St. Michael’s Episcopal Church,
Milton, MA
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church,
Alexandria, VA
The Very Rev. Dr. William S. Stafford
and Mrs. Barbara M. Stafford
The Rev. Frederick Stecker IV
The Rev. Canon Edward L. Stein
The Rev. David A. Umphlett
The Rt. Rev. Orris G. Walker, Jr.
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Arthur E.
Walmsley
The Rev. Alexander H. Webb II
The Rev. Ann B. Willms
The Rev. Thomas L. Wilson
The Rev. Dr. Marian K. Windel
GIFTS TO THE
AFRICAN
AMERICAN
EPISCOPAL
HISTORICAL
COLLECTION
The Rt. Rev. Nathan D. Baxter
The Rev. and Mrs. Errol K. Booth
Dr. Herman Bostick
Ms. Maggie Alston Claud
Mr. Steven L. Everett
The Rt. Rev. Wendell N. Gibbs, Jr.
The Historical Society of the
Episcopal Church
The Rev. Wayne C. Hodge, Sr.
Mrs. Solomon N. Jacobs
Mrs. Kay C. Murray
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. F. Neff
Powell
The Rt. Rev. Lawrence C.
Provenzano
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. James J.
Shand
The Rev. Dr. John F. Woolverton
Ms. Heather Zdancewicz and
Mr. Donald Zdancewicz
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parish giving
We give thanks to the parishes and missions
that chose to support the 1% Plan at
Virginia Seminary in 2009-2010.
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St. Mary's-on-the-Highlands, Birmingham, AL
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Birmingham, AL
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Mobile, AL
St. John's Episcopal Church, Montgomery, AL
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Tuskegee Institute, AL
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Jonesboro, AR
St. Clement's Church, Berkeley, CA
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Del Mar, CA
St. Edward's Episcopal Church, San Jose, CA
St. James Episcopal Church, Danbury, CT
St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Greenwich, CT
St. Mark's Episcopal Chapel, Storrs, CT
Cathedral Church of St. John, Wilmington, DE
Christ Church Christiana Hundred, Wilmington, DE
St. John's Church-Lafayette Square, Washington, DC
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish, Washington, DC
St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Washington, DC
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Boca Grande, FL
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Delray Beach, FL
All Saints' Episcopal Church, Atlanta, GA
Holy Trinity Parish, Decatur, GA
King of Peace Episcopal Church, Kingsland, GA
St. Anne's Episcopal Church, Tifton, GA
Church of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal, Flossmoor, IL
St. David's Episcopal Church, Glenview, IL
Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis, IN
Trinity Episcopal Church, Indianapolis, IN
Trinity Episcopal Church, Iowa City, IA
St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Garden City, KS
Christ Episcopal Church, Bowling Green, KY
Grace Episcopal Church, Hopkinsville, KY
Christ Church Cathedral, Lexington, KY
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY
St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Madisonville, KY
St. John's Episcopal Church, Murray, KY
St. Georges Episcopal Church, Bossier City, LA
Trinity Episcopal Church, Natchitoches, LA
St. Mark's Cathedral, Shreveport, LA
Church of the Good Shepherd, Rangeley, ME
Church of the Nativity, Cedarcroft, Baltimore, MD
Church of the Redeemer, Baltimore, MD
Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Bethesda, MD
Church of the Transfiguration, Braddock Heights, MD
Trinity Episcopal Church, Glen Arm, MD
St. Thomas' Parish, Hancock, Hancock, MD
St. James' Episcopal Church, Potomac, MD
St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church, Upper Marlboro, MD
Christ Church, I. U. Parish, Worton, MD
Trinity Church in the City of Boston, Boston, MA
St. John's Episcopal Church, Holbrook, MA
Church of Our Saviour, Milton, MA
St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Milton, MA
Christ Church Episcopal and Trinity Lutheran Church, Sheffield, MA
Christ Church Cathedral, Springfield, MA
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Grand Rapids, MI St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Wilson, NC
St. Matthias Episcopal Church, Sault Sainte Marie, MI St. Anne's Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC
St. Katherine's Episcopal Church, Williamston, MI St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC
Trinity Episcopal Church, Natchez, MS St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC
St. John's Episcopal Church, Ocean Springs, MS St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Circleville, OH
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Oxford, MS Christ Church Glendale, Glendale, OH
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Kansas City, MO St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Altus, OK
St. Barnabas' Church, Berlin, NH St. Paul's Cathedral, Oklahoma City, OK
St. John the Evangelist Church, Dunbarton, NH St. Johns Episcopal Church, Tulsa, OK
Trinity Episcopal Church, Meredith, NH St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Grants Pass, OR
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Montvale, NJ The Memorial Church of the Prince of Peace, Gettysburg, PA
St. Chad's Episcopal Church, Albuquerque, NM St. Christopher's Church, Gladwyne, PA
Trinity Memorial Episcopal Church, Binghamton, NY St. Clement's Church, Greenville, PA
Calvary Episcopal Church, Cairo, NY St. Stephen's Cathedral, Harrisburg, PA
St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Hamilton, NY All Saints' Episcopal Church, Hershey, PA
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Mount Kisco, NY St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Lebanon, PA
Trinity Episcopal Church, New York, NY Grace Episcopal Church, Ridgway, PA
Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie, NY St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Sunbury, PA
St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Rochester, NY St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church, York, PA
Cathedral of All Souls, Asheville, NC Diocese of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
St. John's Episcopal Church, Battleboro, NC St. Michael and All Angel's Episcopal Church, Columbia, SC
Church of the Holy Comforter, Burlington, NC Christ Episcopal Church, Denmark, SC
Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, NC Church of the Epiphany, Summerville, SC
Church of the Holy Family, Chapel Hill, NC
Church of the Good Shepherd, Cooleemee, NC
La Iglesia El Buen Pastor, Durham, NC
St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Durham, NC
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Durham, NC
Trinity Episcopal Church, Fuquay-Varina, NC
All Saints' Episcopal Church, Greensboro, NC
St. John's - St. Mark's Church, Grifton, NC
Church of the Holy Innocents, Henderson, NC
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Kernersville, NC
Grace Episcopal Church, Lewiston Woodville, NC
Church of the Messiah, Mayodan, NC
St. James Episcopal Church, Mooresville, NC
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Oxford, NC
Christ Church, Raleigh, NC
St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Reidsville, NC
All Saints' Episcopal Church, Roanoke Rapids, NC
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Salisbury, NC
Trinity Episcopal Church, Scotland Neck, NC
St. Mary Magdalene, Seven Lakes, NC
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Smithfield, NC
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Southern Pines, NC
St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Speed, NC
St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Tarboro, NC
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Thomasville, NC
All Souls' Church, Ansonville, Wadesboro, NC
St. John's Episcopal Church, Wake Forest, NC
Christ Episcopal Church, Walnut Cove, NC
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Washington, NC
Right: Rising senior,
Grace Episcopal Church, Weldon, NC Matthew Kozlowski,
Church of the Advent, Williamston, NC at his Field Ed parish,
St. James' Parish, Wilmington, NC St. John’s Georgetown.

