Pastoring in a Secular Age: Confessions of a Recovering Deist

A sense of dissonance crept in unnoticed during my first few years as a pastor. It wasn’t that I didn’t feel called to this place or to this vocation. It wasn’t that anything had even happened or gone wrong. Things were actually going well. I felt loved and encouraged by my congregation, like I was trusted. But I just couldn’t shake the feeling that I was failing as their pastor…

In the wood shop with Eric Peterson

I’ll start by saying that vocationally I identify as a village pastor, and I serve the church I founded twenty- six years ago. I very much like being rooted in a particular community over a long stretch of time, and it’s important to me that I know everyone’s name…

Longing for a Faithful Way

What if, rather than increasing effectiveness or building platform or maximizing efficiency, our churches and our neighborhoods really need friendship, humility, and wisdom?

Holy Presence: Eugene Peterson’s Pastoral Vision

“Pilfering through the cabinets at Christ Our King Presbyterian’s library, I found boxes of cassette tapes affixed with old, wrinkled labels chronicling decades of Sundays when Eugene was their pastor. I carried several home…”