Sonny Kierulf:  

Life I gotta say that life is good. It's amazing what happens when you get liberated from the obstacles that you place on yourself within your own mind and by doing so ovecome the ones that others try to put in your path. Being able to wake up every morning doing what you love is a gift from God that cannot be described. When I told people that I was going back to school they said I was nuts. For a minute there, I started believeing them. Fortunately, I did what I wanted despite what they said and what I almost told my self. Sometimes ya just gotta answer the call that is placed on your life. For me it was seminary and graduate school. Who knows what it is for you...Whatever it is, life is too short to listen to your detractors. As Alice Walker, a great womanist author puts it, "You must do the work that your soul must have." I have...I encourage you to do the same. College Seems like I've been in school forever. After East, I attended UIC and by the grace of God and friends in the right places I finished with a Bachelor's in Biology. After some time in the work force (unrelated to biology -teaching tennis as a matter of fact) I went back to school for a Master of Arts in Teaching at National Louis University in Chicago. Upon completion of my course work I went back to teach science at our beloved alma mater Proviso East. After about four years of teaching, I ventured out of the state of Illinois to attend seminary at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology @ Virginia Union University. (That's a mouthful ain't it?) I finished there in May 2007 with a Master of Divinity. Yup...I'm a glutton for punishment. September of 2007 I began a program at Union Theological Seminary-Presbyterian School of Christian Education that will finish in May 2008. I will have earned a Master of Theology. This program is an intermediary step in preparation for a Ph. D. program. I am presently applying to three schools and wil...Expand for more