At the beginning of the 2014 ecclesiastical year, Professor of Philosophy Dr. Bruce Foltz, an Orthodox Christian and faculty member at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL, will offer a free and public lecture at St. Vladimir's Seminary on "The Truth of Nature." The talk will contrast today's post–modern assumptions regarding the environment with the patristic and historic Christian understanding of what it means to care for God's creation. The lecture, to be held in the Metropolitan Philip Auditorium in the John G. Rangos Family Foundation Building on the Yonkers campus, will be followed by a question and answer session and a reception in the Rangos Building's atrium.

Friday, November 22, 2013, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. [img_assist|nid=14040|title=|desc=|link=popup|align=left|width=200|height=200]Dr. Michael Colburn, Mission Specialist in Linguistics and Translation for the Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC), will be on St. Vladimir's Seminary's campus to talk about his work in translating Orthodox Christian liturgical texts into native languages in East Africa and Guatemala. Once a missionary linguist / translator with the Wycliffe Bible Translators serving the Ogea people of Papua New Guinea, Dr. Colburn also worked twenty-four years as a full-time software developer and software product manager for the US Government. He has degrees in Biblical Studies, Linguistics, and Computer Science, and he will be discussing the software tools and courses he has developed to help Orthodox Christians around the world worship in their mother tongues.

[img_assist|nid=14242|title=|desc=|link=popup|align=left|width=232|height=300][img_assist|nid=14243|title=|desc=|link=popup|align=right|width=189|height=250]On Sunday December 1 at 7 p.m., St. Vladimir's Seminary's student–run St. Ambrose Society will be hosting Dr. Ryan Nash, M.D., M.A. for a free and public lecture. Entitled "Compassion and Conscience: Health, the Good Life, and Death," the talk will be held in the Metropolitan Philip Auditorium. Following the lecture, a question and answer session will allow for response and discussion. Refreshments will be served at the conclusion.

[img_assist|nid=14246|title=|desc=|link=popup|align=right|width=172|height=250][img_assist|nid=14307|title=|desc=The Very Rev. Dr. John McGuckin|link=none|align=left|width=200|height=300]The 31st Annual Father Alexander Schmemann Memorial Lecture titled "On 'The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church'" will be presented by The Very Rev. Dr. John McGuckin, a leading international commentator on Eastern Orthodox theology and early Christian history. The free and public lecture, Friday, January 31, 2014, will be immediately preceded by an academic convocation at 7:00 p.m., at which Fr. John will be awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree honoris causa.

[img_assist|nid=14273|title=|desc=|link=popup|align=left|width=350|height=197]The March for Life is an annual event in the nation's capital marking the anniversary of the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion in all 50 states. This year's 41st March is scheduled for January 22, 2014, and will be preceded by a noon rally with prayers and guest speakers at the National Mall. The St. Ambrose Society, St. Vladimir's Seminary's Pro Life group, has reserved a 47–passenger bus with restroom facilities. The bus is open to the public, and will leave campus at 5 a.m. on January 22 to travel to Washington D.C. for the March, returning on the same day at about midnight.

[img_assist|nid=14815|title=|desc=|link=url|url=http://ircpl.org/event/heaven-and-earth/|align=left|width=323|height=500][img_assist|nid=12895|title=May 2013 concert, Seminary Chorale|desc=|link=url|url=http://ircpl.org/event/heaven-and-earth/|align=right|width=300|height=200] Still available: Tuesday, April 29, 7:30–9:30 p.m. at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, New Rochelle, NY — first come, first served seating Sold out! Thursday, May 1, 7:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m. concert at The Glicker-Milstein Theatre, in the Diana Center, 3009 Broadway ( Sign up for the waiting list)

[img_assist|nid=14650|title=|desc=|link=popup|align=right|width=155|height=200]The St. Ambrose Society at St. Vladimir's Seminary sponsored a free, public lecture on February 23, Sunday, 3:30 pm, in the Metropolitan Philip Auditorium on campus. “Preaching the Word of the Lord: Being an Orthodox Christian in the Post-Christian Public Square,” was presented by Dr. Herman Tristram Engelhardt, who holds doctorates in Medicine (Tulane University, 1972) and Philosophy (University of Texas, 1969). Dr.

[img_assist|nid=14737|title=|desc=Archbishop Job |link=popup|align=left|width=150|height=224] The Trustees, Faculty, and Students of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary request the honor of your presence at the Commencement of the Class of 2014 on May 31. A 10:00 Prayer of Supplication in Three Hierarchs Chapel will be followed by Commencement Exercises at 10:30 a.m. in the Metropolitan Philip Auditorium, John G. Rangos Family Foundation Building.

READ MORE about the Arvo Pärt Project at St. Vladimir's Seminary [img_assist|nid=15396|title=|desc=|link=url|url=http://arvopartproject.com/events|align=left|width=335|height=350] Order tickets for "Spirit in Sound and Space—A Conversation Inspired by Arvo Pärt"

On Thursday, June 12, 7 p.m, celebrated scholar and Eastern Catholic Churchman Archimandrite Robert Taft, SJ will be hosted by the 2014 Congress of the Society of Oriental Liturgy (SOL) during their annual meeting, and will present the keynote address. Father Taft's lecture, titled "Goodbye to All That: Swansong of an Old Academician," will be free and open to the public and will be held in the Seminary's The Metropolitan Philip Auditorium of The John G. Rangos Family Building. [img_assist|nid=15381|title=|desc=Fr. Robert Taft, offering the Schmemann Lecture in 2009|link=popup|align=right|width=350|height=263]