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.

Read Full Bio