The Pastor: A Memoir

by Peterson, Eugene H.

• ISBN13: 9780061988202
• ISBN10: 0061988200
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-02-22
• Publisher: Harperone

Summary

America's pastor to pastors and translator of the multi-million selling The Message, Eugene Peterson's memoir of stumbling into his vocation and the surprisingly difficult journey to discovering what pastors were actually supposed to do.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Pastor Pete	p. 1
Topo and Kairos	p. 7
Montana: Sacred Ground and Stories	p. 9
New York: Pastor John of Patmos	p. 15
"Intently Haphazard"	p. 25
My Mother's Songs and Stories	p. 27
My Father's Butcher Shop	p. 35
Garrison Johns	p. 46
The Treeless Christmas of 1939	p. 50
Uncle Sven	p. 56
The Carnegie	p. 61
Cousin Abraham	p. 66
Mennonite Punch	p. 70
Holy Land	p. 72
Augustine Njokuobi and Elijah Odajara	p. 80
Seminary	p. 84
Jan	p. 92
Shekinah	p. 99
Ziklag	p. 103
Catacombs Presbyterian Church	p. 108
Tuesdays	p. 130
Company of Pastors	p. 143
Willi Ossa	p. 161
Bezalel	p. 167
Eucharistic Hospitality	p. 188
Appreciation and Foolery	p. 197
Pilgrimage	p. 204
Heather-Scented Theology	p. 209
Presbycostal	p. 213
Emmaus Walks	p. 218
Sister Genevieve	p. 223
Eric Liddell	p. 233
"Write in a Book What You See..."	p. 237
My Ten Secretaries	p. 250
Wayne and Claudia	p. 253
Jackson	p. 259
The Atheist and the Nun	p. 265
Judith	p. 270
"Invisible Six Days a Week, Incomprehensible the Seventh"	p. 273
Good Deaths	p. 289
The Next One	p. 291
Wind Words	p. 295
Fyodor	p. 300
The Photograph	p. 304
Death in the Desert	p. 310
Afterword: Letter to a Young Pastor	p. 314
Acknowledgments	p. 319
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