A friend asked me to come to his birthday dinner next week. “That is,” he added, “if they’ll let you out.”

“Let me out?” I asked.

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I have been a student at the Princeton Theological Seminary for more than a year. I’m about mid-way through the Master’s in Divinity program, on my way — God willing and the people consenting — to ordination in the Episcopal Church . But I still have some in my circle who don’t quite understand what I’m doing with my time.

Some of them, like my birthday friend, hear the word “seminary” and assume I spend my days in robes, cloistered in some stone tower, chanting away in a tiny room. When he asks, “Will they let you out

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