Voices From St Vladimir’s Seminary

Start date: June 2008 2229 minutes, 41 seconds in 60 episodes

Presenting engaging conversation with leaders and students on contemporary issues of importance in the Orthodox Church

Archpriest Chad Hatfield is the Chancellor of St Vladimir’s Seminary. He came to St Vladimir’s from St. Herman Seminary in Kodiak, Alaska, where he served with great distinction as Dean since 2002. Fr Hatfield holds a Doctor of Ministry from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He received his Master of Divinity in 1978 and Master of Sacred Theology in 1988 from Nashotah House Seminary in Wisconsin. Ordained as Priest by Bishop Basil (Essey) of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America in 1994, he is Vice President of the Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC) Board, Co-Chair of the OCA Department of Evangelization, and member of the OCA Board of Theological Education, the Editorial Advisory Board for Christian Bioethics journal and the Kodiak College Advisory Council

St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary seeks to serve the Orthodox Church through theological education and scholarship. It educates future priests and church leaders and contributes directly to Orthodox theology through the scholarly activities of its faculty.

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Date	Title & Description	Duration
May 24, 2013	Chancellor Addresses Poverty Conference at SVOTS Fr. Chad Hatfield, Chancellor and CEO of St. Vladimir's Seminary, explains the reasoning behind the school's upcoming conference on poverty. Click to play	10:21
May 22, 2013	Commencement 2013 The Rev. Dr. Sarah Fogg, Director of Pastoral Care at St. John's Riverside Hospital in Yonkers, New York, delivers the commencement address to the SVOTS Class of 2013. Click to play	33:51
Apr 10, 2013	Mary, Mysteries, and Mission: Part Four At the annual Lenten Retreat for SVOTS Seminarians, Fr. Chad Hatfield, the Chancellor of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, discusses three assured paths to spiritual renewal as we participate in the Great Fast: Mary and the Incarnation, the Mysteries of Baptism and the Eucharist, and our vocation to Mission. This is part four of four presentations. Click to play	25:48
Apr 03, 2013	Mary, Mysteries, and Mission: Part Three At the annual Lenten Retreat for SVOTS Seminarians, Fr. Chad Hatfield, the Chancellor of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, discusses three assured paths to spiritual renewal as we participate in the Great Fast: Mary and the Incarnation, the Mysteries of Baptism and the Eucharist, and our vocation to Mission. This is part three of four presentations. Click to play	24:51
Mar 26, 2013	Mary, Mysteries, and Mission: Part Two At the annual Lenten Retreat for SVOTS Seminarians, Fr. Chad Hatfield, the Chancellor of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, discusses three assured paths to spiritual renewal as we participate in the Great Fast: Mary and the Incarnation, the Mysteries of Baptism and the Eucharist, and our vocation to Mission. This is part two of four presentations. Click to play	28:19
Mar 21, 2013	Mary, Mysteries, and Mission At the annual Lenten Retreat for SVOTS Seminarians, Fr. Chad Hatfield, the Chancellor of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, discusses three assured paths to spiritual renewal as we participate in the Great Fast: Mary and the Incarnation, the Mysteries of Baptism and the Eucharist, and our vocation to Mission. This is part one of four forthcoming presentations. Click to play	29:04
Jan 24, 2013	Constantine, Eusebius, and the Future of Christianity Princeton University's Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Emeritus Dr. Peter Brown presented the 30th Annual Father Alexander Schmemann Memorial Lecture to a standing room only crowd in the Metropolitan Philip Auditorium of the John G. Rangos Family Building at St. Vladimir's Seminary. Click to play	59:03
Dec 10, 2012	St. Ambrose Society Ian Jones, a graduate of St. Vladimir's Seminary and a doctoral candidate at Fordham University, speaks to the St. Ambrose Society, the pro-life group at St. Vlad's, following a screening of the film It's a Girl, which is about sex-selection abortion. Click to play	20:34
Oct 10, 2012	J. R. R. Tolkien Dr. Christopher Mitchell, director of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College, which houses a major research collection by and about seven British authors, including J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, speaks on Tolkien at the 2012 Orthodox Education Day. Click to play	45:51
