July 4, 2008

More Top Students Answer the Ministry's Call

By BECKIE SUPIANO

Everyone expected Matthew H. Marston to become a doctor or a lawyer. He had good grades and was studying accounting at Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss. But where everybody else saw a future tax lawyer, one group saw a potential pastor.

Mr. Marston was just the kind of student the Lilly Endowment had in mind when it designed its Programs for the Theological Exploration of Vocation in the late 1990s. The Indianapolis-based endowment, which frequently supports programs in religion and

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