Thoughtful, Engaged & Generous Leadership Award
The Vancouver School of Theology is delighted to announce the details of a significant new leadership award. The VST Principal’s T-E-G Award (thoughtful, engaged and generous) is a distinguished award for leading practitioners in the Christian faith to be nominated ...
What are Humans For? Community and Vocation
If you got baptised in the first centuries of the church, you would have a short dialogue with the minister. He’d ask you a series of questions: “Do you believe in God?” and you would say, “I believe in God ...
Does Biblical Interpretation Have a Prayer?
by Richard Topping We do not truly appreciate either the light which the church receives from the Bible, or the darkness which enshrouds it from the same, until we recognize in both, beyond all human effort and human refusal which ...
Reflections on the Reformation
Canadian Bruce Gordon, Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History, offers some important thoughts around the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. He writes “Reformation principals of a radical challenge to authorities, the questioning of established doctrines, and adherence to the Word ...
“When Injustice Becomes Law – Resistance Becomes Duty”
VST welcomed Professor Martin Rumscheidt as guest speaker for our annual summer lecture series on Monday, July 3rd. Professor Rumscheidt has been part of our summer school faculty this year, teaching a course entitled “Government Oppression and Ecclesial Resistance”. “When ...
Principal’s 2017 Address to Convocation
Welcome to the 46th annual convocation of the Vancouver School of Theology. Chancellor Clarke, Chair of the Board, Michael Fr ...
Principal’s Address to Convocation
Chancellor Clarke, Board members, alumni, faculty, friends, colleagues from our neighbouring colleges, honoured guests and gr ...
Introducing our 2016 Convocation Keynote Speaker
The following article has been written by The Reverend Dr. Jason Byassee, inaugural Butler Chair of Homiletics and Biblical H ...
Remarks at Opening of VST Building, November 14, 2015
It is outstanding to be the Principal of a school that has its own address. We are in our new building, and we are glad. Our ...
Dying to Lead
Principal Richard Topping was the preacher on Sunday August 9, 2015 at Fairview Presbyterian Church, Vancouver, on the occasi ...