Oct 10, 2012	C. S. Lewis Fr. Andrew Cuneo, the first Oxford University scholar ever to receive a doctoral degree on C .S. Lewis, and currently the founding priest of St. Katherine of Alexandria Orthodox Mission in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, speaks about Christian themes in C.S. Lewis at the 2012 Orthodox Education Day.	47:12
Sep 25, 2012	Reading the Fathers Today The Very Rev. Dr. John Behr, Dean of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, delivers the annual Father Georges Florovsky Lecture, Friday, September 21, 2012, on the seminary campus. Father John's presentation, titled "Reading the Fathers Today," addresses the meaning of theology and its study within an academic context.	49:06
Apr 11, 2012	Great Lent: Gift of God in Christ: Part 4 Touching upon all the gifts that the season of Great Lent offers for spiritual growth, Fr. John Behr, Dean of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, delivers four reflections on the emergence of life through suffering, brokenness, and death. With astute attention to the teachings of Scripture and the Fathers, Fr. John centers on the necessity of dying for true life in Christ—life eternal—to emerge.	25:34
Mar 28, 2012	Great Lent: Gift of God in Christ: Part 3 Touching upon all the gifts that the season of Great Lent offers for spiritual growth, Fr. John Behr, Dean of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, delivers four reflections on the emergence of life through suffering, brokenness, and death. With astute attention to the teachings of Scripture and the Fathers, Fr. John centers on the necessity of dying for true life in Christ—life eternal—to emerge.	21:14
Mar 14, 2012	Great Lent: Gift of God in Christ: Part 2 Touching upon all the gifts that the season of Great Lent offers for spiritual growth, Fr. John Behr, Dean of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, delivers four reflections on the emergence of life through suffering, brokenness, and death. With astute attention to the teachings of Scripture and the Fathers, Fr. John centers on the necessity of dying for true life in Christ—life eternal—to emerge.	25:39
Feb 29, 2012	Great Lent: Gift of God in Christ: Part 1 Touching upon all the gifts that the season of Great Lent offers for spiritual growth, Fr. John Behr, Dean of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, delivers four reflections on the emergence of life through suffering, brokenness, and death. With astute attention to the teachings of Scripture and the Fathers, Fr. John centers on the necessity of dying for true life in Christ—life eternal—to emerge.	16:29
Feb 15, 2012	Realities of Life in Orthodox Christian Mission Churches Fr. John Parker, the new chairman of the OCA's Department of Evangelization, describes how his parish, Holy Ascension Orthodox Church in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, went from having a handful of believers to being a lively and growing body of Christ.	91:24
Jan 31, 2012	Our Great High Priest: The Church Is the New Temple Dr. Margaret Barker, an independent scholar who has developed an approach to biblical studies now known as "Temple Theology," delivers the Fr. Alexander Schmemann Memorial Lecture at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary.	64:12
Nov 22, 2011	Meeting the Crucified Christ in Sierra Leone There is no "Missionary's Handbook" for post-war countries such as Sierra Leone. But Orthodox Christian missionary Fr. Themi (Adamopoulo) is writing one from scratch as he meets the challenge of spreading the Good News in West Africa.	112:25
Oct 19, 2011	Listen, Witness, and Weep: What Can the Church Offer Service Men and Women? Dr. Stephen Muse speaks at the St. Vladimir’s Seminary 2011 Orthodox Education Day.	52:27
Oct 05, 2011	Orthodox Perspectives on Peace, War, and Violence The Very Rev. Dr. Philip LeMasters speaks at the St. Vladimir’s Seminary 2011 Orthodox Education Day.	52:02
Aug 30, 2011	Life in the Ranks of the Clergy Fr. Chad Hatfield, Chancellor of St. Vladimir's Seminary, speaks at the school's Diaconal Formation Workshop.	68:32
Aug 18, 2011	Women Disciples of the Lord: Part Five Orthodox author, speaker, and AFR podcast host Frederica Mathewes-Green delivers a speech titled "Confessions of a Freelance Writer: Discerning God's Will in an Unpredictable Vocation."	54:20
