Office of Vocation and Ministry

The OVM is mourning the recent loss of our dear coworker, Sonia Daly Belcher, wife of OVM Assistant Director Dn. Nicholas Belcher, who fell asleep in the Lord on her 32nd birthday, February 20, 2008.

The work of the Office of Vocation and Ministry and the CrossRoad program would simply not be what it is without the vision and love of Sonia.  Sonia was on the initial planning committe for the Lilly Endowment grant to Hellenic College, and was pivotal in the hiring of Ann Bezzerides as director.  Two years later her soon-to-be husband Nick came on board as the dynamic Assistant Director.  So many CrossRoaders, OCF, and Hellenic College students have had their lives touched by Dn. Nick, and all of his work is infused with Sonia's love and support-of him, of his ministry, and for all the students.  This Sunday he and Sonia were going to host, as they have done every month for the last year and a half, the "OVM RoundTable"--an incre ...

Andrea Sterk, Ph.D., will speak on, "Faith and Learning in Higher Education: Historical Reflections for Orthodox Scholars Today" at the upcoming conference, June 12-13, 2008, in Chicago, The Orthodox Scholar in the Academy: Does it Matter? Should it Matter?

Professor Sterk is Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida. She teaches courses on Late Antiquity, ancient and medieval Christianity, the ancient world, and Byzantine civilization. Her primary research has focused on religious history in Late Antiquity and Byzantium. Her recent books include Renouncing the World Yet Leading the Church. The Monk-Bishop in Late Antiquity (Harvard University Press, 2004) and a co-edited reader of primary source texts, Readings in World Christian History. Earliest Christianity to 1453 (Orbis, 2004). She edited and authored the preface of Religion, Scholarship, and Higher Education. Perspectives, Model ...