Beginning seminary

[KingsGambit]

Interesting. Whad does it say are some of the 'wrong reasons'? Personally, I entered ministry, celibate religious and then seminary for some of the wrong reasons. I was too young, right out of college, and trying to find an instant idealized identify for myself without yet facing some of the difficult personal questions and challenges that are part of becoming an adult. I loved it, was happy for years, grew a lot personally, but eventually realized that I had short circuited some important identify issues pertaining to personal freedom, marriage and children. For me, as a Catholic, it was a much more complicated issue than it would be for a Baptist, where celibacy, marriage and family are not at issue.

The author of the article mentioned the idea of simply planning to go as something one had planned to do since childhood, and she also mentioned the case of somebody who enrolled as a means to deal with the grief of losing his father, who was hit by a car while in seminary. Both she and my professor also mentioned wrong motivations for going, especially simply seeing seminary as a means to an end or as a place where one learns all the answers or all the tools of the trade for any conceivable situation on the job.

To be completely honest, it's difficult not seeing it at least as part of a process with a vocational goal in mind, because I do have a family to take care of, but the professor emphasized that we should view seminary as a means of personal development.

[Kind Debater]

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