Background
I’ve spent the last fifteen years providing pastoral care in various contexts. In addition to writing today, I am a hospice chaplain. I also work with people as a practitioner for grief support and spiritual abuse recovery. Some of my experience prior to this includes:
Outpatient spiritual support
Associate pastor
Pastoral care director
Church planting as a non-staff elder
Seminary (M. Div.)
Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE)
Certificates
Religious Trauma Certificate - in process
Publications
Fathom Magazine
Fleeing Tarshish
I am an ex-pastor fleeing “Tarshish”—the exotic land of religious careerism and exploitation. This ongoing phenomenon was renounced by the late author and pastor Eugene Peterson in his prophetic exploration of the book of Jonah, Under the Unpredictable Plant.
“Every few days or so another pastor gets out of bed and says, ‘That’s it. I quit. I refuse to be branch manager any longer in a religious warehouse outlet. I will no longer spend my life marketing God to religious consumers. I have just read over the job description the culture handed me and I am buying it no longer.’ Every few days another Jonah, realizing that his or her vocational disobedience is endangering everyone else, that this careerist professionalism is in large part responsible for the wicked character of American religion, says ‘take me up and throw me into the sea.’”
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