Most seminary graduates have assumed that they will be able to support a family, accumulate assets and be able to retire without a drastic drop in living standards.
I value education in as much as it makes me more like Christ, but
most seminary graduates I have met act nothing like Christ.
Not exact matches
Some in the church tend to believe that the
seminary — at least «liberal» interdenominational
seminaries like ours — are, with horrendous results, hopelessly detached from the realities of the workaday world and — such is the mind of our
most bitter (and
most reactionary) critics — that our
graduates are rendered in fact maladroit if not downright incompetent by the very training designed to fit them for ministry.
Some — perhaps
most — of the
graduates from the new theological
seminaries are as conservative as the bishops or rectors who selected them for training, but theirs is not the only mind - set in the provincial dioceses.
Perhaps the
most famous of these — a college All - American, a professional defensive lineman, a
seminary graduate — was Bill Glass.
Women
graduates at Union
Seminary in Virginia,
most of whom are topnotch preachers and pastors, still have difficulty finding a call to a pulpit.
To
most effectively connect with
seminaries, AAAS partnered with the Association of Theological Schools, an accrediting association for
graduate schools that train clergy.