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Church of the Holy Apostles, Collierville, TN Christ Episcopal Church, Roanoke, VA

Church of the Good Shepherd, Knoxville, TN
Calvary Episcopal Church, Memphis, TN
St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, Dallas, TX
Christ Church Cathedral, Houston, TX
St. John the Divine Episcopal Church, Houston, TX
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Huntsville, TX
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Plainview, TX
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, San Antonio, TX
St. Alban's Episcopal Church, Waco, TX
All Saints' Episcopal Church- Sharon Chapel, Alexandria, VA
Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill, Alexandria, VA
Olivet Episcopal Church, Alexandria, VA
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Alexandria, VA
Ascension Episcopal Church, Amherst, VA
St. Alban's Episcopal Church, Annandale, VA
St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church, Annandale, VA
St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Arlington, VA
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Arlington, VA
Trinity Episcopal Church, Arlington, VA
St. James the Less Episcopal Church, Ashland, VA
Church of the Good Shepherd, Burke, VA
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Burke, VA
Vauters Church, Loretto, Champlain, VA
St. Luke's Church, Simeon, Charlottesville, VA
Trinity Episcopal Church, Charlottesville, VA
Buck Mountain Episcopal Church, Earlysville, VA
ECW, North Farnham Episcopal Church, Farnham, VA
Ware Episcopal Church, Gloucester, VA
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Greenwood, VA
ECW, Cople Episcopal Parish, Hague, VA
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Hampton, VA
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Heathsville, VA
ECW, Varina Episcopal Church, Henrico, VA
St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Herndon, VA
Merchants Hope Episcopal Church, Hopewell, VA
Grace Episcopal Church, Kilmarnock, VA
St. Paul's Memorial Chapel, Lawrenceville, VA
Grace Memorial Episcopal Church, Lynchburg, VA
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Lynchburg, VA
St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church, McLean, VA
St. John's Episcopal Church, McLean, VA
St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, McLean, VA
Cunningham Chapel Parish, Millwood, VA
Church of the Incarnation, Mineral, VA
Trinity Ecumenical Parish, Moneta, VA
St. James' Episcopal Church, Montross, VA
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Mount Jackson, VA
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Newport News, VA
Christ & Grace Episcopal Church, Petersburg, VA
Church of the Epiphany, Richmond, VA
Emmanuel Church at Brook Hill, Richmond, VA
Grace & Holy Trinity Church, Richmond, VA
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Richmond, VA
ECW, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Richmond, VA
Diocese of Southwestern Virginia, Roanoke, VA
Trinity Episcopal Church, Staunton, VA
Trinity Episcopal Church, Upperville, VA
St. Aidan's Episcopal Church, Virginia Beach, VA
St. John's Episcopal Church, Waynesboro, VA
St. John's Episcopal Church, West Point, VA
St. Paul's-on-the-Hill Episcopal Church, Winchester, VA
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Woodstock, VA
St. John's Episcopal Church, Wytheville, VA
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Cheney, WA
Zion Episcopal Church, Charles Town, WV
St. Matthias' Episcopal Church, Grafton, WV
St. Timothy's in the Valley Episcopal Church, Hurricane, WV
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Keyser, WV
Grace Episcopal Church - Middleway, Middleway, WV
Trinity Episcopal Church, Wauwatosa, WI
STUDENT SUBSIDIES
The following individuals, groups, parishes, and dioceses
gave non-deductible tuition subsidy grants through VTS
in 2009-2010. Many other gifts were made directly to the
students and not through the Seminary.
All Saint Episcopal Church, Omaha, NE
All Saints' Episcopal Cathedral, Fort Worth, TX
All Saint's Episcopal Church, Briarcliff Manor, NY
All Saints' Episcopal Church, Beverly Hills, CA
All Saints' Episcopal Church, Concord, NC
All Saints' Episcopal Church, Birmingham, AL
All Saints' Episcopal Church, Frederick, MD
All Souls' Memorial Episcopal Church, Washington, DC
Barbados Diocesan Synod
Berean Baptist Church, Washington, DC
Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, Palm Beach, FL
Calvary Episcopal Church, Tarboro, NC
Cathedral of All Souls, Asheville, NC
Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta, GA
Center for Scholarship Administration, Inc., Taylors, SC
Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford, CT

