Introduction: Pastor Pete
I. Topo and Kairos
1. Montana: Sacred Ground and Stories
2. New York: Pastor John of Patmos
II. “Intently Haphazard”
3. My Mother’s Songs and Stories
4. My Father’s Butcher Shop
5. Garrison Johns
6. The Treeless Christmas of 1939
7. Uncle Sven
8. The Carnegie
9. Cousin Abraham
10. Mennonite Punch
11. Holy Land
12. Augustine Njokuobi and Elijah Odajara
13. Seminary
14. Jan
III. Shekinah
15. Ziklag
16. Catacombs Presbyterian Church
17. Tuesdays
18. Company of Pastors
19. Willi Ossa
20. Bezalel
21. Eucharistic Hospitality
22. Appreciation and Foolery
23. Pilgrimage
24. Heather-Scented Theology
25. Presbycostal
26. Emmaus Walks
27. Sister Genevieve
28. Eric Liddell
29. “Write in a Book What You See…”
30. My Ten Secretaries
31. Wayne and Claudia
32. Jackson
33. The Atheist and the Nun
34. Judith
35. “Invisible Six Days a Week, Incomprehensible the Seventh”
IV. Good Deaths
36. The Next One
37. Wind Words
38. Fyodor
39. The Photograph
40. Death in the Desert
Afterword: Letter to a Young Pastor