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Eugene Peterson

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Bono. Eugene. The Psalms.

This post has been amended for the sake of clarification. If you read Version One and were offended, I ask you to read Version Two closely. Thank you! • Eugene Peterson, author of The Pastor and sometimes-celebrated/sometimes-criticized translator of The Message, is — in my humble opinion — a national treasure. I

Writers of Ambition: a roundtable interview

Writers of Ambition: a roundtable interview

This may be a first: I don't know that I've ever interviewed several of my favorite writers at once. But Ambition has made me ambitious. In Ambition, the Chrysostom Society’s latest collaborative book of wisdom and testimony, nine members of the Society — Diane Glancy, Emilie

Ambition book giveaway

Ambition book giveaway

Well, it's not as miraculous as Christmas coming early. But it's close. New writing by Eugene H. Peterson, Luci Shaw, Scott Cairns, Jeanne Murray Walker, Bret Lott, Emilie Griffin, Dain Trafton, Diane Glancy, Erin McGraw, and Gina Ochsner has just arrived. And it's all

"A Long Obedience in the Same Direction."

It's a Nietzsche quote. The essential thing 'in heaven and earth' is . . . that there should be long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living. It's the title of

Denise Levertov Award

Eugene Peterson, who gave us "The Message," is in Seattle on Saturday.

Eugene Peterson will lecture, read & receive the annual Denise Levertov award, Sat. at 7:30. The event is free & open to the public. I am so grateful for Peterson. I'm halfway through his new book, Tell It Slant, and it's changing the way I

On Books & Writing

The Sixth Annual Denise Levertov Award

This just in: Join Image journal and acclaimed writer Eugene Peterson for the 2009 Denise Levertov Award lecture and reading, and a celebration of Image’s Twentieth Anniversary. Peterson, a contributor to Image and author of the bestselling The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, will give a reading and

On Movies & Media

Eugene Peterson's "Eat This Book" ... and Moviegoing

I am finding Eugene Peterson's Eat This Book to be a particularly inspiring meditation on our need to read, taste, chew, and digest the Bible.And along the way, I am thunderstruck by how often the points Peterson is making about how we should read scripture run parallel

On Songs & Albums

Looking for Utopia?

One of the seductions that bedevils Christian formation is the construction of utopias, ideal places where we can live totally and without inhibition or interference the good and blessed and righteous life. The imagining and then attempted construction of such utopias is an old habit of our kind. Sometimes we

On Books & Writing

Eugene Peterson on Christian "Relevance"

More from the CT interview with Eugene Peterson: Mark Galli: Many Christians hope to speak to generation X or Y or postmoderns, or some subgroup, like cowboys or bikers—people for whom the typical church seems irrelevant. Eugene Peterson: When you start tailoring the gospel to the culture, whether it&

U2 Fan Site Welcomes Guest: Philip Yancey

Bono's got good taste in books. First he becomes a big fan of Eugene Peterson's The Message ... a translation of the Bible that I'm very fond of. Then he starts handing out Philip Yancey's What's So Amazing About Grace?, another

Bono the Preacher

Bono the Preacher

Books and Culture covers Get Up Off Your Knees, the book of sermons based on U2 songs. (And it has a foreword by Eugene Peterson!)