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Christ Episcopal Church, Monticello, FL
Christ Episcopal Church, Blacksburg, VA
Christ Episcopal Church, Elizabeth City, NC
Church of the Epiphany, Atlanta, GA
Church of the Good Shepherd, Rocky Mount, NC
Church of the Nativity, Cedarcroft, Baltimore, MD
Church of the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr, PA
Church of the Redeemer, Cincinnati, OH
The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore, Inc., Salisbury, MD
Diocesan Missionary and Church Extension Society, New York, NY
Diocese of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
Diocese of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ
Diocese of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Diocese of California, San Francisco, CA
Diocese of Central New York, Syracuse, NY
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
Diocese of Colorado, Denver, CO
Diocese of Connecticut, Hartford, CT
Diocese of East Carolina, Kinston, NC
Diocese of East Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Diocese of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
Diocese of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN
Diocese of Kentucky, Louisville, KY
Diocese of Long Island, Garden City, NY
Diocese of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Diocese of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Diocese of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
Diocese of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
Diocese of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Diocese of Mississippi, Jackson, MS
Diocese of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
Diocese of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ
Diocese of New York, New York, NY
Diocese of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC
Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Erie, PA
Diocese of Olympia, Seattle, WA
Diocese of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Diocese of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
Diocese of Rio Grande, Albuquerque, NM
Diocese of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Diocese of Southeast Florida, Miami, FL
Diocese of Southern Virginia, Norfolk, VA
Diocese of Southwestern Virginia, Roanoke, VA
Diocese of Upper South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Diocese of Washington, Washington, DC
Diocese of West Tennessee, Memphis, TN
Diocese of West Virginia, Charleston, WV
Diocese of Western North Carolina, Asheville, NC
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Moorefield, WV
Episcopal Church Center-Domestic and Foreign
Missionary Society, New York, NY
Episcopal Church Of Messiah, Murphy, MC
Episcopal Church of Our Saviour, Silver Spring, MD
Episcopal Church Women - North Carolina, Morehead City, NC
Episcopal Day School, Augusta, GA
First United Methodist Church, Pittsburg, KS
Galilee Mission, Creswell, NC
Grace Episcopal Church, Madison, WI
Grace Episcopal Church, Washington, DC
Grace Episcopal Church, Alexandria, VA
Grace-Calvary Episcopal Church, Clarkesville, GA
Grand Chapter, Guthrie, OK
Grand Chapter - Maryland OES, Baltimore, MD
Grand Chapter OES, Bloomington, MN
Grand Chapter of WA-OES, Tumwater, WA
International Chapter PEO Sisterhood, Des Moines, IA
International Order of the King's Daughters & Sons, Gloucester, VA
Julie Ann Jones
Caroline Lindemann
MC Scholarshop Foundation, Southport, CT
The Charles McCamic Foundation, Wheeling, WV
The Norfolk Foundation, Norfolk, VA
Order of Daughters of the King Inc, Woodstock, GA
R. E. Lee Memorial Church, Lexington, VA
The Ridley Foundation, Norfolk, VA
Scudder Association Inc., Darien, CT
Society for the Increase of Ministry, Harford, CT
St. Alban's Episcopal Church, Washington, DC
St. Alban's Episcopal Church, Annandale, VA
St. Ambrose Episcopal Church, Boulder, CO
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Burke, VA
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Morehead City, NC
St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church, Annandale, VA
St. David's Episcopal Church, Lakeland, FL
St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church, McLean, VA
St. Elisabeth's Episcopal Church, Bartlett, Memphis, TN
St. Georges Episcopal Church, Arlington, VA
St. George's Episcopal Church, Fredericksburg, VA
St. James' Episcopal Church, Hendersonville, NC
St. James' Parish, Wilmington, NC
St. John in the Wilderness, Flat Rock, NC
St. John's Episcopal Church, Oklahoma City, OK
St. John's Episcopal Church, Fayetteville, NC
St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Minneapolis, MN
St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Salisbury, NC
St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Merritt Island, FL
St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, Palm Desert, CA
St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, Washington, DC
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Huntersville, NC
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Suffolk, VA
St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Crystal Lake, IL
St. Michael & All Angels, Mission, KS
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Natick, MA
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Alexandria, VA
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Delray Beach, FL
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Wellsboro, PA
