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Pastoring in a secular age: Confessions of a recovering deist

After a decade of innovation, growth and “pastoral shopkeeping,” essayist Andy Kadzban realized he had left God out of the equation.

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A sense of dissonance crept in during my first few years as a pastor. It wasn’t that I didn’t feel called to this place or vocation. It wasn’t that anything had happened or gone wrong. Things were going well. I felt loved and encouraged by my congregation, like I was trusted.

There were exciting things happening, too. A few years in we had joined a denominational process for personal and congregational transformation, and we were...

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