{"id":555,"date":"2008-07-24T09:54:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T15:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/07\/24\/truett-seminary-school-of-social-work-share-a-family-bond\/"},"modified":"2008-07-24T09:54:52","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T15:54:52","slug":"truett-seminary-school-of-social-work-share-a-family-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/07\/truett-seminary-school-of-social-work-share-a-family-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Truett Seminary, School of Social Work share a family bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/garlands-july08.jpg\" alt=\"Diana and David Garland\" align=\"right\" \/>A growing number of Baylor graduate students are pursuing a pair of master&#8217;s degrees that work uncommonly well together. In addition to earning their master of divinity degree from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/truett\/\" target=\"_blank\">Truett Seminary<\/a>, they also are earning a master&#8217;s degree from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/Social_Work\/\" target=\"_blank\">School of Social Work<\/a>, combining both the theoretical and the practical sides of ministry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What does the Gospel look like?&#8221; recent graduate Tihara Vargas asked rhetorically in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylormag.com\/story.php?story=006072\" target=\"_blank\">a <em>Baylor Magazine<\/em> article<\/a> last year. &#8221; That&#8217;s where social work comes in. Truett is one of the only (seminaries) I&#8217;m aware of that integrates the two.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After seeing how well the two programs work together, it probably wouldn&#8217;t be a surprise to learn that the deans of Truett and the School of Social Work are a husband-wife team. Drs. David and Diana Garland, respectively, head up those two schools. Their teamwork paid off in a different way recently when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/pr\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=51585\" target=\"_blank\">the pair jointly received a $300,000 grant<\/a> to equip local church leaders across the world for effective ministry in their home cultures. International students will enter the new program and come away with the joint M.Div\/M.S.W. degrees that they can then use to build the church in their homeland.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Garland family, Truett Seminary, and the School of Social Work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing number of Baylor graduate students are pursuing a pair of master&#8217;s degrees that work uncommonly well together. In addition to earning their master of divinity degree from Truett Seminary, they also are earning a master&#8217;s degree from the School of Social Work, combining both the theoretical and the practical sides of ministry. &#8220;What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}