What a bummer it is for someone like me,  whose graduate work was in theology and Religious Commuication,  and then later learned Web technology (or at least,  BEGAN to…it never gets LEARNED,  since the things you learn become superceded by newer or better versions or products)…..all my tech learning came by teaching myself and through the past 6 years (5 and a half of that in a professional capacity,  getting training paid for and hands-on use of Web Servers, Development software,  etc).   The learning is the best legacy I take with me of the years I spent wokring for a Church related agency,  and the feelings of  “it’s their loss” when I consider how rare it is to have the combinations of Web technology skills and theological training.   Which makes it hard to get a job “out there”,  because I’m not as “qualified” on many fronts as many other “programmmers” and “Web developers”. I don’t have technical degrees.  I have an M.Div. and and an MA in Religous Communication (MARC),  obtained 10 years apart from each other (MDiv 1981, MARC 1991)

1991 was pre-Web,   and I did not ,  as of yet,  have a framework for the coming online commuication revolution that I saw coming.  There were no “Information Technology Directors” in Seminaries,  and very few if any at Denominational Headquarters,  other than your non-theologically trained,  technical grads of Mainframe environments.  I had just begun to “mess around” with Bulletin Boards as a by-product of “messing with” Amigas (Commodore Computers specially tweaked to do Video Graphics) which United Seminary in Dayton had in their Audio/Video Studio.  (The studio was given to me as a charge to fulfill a student “Work Study” job to get the Studio “re-connected”, “tweaked”,  and in some semblance of a working lab (all this was happening in 1990 and the first half of 1991).   More in “The Theology and Technical Training Quagmire”