Mark Buchanan

Biography

My name is Mark. I am a writer and a professor. I am a fisherman and a scuba diver. I love dark rich coffee and low-rider motorcycles. I am a teacher, a father, an author, a husband, a neighbour, a friend. I am a worshipper in spirit and in truth, a man after God’s own heart, and the chief of sinners. I write because I can’t help it. It’s something viral. The need to write woke up in me when I was 12, and grew into something fierce and wild and holy. All my books have come from this. They are things birthed as much as created. I became a pastor because God has a sense of humour. I never intended it. But he saw something in me neither I nor anyone else saw, and drew me down a path that has been the hardest and best of all. I want to die like Jacob, leaning on my staff, worshiping God with all my heart, and blessing the generations that come after me. I would like as my epitaph, “He served God in his generation.” Especially, I’d like it to be true. Shalom.

Research Interest

Pastoral Theology