{"id":47705,"date":"2015-01-03T23:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T23:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/arda_older_seminarians_especially_minority_women_face_tough_job_market_with\/"},"modified":"2015-01-03T23:00:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T23:00:57","slug":"arda_older_seminarians_especially_minority_women_face_tough_job_market_with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47705","title":{"rendered":"(ARDA) Older seminarians, especially minority women, face tough job market with rising student debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The substantial increase in middle-aged Americans seeking second careers in the pulpit has been a godsend for seminaries faced with overall declines in enrollment and budget shortfalls.<\/p>\n<p>And for many pursuing a clerical career in their 40s and 50s, it is a dream come true, a chance to follow what they consider God\u2019s call and do meaningful work in their later years.<\/p>\n<p>But the realities of a shrinking clergy labor market, and seminary tuition costs outpacing inflation, leave some facing debts of $80,000 or more trying to find work in a relatively low-paying profession.<\/p>\n<p>The burden is falling particularly hard on prospective minority clergy with the fewest resources, analysts state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thearda.com\/trend\/featured\/older-seminarians-especially-minority-women-face-tough-job-market-with-rising-student-debt\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The substantial increase in middle-aged Americans seeking second careers in the pulpit has been a godsend for seminaries faced with overall declines in enrollment and budget shortfalls. And for many pursuing a clerical career in their 40s and 50s, it<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47705\">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":[48,39,40,149,597,435,184,108,167,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-seminary-theological-education","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47705","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=47705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}