What do seminaries do in an age when many fear 'theology'?

During the 1970s and '80s, the flocks gathered in conservative Protestant pews kept growing and growing — until a third of the U.S. population could be defined as 'evangelical.'

Times were already getting tough for leaders of progressive mainline churches, with sharp declines in budgets and worship attendance. But the waters were smooth for evangelicals.

'One might be considered a very capable kayak…