Contents

Epigraph

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

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Other Books by Eugene Peterson

Credits

About the Publisher