Together we make The Episcopal Church stronger
Chair of the Board
Mrs. Kirsten Prettyman Adams
Vice-chair of the Board
Mr. Stephen L. Humphrey
Secretary & Treasurer
Ms. Amy L. Curtis
Dean & President
The Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President
Ms. Jacqueline Ballou, MBA
Senior Vice President
Ms. Nicky Burridge
Senior Vice President
The Rev. Melody D. Knowles, Ph.D.
Vice Presidents
The Rev. Rachelle Sam
The Very Rev. Billy J. Alford ’92
The Rev. Hannah Atkins Romero
Mr. Sanjiv Augustine
The Rev. Luke Back
The Rev. William R. Boyles
Mr. Michael Braxton
The Rt. Rev. Kevin Brown
Dr. David H. Charlton
The Rev. Dr. Harold J. Cobb, Jr. ’90
Dr. Scott Evenbeck
The Very Rev. Janettarose L. Greene ’23
The Rev. Dr. Christopher Girata ’08
The Rev. Canon Dr. Michele Hagans
The Rev. Kimberly Jackson
Ms. Elizabeth Cabell Jennings
Ms. Mary Kostel
Prof. Myles V. Lynk
The Rt. Rev. Jose McLoughlin ’05, D.D. ’17 (H)
The Rev. Troy Mendez ’09
Ms. Dianne Audrick Smith
The Rev. Samuel Tallman
The Rev. Ellen Tillotson
The Rev. Dr. Scott White ’12
The Rev. Christine R. Whittaker ’90
The Rt. Rev. E. Mark Stevenson
The Rev. Lee Ann Tolzman
The Rev. Kathleen D. Walker ’18
The Rev. Sharon Heaney, Ph.D.
The Rev. Shawn Strout, Ph.D.
Mr. Zachary Fergus ’27
Our work is eternity. Our focus is the Creator God and the extraordinary presence of God in time. However, this work of eternity constantly touches our immediate moment. We are trying to think through how to model the relationship of the Gospel of eternity with our particular moment in time.
The Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, Ph.D., Dean and President of Virginia Theological Seminary, reflects on how Christians can respond to the current moment.
Political commentator David French warns that many Christian communities are enabling division. He looks at what can be done to heal the nation.
The AAEHC discovers an early draft of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic Letter from Birmingham Jail in donated papers.
Student Jasina Wise shares how being a Saint Nicholas Center for Faith and Justice Fellow is enriching her formation.
Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) congratulates the Rev. Ruthanna Hooke, Ph.D., on her appointment as the 10th Dean and President of Seminary of the Southwest.
Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) has conferred the Dean’s Cross for Servant Leadership on Stephen Colbert for his work as a satirist who provokes critical thinking and inspires change, and on Evelyn McGee-Colbert for her ministry and leadership in the arts.
VTS has launched a Faith and Justice Concentration in its Master of Divinity degree. The new offering enables students to pursue a pathway that focuses on formation for transformative engagement in the public square.