[Magdalen] M/C - verger - "praise and worship leader"

[Roger Stokes]

On 13/01/2018 14:51, Ann Markle wrote:
> I answer to almost any honorific, including “pastor,” though I don’t like
> any of them much. When I was growing up (Episcopalian), our MINISTER was
> called MR. Mabley (by my parents, also cradle Episcopalians); don’t know
> what others called him. In Tennessee, no parishioners called me “Pastor,”
> but when I returned to Buffalo, I almost immediately became “Pastor Ann” to
> many. I always make my personal preference clear (Ann, which is what God
> calls me), but most people really want to use an honorific of some kind.

I can understand that as a sign of respect for your calling which is 
different from theirs. You were ordained to a position of spiritual 
leadership and responsibility and are now in a different order from the 
laity.

Roger