Dear friends and long-standing readers,
Many of you first encountered my work through its appearance on TextWeek.com, where sermons, reflections, and lectionary-related writing often travel further than their authors ever expect. I remain deeply grateful to Jenee Woodard of TextWeek for that improbable path of discovery, and for the fact that so many of you chose to subscribe and continue reading over the years.
What began for me as pastoral reflection gradually expanded its loom into something broader: ten years as an op-ed columnist with the Weekend Post, many years in the pulpit, and more recently 13 years (and counting) of listening work as a life and relationship sense-maker. The writing you encountered here has always carried tthreads of those different vocations, even when it was shaped primarily by the rhythms of the lectionary.
I am writing now to let you know, that my ongoing work has found its natural home on Substack, under the name Still Listening.
My WordPress site, The Listening Hermit, will remain online as an archive. It holds a body of work that belongs to a particular, lectionary-anchored season in my life, and I intend to honour that by leaving it intact rather than attempting to replicate or migrate it wholesale. For that reason, I will not be duplicating Substack posts here. I want to avoid sending the same writing twice to those who choose to follow the work forward.
The writing itself has changed in emphasis, though not in spirit. While it is no longer structured by the lectionary, it remains grounded in the same concerns: contextual relevance, meaning-making, human struggle, moral imagination, faith after certainty, and the living texture of relationships. If anything, it represents an aggregate, bringing together the disciplines of preaching, public commentary, and active listening into a single, sustained conversation.
Substack allows that conversation to unfold with greater coherence and continuity than WordPress presently affords, particularly for readers who prefer to receive writing directly rather than encountering it incidentally.
If you would like to continue reading with me, you are warmly invited to read and subscribe here: Peter’s Still Listening Substack and please share this with friends who may benefit from my reflections.
If not, please receive this note simply as a word of thanks. Your attention over the years has mattered more than you may know, and this archive remains available without obligation or expectation.
With gratitude,
Peter Woods
The Still Listening Hermit
The Listening Hermit 
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