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Arlington, VA
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Oxford, MS
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Del Mar, CA
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Durham, NC
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Fairview, PA
St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Lancaster, PA
St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC
Mr. Roy Terry
George C Thomas Trust, Wilmington, DE
Trinity Episcopal Church, Owensboro, KY
Trinity Episcopal Church, Wauwatosa, WI
Trinity Episcopal Church, Houston, TX
Trinity Episcopal Church, Lawrence, KS
Trinity Episcopal Church, Towson, MD
Zion Episcopal Church, Charles Town, WV
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The Francis Scott Key Society
Best known for writing the Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key was one of the founders of Virginia
Theological Seminary. In order to ensure the Seminary’s lasting good health, Francis Scott Key set aside
one-tenth of all he earned throughout his life for charities, including the Seminary. Upon his death in 1843,
Virginia Seminary wishes to thank the following thoughtful and loving friends who have followed the
The Rev. Ronald G. Abrams
The Rev. M. L. Agnew, Jr.
The Rev. Anthony F. Andres
The Rev. Dr. Robert D. Askren
The Rev. Dr. Roxana M. Atwood
Canon Francis S. Banks
The Rev. Cynthia O. Baskin
The Rev. Dr. Ralph W. Bayfield
Mrs. William A. Beal
The Rev. Alden Besse
The Rev. William Pierce Billow, Jr.
The Rev. James C. Blackburn
Mrs. William W. Blood
Mr. and Mrs. Joel K. Bourne
The Rev. Dr. Thomas D. Bowers
The Rev. Sidney S. Breese
Ms. Patricia Bridwell
The Rev. Diane Britt
The Rev. and Mrs. Ervin A. Brown III
The Rev. J. Todd Bruce
Mrs. Robert A. Burch
The Rev. David W. Cammack
The Rev. Canon Robert J. Carlson
The Rev. Jeffrey O. Cerar
The Rev. Michael D. Chalk
The Rev. Charles H. Clark
The Rev. Dr. Cheryl L. Clark
The Rev. Carlotta Cochran
Mr. Thomas Cochran
The Rev. Dr. Georgia S. Cohen, Ph.D.
The Rev. Edward W. Conklin
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Cook
Mrs. Anne P. Cooper
The Rev. Dr. Robert T. Copenhaver
Miss Virginia P. Cowles
The Rev. David A. Crump
The Rev. Dr. Alexander S. Daley
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Robert S.
Dannals
The Rev. and Mrs. John W. S.
Davis
Mr. Leverett B. Davis
Ms. Mary D. Dianish
The Rev. Starke S. Dillard, Jr.
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the money was disbursed according to his wishes.
example of Francis Scott Key in the nearly 200 years since the Seminary’s creation.
The Rev. Mifflin H. Dove, Jr.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Duvall
The Rev. Charles Carroll Eads
The Rt. Rev. A. Theodore Eastman
The Rev. Don Raby Edwards, D.D.
The Rev. Robert G. Eidson
The Rev. William T. Elliott
The Rev. Gail A. Epes
Ms. Elizabeth H. Farquhar
The Rev. and Mrs. Michael B.
Ferguson, Sr.
The Rev. A. Jeanne Finan
The Very Rev. Zachary W.
Fleetwood
The Rev. Kimberly Spire Folts
The Rev. Dr. Allie Washington
Frazier, Jr.
The Rev. Betty Works Fuller
The Rev. H. Huey Gardner
Dr. Amelia J. Gearey Dyer
The Rev. and Mrs. Paul E. Gilbert
The Rev. Dr. William S. Glazier II
The Rev. C. Neal Goldsborough
Dr. and Mrs. Albert S. Gooch, Jr.
The Rev. Martin J. Goshgarian
The Rev. James M. L. Grace
The Rev. Earnest N. Graham III
The Rt. Rev. Duncan M. Gray III
The Rev. Dr. Roy D. Green, Jr.
The Rev. Robert B. Greene
The Rev. David J. Greer
The Rev. Katrina L. Grusell
Mr. David Grusell
The Rev. Dr. William Hague
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin King Hall
Mrs. James I. Hardy
The Rev. Robert A. Hargreaves
Mr. and Mrs. Conrad K. Harper
Mrs. William B. Hastings
The Rev. Canon Victoria T. Hatch
Miss Ellen Wofford Hawkins
The Rev. Dr. J. Barney Hawkins IV
The Rev. Susan Blackburn Heath
The Rev. and Mrs. Douglas Hiza
The Rev. and Mrs. Harry L.
Hoffman III
The Rev. Canon Elizabeth Green
Holden
The Very Rev. Martha J. Horne
Dr. McDonald K. Horne III
The Rev. George A. Hull
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Robert W.
Ihloff
The Rt. Rev. Carolyn Tanner Irish
Mr. Robert C. Jackle
The Rev. Richard P. Jennings
The Rev. Dr. James A. Johnson
The Very Rev. Mark S. Jones
The Rev. Charles E. Kiblinger
The Rev. Pierce W. Klemmt
Mrs. Alfred T. Knies
The Rev. Adam P. Kradel
The Rev. Linda J. Kramer
The Very Rev. Dean Harry E.
Krauss
The Rev. Canon Peter G. Kreitler
The Rev. Thomas A. Lacy II
The Rev. Canon Charles D. Lafond II
Mr. Talmadge M. LeGrand
Ms. Christy G. Lassiter
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Peter James Lee
The Rev. Dr. John G. Lewis
The Rev. Canon Richard C. Lief
The Rev. D. Fredrick Lindstrom, Jr.
The Rev. Herbert K. Lodder
Mrs. Frances Pinter Lodder
Mrs. Charles H. Long, Jr.
The Rev. Salin M. Low
The Rev. Donald A. Lowery
Ms. Susan A. Lukens
The Rev. Dr. Joseph Walter Lund
The Rev. Louanne Mabry-Loch
Capt. Janet Lewis Maguire, (Ret)
The Very Rev. and Mrs. Markham
Mr. M. Lee Marston
Mrs. Lex S. Mathews
The Rev. Ernest G. Matijasic
The Rev. James and Martha
Maxwell
The Rev. Roma W. Maycock
The Rev. Nancy H. McCarthy
The Rev. Thomas B. McCusker III
Dr. James Kenneth McDonald
Mrs. Lockhart B. McGuire
The Rev. Jennifer G. McKenzie
Mr. Kenneth McKenzie
Mrs. Robert McLean
Mr. Sheldon F. McLeod
The Rev. Canon and Mrs. Jose A.
McLoughlin

