{"id":89770,"date":"2020-02-20T12:25:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T17:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89770"},"modified":"2020-02-20T07:31:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T12:31:57","slug":"atlantic-school-of-theology-being-ready-to-accept-the-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89770","title":{"rendered":"(The Coast) Atlantic School of Theology: Being Ready to Accept the Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Typically to be accepted into the Master of Divinity program at the Atlantic School of Theology, you must have an undergraduate degree; Dawn-Lea Greer was accepted with an equivalency.<\/p>\n<p>She worked with the AST faculty to submit a 300+ page portfolio of all of her work, courses she has taken and extensive volunteer experiences to be accepted into the program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought that I couldn&#8217;t make this program happen without an undergrad. With the encouragement from Rev. Susan MacAlpine-Gillis and Rev. David MacLachlan working with me to develop the portfolio, and to argue that I have an equivalency, made all the difference,&#8221; Dawn-Lea says. &#8220;Taking the time to comb through my achievements was validating, and when I was accepted, I rejoiced. Not all of us walk the same path, and that does not make one less or more of a candidate at AST. AST embraces students from all walks of life and many faiths.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dawn-Lea is now in her first year of the three-year full-time program, where she is also required to complete three years of formation (denominational formation), chapel and placement time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoast.ca\/halifax\/atlantic-school-of-theology-being-ready-to-accept-the-call\/Content?oid=23516641\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LifestyleCareerMindedSponsorContent?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LifestyleCareerMindedSponsorContent<\/a> Atlantic School of Theology: Being Ready to Accept the Call <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0FNFvjbZ5Z\">https:\/\/t.co\/0FNFvjbZ5Z<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GA5oXyiqcm\">https:\/\/t.co\/GA5oXyiqcm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RS7zpIs5lD\">pic.twitter.com\/RS7zpIs5lD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manfred Rosenberg (@4PawShop) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/4PawShop\/status\/1230358717540864001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typically to be accepted into the Master of Divinity program at the Atlantic School of Theology, you must have an undergraduate degree; Dawn-Lea Greer was accepted with an equivalency. She worked with the AST faculty to submit a 300+ page<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89770\">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":[388,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-seminary-theological-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89770","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=89770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89773,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89770\/revisions\/89773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}