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    HOME PAGE:  This provides a brief explanation as to the pioneering days of Saint James College
    Seminary as the world's first spiritual and ethical educational institution to become available
    online.  The Home Page describes how the college-seminary is owned by the non-
    denominational interfaith Love Church Worldwide, a fully-government chartered not-for-profit
    church organization with an educational mission.

    APPLICATION:  Here, you may apply to become a student of Saint James College Seminary's
    online chaplain, online ordination, or online degree programs.  Or, you may use this application
    form simply to provide enough information about yourself and your goals to permit us to send you
    materials by email.

    PAY TUITION:  Virtually all students make their tuition payments using our link to the secure
    PayPal site.  While we can accept tuition payments for online ordination, online chaplain, online
    degree studies by check, this process greatly delays the time lag involved (by as much as two
    weeks) in completing the enrollment process.  By paying tuition online, you become  enrolled
    immediately and your first lesson typically arrives in your email box within a few hours' time.

    CHAPLAIN STUDIES:  This section of Saint James College Seminary's
    website gives detailed information about the educational department within
    the college that provides the United States and Canada with Certified
    Professional Chaplains.  As Hospice programs, hospitals, prisons, the
    military, churches, and service organizations strive to hire better-educated
    chaplains, our American Chaplain Training Institute provides comprehensive
    and affordable Fast-Track online chaplain education.  We offer two online
    Chaplain training options:  an Entry-level program for volunteer Chaplains,
    and a curriculum leading to status as a Certified Professional Chaplain.  As
    a not-for-profit college-seminary, we have arguably the lowest tuitions in
    North America...plus...we extend students the option of Interest-Free Tuition
    Financing.

    ORDINATION STUDIES:  As far as we have been able to determine,   
    pioneered the world's first legitimate online seminary program.  Our online
    Ordination study is inter-faith and non-denominational in nature.  It is gender-
    blind and offers ordination training online to both men and women alike,
    although some denominations such as the Roman Catholic Church and the
    Southern Baptist Convention do not permit women to serve in their clergy.  
    As with our Certified Professional Chaplain training, our online Ordination
    studies have two categories:  the Entry-level training is for ordination to serve
    a local church whereas the more-comprehensive Professional-level online
    Ordination training is intended for those who will serve as pastors or
    associate pastors in mainline Christian churches.  As we described above, Saint James
    College  is  a not-for-profit college-seminary and, as such, we offer what are believed to be the
    lowest tuitions in North America...plus...we extend students the option of Interest-Free Tuition
    Financing.  

    SOCIAL WORK - MSW:  In the Department of Social Work and Counseling, we offer both
    bachelors and masters-level degrees for the minister, priest, rabbi, pastoral counselor, chaplain,
    and / or social worker or human services professional.  Because of our seminary status,
    however, we are exempt from being regionally accredited, although we are fully chartered.  Our
    degrees are completely legitimate and can be used professionally.  They will not, however,
    typically be accepted for state licensure.   Our online Social Worker and Counseling degree and
    certificate studies are overseen by our chancellor, Janice A. Learman, MSW, PhD, a widely-
    admired and vastly-experienced social worker with strong backgrounds in both mental health
    and education.  

    MBA:  As with all of Saint James College Seminary's degrees and certifications, our degrees
    must have a religious or spiritual / ethical tone and the majors must be related to these
    categories.  Our MBA students are typically spiritual health care professionals, priests, ministers,
    rabbis or, in some cases, are bachelors-prepared social workers employed in a similar helping
    field who now desire more education and professional status.  As a not-for-profit seminary, we
    are fully chartered but are exempt from regional accreditation.  You need to be aware of this
    status and the differences in accreditation.  

    ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES:  Here,  our Department of Environmental Sciences emphasizes
    critical thinking, creative problem solving, ethical and spiritual values, and an amazement at the   








    agencies to preserve pristine areas.  This is becoming a theological issue as it is increasingly
    clear that churches and religious people see that saving saving God's planet is imperative.   Our
    online Environmental Sciences program helps to train such people!  

    DIVINITY DEGREES:  We offer college seminary-based online divinity degree studies.  For
    religious teachers, ministers, priests, sisters, rabbis, social workers and those participating in
    our online Certified Professional Chaplain training, we provide world-class online distance-
    learning instruction.  Students may study online and earn Bachelor of Divinity (B-Div), Master of
    Divinity (M-Div), Master of Theology (MA or MS), Doctor of Divinity (DD), or Doctor of Theology
    (ThD) degrees.  Being a chartered not-for-profit seminary, each has among the lowest college
    level degrees available today.  And, students who require it may receive Interest-Free Tuition
    Financing.DIVINITY DEGREES:  We of

    FAST TRACK LESSONS:  We are modeled after the University of the State of New York program at
    their Empire State College, which has a system of  "challenge courses".  We offer qualified
    applicants the opportunity to enroll in a Fast-Track series that provides up to one-half of the
    required credit hours for past academic and career (including volunteer) experience.  Each Fast-
    Track lesson provides a combination of review and new material.  Each is world-class in its
    presentation.  Each student in our online ordination, online chaplain, or online degree or
    certification program has an individually-designed curriculum based on the background that they
    bring to our program.  All lessons are sent by email.  Each lesson, if printed out, would average
    about ten pages.  And, each student is assigned a faculty mentor with whom to work.  "Fast-Track
    lessons" is a copy-written term of The Love Church Worldwide and its seminary college
    programs.

    THE WOMEN'S COLLEGE:  This is also a college
    seminary educational program of The
    Love Church Worldwide.  The Women's
    College Seminary offers online ordination,
    online chaplain training, online divinity degrees,
    online MSW degrees, online MBA degrees,
    online Environmental Sciences Degrees,
    Certified Griefworker, Certified Pastoral
    Management, and Personal Development /
    Personal Coaching, along withmany other
    academic ethical and spiritually-centered degrees and certificates.  Unlike other "Women's
    College" which average some 40% male faculty, The Women's College Seminary is, to our
    knowledge, the only similar online program for women that is completely designed by and
    operated by women for women.  

    BSN - MSN:   These are Bachelor of Nursing Spiritual Services and Master of Nursing Spiritual
    Services Degrees.   Our long-standing position has been that there is no effective way to teach
    any form of clinical nursing online.  Therefore, we accept only nurses who already have active
    licenses.  Our degrees are not intended to be accepted by individual states for licensing.  
    Instead, our online nursing degrees are designed to provide training to enable RN's to become
    effective leaders in providing helping services as Hospice nurses, missionaries, NGO workers,
    disaster responders, etc.   

    THE LOVE CHURCH WORLDWIDE:  TLC is a government-chartered not-for-profit religious
    denomination such as The Roman Catholic Church, the United Methodist Church, Unity, Church
    of Religious Science, Southern Baptist Convention, Lutheran churches, the Episcopal / Anglican
    Church, Presbyterian Church, etc.  It is a small, gender-blind, welcoming, inclusive religious
    community comprised of sincere people of all races and nationalities who seek spiritual growth,
    fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment.

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