Matthew R. St. John

He Made the Stars Also

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This seasoned pastor, poet, and sage takes us from a small-town wedding venue, to a windswept lake, to a cemetery full of forlorn people—he shows along the way how Jesus is triumphant over our ultimate perils and that good news exists for those believing the bottom has dropped out of life.”

RetroChristianity

Theology

“I absorb Michael Svigel’s work only to slow down and ask brutal questions about the ministry to which I apply myself—whether or not we are the faithful expression of a rich ecclesial history, or just one more autonomous assembly aroused by size and success and hungrily searching for the comfortable pathway. His is an unsettling read, but timely and, frankly, necessary.”