Welcome to The Pastor Next Door.

What if you had a pastor living next door?
Not an uptight, self-righteous jerk—but someone who could sit with you in your doubts,
listen without fixing, and encourage your questions instead of shutting them down.

That’s the spirit of this podcast.

The Pastor Next Door is a place for honest conversations about faith—
especially when faith feels fragile, complicated, or worn down.

Here, we talk about what it means to cultivate spiritual fitness—
not as self-improvement or religious performance, but as the slow, grace-filled work of becoming people who can endure, trust, and love over time.

This podcast is shaped by a covenantal, Reformed tradition and by voices like Eugene Peterson, N. T. Wright, Michael Horton, Richard Rohr, and Brennan Manning—
all of whom remind us that faith is less about having the right answers and more about staying in the relationship.

Across seasons, we’ll explore:

• personal spiritual formation rooted in grace,

• faith deconstruction and reconstruction,

• congregational life and health,

• and leadership that doesn’t cost you your soul.

You don’t need certainty to be here.
You don’t need to have your faith figured out.
You don’t need to clean anything up first.

Just pull up a chair.

I’m glad you’re here.
Welcome to The Pastor Next Door.