You can't get away with compartmentalizing. You can do extremely well in the academic aspects of your training and still be refused in the end. The program isn't for the faint of heart. That's the way it feels sometimes. The ordinands like the fact that the Faculty of Religious Studies is part of a greater, very diverse McGill community.
Society tends to be secular.
You learn to be respectful of other people's views. The people here have the ability to speak and listen to each other in a respectful way. This isn't a typical Bible school and I like that about McGill. And faith needs to be challenged. With a Jewish studies scholar as dean, professors specializing in Hinduism and Buddhism on faculty, and a large number of arts students from a variety of backgrounds as classmates, Douglas Painter, another ordinand, says the faculty is indeed a stimulating location to study theology.