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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband has recently (last 3 or so years) discovered a relationship with God and has since felt a deep restlessness in his life. He recently started talking about feeling called to seminary, though not to become a priest necessarily. I’m wondering if anyone has any suggestions on reading I can do to best support him in this journey. He has been meeting with our priest and our priest mentioned to him that he feels my husband is being called. I’m praying for discernment and guidance and feeling....nothing.

We have a wonderful life and I’m feeling a lot of unease at the idea. We have two young children and would potentially be moving for seminary and the idea of uprooting them is central to my unease. However, I am also a Christian and believe that God will lead us where he wants us to be, but I’m not sure to how to support my husband as he discerns these feelings. Any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated. [/quote]

An academic seminary (i.e., not evangelical) may actually cure him of his feeling of being called.   Because in an academic seminary, they teach the actual history of how the Bible came to be, and how the stories are just that - stories -- and that there are no true historical sites in Israel -- just sites that "tradition" says things have happened.

Are you Catholic?  I've heard that the Church is now accepting married men because of the priest shortage. If so, your husband may be surprised to find mainly gay guys at seminary.  These days, the Church is having trouble attracting anything else.

Maybe your husband could become a deacon instead? i.e., - not a full priest, but a person with a lot of parish responsibilities.[/quote]

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