Interesting Times Article

One Sunday in late March, Lynette Sparks stood at the altar of a Presbyterian church in upstate New York to sermonize about seven verses from Romans and the notion of transitions. Ms. Sparks talked about the early Christians waiting for divine revelation. She talked about the construction project under way near the sanctuary. She talked, as preachers sometimes do, indirectly about herself.

When Ms. Sparks had entered seminary at the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School here in 2005, a career-switcher in her 40s with an M.B.A., financial need was the furthest thing from her profound sense of being called. The Dow Jones average hovered above 10,000, the unemployment rate barely grazed 5 percent, and homes were selling nationally at a record pace.

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