Our Dean, Archpriest John Behr, has been appointed to serve on the Board of Directors of the Decani Monastery Relief Fund, a non-profit organization committed to rebuilding church and social life in Kosovo. The relief fund sponsors myriad humanitarian projects, including the one hundred fifty-three Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries...

More than 120 young preachers from more than 25 states in the U.S. gathered to preach, to learn, and to be inspired by the gospel of Jesus Christ, at the 3rd Annual National Festival of Young Preachers, held from January 2–5, in Louisville, Kentucky. At the event, Jason Ketz, 3rd-year...

"You've made my day!" exclaimed His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, as our seminary dean, Archpriest John Behr, presented him with a signed copy of his newly translated and published On the Incarnation, the classic 4th-century treatise by St. Athanasius the Great. Father John...

" St. Matthew Orthodox Church was very blessed to have Archpriest Chad Hatfield come to speak to our parish," noted Fr. Maximus Cabey, rector of the parish, and his wife, Matushka Photini, as they recounted the weekend of January 7–8 at their church in Green Bay, Wisconsin. "On Saturday, Father...

I am greatly honored that you have invited me to give this lecture in memory of Father Alexander Schmemann...When I began to read the work of Father Alexander, I was able to glimpse, in a small way, what the liturgy meant from the inside, and reading his Journals, I caught...

Our campus was replete with activities surrounding the Feast of the Three Great Hierarchs—Ss. Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom—the patrons of our chapel. Besides hosting the customary annual Father Alexander Memorial Schmemann Lecture, the seminary community welcomed three visiting hierarchs who presided at Divine Liturgies on...

On the Feast of the Three Hierarchs, leaders from Orthodox Christian seminaries across the United States met on our campus to continue informal discussions that began among them nearly five years ago. Besides representatives from St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS), participants were from Hellenic College/Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School...

I beseech thee, O Virgin, do thou dispel far from me all of the distress of despair and turbulence in my soul; for thou, O Bride of God, hast given birth to the Lord Christ, Who is Prince of Peace, O thou only all-blameless one —Small Canon to the Mother...

Besides getting together to watch the New Yors past Sunday. Students and their families, faculty, staff, and administration gathered in the Metropolitan Philip Auditorium to watch the game on a big screen TV, while enjoying wings and pizza, but only after paying the price of admission: either one non-perishable food...

St. Vladimir's Seminary contributed much to the Second Annual Symposium in Honor of Fr. Georges Florovsky, held this past weekend in Princeton, New Jersey. Titled "The Body of the Living Christ: The Patristic Doctrine of the Church," the symposium was hosted by the Fr. Georges Florovsky Orthodox Christian Theological Society...