Our seminary community marked its Patronal Feast with a celebration that included fellowship, fun, and worship. Neighboring alumni joined our staff, faculty, and resident summer students for Great Vespers on Thursday evening, followed by a cookout on the grassy knoll below Three Hierarchs Chapel. The next morning, our Dean, Archpriest...

The Opening Address of our summer conference, "The Joy to Serve," by Matushka Juliana Schmemann, is now available as a podcast on Ancient Faith Radio. Mat' Juliana's talk commenced the conference titled "Women Disciples of the Lord," held on our campus from June 17–19, 2011. To listen to Mat. Juliana...

[img_assist|nid=7255|title=|desc=Dean Fr. John Behr with seminarian Harrison Russin at Orientation 2010. Dr. John Barnet stands in the background.|link=none|align=right|width=200|height=300]Our student-less, slower-paced summer routine here at St. Vladimir's will soon yield to an incredibly active schedule, as we welcome new students and returning seminarians to campus for Orientation. The annual August orientation sessions are crucial for seminarians and their families, preparing them for living within Christian community, and especially, for the particularities that mark our rhythm of life here at SVOTS.

The Marketing[img_assist|nid=7257|title=|desc=SVS Press has produced more than 400 titles related to Orthodox Christianity. Here, Nina Matusiak browses our on-campus bookstore (Photo: Robert Lisak).|link=none|align=right|width=182|height=125] Manager of our St. Vladimir's Seminary Bookstore, Dn. Gregory Hatrak, will be taking a traveling bookshop on the road this summer and fall. He will be setting up temporary bookstalls—filled with St. Vladimir's Seminary Press (SVS Press) titles—at some key gatherings and places, nationally and internationally:

The seminary community remembers with great fondness its former Dean and Professor of Church History and Patristics, Protopresbyter John Meyendorff (1926–1992), on the 20th anniversary of his death, July 22, 1992. You may view a touching still-shot video in remembrance of Fr. John (created by Andrew Matthews) here. Born in...

Photos by Michel P. Poulin and Dn. James Bozeman Why would a small group of Orthodox Christian clergy and laity, college-age and up, rent a vendor's booth at the famed Cornerstone Music Festival—basically a Christian rock music event? Perhaps, to evangelize? Or, to minister to youth and young adults? Maybe...

Dr. Kyriaki Karidoyanes FitzGerald's lecture, "Eve, Mary, and Us," which was presented at our "Women Disciples of the Lord" conference held June 17–19, 2011, is now available as a podcast on Ancient Faith Radio. Dr. FitzGerald, who holds a Master of Divinity degree from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of...

Dr. Mary Ford's lecture, "Light from the Past on Vocations Today," which was presented at our "Women Disciples of the Lord" conference held June 17–19, 2011, is now available as a podcast on Ancient Faith Radio. Dr. Ford, Associate Professor of New Testament at St. Tikhon's Orthodox Seminary, has co-authored...

"We magnify you, O Hierarchs of Christ, Teachers of Truth and Wisdom" ( Hymn to the Three Great Hierarchs: Listen here) A gleaming new mosaic of the Thegory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom, now adorns the entrance to our campus chapel, thanks to seminary friends and supporters Ernest and Denice...

With sorrow, we bid farewell to our brother and father, The Very Rev. Michael Lewis, who fell asleep in the Lord on the Feast of Dormition, and we express our hearfelt sympathy to his wife, Khouria Kyra, and their children. Father Michael earned his Master of Divinity degree from our...