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10 Ordinary Lessons from Doing a PhD in Theology

Cole Hartin -
Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
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On being (a doctoral student in theology)

Stewart Clem -
The rewards of an academic career in theology are many, but so are the reasons not to apply.
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New child, new dissertation, new holiness?

Elisabeth Kincaid -
I began working on my dissertation proposal about two weeks before my daughter’s birth. My dissertation is now one chapter old and my daughter is seven months.
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Suffer the little children

Sam Keyes -
Maybe having children is a goad to holiness because it shows us just how little progress we actually make in holiness.
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Holy living in the PhD desert

Zachary Guiliano -
In those PhD years, I think I learned a number of things about structure, sin, silence, and solitude.

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