<p>The need to facilitate the expression of spirituality among people with a learning disability has occupied me for some years (Foster 2000). Recently, however, I had to test the (holy) water and attempt to do something about it. As part of my training for lay ministry as a Reader in the Anglican Church, I had to undertake a pastoral project. For this, I decided to combine my professional interests as a nurse lecturer in learning disabilities studies with my ministerial interests as a trainee Lay Reader; the issue of social inclusion provided the overlap between these two areas of my life.</p>