any Biblical/Theo Studies students at Southern?

I'm starting classes this summer (actually, I've already taken Theology 1 and 2 online two years ago). I'm planning on being a Biblical and Theological Studies student. The amount of language work is appealing to me. Although, we'll see after I take my first semester of greek if that is still the case.

Just wondering if there were any other students at southern who are in this track?

 

Well, I'm not sure I'm qualified for the adv. m.div. Did you go to Bible school?

 

Yes, we live in Village Manor. I read some of the same stuff you probably have read about it. To not live here, to get out if at all possible etc.

It's called the gospel ghetto.

HOWEVER, I would live here again, and my wife says the same thing. There is a lady here that came over and did my wife's hair. They were talking, and she said at first they didn't live here. Lived somewhere on Brownsboro Rd (nearby here) and their neighbors drank all the time, smoked all the time, yelled all the time and had the police out quite often. They moved here even before that lease expired. They were paying two months rent for sometime because this place was better.

My take on it is, it depends on your priorities. If you want to have a place where there are a lot of other seminary students and their families, if you want a place where your kids can have a lot of kids to play with, if you want to have a neighborhood where you can walk around and feel safe, and if you want a place where you know that for the most part your neighbors will share similar beliefs this is the place.

If you can't stand that there are toys in the back of most complexes that aren't picked up, if you can't stand that the kitchen is really small, sometimes there are appliances out by the dumpsters, there are broken bikes in the yards, and some places look really "trashy" on the outside then don't come here.

There are a set of apartments on Grinstead Dr that the seminary owns. Those look really nice on the outside. And since it is seminary students you would get some of the same bennefits of living here. They are only 2 bedrooms so depending on if you need an "office" or if you have more than one kid, they might not work out.

Just for comparison, our 3 bedroom here at Village Manor is $599/mo. There is an apartment complex on Grinstead drive NOT run by the seminary and they have 1 bedrooms start at $800 a month. A ways away from the seminary there are some nice complexes that advertise a 1 bedroom for 499 a month.

We took a huge leap of faith and just moved here sight unseen, but I think we'd do it again.

If you come here, definitely let me know. We've only been here 6 weeks, so we can discover Louisville together