I enjoyed Michelle Boorstein's piece of reporting on M.Div. students who aren't headed for parish ministry. She details how some seminarians seek to be ministers of a sort as part of their calling to other vocations; she also touches on the challenges of post-Christendom pastoring and the need for more flexible and affordable paths through seminary.
CCblogger Crystal St. Marie Lewis posits another thing that might keep some theologically progressive seminarians from going into ministry:
Professors spend countless hours training students to think outside the theological box, only for their ordination committees to demand that they put God (and their capacity for exploration) back inside the box. . . I have come to think of this as the Explore Now/Pay Later model.
