Inevitably, as the spring semester draws to a close, graduating seminarians who’ve secured jobs and doctoral fellowships can’t help but share this news with everyone they know. You see, Princeton seminarians love telling people what they’re doing after graduation. It’s not enough for them to share their joyous news with their close friends and family, [...]
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While you might imagine that at a seminary, the students would solemnly observe the most holy days of the year, this needn’t be the case for Princeton seminarians. Even though the administration closes the seminary on Good Friday—an honorable effort to encourage students to take a few days off for rest and the Easter [...]
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Typically, if you ran into someone in their twenties wearing a college t-shirt or sweatshirt from the local university in your town, you would automatically assume that she was a student at that school. I should warn you, however, if you’re ever in Princeton, you might want to think twice before making that [...]
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There’s no doubt that Princeton seminarians love Karl Barth. I’m not sure at what point he replaced John Calvin as the most respected theological figure at the seminary, but without question he did. It’s hard not to hear his name peppered throughout casual conversations at the lunch tables and interspersed in precept discourse, [...]
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