A fall from certainty. A return to presence. There comes a moment when the old way of living stops working. The problem is not only the drinking. It is the hiding. The performing. The fear of being found out. From Pulpit to Presence follows Don Phelps from Christian ministry into addiction, public unraveling, and the quiet work of rebuilding. It is a candid memoir about sobriety, identity, and what happens when the faith you are required to represent no longer matches your inner experience. This is not a blueprint for anyone else’s life. It is an honest account of one man learning how to begin again. Recovery here is not a finish line. It is learning to sit with discomfort instead of escaping it. Learning to answer the simple question, “How am I really doing?” and learning how to stay. This is a story about losing certainty and finding something steadier: presence.