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| The two full-timer faculty at Bethany are Gaylin Schmeling and his son Timothy. |
I noticed that Michael Smith accepted the call to the Asian Mini-Seminary. The most recent move there was Matt Doebler, to make room for Ski getting an insta-call to Patterson's district.
Smith is the son of Kincaid Smith, DMin in Church Growth from Concordia, Ft. Wayne, during Robert Preus' UOJ years there.
Michael Smith has an PhD from Trinity in Indiana, a Babtist, unaccredited online school. "We are not affiliated (accredited) with any regional or national accrediting agency..."
Here is the Trinity catalog PDF.
Tuition is very low at Trinity.
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| In WELS/ELS, it is not who you are, but who you say you are. |
Wiki on Trinity, which seems to be mostly online, with plenty of faculty holding sub-par degrees from Trinity and Grace. I give Trinity credit for keeping tuition way down.
After all these years, WELS/ELS has forgotten that college graduates teach high school. People with graduate degrees teach college. Scholars teach PhD students, and DMins are not doctoral degrees. Fakey fakey Church Growth hucksters get DMins because they are too dumb to get real PhDs. But the DMins wear doctoral robes and insist on being called "Dr. Olson" and "Dr. Kelm" and "Dr. Parlow" and "Dr. Krause."
I propose that DMins be addressed as Dimms. "I have a question, Dimm Olson." Or, "We are honored to have as our guest plagiarizer today, Dimm Parlow. He has preached sermons from all over the Internet."
The Little Sect on the Prairie hit rock bottom when they hired John Moldstad to be the New Testament professor, without him bothering to finish college. That mean his suffering students were more qualified to teach, since a college degree was required, than their seminary professor - soon to be Pope John the Malefactor.
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| In other news, Jay Webber's ELCA online seminary is accredited. (Ukraine cat) |
