article_snippet: From the start of the theology class I felt this hunger," her said in her 2011 graduation speech.
article_snippet: I became so hungry for theology, and what all the classes had to offer; you could call me a glutton.
article_snippet: There came a time when ... my worst fears became my reality -- I was pulled from the courses.
article_snippet: Being pulled from the program devastated me as badly as if someone had just told me one of my appeals had been turned down.
article_snippet: the instructors came to me.
article_snippet: I pushed on because of that hunger.