Unprecedented levels of change have transformed the American landscape in recent decades, the shape and function of organized religion very much included. Mainstream Protestantism especially has found itself increasingly marginalized in a culture largely indifferent to a mission or purpose that even its own members do not always clearly understand. This memoir reflects the author’s fifty years of pastoral ministry navigating a pathway for just such a church. A common thread weaves its way throughout, the underlying conviction that the people called church matter greatly because their work leaves its corresponding imprint on the ever-evolving shape of the future. Some may well find the parallel affirmation even more startling: that God honors the freedom of and shares power with humankind. The idea is that God invites us to serve as co-creators with God in the ongoing drama of creation the last chapter of which has yet to be written … one way or the other. Notably, from this perspective the religious life is dynamic and active, not passive. The spotlight falls as much on faithfulness as on faith, on what we do and how we live and not just on what we believe. It embraces freedom in the spiritual quest itself and discerns along the way how to live hopefully in the present and for the future. Process theology provides the religious/spiritual framework throughout, a school of thought particularly well-suited to connecting religious-spiritual concerns with how contemporary men and women experience the world today.