The pastor cannot offer to his or her congregation what he or she has not received, namely, an encounter with God in the ordinary life of...

The first time I read M. Craig Barnes’s The Pastor as Minor Poet, I was enthralled by the image of pastor as poet: “What the congregation...

Of the two camps cited by Wilson and Nathan, I certainly am more suspicious of “those who view a rich diet of subjective revelation as a...

Listening is an essential discipline when it comes to Scripture. Eugene Peterson writes: "Listening is an interpersonal act; it involves...

Eugene H. Peterson and M. Craig Barnes provide a powerful challenge to contemporary pastors: your calling is not rooted in what you do,...

This past week, the American church has lost one of her Gandalfs among pastors, Eugene H. Peterson. As a young man, still grappling with...