My name is Ryan. I’m a pastor and writer. I currently serve in healthcare providing spiritual care in the outpatient setting. I’ve pastored in churches from 2011-2019, both on staff and as a non-staff elder. I write a lot about pastoral integrity, formation, religious abuse, and the American church. Lastly, I am married to my lovely wife KJ, who also writes a little. :)
““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.’” ”