The Rev. Beth C. McNamara
Dr. and Mrs. Harry T. McPherson
The Rev. and Mrs. Loren B. Mead
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh S. Meredith
The Rev. Richard H. Merrill
The Rev. Dewayne J. Messenger
The Rev. Ann C. Charles Miller
The Rev. and Mrs. David W. Miller
The Rev. Laurence H. Miller
The Rev. Robert M. Miller
The Rev. William J. Miller-Coulter
The Rev. Catharine W. Montgomery
The Rev. Jennifer Glaze
Montgomery
Mr. Thomas M. Moore
Dr. Florence M. Morrill
The Rev. Dr. Genevieve M. Murphy
The Rev. G. Thomas Mustard
The Rev. Julie F. Nelson
The Rev. Rita B. Nelson
The Rev. J. Ellen Nunnally
Mrs. John L. O'Hear
The Rev. Dr. Philip J. Paradine
The Rev. Caroline S. Parkinson
Mr. Ralph W. Peters, Jr.
The Rev. Joy Ogburn Phipps
The Rev. Dr. Sam A. Portaro, Jr.
The Rt. Rev. Frank Neff Powell
The Rev. Stanley A. Powell, Jr.
The Very Rev. and Mrs. Harry H.
Pritchett, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. F. Vernon Quigley, Jr.
Ms. Laura Helen Randall
Mr. Benjamin Reid
The Rev. Jennie Lou Reid
Mrs. Helen A. Reid
The Very Rev. Richard Reid
The Rev. Dr. Hill C. Riddle
The Rev. Canon Robert G. Riegel
The Rev. Dr. Thomas N. Rightmyer
The Rev. Dr. Anne Gavin Ritchie
The Rev. Grant H. Robinson
Mrs. Emily Dryden Russell
Ray W. Sabalis
The Rev. Daniel H. Schoonmaker
The Rev. A. Wayne Schwab
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. James J.
Shand
The Rev. William M. Shand III
Mrs. Judith H. Shaw
Left: The Archbishop of
Canterbury visited with a VTS
contingent this summer. Pictured
left to right are: VTS faculty mem-
ber, the Rev. A. Katherine Grieb,
Ph.D.; the Rev. Christopher Gar-
cia (‘10); Norman Whitmire (‘12);
the Rev. Bright Chika Abanifi; and
Melissa Bruckart (‘12).
giving
The Rev. and Mrs. Stephen G.
Shepherd
The Rev. Andrew J. Sherman
The Rev. Timothy K. Small
The Rev. and Mrs. John M. Smith
The Rt. Rev. Philip A. Smith
matters
The Rev. Thomas R. Smith
The Rev. Robin Thomas Soller
Mr. Peter F. Spalding
The Rev. John R. Stanton
The Rev. Isabel F. Steilberg
Mrs. Sarah D. Steptoe
Gifts that Provide Income for Life
Mrs. George C. Stierwald
The Rev. David A. Storm
The Rev. Canon and Mrs. Peter B.
Stube
Mr. Robert E. Stufflebeam We offer several methods by which you can transfer capital to
The Rev. John G. Tampa the Seminary but retain the income from the asset for your life-
The Rev. Janet E. Tarbox
time and/or the lifetime of your spouse or another person. You
Mrs. George W. Tate
Mrs. Herman Templin
can fund a Charitable Gift Annuity arrangement, whereby you
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Terzian transfer capital and receive a guaranteed fixed income each
The Rev. David H. Teschner year, paid quarterly. You can also invest in the Virginia Semi-
The Rev. Patricia M. Thomas nary Pooled Income Fund, a mutual fund type trust which
Dr. and Mrs. William G. Thomas III combines many gifts, and receive a prorated share of the
Mrs. George Fabian Tittmann income earned by the fund each year, again paid quarterly.
Mrs. Jesse M. Trotter Or, for larger gifts, you can establish separate Charitable Trusts
Mr. Otis L. Turner which will pay you either an annuity or percentage amount.
Mr. and Mrs. M. Waldron Vail II
The Rev. Canon Samuel Van Culin, Jr.
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The advantages vary according to your circumstance and
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Mrs. Frank H. Vest, Jr. offer you the following benefits:
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The Rev. and Mrs. Oran E. Warder
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2. Immediate federal income tax deduction.
The Rev. Alexander H. Webb II
The Rev. Pamela C. Webb
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The Rev. Christine R. Whittaker
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The Rev. Melissa Wilcox
The Very Rev. C. Preston Wiles, Ph.D.
When the last income beneficiary dies, the principal is
Mrs. Ellis T. Williams
The Rev. Barbara S. Williamson
transferred to the Seminary for a purpose of your choosing.
Mrs. J. Burks Withers, Jr.
The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. R. Stewart We would be pleased to discuss any of these giving opportu-
Wood, Jr. nities with you and your counsel. For additional information
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The Rev. William A. Yon
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July 25, 2009
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February 12, 2010
The Rev. Kenneth R. Blindenbacher, ‘77
December 14, 2009
The Rev. Gwyneth G. Bohr, ‘79
July 5, 2009
The Rev. Edward S. Brightman, ‘57
June 30, 2010
The Rt. Rev. John H. Burt, ‘43
October 20, 2009
The Rev. Perry C. Burton, ‘54
May 9, 2010
The Rev. James D. Chipps, ‘90
January 5, 2010
The Rev. Holland B. Clark, ‘54
June 11, 2010
The Rev. Charles S. Cook, Jr., ‘62
May 21, 2010
The Rev. Paulo Dallfollo, ‘54
November 17, 2008
The Rev. Lawrence J. Dunnewold, CE
The Rev. Craig E. Eder, ‘44
November 22, 2009
The Rev. Pettigrew V. Hamilton, ‘69
May 4, 2010
The Rev. V. Richard Hawkins, ‘63
December 13, 2007
Mr. Peter Homans, ‘57
May 30, 2009
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The Rev. Canon Charles P. James, CE
October 26, 2008
The Rev. Ann Brewster Jones, ’77
February 28, 2010
The Rev. Irene C. Jones, ‘03
November 25, 2009
The Rev. Dr. John H. Jordan, Jr., ‘58
April 20, 2010
The Rev. Lewis M. Kirby, Jr., ‘60
April 8, 2009
The Rev. Edgar Lockwood, ‘60
October 10, 2009
The Rev. James L. Lowery, Jr., ’59
February 14, 2010
The Rev. Joshua T. MacKenzie, ’61
February 3, 2010
The Rev. D. Williams McClurken, ‘47
August 12, 2008
The Rev. Paul B. Miller, ’49
February 7, 2010
The Rev. John C. Mott, ‘44
July 7, 2009
The Rev. Albert S. Newton, ‘56
November 21, 2008
The Rev. Fred L. Nolting, ’46
March 31, 2009
The Rev. William H. Olsen, ‘81
October 5, 2009
The Rev. William W. Pendleton, ‘56
May 9, 2009
