Introduction Take a Christian, a follower of Jesus by virtue of baptism. I am especially indebted to my able graduate assistant, Jason Byassee, for his extensive help in the research and writing of this book. I also owe a debt of thanks to my faculty colleages at Duke Divinity School: Gregory Jones, Jackson Carroll, Willie Jennings, Richard Heitzenrater, Albert Mosley, Keith Meador, Nancy Ferree Clark, and Jenny Copeland. Newsome, Martha Forrest, William Trexler, Robert Ratcliff, Nancy DeVries, Charlene Kammerer, Kelly Clem, and Luonne Rouse participated in two national convocations on the manuscript. Martin Copenhaver, Sam Lloyd, Peter Marty, David Byrum, Nicholas Hood, Frank Brosend, Michael Turner, Tripp York, David Hansen, David Dragseth, Kathryn Bannister, Wes Avram, Jim Antal, Allan Poole, Nancy Sehested, John Cook, Thomas Frank, C. Willimon Abingdon Press NashvilleĬopyright Information To Patricia Parker Willimon Companion in MinistryĪcknowledgments My thanks to David Wood and the Louisville Institute for a generous grant that enabled me to bring this work to completion and to convene a group of distinguished colleagues in ministry to offer me critique and correction as this work was in progress. PASTOR The Theology and Practice of Ordained Ministry William H.

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