Saturday, March 14, 2015

Logos Seminary Account Suspended

A visitor reports, "The ACA's own seminary, Logos House of Theological Studies, has had their account suspended. No reasons or explanation given to date." As of this morning, if you go to the Google results and click on the link, you get a screen from the ISP saying, "This Account Has Been Suspended".

Of course, this is nothing new with the ACA. Things disappear from the web and sometimes reappear all the time. There's been no change on the ACA's News Page since the Presiding Bishop's Thanksgiving 2014 message. On the other hand, if I were the Presiding Bishop, I'd have a lot to finesse myself. Think what a debacle his tenure has been: he lost several key parishes and most of a diocese to the Ordinariate; he's got the St Mary of the Angels disaster on his hands, and now the Logos House of Theological Studies is broke. Or at least, that's how it seems. Maybe His Grace the Presiding Bishop has been so preoccupied with the financial straits of Logos House that he hasn't had time for Advent, Christmas, or Lenten messages.

I've got a question, though: it's really no surprise that there would be no seminarians in the ACA pipeline -- there's no future there. But also, why go to all the bother and expense of getting an unaccredited seminary degree, useless almost everywhere, when the ACA will ordain guys like Owen Williams and Terrance Tutor without even that degree?