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I’ve finally done it. <\/em>Applied to go back to school, and today was accepted at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary<\/a>. Am looking at getting an M.Div. of Christian Ministry. Now with the application and all that entails out of the way, can focus on registering (and paying) for classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll be starting off slow. Still have my job and three kids in the house, one of whom is not far from college herself. And not sure how the “all online” will really work out. Not planning on moving to Kentucky any time soon. Guess that everyone is doing things online right now anyway, what with Covid and all. Anyway, if I’m going to be reading, might as well read for “credit”… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thinking about starting with Elementary Hebrew and\/or Elementary Greek, which are both remedial\/prerequisites anyway. My self-taught Greek probably couldn’t get me excused from taking a formal class, my Hebrew even less likely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a working guy having been out of school for a while now, I found this post<\/a> pretty thoughtful. Worked through most of those thoughts getting to this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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