bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "What PBS Does Not Know about Higher Education Woul...":
"A denomination's seminary teaches people to be loyal to the organization and to play the political game."
So true! On the vicarage evaluation form that the "bishop" and church elders fill out, one of the questions is whether the vicar seemed thankful for the LCMS. So the vicar is supposed be grateful for the opportunity to pay $18 grand per year to the Concordia U system and seminary, and go into credit card debt while on vicarage on top of it all.
The synodical schools now have psych and ministry style evaluations before a person can go in the ministry. They really only want people with CWS (Celebrity Worship Syndrome). If you are hip on Walther or Hoenecke or Sigmund Becker and their pet doctrines, or the latest fad and its guru, you'll go far. It's no longer about being a pastor, but rather about being sold on the synod, and selling the synod to others, like an Amway salesman.
On another note, when state schools offer online business degrees via the internet, many of them ALSO charge four to five times as much as their regular on-site in-state tuition fee. The online student pays for the convenience, and the the online student avoids other fees, and having to pay for parking and gas for the commute. The state school can charge that much because other online schools do. So the price tag for Phoenix U and GCU is not as exceptional as they imply.
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/312088/celebrity_worship_syndrome_do_you_have.html?cat=4
There some statistics out there that show as much as a third of the world's population is afflicted by celebrity worship syndrome. Through studies such as those performed by McCutcheon and Houran a small list symptoms has emerged.
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GJ - Sow Enthusiasm, reap Enthusiasm.
Has Pastor Tim Glende warned Ski
not to plagiarize from Groeschel?
