Sustaining Vocations

I write as a Catholic theologian employed in a United Methodist seminary nestled within a major research university. Though the landscape of Protestant theological education is shifting as rapidly and radically as the Catholic one, I have enjoyed what often feels, by present standards, like an astonishing level of institutional security. But none of us is immune to current trends in the academy, and we should not acquiesce to the neoliberal logic that merely separates the lucky from the unlucky and entreats the former to put their heads down and get back to work.