{"id":2671,"date":"2011-10-25T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/10\/the-changing-seminary-landscape-an-interview-with-daniel-aleshire.html"},"modified":"2011-10-25T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:53:00","slug":"the-changing-seminary-landscape-an-interview-with-daniel-aleshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/10\/the-changing-seminary-landscape-an-interview-with-daniel-aleshire.html","title":{"rendered":"The Changing Seminary Landscape: An Interview with Daniel Aleshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #222222;font-family: georgia;font-size: 15px;line-height: 15px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;font-family: inherit;font-size: 15px;font-style: inherit;line-height: 1.4em;padding-bottom: 1em;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ats.edu\/Contact\/Pages\/bios.aspx?id=1\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;color: #0f5d9a;font-family: georgia;font-size: 15px;font-style: inherit;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Dan Aleshire<\/a>\u00a0is the Executive Director of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ats.edu\/Pages\/default.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;color: #0f5d9a;font-family: georgia;font-size: 15px;font-style: inherit;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">The Association of Theological Schools<\/a>. ATS is a membership organization of more than\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ats.edu\/MemberSchools\/Pages\/denom.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;color: #0f5d9a;font-family: georgia;font-size: 15px;font-style: inherit;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">260 graduate schools<\/a>\u00a0in the United States and Canada that conduct post-baccalaureate professional and academic degree programs to educate persons for the practice of ministry and for teaching and research in the theological disciplines. The Commission on Accrediting of ATS accredits the schools, approves the degree programs they offer, gathers strategic information from the schools, and explores critical issues in theological education. Of the 260 schools, they represent a diverse constituency including mainline Protestant, evangelical (including several <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/pentecostal' target='_blank'>Pentecostal<\/a> schools), and Catholic and Orthodox.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;font-family: inherit;font-size: 15px;font-style: inherit;line-height: 1.4em;padding-bottom: 1em;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/About-Patheos\/Robert-Crosby.html\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;color: #0f5d9a;font-family: georgia;font-size: 15px;font-style: inherit;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Crosby<\/a>, a Patheos columnist (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/About-Patheos\/Robert-Crosby.html\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;color: #0f5d9a;font-family: georgia;font-size: 15px;font-style: inherit;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Catch the Current<\/a>) and Professor of Practical Theology at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seu.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;color: #0f5d9a;font-family: georgia;font-size: 15px;font-style: inherit;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Southeastern University<\/a>\u00a0had the opportunity recently to interview Daniel Aleshire, Executive Director of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ats.edu\/Pages\/default.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;color: #0f5d9a;font-family: georgia;font-size: 15px;font-style: inherit;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">The Association of Theological Schools<\/a>, on \u201cThe Future of the Seminary.\u201d Patheos is delighted to add his thoughts and observations to the dialog of this online symposium.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;font-family: inherit;font-size: 15px;font-style: inherit;line-height: 1.4em;padding-bottom: 1em;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/Resources\/Additional-Resources\/Changing-Seminary-Landscape-Robert-Crosby-10-17-2011.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Aleshire\u00a0is the Executive Director of\u00a0The Association of Theological Schools. ATS is a membership organization of more than\u00a0260 graduate schools\u00a0in the United States and Canada that conduct post-baccalaureate professional and academic degree programs to educate persons for the practice of ministry and for teaching and research in the theological disciplines. 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