Saturday, December 6, 2014

NSU/Detroit Lions' Don Carey working on Master's in theology

DETROIT, Michigan -- It's a rainy Monday evening in early October and Don Carey is running a little later than usual because of an accident on the Southfield Freeway. Carey just finished a day of meetings, walkthroughs and film review after the Lions' 17-14 loss to the Buffalo Bills, and he'll spend the next few hours like he does every Monday, immersed in study of the Old Testament at the Moody Theological Seminary in Plymouth Township.

He pulls his GMC Sierra into a spot in the back parking lot, grabs a leather satchel loaded with books, and hustles down the hall to Room 116, where he sits down at the end of a long table next to a 59-year-old accountant who's going back to school to teach and a young nurse who wants to become a minister one day.

Carey, dressed in a black Dri-fit shirt and matching athletic pants with his No. 26 emblazoned on the right front hip, isn't entirely sure what he'll do when he finishes his Master of Theological Studies degree a few years from now, other than expand his own ministry.

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