Journal
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…”
A Burning in My Bones, The Biography of Eugene Peterson
“This hunger for something radical—something so true that it burned in his bones—was a constant in Eugene’s life. His longing for God ignited a ferocity in his soul.”
WTS Chosen to Establish New Eugene Peterson Center
Western Theological Seminary is pleased to announce it has been selected by the family of the late Rev. Eugene Peterson (pastor, author, and translator of The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language), to establish a new “Eugene Peterson Center.”
