As another semester draws to a close, Seminary faculty, staff, and students, and also churches, have a bit more time to think about how best to deliver theological education and prepare students for the ministry. Here’s a collection of articles I’ve gathered over the past year that can hopefully provoke constructive conversations about the subject. I’m not saying that I agree with all the ideas discussed; simply that the ideas are worth discussing.
15 Things Seminary Couldn’t Teach Me
15 Things Seminary Teaches Me that My Busy Pastor(ate) Can’t
How Technology Is Revolutionizing Pastoral Training
The Big Thing Seminary Did Teach Me: I’ll Never Graduate from Learning
Why Don’t Schools Use The Most Effective Teaching Methods?
4 Reasons Why Maybe You Shouldn’t Choose a Seminary Church
Sage Advice: The Teacher as Pastor
People Are Going to Hell. Do I Really Need Seminary Training?
Strategies for minimizing plagiarism (essay)
Teaching Students the Importance of Professionalism
6 Reasons to Take Seminary Chapel Seriously
A Professor’s Prayer from Matthew 23
“The Life of the Professor” — My Talking Points for our New Faculty Workshop
How To Survive Graduate School
Syllabus Strategies for a Successful Semester – Seminary Survival Guide
Seminaries across the country are shutting down
Higher Calling, Lower Wages: The Vanishing of the Middle-Class Clergy
Why Go to Seminary? Here’s Ten Reasons
Jealous for His Time: The Wife of a Seminarian
This Year’s Reminder That the Lecture is Not Dead
The Lecture Lives. I Would Know — I’m a Professor
U Can’t Talk to Ur Professor Like This
The Future of Ministry, according to a Seminary President
Students learn more effectively from print textbooks than screens, study says
10 Things Teachers DID NOT Have to Deal With 10 Years Ago
More Or Less Technology In The Classroom? We’re Asking The Wrong Question