Announcing my new ebook: No Perfect Time

For 17 years, I kept another blog before moving to this site. While there, I wrote several times a week about a variety of topics, mostly spirituality, pastoral ministry, and popular culture. On January 6th of this year, I finally bade farewell to that site. I wanted a change in online venues, and to approach writing in a different way.

For almost the entirety of that blog’s existence, I pondered compiling the posts that I felt best about into a book. But in nearly two decades of blogging, I never got serious enough about putting this project together.

Now that that writing chapter has concluded, this seems like the right time to finally make this more than an idea. I think of it as a further act of closure for that creative venture, and to allow some of the entries from that space to enjoy a second life.

And so I present to you my new ebook No Perfect Time: Brief Essays on Life and Faith. It officially releases on March 7th, but you can pre-order it now.

No Perfect Time is a compilation of 50 blog entries, touching on ministry, church, theology, writing, and parenting. It also includes eight prayers that I published there over the years.

I’m excited to finally put this into the world. As I say in the Preface, I hope that reading these entries helps your life journey the way writing them did for mine.

Click here to pre-order your copy of No Perfect Time. This is my first venture into self-publishing, so any extra support and visibility that you can help me gain is appreciated.

And, as always, thanks for reading.

Published by Jeff Nelson

Rev. Jeff Nelson serves as Minister for Ministerial Calls and Transitions as part of the MESA Team at the UCC national setting. He also serves as pastor of a small church in northeast Ohio. He is also a certified spiritual director in the tradition of Ignatius of Loyola. His latest book, The Unintentional Interim: Ministry in Times of Transition, released on April 15th, 2025.

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