are part of a very small and virtually unnoticed slice of American education. There is no real power to be gained from becoming a “great leader” along the lines established by American culture. Seminary teaching and administrating is service, pure and simple. These provide a prime opportunity to die to self. Seminary faculty and administration must avoid embodying the old joke that says the battles in academe over position, prestige, and office space are so vicious because the stakes are so low.