If you are a seminarian or recently ordained priest, and you are finding/have found your intellectual formation wanting in some respects, contact me, and let me know. I am working on something. I hope the “alpha test” can go through in the spring, in view of a beta test next academic year.

I’m becoming convinced that classroom instruction as we know it today is not the right way to learn theology. You will progress more in a month or even a week doing intensive private guided study, reading mostly primary texts, than you would with a whole year of normal classroom instruction. Classrooms incentivize slacking – “do enough to complete the assignment.” And then the level instruction might dip over time. A vicious cycle is created… a race to the bottom. (In Rome, standards are usually unbelievably low – it is actually shocking.)

Plus, there is stuff you are certainly not learning in seminary which you could and should. So, we are working on that.

You DO have the time. You just don’t have the priorities. You are not “busy,” you are “busy with other things.”

If you are interested, tell me. Older guys are welcome too, but it’s mainly aimed at newer men.

Seth Godin has his cool and highly successful program, altMBA. Well… Get ready. AltSeminary is coming.