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Kenneth Schmidt's avatar

In Confessional Lutheranism (like the Missouri and Wisconsin Synods) married men are permitted to attend seminary, but a majority remain single during seminary and marry (quite often a lady religious schoolteacher) pretty soon after their first call to a congregation.

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Andrew Harris's avatar

One of the problems is that the modern seminary system doesn’t support men who are called to the ministry later in life. With a family to support, a man can’t, as is put forth here, drop everything to go study for several years. This also takes him out of his local church context which is where he should be doing the majority of his training anyways! We need another method of training pastors that can teach men later in life that accounts for their need to work but does so in later shop with their local church, not divorced from it. It needs to be affordable (see family to support) and with the knowledge that it will take men 5-6 years to complete their studies.

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