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title: "Offsite Review: The Pastor: A Memoir by Eugene Peterson"
description: "Since reading Matt Rddmond's excellent book the God of the Mundane, I have been a subscriber to his blog.  Today he posted a 'non-review' of Eugene Peterson's The Pastor: A Memoir.  If you are a..."
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date: 2013-03-28
modified: 2026-07-27
author: "Adam Shields"
categories: ["Off Site Reviews"]
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# Offsite Review: The Pastor: A Memoir by Eugene Peterson

[![The Pastor: A Memoir by Eugene Peterson cover image](https://bookwi.se/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/91ubwsCFzcL._SL1500_-199x300.jpg)](https://bookwi.se/the-pastor-a-memoir-by-eugene-peterson/91ubwscfzcl-_sl1500_/#main)Since reading Matt Rddmond’s excellent book the [God of the Mundane](https://bookwi.se/god-of-the-mundane/), I have been a subscriber to his blog.  Today he [posted a ‘non-review’](http://mattbredmond.com/2011/02/22/a-non-review-of-eugene-petersons-memoir-the-pastor) of Eugene Peterson’s The Pastor: A Memoir.  If you are a pastor, or you are a lay person in leadership and work closely with a pastor, this is definitely in a handful of books that I would say EVERY pastor should read.  It has been about a year since I read it and I think I might need to read it again.  Seriously, **get this book**.  Matt is in love with it about as much as I am:

> Hand-cuffed. I don’t even know how to write a review of this book. A review is what you write when it isn’t personal. A review is what you do for books. [The Pastor](http://www.amazon.com/Pastor-Memoir-Eugene-H-Peterson/dp/0061988200/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1298316041&sr=8-1) is far more than a book. You need to understand that Eugene Peterson saved my vocational soul just over a year ago. And since that time I have been pointing people ““ especially pastors ““ to his books. Especially young pastors. So how about a non-review?

[continue reading the rest of the ‘non-review’ at mattbredmond.com](http://mattbredmond.com/2011/02/22/a-non-review-of-eugene-petersons-memoir-the-pastor)