Writings by Stephen “Steve” P. McCutchan

Pastor, Author and Humorist

Steve dedicated 38 years of his life to pastoral ministry, interpreting the Gospel to lay people who experience the challenges of a divided world. For 23 years, he combined ministry with his middle-class congregation and monthly involvement in counseling the poor in his city.

Interfaith and Multicultural Engagement

In 1992, his church joined three predominantly black and two other predominantly white churches to found the Presbyterian Inter-Racial Dialogue. They celebrated 20 years of breaking down the barriers of racism with the publication of Let’s Have Lunch, Conversation, Race, and Community.

Steve helped establish a Hispanic ministry in Winston-Salem and participated in regular activities with the Jewish community. He also shared in an interfaith, interracial habitat build that included Christians, Jews, and Muslims as well as Caucasian, Black, and Hispanic people.

Written Works

The author published Experiencing the Psalms with Smyth & Helwys. In 2000, it received the Jim Angell award from the Presbyterian Writers Guild for the best first book published by a Presbyterian that year. He published three devotional books based on the lectionary, and a commentary on Matthew, titled Good News for a Fractured Society.

Since retirement in 2006, Steve has focused on developing resources to assist in supporting healthy spiritual leadership. This includes a nine-volume series, Healthy Clergy Make Healthy Congregations. He has also written six mystery-thriller novels involving clergy.

Steve continues to develop resources for clergy, congregations, and judicatories on how to nurture healthy spiritual leadership and how to develop antiracism in a way that nurtures members spiritually on his blog.