M. Craig Barnes is the professor of leadership and ministry at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and senior pastor at Shadyside Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is a former senior pastor of the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. Barnes’s books include Searching for Home: Spirituality for Restless Souls, An Extravagant Mercy: Reflections on Ordinary Things, Sacred Thirst: Finding God in the Desert of Our Longings, and Hustling God: Why We Work So Hard for What God Wants to Give. His most recent book, The Pastor as Minor Poet: Texts and Subtexts in the Ministerial Life, explores the interior life of the pastor as well as the life of the twenty-first century North American congregation.

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