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As the newest recipient of the Virginia Theological Seminary’s Deans Cross award, Orangeburg artist Leo Twiggs is being recognized as an individual epitomizing the definition of being a servant leader.

A 200-year-old Episcopal seminary in Virginia has thrown a financial lifeline to a struggling Episcopalian school in New York City -- in part to head off a looming, critical shortage of clergy in the denomination.

With Covid-19, came a flood of new telehealth (virtual consulting) healthcare solutions, exposing more patients to its benefits and features...

[Episcopal News Service] General Theological Seminary in New York would affiliate with and effectively relinquish its governance to Virginia Theological Seminar

A MOVE to seek the admission of unbaptised persons to holy communion — sometimes called “open commun...

By Olivia Anderson | oanderson@alextimes.com When Frances Terrell was first approached about participating in a reparations program the Virginia Theological

The Virginia Theological Seminary started repaying descendants of the people who were forced to build the school and to those who worked at the school during Jim Crow..

Seminary Built on Slavery and Jim Crow Labor Has Begun Paying Reparations The Virginia Theological Seminary, in Alexandria, Va., in February began handing out cash payments to the descendants of Black Americans who labored there during the time of slavery and Jim Crow.Credit...Kenny Holston for The New York Times [ Race affects our lives in countless ways. To read more stories on race from The New York Times, .] One night in 1858, Carter Dowling, an enslaved Black man forced to work without pa...

Seminary built on slavery and Jim Crow labour has begun paying reparations

[ Race affects our lives in countless ways. To read more stories on race from The New York Times, .] One night in 1858, Carter Dowling, an enslaved Black man forced to work without pay at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Northern Virginia, made the brave decision to escape. He made it to Philadelphia, where he met the famed abolitionist William Still. He then continued north to Canada and, after the Civil War, returned to Washington, D.C., where he was able to open a bank account for his c...