Boomers take one last shot at lifelong dream according to CNN Belief Blog titled: Holy Enrollers: Why Boomers Are Going to Divinity School
In the 2002 film, “The Rookie,” actor Dennis Quaid plays a middle-aged high school baseball coach who tries out for a major league baseball team.
The movie’s plot line is now being replicated at the nation’s seminaries. A growing number of baby boomers are entering seminaries to take their last shot at fulfilling a lifelong dream, a recent article suggests.
Melba Newsome says in a Time magazine article that the nation’s seminaries are enjoying a baby boomers boom – the 50-or-older demographic group is the fastest-growing demographic at U.S. divinity schools, according to the Association of Theological Schools (ATS).
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They include students [like] Patrice Fike, 64, who is using $100,000 of her savings from her career in pediatric nursing to enroll at the Episcopal Church’s General Theological Seminary in New York City…
Seems like all the work to attract young seminarians is being countered by 50+ students who can pay the tuition up front.