The importance of a 'learned ministry'

With the recent relocation of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) to Canada from Chicagoland, there have been many conversations spurred about the future of seminary training and theological education for ministry.

Anecdotally, there are reports of students increasingly finding the financial burden of a full-time on campus M.Div. seminary education exorbitant.

Institutions, like Southern Theological Seminary, that have very significant denominational financial backing are able to offer more incentives. But non-denominational, or multi-denominational, seminaries like TEDS have evidently found it harder to attract the kind of enrolment that is sustainable.