{"id":24351,"date":"2011-02-03T04:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T04:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/getreligion_on_seminaries_time_ignores_the_obvious\/"},"modified":"2011-02-03T04:00:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T04:00:02","slug":"getreligion_on_seminaries_time_ignores_the_obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24351","title":{"rendered":"GetReligion–On seminaries: Time ignores the obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, the key is that this is not a story about a trend in the Episcopal Church or even the world of oldline Protestantism. The heart of the story is a set of new statistics out from Association of Theological Schools, which, as Time tells us, includes more than 250 graduate schools in North America. The whole point is that gray-haired baby boomers are now the fastest growing niche in theological education….<\/p>\n

Also, it would help to know the overall numbers and demographics at General Theological Seminary \u201d\u201d a school which reported 202 students (134 full-time equivalents) in the same time frame as the Time report. Meanwhile, there were 108 students (62 FTE) up at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass.<\/p>\n

As a point of comparison, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth had 3,042 students (2,068 FTE) that year and, on the various campuses of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, there were 2,134 students (1,492 FTE)<\/p>\n

I was going to post this when Time made the etext available, since I first saw it in my paper subscription, but alas, it never occurred. In any event, read it all–KSH<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now, the key is that this is not a story about a trend in the Episcopal Church or even the world of oldline Protestantism. The heart of the story is a set of new statistics out from Association of Theological…<\/span><\/p>\n

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