The anecdotal evidence collected by the Association of Theological Schools, which covers 250 graduate institutions in the United States and Canada, has found job listings for ministerial positions down by about one-third at major seminaries serving both evangelical and mainstream Protestant denominations. The Jewish newspaper The Forward reported last month that Jewish seminaries accustomed to placing nearly all their newly minted rabbis were finding jobs this year for only about half.
I know it’s tough on employees, but Chrysler and Chrysler Financial alienated us so much I can’t feel too sorry about this.
Francis trying out the newly-leased Chrysler Pacifica in 2006. In March 2009 we tried to buy it out and even got a bank loan but were stymied by ever-shifting buy-out numbers.
“People often ask why I left the New Yorker. After all, I had a staff writer job. Isn’t that the best job in journalism? Yes.
“Nobody leaves a New Yorker job voluntarily. I was fired. And over the next few days, I’ll tell that story here, in 140
“Character chunks”
