We know how she gets there, but how did she "get there"? She didn't start out wanting to be a minister; she was planning to be a scientist like her father. And pursuing science was no lark, either. After her graduation from Norwood High School in 1982, she enrolled at one of the most selective scientific colleges in the world, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
After two years she found herself being pulled in a different direction. She left MIT and spent a number of years trying to figure out what to do with her life, working various jobs in child care, tutor, and even as a softball umpire. She ended up at Curry College in Milton, Mass., in 1995, where she pursued a double major in psychology and sociology, graduating with honors in 2000.
But it wasn't until she went on a retreat that she stopped long enough to listen to and discern a call. Here she reads from a paper she wrote, describing that moment.
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The process of becoming pastor at East Weymouth Congregational Church involved several interviews. Here she talks about how her ministry began even before the church voted to call her as its new minister in October 2007.
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