{"id":57296,"date":"2017-02-05T02:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T02:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/forming_priests_among_the_people_chicagos_episcopal_seminary_goes_all_in_on\/"},"modified":"2017-02-05T02:00:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T02:00:44","slug":"forming_priests_among_the_people_chicagos_episcopal_seminary_goes_all_in_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57296","title":{"rendered":"Forming priests among the people: Chicago&#39;s Episcopal seminary goes all in on field education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theological schools debate how much field education is the right amount and how to integrate practical experience into ministerial training. But what if field education were inseparable from M.Div. courses? And what if seminarians\u2019 primary classmates were the people in the congregations they serve during their three years of seminary?<\/p>\n<p>Bexley Seabury Seminary, an Episco\u00c2\u00adpal school based in Chicago, has such a model in mind as it relaunches its M.Div. degree program. \u201cAt every step,\u201d\u009d the school states, \u201cstudents will be challenged to connect the content of their academic work with insights and reflections drawn from their internship experience.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>KyungJa Oh, director of field education and formation, sees the advantages of keeping students rooted in the context of ministry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article\/forming-priests-among-people\">Read it all<\/a> from the Christian Century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theological schools debate how much field education is the right amount and how to integrate practical experience into ministerial training. But what if field education were inseparable from M.Div. courses? And what if seminarians\u2019 primary classmates were the people in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57296\">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":[36,48,39,66,435,184,108,167,34,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-seminary-theological-education","category-theology","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57296","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=57296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}