David Sunde

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David Sunde was diagnosed early with an insatiable appetite for the interesting, which is how a kid from a working-class San Francisco church ended up pastoring four congregations, planting a fifth, and earning a doctorate in semiotics — the study of how signs and stories shape us. He's the author of "Homegrown Disciples" and "Small-Batch Disciplemaking" (NavPress), books that frame faith as something to be played more than worked — practiced alongside others willing to fumble through the song together.
The son of an immigrant, he was raised in a small church where the Body of Christ looked quietly miraculous. He's been married to Laurel — choral director turned nurse practitioner — for thirty years. Their grown kids, Bjorn and Annika, live
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Save Your Best for Family

Here’s a confession most parents won’t make out loud: the people who get our worst are usually the people we love most.

We hold it together at the office. We’re pleasant at school pickup. We’re patient with the barista who gets the order wrong. And then we walk through our front door and the filter comes off. We snap at the question we’ve answered four times. We half-listen while scrolling. We give

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