Poverty in the Pulpit

At a median salary of $6,000 a year, the nation's 10,000 Episcopal clergymen are poor in pocket--and a lot more. After an 18-month study of Episcopal training, a committee chaired by Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey last week reported that a third of Episcopal clergymen lack a complete three-year seminary education. More than 60% of Episcopal seminarians graduated from college with average grades of C or below. Of all Episcopal clergymen, more than 12% never graduated from college at all. Worse, said Pusey, seminary training itself is "dated" and often irrelevant to the church's mission in slums. Cash is urgently needed for improvement. As it stands, Episcopalians are contributing to theological education at the rate of only 40-c- apiece per year.

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