Our nation is engulfed by an addiction crisis. A new study released in 2017 by the American Academy of Pediatrics showed that marijuana-related emergency visits by kids in Colorado have more than quadrupled since the state legalized marijuana for recreational use in 2014. A recent report from the U.S. Surgeon...

Protodeacon Gregory Hatrak fell asleep in the Lord the evening of July 1, 2017, at the age of 46. Protodeacon Gregory most recently served as Director of Marketing and Operations for St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press (SVS Press) and Bookstore . “We are most grieved by Pdn. Gregory’s sudden falling asleep...

Harrison Russin , lecturer in Liturgical Music here at St. Vladimir’s Seminary, and Mother Seraphim, choir director at The Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration in Ellwood City, PA, co-led a music workshop and retreat for young adults ages 18–29 at the monastery, June 23–25, 2017. Their weekend effort culminated in...

Save the date! [img_assist|nid=24066|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=250|height=360] Dr. Alice-Mary Talbot will present the fourth annual Father John Meyendorff Memorial Lecture on our campus, Friday, September 15, at 7 p.m. Dr. Talbot is the Director Emerita of Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, a prestigious research institute of Harvard University, located in Washington, D.C., and is also Editor of the Byzantine Greek series, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library.

Grab a bag of popcorn: it’s movie night on our campus, Sunday, September 24, 7 o’clock. We’ll be screening Becoming Truly Human , a fascinating documentary that explores the rise of the “Nones,” i.e., those who check “none of the above” on religion surveys. [img_assist|nid=24096|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=450]Multiple research groups report that the number of Nones had risen from roughly 6% of the U.S. population in the 1990s to 25% as of 2015. However, little research existed on this growing demographic—until now.

The Very Reverend Dr. John Behr, The Father Georges Florovsky Distinguished Professorship of Patristics here at St. Vladimir’s Seminary, will be receiving the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from St. Athanasius College-University of Divinity , in Melbourne, Australia, in August 2017. The Chancellor of the University of Divinity, His...

There’s a saying: "A Bachelor’s degree holder is a consumer of knowledge; a Master’s degree holder is a user of knowledge; and a Doctoral degree holder is a contributor of knowledge." Our Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) Program students, who recently gathered for their on-campus intensive July 16–22, evinced the truth...

Our annual Missions Weekend will feature two fascinating speakers this year, especially in light of world events—one from South Korea , and one from Albania . A campus student-interest group, the St. Innocent Society, is sponsoring the presentations. [img_assist|nid=24156|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=450]SOUTH KOREA

[img_assist|nid=24181|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=450]Archpriest John H. Erickson , our former Dean and the Peter N. Gramowich Professor of Church History Emeritus, will be “coming home” to our campus on Friday, October 27, to deliver the 2017 Annual Florovsky Lecture. The lecture, which honors another former Dean of our seminary, Archpriest Georges Florovsky , is being sponsored by The Orthodox Theological Society of America (OTSA) , which will be meeting on our campus October 26–28.

A major benefactor of our seminary, John G. Rangos, Sr .—after whom the “John G. Rangos Family Building” on our campus is named—was recently honored by Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. On Thursday evening, July 27, 2017, the University’s “John G. Rangos, Sr. School of Health Sciences,” along with university President...