Aug 04, 2011	Women Disciples of the Lord: Part Four Dr. Mary Ford, Assistant Professor of New Testament at St. Tikhon's Orthodox Seminary, delivers a speech titled "Light from the Past on Vocations Today."	48:13
Jul 18, 2011	Women Disciples of the Lord: Part Three Dr. Kyriaki Karidoyanes Fitzgerald, an Orthodox theologian, pastoral counselor, and licensed psychologist, delivers a speech titled "Eve, Mary, and Us."	45:58
Jul 06, 2011	Women Disciples of the Lord: Part Two Mat. Juliana Schmemann, the widow of Fr. Alexander Schmemann, former dean of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, delivers a speech via video titled "The Joy to Serve."	37:31
Jun 22, 2011	Women Disciples of the Lord: Part One From June 17-19, 2011, St. Vladimir's Seminary hosted a conference titled "Women Disciples of the Lord." The conference lectures will be posted here in biweekly installments. First up is the keynote address delivered by the Very Rev. Dr. John Behr, Dean of St. Vladimir's Seminary. The title is "Male and Female He Created Them."	105:41
May 27, 2011	2011 Commencement Address Professor David Drillock delivers the 2011 commencement address. Professor Drillock was the first to receive an honorary Doctor of Music degree from St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary.	33:08
Apr 18, 2011	How New Life Appears (Isaiah) Fr. Harry Pappas, priest at Archangel Orthodox Church in Stanford, Connecticut, and an adjunct professor at St. Vladimir's, leads the seminary's second annual Public Lenten Retreat. Titled "Back to Basics: Old Testament and Life," his presentation is divided into three parts, the third of which, "How New Life Appears," can be heard here.	44:26
Apr 11, 2011	How Life Works (Proverbs) Fr. Harry Pappas, priest at Archangel Orthodox Church in Stanford, Connecticut, and an adjunct professor at St. Vladimir's, leads the seminary's second annual Public Lenten Retreat. Titled "Back to Basics: Old Testament and Life," his presentation is divided into three parts, the second of which, "How Life Works," can be heard here.	51:59
Apr 05, 2011	How Life Begins (Genesis) Fr. Harry Pappas, priest at Archangel Orthodox Church in Stanford, Connecticut, and an adjunct professor at St. Vladimir's, leads the seminary's second annual Public Lenten Retreat. Titled "Back to Basics: Old Testament and Life," his presentation is divided into three parts, the first of which, "How Life Begins," can be heard here.	67:45
Mar 29, 2011	Eucharistic Living This is the fourth of four Lenten meditations delivered by Archpriest Chad Hatfield at the seminary's annual Pure Week retreat.	17:39
Mar 22, 2011	Extending the Kingdom This is the third of four Lenten meditations delivered by Archpriest Chad Hatfield at the seminary's annual Pure Week retreat.	17:31
Mar 15, 2011	Life in the Kingdom This is the second of four Lenten meditations delivered by Archpriest Chad Hatfield at the seminary's annual Pure Week retreat.	18:37
Mar 08, 2011	Conversion of the Heart This is the first of four Lenten meditations delivered by Archpriest Chad Hatfield at the seminary's annual Pure Week retreat.	19:52
Mar 01, 2011	Honorary Doctorate for Metropolitan Krystof St. Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary confers an honorary doctorate on Metropolitan Krystof, primate of the Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands and Slovakia, at an Academic Convocation (February 28, 2011).	54:49
Oct 12, 2010	Musical Instruments of the Bible Dr. Yelena Kolyada speaks at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary on "Musical Instruments of the Bible."	69:03
Oct 04, 2010	Many Cultures - One Faith Archpriest Michael Oleksa speaks on Orthodox cultures at Orthodox Education Day at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary.	58:29
Sep 15, 2010	The Causal Principle of Freedom Professor Christos Yannaras addresses St. Vladimir's Seminary upon receiving an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree.	34:28
Sep 15, 2010	Honorary Doctorate for Professor Christos Yannaras St. Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary confers an honorary doctorate on Christos Yannaras at its 2010 Fall Academic Convocation.	14:42
Sep 03, 2010	St. Vladimir’s Seminary Bookstore Fr. Chad interviews Greg Hatrak, the new bookstore manager at St. Vladimir's Seminary, about some exciting new developments in the school's publishing division.	16:35
Feb 17, 2010	The Manhattan Declaration Fr. Chad discusses The Manhattan Declaration, "a call of Christian conscience" that he helped produce, and defends Orthodox participation in such cultural manifestos.	21:35
