Built on Movement

Nearly half my congregation turns over every year as students arrive and graduate, and young professionals explore new opportunities. Pastoring here has forced me to answer questions most leadership books skip: What holds when the people change? What is authority when no one owes you any? How do you form people who are already being formed faster by the culture? Before Berkeley, I spent over a decade in international nonprofit work focused on global leadership, cross-cultural worship, and church planting — but it's this city that turned those lessons into convictions.

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Culture Is Always Discipling Someone

That conviction became my life's work. Markets, media, campuses, and algorithms are forming people all day long, with or without our permission. Leaders who understand that tension stop competing for attention and start competing for formation. My doctoral research at Portland Seminary examined cultural intelligence and worship in a pluralistic world — work that grew into Cultropology, the imprint that houses my writing, speaking, and consulting.

 

Pastor

At the center of everything is my calling as a pastor. I preach more than forty times a year to a room that is intellectually sharp, culturally complex, and spiritually mixed — which means theology has to earn its place by being interesting before it's instructive. My ministry is grounded in Scripture and allergic to easy answers, because Berkeley doesn't grant a hearing to anything less than honest.

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Family

I serve alongside my wife, Dr. Mimi Harvey, who pastors Emerge Church with me and is the Head of Schools of our academy. Whatever is good in my leadership has been sharpened at our home first. I also have two sons who continue to create their path in the world of cinematography and storytelling.

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