Monsignor Chuck Lienert

The Bush Still Burns

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Pastor Terry Moe weaves the stories of his life with the stories of his parishioners, colleagues, and friends into a narrative of his personal and professional journey, and the gradual transformation and ultimate death and rebirth of the church he pastored for thirty-two years. With candor he describes his own and the congregation's successes and failures as they use tools of community organizing and practice of spirituality to engage in local community issues like drug houses in the neighborhood or the financial burden city of sewer development placed on homeowners, and confront the internal struggles of a dwindling blue collar Lutheran congregation. Anyone concerned with the engagement of the church in the world or the need to transform church structures in our changing society should read this compelling memoir.”