bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Old Story on Luther Seminary - Posted Long Ago on ...":
Concordia Lutheran seminaries skyhigh tuition scandal (look in the comments section for plenty of related links):
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2011/09/lcms-seminary-cost-scandal-fabulous.html
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GJ - First of all, seminary education does not need to be four years after college, including that year of displacement called vicarage.
Vicarage was invented during the Great Depression to spread out graduation, because of the over-supply of parsons.
Many seminary courses waste time, often to employ the otherwise jobless drones - practical courses from pastoral wash-outs, contextual and multi-cultural courses to please the ELCA ministry partners (the fruit of that Snowbird leadership conference).
Yale recently decided to reduce the number of divinity students by 50%, but denominations do not want to face a herd of angry, sacred cows.
In the last few decades, all the Lutherans sects have chosen to fund their lavish salaries by making students borrow money. The loans continue forever while the officials force men out of the vocations they borrowed to enter.
No one seems to mind that their own people are left with $80,000 in loans while being unemployable. Missouri makes their men pay Yale rates for a mediocre degree that no one values. Yale MDivs often get executive jobs in charities or parachurch organizations. All my friends expressed shock that I accepted a congregational call, because I was an exception.
Seminary education should be almost free, not based on the earnings of wives and the loans of the husbands. It takes hardened hearts to grab six-figure salaries at headquarters while student borrow six figures for the chance to get a call in Steam Corners, Ohio or Bovine Flats, Kansas.
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