A Surplus of Students for the Ministry

Recently one of the better known-religious magazines dealt with the question which forms the title of this editorial. I do not have the article at hand as I write this, but I recall that it made the point that some denominations are troubled by such a surplus and that in some cases there is even a glut of potential ministers. Statistical projections were made which pointed to the possibility in one of the major denominations that in process of time there might be a minister for every five or...