{"id":13764,"date":"2009-07-07T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/trace_haythorn_ian_markham_theology_suffers_a_funding_crisis\/"},"modified":"2009-07-07T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T22:00:00","slug":"trace_haythorn_ian_markham_theology_suffers_a_funding_crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13764","title":{"rendered":"Trace Haythorn, Ian Markham: Theology suffers a funding crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few statistics tell the story.<\/p>\n<p>A majority of seminary students now carry educational debt, and they\u2019re borrowing larger amounts than in the past. Graduates confirm that their debt affects their career choices, holds them back from purchasing homes, prevents them from saving for their children\u2019s education, limits their retirement savings, delays health care and creates distress.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Century magazine recently reported that \u201cchurches are paying their clergy proportionately lower salaries today then they did a generation ago, making it more difficult for ministerial candidates to justify the high cost of a graduate degree.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Fewer than 7 percent of clergy in most Protestant and Catholic denominations today are under age 35.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/services\/content\/printedition\/2009\/07\/05\/haythorned07051.html\">Read the whole piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few statistics tell the story. A majority of seminary students now carry educational debt, and they\u2019re borrowing larger amounts than in the past. Graduates confirm that their debt affects their career choices, holds them back from purchasing homes, prevents<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13764\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,42,66,363,360,435,154,184,417,167,441,34,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-lutheran","category-methodist","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-presbyterian","category-seminary-theological-education","category-stewardship","category-theology","category-united-church-of-christ"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}