Seminary can be a lonely place, as I am beginning to discover at the outset of my third year as an MDIV.  Unlike (or who knows, perhaps a lot like) many seminaries, Harvard Divinity School consists primarily of students pursing the Masters in Theological Studies, a two year masters degree that prepares one to pursue doctoral studies most often.  It also means that the 30 or 40 MDIVs who enter will find themselves amidst a radically different crowd their third year compared to the class they started with.  In my experience, this means that as many as 70-80% of the faces that I knew my first two years are no longer with me, leaving me to wonder how it is possible that I might ever find a stable community of fellow journeyers on this theological journey known as MDIV.

OF course, this is merely a holding tank; seminary is not intended as the place you end up at, merely a means to a future end.  still… can’t help but wondering whether things might have been different somewhere else…