Roger A. Ferlo

Professor Roger Ferlo joined Virginia Theological Seminary in 2004. He is currently Associate Dean and Director of the Institute for Christian Formation and Leadership, and professor of religion and culture.
A graduate of Colgate, where he now serves as a trustee, he completed his Ph.D. at Yale, focusing on the rhetoric of magic in the literature of the English Renaissance. He was for six years an assistant professor of English at Yale, where he received the Yale Faculty Prize for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching. He trained for the priesthood at the General Theological Seminary in New York City, and has served parishes in the dioceses of Georgia, Pittsburgh and New York, most recently for ten years as rector of the Church of St. Luke in the Fields in New York City.
While in New York, he was a trustee of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, dean of clergy for lower Manhattan, and was elected deputy to General Convention in 2003. He now serves as president of the Governing Board of the National Association of Episcopal Schools.
His wife, Anne Harlan, a book artist, is the librarian at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School in Washington, DC, and his daughter, Liz Harlan-Ferlo, is a published poet, and chaplain and religion teacher at Oregon Episcopal School in Portland.
An avid amateur cellist, Dr. Ferlo plays in the orchestra of St. Columba’s Episcopal Church in Washington, where he is a parishioner.
In Print
* Heaven (Seabury Books, 2007).
* Sensing God (Cowley Publications, 2001)
* Opening the Bible (Cowley Publications, 1997)
See Also
* Virginia Theological Seminary
* People associated with VTS
Links
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*VTS Web site

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