These essays should accompany your online application form. Please write answers to all the questions for your degree program. Dual degree applicants should complete the essays for one degree and make a separate application to the second degree at another time. You may submit these essays by attaching a Word document and send it to Becky Young at byoung@lpts.edu
 
Master of Divinity Applicants
  

1. In an essay, tell us what leads you to apply for admission to the Master of Divinity degree program. Please reflect on your life journey including areas such as family, education, vocation, and call to ministry. (750-1000 words)
2. Write an essay on one of the most important things your local church is doing. (300-500 words encouraged) 
3. Write an essay about a major issue facing the church universal today. Make sure that the essay demonstrates your best writing skills and an ability to think critically as it will serve as a writing sample for the Admissions Committee. (750-1000 words)
4. Reflect on your own experiences within the church. (300-500 words)
5. Provide a resume detailing your work history, including dates of employment, position and a brief description of your work.
6. What has influenced you to apply for admission to Louisville Seminary? (100-200 words)

Submit all essays in a single Word document or other text file. Please attach the file and send it to Becky Young at byoung@lpts.edu
   
Master of Arts (Religion) Applicants
   

1. In an essay, tell us what leads you to apply for an admission to the Master of Arts in Religion degree program. What is your area of concentration (Bible or Religious Thought)? Please reflect on your life journey including areas such as family, education, vocation, call to ministry, etc. (750-1000 words)
2. What is your understanding of who God is and what is the basis for this belief? Make sure that the essay demonstrates your best writing skills and an ability to think critically as it will serve as a writing sample for the Admissions Committee. (750-1000 words)
3. What do you see as the advantages and disadvantages of studying at a church-related seminary as opposed to a department of religion or school of divinity at a university? (300-500 words)
4. Provide a resume detailing your work history, including dates of employment, employer, position, and a brief description of your work.What has influenced you to apply to Louisville Seminary?(100-200 words)
5. What has influenced you to apply for admission to Louisville Seminary? (100-200 words)

Submit all essays in a single Word document or other text file. Please attach the file and send it to Becky Young at byoung@lpts.edu

Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy Applicants 

1. Give an autobiographical account of your life course and family history, highlighting transgenerational themes that contribute to your interest in marriage and family therapy.
2. Why are you interested in marriage and family therapy at this time? What factors led you to decide to pursue studies and what type of ministry in the field of marriage and family therapy do you hope to pursue in the next five years?
3. Please write a 2-3 page summary of an interaction with a person in which you played a helpful role. Include an introduction, verbatim quotes in the middle section, and then give a brief analysis of the situation. A CPE verbatim will suffice for this. Take measures to safeguard the anonymity of the person with whom you spoke.
4. Include a full resume that outlines any previous clinical experience, practice, supervision, training, work experience and courses that relate to your background in this field - this should also include copies of final evaluations from clinical pastoral education supervisors, if applicable.
5. What has influenced you to apply to Louisville Seminary and its Marriage and Family Therapy degree program? (100-200 words)

Submit all essays in a single Word document or other text file. Please attach the file and send it to Becky Young at byoung@lpts.edu