Tuesday, June 16, 2026

40 Days a Week

Next semester, I am working as a seminary lecturer full-time. Full-time = three courses or more. That might not seem like much, but consider the following. One lecture is 90 minutes. In seminary, they generally say that one minute of sermon = one hour of preparation. Say, 20 hours for 20 minutes. I shall be teaching 90 x 3 = 270 minutes a week, so that makes ... 270 hours, which is nearly 40 working days a week -- at university level. OBSERVATION: That is theoretically impossible. So for the lecturer, the question is: how to make it possible. I have a professor friend who says, you are not just teaching a course. You are conveying you. That makes one feel rather vulnerable -- but it is part of the secret.

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