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.
During St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary's 75th Anniversary gala celebration on November 7, 2013, seminary leaders made several noteworthy announcements,
The Fr. Alexander Schmemann Professor of Liturgical Theology Dr. Paul Meyendorff recently journeyed to Busan, Korea to attend the 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) as a representative of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). The Assembly is the highest governing body of the WCC, convening every...
Seminary Chancellor/CEO The Very Rev. Dr. Chad Hatfield recently attended the blessing of the new lakeside home and property–San Miguel del Lago–for Guatemala's Hogar Rafael Ayau Orphanage , Holy Trinity Church, and Holy Trinity Monastery. Mayor Álvaro Arzú of Guatemala City, Russian ambassador to Guatemala Mr. Nikolay Yevguénievich Bábich, and...
[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 .
A mission specialist in Linguistics and Translation for the Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC) , Dr. Michael Colburn recently visited St. Vladimir's to offer a talk about his work
Seminary, directed by Hierodeacon Herman (Majkrzak), and the Schola from St. Joseph's Seminary (Dunwoodie) of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, led by Director of Music Dr. Jennifer Pascual. The two theological schools, representing their respective church traditions, received two standing ovations from more than four hundred concert–goers at...
[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.
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