For us at Northern and involved in the DMin program the good reasons to do a D. Min: Get trained to lead my church into the new challenges of ministry in context. Get trained to be a leader/change agent resource for the churches around me geographically. Get trained to become a capable practicing contextual theologian [...]

This is from my friend and colleague at Northern Seminary, Greg Henson. SMcK intro: Seminary life is a reality that needs to be known. In this series of posts by Greg we will be exposed to some realities about seminary life, and this can both encourage some to attend seminary (you will not be alone [...]

From The Atlantic: Here’s what this graph does not say. It doesn’t say that college is guaranteed to get you a job, especially right out of school. It also doesn’t say that college drop-outs are destined to be unemployed. There are 150 million people working or trying to find work right now. That’s a lot of data [...]

From the NYTimes editorial: The charter school movement gained a foothold in American education two decades ago partly by asserting that independently run, publicly financed schools would outperform traditional public schools if they were exempted from onerous regulations. The charter advocates also promised that unlike traditional schools, which were allowed to fail without consequence, charter [...]

Here’s a bit of futurism by one who is only guessing about the future of seminary education and, while I don’t think this will occur just like the sketch below, I do foresee a day when something along this line will become a genuine, if not disastrous, option: At MOOC (massive open online course) Divinity [...]

From Cathy Davidson: OK, profs, what say you? There are at least four reasons why, now, a lot of attention is being paid to replacing profs with computer screens. (1)  Too many students worldwide want to go to college to be able to accommodate them all.  This is one of the valid and important reasons [...]

From John Tierney: Teachers: What’s the hardest element of grading for you? I know that some teachers actually enjoy grading. They say they find it interesting to see what their students have learned and how they’re doing. I admire that attitude. And it’s certainly true that there is the positive feeling that comes from the [...]

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In my first year back teaching seminary students (after 17 splendid years at North Park University teaching undergraduates), I’m returning to subjects I haven’t directly taught in years or not at all. Last Fall I taught Synoptic Gospels, which overlapped with most of my career of teaching and writing and preaching, but I also taught [...]