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While attending a conference in Colorado, a minister asked Root when she was going to attend seminary and she said she wasn’t even considering the seminary.

When she returned home, Root spoke to her pastor about the Colorado minister’s question. He said it was not really a question of when but where Root was going to attend seminary. "I think you are the only person who doesn’t know that God is calling you into the ministries," he told Root.

After giving the matter a considerable amount of thought and graduating from Minnesota State University, Mankato with a degree in psychology and religious studies, Root began her divinity studies at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. In 1992, Root received a Master’s of Divinity degree and was ordained in the United Methodist Church.

Root acted as the director and campus pastor of United Campus Ministries at NIU for three years.

"What a joy it has been for me to come back into the Christian church and rediscover the wonderfulness about it and challenge the things that caused me to leave. I think that’s a gift when we challenge our faith traditions and make that conscious choice to stay within it or find one where we can receive God’s word," she said.

In 2001, Root left the United Methodist Church because ministers were being told that performing a holy union for a gay couple could result in loss of pastoral privileges.