The Rev. J. Edwin Pippin, ‘72
January 6, 2010
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The Rev. H. Wiley Ralph, ‘51
June 10, 2010
Dr. Charlotte H. Scott, ’06 (H)
March 11, 2010
The Rev. Robert Morgan Shaw, ’43
February 23, 2010
The Rev. Grant R. Sherk, Jr., ‘57
April 9, 2010
The Rev. Weaver L. Stevens, ‘55
December 13, 2009
The Rev. Sydney C. Swann, Jr., ’41
February 16, 2010
The Rev. Vernon W. Towne, ’76
February 27, 2007
The Rev. Todd H. Trefts, ‘61
October 5, 2009
The Rt. Rev. C. Charles Vache, ’77 (H)
November 1, 2009
The Rev. Laurance W. Walton, Jr., ‘58
July 12, 2009
The Rev. Dr. Paul Wessinger, ’98 (H)
May 22, 2009
The Rev. Stewart B. West, ‘48
July 12, 2009
The Rev. G. Richard Wheatcroft, ‘43
November 11, 2009
The Rev. Alfred T. Whitelock, ’60
March 4, 2010
The Rev. Roland J. Whitmire, Jr., CE
September 24, 2009
The Rev. Wallace I. Wolverton, Jr., CE
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...Hadler, continued from page 47.
JH: One thing we’ve tried to
work with but never quite
figured out how to do was to
supervise for the multicultural
dimension, to supervise the
cultural side as well as the for-
mation side. There wasn’t time
to do both in the parish. When
we tried to get people to have
a bi-focal vision, it didn’t work
out too well.
SS: How did you get involved in
teaching Family Systems Theory?
JH: I was in a disciplined col-
league group that started meet-
ing in 1979. We decided that
we needed a consultant to keep
ourselves honest. Our first two
consultants, for two years each,
were clinical psychologists
who offered nothing more than
their presence. Then, in 1984,
Bill Tully, who was the rector
at St. Columba’s, suggested we
take a look at a Rabbi he knew,
Ed Friedman. We took him on
in an experimental basis. He
immediately intrigued all of
us because, unlike the clinical
psychologist, he knew some-
thing about ministry from his
experience as a congregational
Rabbi. He had a very clear
theory about how people work
– the Family Systems Theory,
a wonderful way of looking
at how congregations work,
the congregation as a family.
What he taught about con-
gregational dynamics helped
many clergy make a differ-
ence in the way they led and
ministered to their congrega-
tions – in a way that gave them
energy and saved them from
bad situations they’d gotten
into (or that the congregations
provided to them.)
I was most intrigued with Ed’s
thinking. When I got a sabbati-
cal in 1987, I contracted with
Ed to go deeper into some of
my own family work. In 1990,
he invited me to participate in
his family systems seminars
for clergy which I did until he
died in 1996. Since then, I’ve
continued learning from the
faculty he left behind. In 1997,
I decided that I’d like to start
teaching Family Systems at
VTS.
Jacques Hadler Article
SS: What are the one or two prob-
lems that every parish runs in to at
some time or another?
JH: When clergy try to make a
change in a parish, even if it’s
a change that the parish has
said that it wants, there is often
resistance which can some-
times get volatile. Whenever a
change is made in a family or
in an organization, there’s go-
ing to be reactivity. The theory
says this as does our knowl-
edge about change, so it’s very
important for clergy not to take
it personally, to realize that
this reactivity comes with the
territory.
Most clergy, when making
a change, particularly when
asked to make it, expect to be
thanked for it. So it demoral-
izes clergy tremendously to
find that people aren’t thank-
ful for their efforts, especially
when the results of change rub
people the wrong way. Boy, do
they let the clergy know! If we
clergy can persevere instead of
taking it personally and letting
the pain of being targeted go,
the people will often calm
down and the change will be
incorporated.
SS: On what can/should parish
priests focus their attention to bet-
ter serve their congregations?
JH: If there’s one issue that’s
stood out for me in recent
years, it’s that the older genera-
tion—my parent’s generation
and maybe the generation I’m
moving into—has a very hard
time being generative with
the younger generation. In
other words, they want to keep
things the way they were for
their generation. They have
not been turning over to the
younger generation the author-
ity to make changes and have
not taken seriously the current
issues or changes that this gen-
eration wants to address.
The desire to really form the
next generation of leadership
is rarely seen in parishes today.
Maybe this phenomenon is true
in every generation but I’m
really noticing it. It’s certainly
an issue to be addressed.
SS: Regarding VTS mission trips,
what has been one of the most
moving or satisfying experiences
that you’ve had?
JH: There are many ways I
could answer this... one of
the most satisfying things has
been to work with the teaching
interns like Leslie Steffensen,
John Newton, Meredith Holt,
and Cynthia Park… the parish
interns as well, Josiah Rengers,
Allison Liles, Caron Gwynn,
and before them, Frank Logue
and Allison St. Louis … to see
all of them make bonds with
Tanzanians and to see how
well they all did, some in very
tough circumstances, and how
it impacted their ministries
and international relationships
in the long-run. It shows that
their learning wasn’t just about
a course they had to take, but
that it had some staying power.
SS: What will you be doing now
that you’ve retired?
JH: I will follow some good
clergy advice and for the first
six months, do nothing addi-
tional, while continuing things
like spiritual direction, clergy
colleague groups, and my con-
sulting and D.Min. relation-
ships. I haven’t tossed out any
of my papers so I have a lot of
cleaning things up to do! After
that, I’ll see where my appe-
tites are with the notion that
I will be itinerant, not settled
with a particular institution. X
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 faith@five:
“Can adding a Rite 3
service really matter?

