Read an article about the influence of leaders and educators on churches and their members from the September/October 2011 issue of Sojourners.

Read an Aug. 11, 2011, Associated Baptist Press article in The Baptist Standard about ways that seminaries are adapting to the nation’s changing religious landscape.

Read a May 31, 2011, article in The Jewish Week about female graduates of  Jewish Theological Seminary struggling to find pulpit positions.

Read a Feb. 6, 2011, article in TIME Magazine about the growing number of baby boomers enrolling in theological schools.

Read a June 9, 2010, IslamToday article about Claremont School of Theology’s decision to add clerical training for Muslims and Jews, making the Methodist-affiliated institution  “the first truly multi-faith American seminary.”

Read a Dec. 12, 2010, Huffington Post blog item about a desire for Islamic seminaries in the United States and about non-Muslim seminaries reaching out to Muslims.

Read an April 23, 2010, article in Christianity Today about the growth of church enrollment due to convenience brought by the internet.

Paul Robert Sauer is associate editor of the journal Lutheran Forum in Delhi, N.Y., which covers both the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America denominations. In the summer 2009 issue, he called for closing one of the LCMS’ two seminaries because they had grown too similar to each other, and because of a decline in […]

Larry Golemon is executive director of the Washington Theological Consortium, an organization of 17 seminaries in the Washington, D.C., area.