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I wrote the bulk of this book under some very interesting personal and professional circumstances. I was in the middle of a job transition, and my family and I were as caught up as everyone else in concerns over the coronavirus. It was challenging at times to keep my focus for this project. I drew support from a wide variety of people to remain centered, both for purposes of writing and for the strange context in which I had to complete it.

I am grateful once again to Matthew Wimer, Daniel Lanning, George Callihan, and the rest of the team at Wipf and Stock for their aid and guidance in each step of the publishing process. It was a pleasure to work with you all again.

Thank you as always to my family for their gifts of patience and time as I stole away to write, and for their ongoing love.

I had so many people loving and praying me through my changing of ministry positions, among them Ian Borton, Mindy Quellhorst, Elizabeth Dilley, George Miller, Mike and Jeanne Murawski, Alex and Hope Molozaiy, Brian Burke, Gayle Tucker, and the group known best as The Cohort. Thank you as well to my Community of Practice clergy group: Melody Ward, Gene McAfee, Allen Kahler, Steve Hockstra, Brent Gundlah, and Adam Marquette. I am glad to have so many companions with whom to share this journey with all its twists and turns.

Thank you to the people of Grace United Church of Christ, who got to hear more than their fair share of pop culture references on Sunday mornings over the years, including a few from Doctor Who that turned out to be the earliest seeds for this book.

And a thank you to Daniel for introducing me to The Doctor all those years ago. I hope that you’re doing well, wherever you are.