E
veryone wants to matter. And most everyone wants what they
do to matter, to have a positive effect on something or to make
a difference in someone’s life. This is especially true for today’s
teenagers who are passionate about helping others and who are actively
involved in youth service.

Yet, according to the 2005 National Study on Youth and Religion

(NSYR), despite the fact that the majority of teens say that their religious
faith is important to them, only one-half of all Protestant teens attend
church weekly or participate in Sunday school. Of the denominations
listed in the survey, Episcopalian teens are ranked at the “low end of at-
tendance” with less than half attending church once a month or more.
Not surprisingly, regular church attendance tied directly to teens’ belief
in God. According to the
NSYR, 23% of Episcopa-
lian teens report being un-
sure of their belief in God,
a high number compared to
other Protestant denomina-
tions.

So how can the Episco-

pal Church, which wants
the Good News (e.g., the
grace, love, and mercy of
Jesus Christ) to matter,
stay connected with teen-
agers? How can the church
get them in the door when
there are so many other op-
portunities for distraction?

“They are listening again to Enter St. Paul’s Episcopal

Church in Old Town, Al-
the service – it’s fabulous.” exandria. Earlier this year,
it’s Rector, the Rev. Oran
Warder, and the

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Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, dean and
president of Virginia Theological Semi-
nary and associate rector at St. Paul’s,
initiated Faith@Five, a Rite 3 service,
geared mainly toward teenagers and their
busy families. At this Saturday night
come-as-you-are gathering, there are no
books, no choirs, or fancy garments. What
you find is contemporary music, aptly led
by the talented Josh Edwards, a basic table
altar, and a large screen upon which words
to the songs and slides for the sermon are
displayed.
“I think Rite 3 works best for the teen-
ager,” said Markham, “and the family who
finds Sunday difficult (all those sporting
commitments) and needs a form of wor-
ship that uses the visual, plays contempo-
rary music, doesn't require you to read a
book, and offers a message that packs a
punch.”
What the leadership at St. Paul’s has
found surprising is how well the service is
playing with all age groups. “Our mission
is to attract teenagers but many life-long
Episcopalians love the service,” exclaimed
Markham, “They are listening again to the
service – it’s fabulous.”
Markham attributes the success of the Rite
3 service to the fact that it is restrained
and respectful. “Hands don’t go into the
air and not one expects to hear tongues,”
he says. “It’s a very St. Paul’s type of
contemporary.”
And how is the service playing out with
teens? According to Luke Markham, 14,
"I like Faith@Five because it is God say-
ing 'Relax. Chill.' God doesn't mind us not
dressing up and being all fancy. God wants
us to just to be ourselves.”
Pointed out Ian Markham, “Adding a Rite
3 Saturday night has mattered to St. Paul’s
and to our teens. It has helped us reach an-
other type of worshipper. Congregations
that add to their offerings do ultimately
grow.”
Far left: the Rev. Oran Warder, rector of
St. Paul’s, gives a sermon using images on
the large screen; below left, Josh Edwards
leads the worship music for Faith@Five;
above, the service is a draw for many
young folks.
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 Around Campus

How Does Your T

he seminary community garden be-
gan this year as a small experiment.
Now, every couple of weeks, we are
seeing beautiful harvests. And we are just

Garden Grow?
beginning to see the potential of such a
shared adventure with the land.

A year ago, students came forward with

by the Rev. David Gortner, Ph.D.
a proposal for a community garden plot
for herbs and vegetables. At the same
time, some faculty members were com-
ing up with proposals of their own for
food-producing gardens and orchards.
These ideas came from a common interest
in improved stewardship of some of our
unused land at VTS, in strengthening a
Benedictine spirit of formation through
shared prayer and work (ora et labora),
and in creating a campus-based ministry of
outreach. Graduates, board members, and
leaders from various parts of the Episcopal
Church began to express similar interests
in getting VTS involved as a partner in
environmental and community-building
education through community gardens.

