Did anyone else receive this letter from Trinity?

Nipsnick looks dead in the water. Its claim to accredit schools too innovative for other (read, recognized) accreditors is belied by all the legitimate DL institutions which are scarcely straitjacketed by the demands of rigid accreditors. Not every accreditor is like ATS, thank goddess. The ham radio school may be quite good, and the sex school may be quite a hot gospel place under Rev Mc Ilvenna's direction, but Newburgh is, was, and ever shall be old news, per omnia saecula saeculorum. The list of Nipsnick schools is so short that it gets perilously close to self-accreditation (and not Aussie-style, either), whatever the integrity of the Nipsnick people may be. Just because something is honest doesn't mean it's not a failure.

 

Re: Time for confession.

Are you still thinking about becoming a chaplain? The army accepts TRACS.

North

 

Re: Re: Time for confession.

 

Trinity's president:
"...I want to share with you seven reasons why Trinity is unique ..."
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To this, one could add:

8. Trinity was the first major theological school to come under investigation from its state, and quickly change its name (from Toledo Bible College) and move to another more lenient state (Ohio to Indiana).

 

Dr Bear: Interesting. Never knew why they fled Toledo or why they set up shop where they did.

Since a waste is a terrible thing to mind, I took another look at Roscoe's letter:
1) literate people do not address letters "Dear Rev. Barnes III"
2) "while we are not at liberty to disclose" [free secret decoder ring?]
3) "time line for this wonderful opportunity is so brief" [yeah, and the so-and-so "Mint" only makes 7 million collector spittoons in the limited press run of 2 weeks or so]
4) Everybody I have ever known named Hogg pronounced the name like the animal word, but the esteemed Rev Dr President quotheth (as they might say) Hoag. MUCH classier.
5) Such a deal! Pay now, pray later options out the wazoo.
6) pix of Montgomery in a wig. Gents, a moment of silence, bitte!

(singing) Who could ask for anything more?

 

If you put it up next to one of those MLM letters there is quite a similarity.

1-Get attention
2-Identify the problem
3-Provide the solution
4-Present your credentials
5-Show the benefits
6-Give social proof
7-Make your offer
8-Inject scarcity
9-Give a guarantee
10-Call to action
11-Give a warning
12-Close with a reminder

Tony

 

Great comparison...

 

Uncle Janko: "Dr Bear: Interesting. Never knew why they fled Toledo or why they set up shop where they did."

John: I clearly remember a rather unflattering article about all of this in Christianity Today many years ago. 100% confident about the article; 95% that it was CT. Most of my archives were acquired by Pearson 5 years ago, and moved to their HQ in the World Trade Center so . . .

. . . perhaps someone else can find it. I'd like to see it again.

 

Surprising, considering all the full-page (sometimes 2nd-page) advertising Trinity does in CT.

Roscoe