Table of Contents
Introduction: Pastor Pete 1
I Topo and Kairos 7
1 Montana: Sacred Ground and Stories 9
2 New York: Pastor John of Patmos 15
II "Intently Haphazard" 25
3 My Mother's Songs and Stories 27
4 My Father's Butcher Shop 35
5 Garrison Johns 46
6 The Treeless Christmas of 1939 50
7 Uncle Sven 56
8 The Carnegie 61
9 Cousin Abraham 66
10 Mennonite Punch 70
11 Holy Land 72
12 Augustine Njokuobi and Elijah Odajara 80
13 Seminary 84
14 Jan 92
III Shekinah 99
15 Ziklag 103
16 Catacombs Presbyterian Church 108
17 Tuesdays 130
18 Company of Pastors 143
19 Willi Ossa 161
20 Bezalel 167
21 Eucharistic Hospitality 188
22 Apreciation and Follery 197
23 Pilgrimage 204
24 Heather-Scented Theology 209
25 Presbycostal 213
26 Emmaus Walks 218
27 Sister Genevieve 223
28 Eric Liddell 233
29 "Write in a Book What you See…" 237
30 My Ten Secretaries 250
31 Wayne and Claudia 253
32 Jackson 259
33 The Atheist and the Nun 265
34 Judith 270
35 "Invisible Six Days a Week, Incomprehensible the Seventh" 273
IV Good Deaths 289
36 The Next One 291
37 Wind Words 295
38 Fyodor 300
39 The Photograph 304
40 Death in the Desert 310
Afterword: Letter to a Young Pastor 314
Acknowledgments 319
