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What is your role? What is your official title? What do I call you? These are all questions people ask me on a regular basis, but especially since I’ve been the new minister at the First Christian Church of Alva.

Now, some people don’t ask. Instead they just call me “Preacher” or “Pastor Drew” or even just Drew, which I don’t mind at all. The truth is that I have many roles, preacher and pastor being a couple of them.

After I was ordained, my good friend insisted on calling me Reverend (without much reverence to speak of), while another jokingly called me Padre, both of which I took as nicknam...