A pas­tor for 26 years, Winn was the found­ing pas­tor of All Souls in Char­lottesville, Vir­ginia, and now serves as direc­tor for the Eugene Peter­son Cen­ter for Chris­t­ian Imag­i­na­tion and Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Pas­toral The­ol­o­gy & Chris­t­ian Imag­i­na­tion at West­ern The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary (Hol­land, MI). Winn holds a PhD. from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Vir­ginia in Reli­gion & Lit­er­a­ture, where he explored the sacra­men­tal vision of Wen­dell Berry’s fic­tion. Winn writes books (includ­ing Love Big, Be Well: Let­ters to a Small­town Church and A Burn­ing in My Bones, the biog­ra­phy of Eugene Peter­son) and has writ­ten for Chris­t­ian Cen­tu­ry, Chris­tian­i­ty Today, and Wash­ing­ton Post. Winn and his wife Miska, a spir­i­tu­al direc­tor and yoga teacher, love evenings by the fire, weeks when their sons are home, and walks with their dog Gus.