The Pastor: A Memoir

In The Pastor, author Eugene Peterson, translator of the multimillion-selling The Message, tells the story of how he started Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland and his gradual discovery of what it really means to be a pastor. Steering away from abstractions, Peterson challenges conventional wisdom regarding church marketing, mega pastors, and the church’s too-cozy relationship to American glitz and consumerism to present a simple, faith-based description of what being a minister means today. In the end, Peterson discovers that being a pastor boils down to “paying attention and calling attention to ‘what is going on now’ between men and women, with each other and with God.”

• The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction
• A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
• As Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Conversation on the Ways of God Formed by the Words of God
• Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity
• The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
• Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best
• Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work
• Pastoral Theology: Essentials of Ministry
• Ministry in the Image of God: The Trinitarian Shape of Christian Service
• Pastoral Theology in the Classical Tradition