Moody Bible Institute

Date: Aug 24 2011
Major: Education (This Major's Salary over time)
I was a youth ministry major at Moody. I remember how excited the staff was my freshman year during a youth ministry chapel. All the youth min. students were in a room and the professors expressed to us how happy they were that there were more women in the major.

Skip to a couple years later…

I was sitting in my senior class for youth ministry. I forgot what this class was called, but it was basically the last class you are required to take and it's basically an overview and teaches you how to find a job after graduation. So Dr. MacRae, one of two professors in the major, says,

If I have two resumes in my hand for a youth pastor position, and one belongs to a girl and the other a guy, and if they are exactly the same, for Biblical reasons I would hire the guy over the girl.

Then he went on and wrote all the passages on the board to prove his point of hiring men over women. I was too shocked to say anything during class, including the two other girls. The rest of the class were men, including some of my close brothers on my brother floor, but they never spoke up either.

I spent the rest of the year thinking what in the world did I come to Moody for. And why didn't these professors tell me straight up my freshman year to switch to elementary education, along with all the other girlies. Instead, I wasted four years and am now doing nothing that has to do with youth ministry, because no one will hire me. If I want a job in that field, I'd have to get further education because people in "real life" have never heard of "youth ministry" as a major.

If you want to go to this college (if you want to call it that) you need to fit into their cookie cutters.