About

Mission

​I’m a writer, pastor, and founder of Remain & Return.

For nearly two decades, I was the founding pastor at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon. We spent many years working out apprenticeship to Jesus in the post-Christian West, and organized our community around a simple idea: practicing the Way of Jesus together.

I stepped away from Bridgetown Church in 2021 to start Practicing the Way, where we help churches make lifelong apprentices of Jesus. I’m also the New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including Into the quiet, the bestselling Practicing the Way, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry.

I live in the suburbs outside Chicago with my wife, where we are members of Church of the  Resurrection Anglican Church (ACNA) actively ministering to the church body, to prisoners, and to college students.