Very Rev. Dr. John Behr A homily delivered in the Three Hierarchs Chapel at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary on the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple and Zacchaeus Sunday (Sunday, February 2, 2014). Today, as we celebrate the meeting of Christ and the righteous Simeon...

Although originally hailing from Washington state and Chicago, respectively, Fr. William and Matushka Jillian Rettig have counted the Upper Midwest as home for over fifteen years. They met and married in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul and were parishioners of Holy Trinity, St. Paul before being prodded to consider...

Dr. Albert S. Rossi OCF student leaders meet in Dallas, August 2014 From August 13–16, 2014, I traveled to Dallas, TX, to meet with the student leaders for the Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF) . At their Student Leadership Institute (SLI), I offered a presentation on Conflict Resolution. Fifteen collegians, three...

Very Rev. Dr. Alexander Rentel The Very Rev. Dr. Alexander Rentel wears several hats at St. Vladimir’s Seminary as the assistant professor of Canon Law and Byzantine Studies, The John and Paraskeva Skvir Lecturer in Practical Theology, and the director of the Master of Divinity Program. Yet one of his...

Dr. Peter C. Bouteneff On Wednesday, September 24 , 2014, St. Vladimir's associate professor of Systematic Theology Dr. Peter Bouteneff, and Assistant Professor of Liturgical Music Dr. Nicholas Reeves, lectured at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ, speaking on the spiritual foundations of composer Arvo Pärt’s music. The two faculty...

Father Seraphim Solof (SVOTS Class of 1985) is a native of Pittsburgh and a graduate of MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At St. Vladimir’s, he met and married a fellow seminarian, Marta (SVOTS Class of 1984), the daughter of the late Very Reverend and Mrs. Michael Stupar, also of Pittsburgh. Ordained...

From September 21-26, 2014, The Father Alexander Schmemann Professor of Liturgical Theology Dr. Paul Meyendorff traveled to Arad, Romania, to attend the 8th meeting of the International Working Group on Orthodox Theological Education. The group, which includes official representatives from most of the autocephalous Orthodox Churches, is tasked with assisting...

Very Rev. Dr. J. Sergius Halvorsen On October 9-11 a group of international scholars gathered at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, MA, for the Fall Conference of the Pappas Patristic Institute . The conference theme was "Patristic Preaching and its Reception," and I delivered a paper...

The Father Alexander Schmemann Professor of Liturgical Theology Dr. Paul Meyendorff traveled to Washington D.C. on October 23-25, 2014, to participate in the 87th meeting of the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation. For the past several years, the group has been working on issues of primacy and conciliarity. This meeting...

On November 5-9, 2014, Professor Paul Meyendorff traveled to Malta to participate in the 11th meeting of the St. Irenaeus Orthodox-Catholic Working Group. The group, an informal gathering of Orthodox and Catholic theologians, has been in existence since 2004, at a time when the official international Orthodox-Catholic dialogue was at...