John Mark Comer

I’m a writer, pastor, and founder of Practicing the Way.

For nearly two decades, I was the founding pastor at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon. We spent many years working out apprenticeship to Jesus in the post-Christian West, and organized our community around a simple idea: practicing the Way of Jesus together.

I stepped away from Bridgetown Church in 2021 to start Practicing the Way, where we help churches make lifelong apprentices of Jesus. I’m also the New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including Into the quiet, the bestselling Practicing the Way, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. My new book, Into the quiet, is coming out October, 2026.

I live in the Santa Monica Mountains outside Los Angeles with my family, where we are currently church planting, and I am working on new resources for spiritual formation in the modern world.