Thanks for your post. I completed a PhD - strangely I have found that it has taught me a lot more about other people than myself! I am still the same person, yet somehow the title makes people respond quite differently… Sad really. The American academy is a very competitive environment that produces great scholars. However, after I had completed the doctorate and got to the ‘top’ of that pile, I realised that I was at the bottom of another HUGE pile… That is called publication. Publish or parish is the dictum of the theological academy. I am not all that interested in research….

My experience tells me that the doctorate was not a bad thing to do - the most valuable thing I learned from it was how to read and write (which most intelligent people learn in grade school!) Ha ha! Seriously, it simply gave me the confidence to write. You already seem to have both the confidence and the gift. I would say publish, but not the kind of stuff that no-one reads! My best selling book is 18 pages long - it is a guide to prayer for students to use as they prepare for and write their exams….

Blessings, and thanks for your great blog!

Dion
http://www.spirituality.org.za/blogger.html

PS. If you want a doctorate, search my site (doctorate) and you’ll find a nice MIT certificate that you can edit and print… Ha ha! You’ll be a Jedi doctor of science!

You really are a man after God’s own heart. I love you! Did you read my mind? I just finished Don Miller’s Searching For God Knows What, and I came away with the conclusion that you so ably expressed in this blog. Thank you.

-Daniel in Nashville, TN

“If I could aford it, I’d keep going to school…just not for theology”

And maybe spelling. I keed I keed