Here we are, a year later, harvesting

buckets of field greens and arugula, fresh
onions and shallots, long flavorful carrots,
spicy banana peppers and icicle radishes,
bags of peas and beans, big heads of Chi-
nese cabbage, and lots of juicy cucumbers,
zucchini and golden squash. We have
harvested tomatoes, peppers, and corn.
We have watched perennials like aspara-
gus, blueberries, blackberries, rhubarb,
and many different herbs take root and
develop. And we have planted fall crops.

The little experiment this year is in the

front yard of my home and in the back
yard of Barney Hawkins’ home. Every
Saturday, I have the joy of stepping out
my front door to welcome and to join with
students, staff, and family members who
come to the garden to dig, plant, weed,
water, feed, and harvest. Adults and
children work side by side, and each of
us learn from others how to improve the
garden.

One Saturday, I was weeding next to

a visiting friend from California, who
started munching on a couple of weeds she
pulled. She and a student told me about

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some of the edible salad-weeds that turn
out to be quite tasty – lamb’s quarters and
purslane. They now make regular appear-
ances in our salads at home.
From small spaces, we are producing
plenty of food! The pictures show some
of what we have planted and harvested.
The gardens have been a
great living demonstration
of the mysteries of new
life. I planted, Apollos
waters, but God gave the
growth (I Cor. 3:6). Those
of us who labor in the gar-
dens harvest the vegetables
and share them with our
neighbors – students and
families at Braddock-Lee
Apartments, faculty and
staff on campus.
schools, colleges, and communities. Yale
University has a small one-acre “farm”
run by students; elementary schools such
as the Academy for Global Citizenship in
Chicago are growing vegetables and fruits
in urban plots, which they then use in their
kitchens to feed to the children who grow
them; churches like St. Mark’s in Eugene,
Oregon, are dedicating their land to com-
munity gardens with the aim of raising
enough food to feed the hungry in their
surrounding communities; and Episcopal
Relief and Development is seeing a rise in
community garden initiatives around the
globe.
None of this is new. Through community
gardens and urban food-raising initiatives,
we are revisiting and rediscovering old
practices. The growing interest in local
food and local craft recalls a period in
industrial American and English history
in the early 20th century that gave birth to
the arts and crafts movement, “moral treat-
ment” at farms outside of urban centers,
and the settlement house movement.
Barney and I are grateful to the many
people that made this little experiment
this year possible – Evan Clendenin and
Rebecca Edwards as primary organiz-
ers, Josiah and Katie Rengers, Andrew
and Sarah D’Angio-White, Meg Holland,
Jeanne McMillen, the Morris family, and
Mark and Meredith Pilling, who helped
till the soil, plant, weed, and harvest,
Dave Mutscheller who moved topsoil for
us and Mike Widenhofer who brought us
fresh grass clippings, and the many other
individuals and families who helped out at
different points.
Plans ahead include the creation of a
much larger community garden area not
far from Butterfly House and the dorms, as
well as an orchard and meadow in another
part of campus. Stay tuned for the latest
garden news from VTS! X

Time in the garden is good

for the soul. Conversations
bubble up in ways that
don’t happen as naturally
during chapel, class, and
lunch. We get to see each
other in different ways,
and we all get to see tan-
gible results of our labors.

It’s no surprise that com-

munity gardens have taken
hold in so many churches,

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A NEW SCHOOL YEAR BEGINS...

From top left, clockwise: Members of the junior class practice their Biblical language skills over Starbuck’s coffee; Middlers
B. Cayce Ramey and Elizabeth Lowe review homework; the North Carolina contingent was at it again, ensuring that the North
Carolina flag flew proudly off of Aspinwall Tower for the first day of school; Middlers, Chuck McMillen, David Crosby, and
Laura Cochran register for classes; Carrie English and Ann Hill on their way to Chapel; Melissa Bruckart, Tracey Kelly, Gary
Taylor, and Anne Dale get ready to process into Chapel.

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The Seminary Community would like to give special thanks to Dave Mutscheller and
the good souls in the Maintenance Department who worked tirelessly
to ensure our safety and comfort during an especially difficult winter.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

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Introducing the Master of Arts at VTS

WHAT’S NEW?

Virginia Theological Seminary announces the inauguration of the Master of Arts

Program. This academic Master’s Degree prepares students for competent Christian
theological engagement and leadership in a variety of settings.

Students deepen their theological understanding through rigorous academic

engagement while exploring vocations and developing competencies to prepare for
professional leadership in the Church.

The program’s flexibility and variety of concentrations allow students to design personalized plans of study to match
their academic backgrounds, the needs and expectations of the Church, and their professional goals. Areas of study
include, theological studies, Christian formation, scriptural studies, ethics, religion and culture, and practical theology.
The Center for the Ministry of Teaching provides particular strength for concentrations in Christian formation and
education.

The MA can be earned through part-time study, full-time residency, or any combination of the two.
For more information and to apply, visit www.vts.edu or contact the Director of Admissions, Jan Sienkiewicz,
at 703-461-1706 or by email at admissions@vts.edu.

ATTENTION Prospective students!

Note the dates for the VTS Open House Information sessions:

November 17, 2010: The Fall Ministry Conference

This one day event provides a setting for prospective students
in nearby diocese to hear what VTS has to offer.
Registration opens mid-September.

February 18-20, 2011: The Conference on Ministry Welcome Weekend

Prospective students from around the US gather for information, fellowship and fun.
Registration opens mid-November.

To Register: Check the VTS website at www.vts.edu

to register or contact the Director of Admissions, Jan Sienkiewicz, for more information.
Tel: 703-461-1706
Email: admissions@vts.edu