Five Years of The Pietist Option

A conversation with Rev. Mark Pattie

Five years ago this month, InterVarsity Press published The Pietist Option: Hope for the Renewal of Christianity. It was my third book about Pietism, but the first that was intentionally aimed at a general audience. With my friend Mark Pattie, senior pastor of Salem Covenant Church in New Brighton, MN, we borrowed the structure of Philipp Jakob Spener’s