If you're looking for something to disqualify you from ministry (lay or ordained) based on your age, race, disability, gender, or whatever, you're bound to be disappointed by the incredible diversity of people who are engaged in professional lay, diaconal, and priestly ministry in the Episcopal Church. Don't count yourself out before you see how God called these folks in!
They drew a circle that shut me outHeretic, rebel, a thing to flout.But love and I had the will to win, We drew a circle that drew them in.--Edwin Markham
