What is a Pastor? In this special episode, I return to a line that’s become something like my working definition of the job. Eugene Peterson’s description, from the introduction to his memoir The Pastor, of a pastor is someone who pays attention to what’s unfolding in a community and points to it. Pastoral ministry, done on… 

In this episode: Audio Transcript (auto-generated) Hello and welcome back to A Word with William. I’m not preaching this Sunday, so I have no recommended reading. I’m just going to skip right over that part. I am around this weekend, but I’m doing a wedding on Saturday and asked Gene to preach on Sunday so… 

In this episode:  Auto-generated transcript: Hello. Welcome to another word with William. As I’m calling it these days. There is another word with William, apparently, on some podcast platform somewhere out there. Probably not me, because this is not going out publicly at this point. And so you can ignore any other podcast called Word… 

A new season and a new format. In this episode: recommended reading (Luke 9 and 18, and Acts 1), some personal updates, why we are no longer recording sermon video, and the effect of Platonic Dualism on Christian thinking!