While Puritan history provides us with stimulating examples of pastoral practice, and Puritan literature abounds with profound treatises on pastoral duty, the portrait which John Bunyan provides in The Pilgrim’s Progress offers a vivid and lively portrait of the pastor in action. The allegorical setting provides the opportunity to take a view of pastoral ministry which sets before us both principle and practice in a way that surely reflects Bunyan’s own sense of what it means to care for pilgrims travelling to the Celestial City, and still offers much help today.