Jul 07, 2009	Mother Raphaela - Part Two This special episode features part two of the commencement address of Mother Raphael, the Abbess of the Monastery of the Holy Myrrhbearers, to the graduates of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary.	14:05
Jun 04, 2009	Mother Raphaela - Part One This special episode features part one of the commencement address of Mother Raphael, the Abbess of the Monastery of the Holy Myrrhbearers, to the graduates of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary.	15:21
May 09, 2009	The Good and Faithful Parish Fr. Atty concludes his three-part lecture, talking about the Good and Faithful Parish.	36:35
May 03, 2009	The Good and Faithful Parishioner Fr. Alexander Atty continues his three-part lecture at the 2009 Lenten Retreat at St. Vladimir's. Today he addresses the Good and Faithful Parishioner.	31:01
Apr 24, 2009	The Good and Faithful Priest - Part 3 Fr. Alexander Atty concludes his lecture on the Good and Faithful Priest. Next week he will begin talking about the Good and Faithful Parishioner.	26:19
Apr 17, 2009	The Good and Faithful Priest - Part 2 Fr. Alexander Atty continues his talk on the Good and Faithful Priest, a presentation given at the 2009 Lenten Retreat at St. Vladimir's.	34:33
Apr 09, 2009	The Good and Faithful Priest - Part 1 Over the next several weeks, Fr. Chad will present a lecture series given by Fr. Alexander Atty on the campus of St. Vladimir's during the annual Lenten Retreat. Fr. Alexander is priest at St. Michael's Antiochian Orthodox Church in Louisville, KY. He will be speaking on the Good and Faithful Priest, Parishioner, and Parish.	29:39
Mar 12, 2009	The American Martyrs Fr Chad Hatfield speaks on the American Martyrs for the True Faith during a Lenten Retreat at St George, Houston, titled: "Life's Lessons from the Alaskan Saints."	20:55
Jan 01, 2009	St. Vladimir’s Seminary 2008 Report In this podcast, the Chancellor of the Seminary, Fr. Chad Hatfield talks about the year just completed, the financial picture and some myths that need to be dispelled.	24:22
Nov 26, 2008	Treasure in Romanian Orthodoxy Fr. Chad talks with visiting Romanian theologian Mihail Neamtu about the future of Orthodoxy in America, the treasures of Romanian Orthodoxy and the effects of communism in Eastern Europe. At the end, Fr. Chad recommended the following book: Bearers of the Spirit: Spiritual Fatherhood in Romanian Orthodoxy	19:21
Nov 07, 2008	New Eve, New Passover, New Life - Part 4 Here is the 4th and final part of this series delivered at St. Mark's in Denver.	23:15
Oct 17, 2008	New Eve, New Passover, New Life - Part 3 Fr. Chad begins his second lecture but our 3rd part of his talks at St. Mark's in Denver. St. Mark's is a Western Rite parish in the Antiochian Archdiocese.	20:33
Oct 03, 2008	New Eve, New Passover, New Life - Part 2 At a recent retreat in Denver, Fr. Chad gave 2 timely lectures coinciding with recent feasts of the Nativity of the Theotokos and the Exultation of the Precious and Life Giving Cross. We have broken it up into 4 podcasts and here is part 2.	28:55
Sep 19, 2008	New Eve, New Passover, New Life At a recent retreat in Denver, Fr. Chad gave 2 timely lectures coinciding with recent feasts of the Nativity of the Theotokos and the Exultation of the Precious and Life Giving Cross. We have broken it up into 4 podcasts and here is part 1.	27:49
Aug 25, 2008	Meet The New Director Of Liturgical Music! Fr. Chad Hatfield introduces us to Alla Generalow, the new Director of Liturgical Music at St. Vladimir's.	28:48
Aug 12, 2008	Revitalizing Our Priestly Ministry in a Post Christian Culture - Part 3 Here is the 3rd and final part of Fr. Chad's address to the Serbian Clergy about how we should look at the ministry of the priesthood in today's society.	29:42
Jul 30, 2008	Revitalizing Our Priestly Ministry in a Post Christian Culture - Part 2 Today we bring you part 2 of Fr. Chad Hatfield's talk at the Serbian Clergy Brotherhood in June on the challenges facing our priests in today's culture.	25:10
Jul 16, 2008	Revitalizing Our Priestly Ministry in a Post Christian Culture - Part 1 Fr. Chad spoke to the Serbian Clergy Brotherhood last month on the challenges facing our priests in today's culture. We have broken it up into 3 parts and bring you part 1 today.	29:59
Jun 28, 2008	A Conversation With Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev In this debut episode, Fr. Chad has a fascinating discussion with Bishop Hilarion about ecumenical dialogs between Anglicans, Catholics and Orthodox.	27:00

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