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The real Eugene Peterson
Many of my LGBTQ friends and clergy sisters have disavowed Peterson’s writings. Not I.
by Katherine Willis Pershey
What I’d like to say to President Trump about the Bible
I’d tell him a secret I learned from Eugene Peterson.
by Peter W. Marty
Eugene Peterson: Pastor, poet, and friend
Peterson has influenced my pastoral life and mind more profoundly than anyone else.
The witness of Eugene Peterson
Peterson never delivered a formula for success. He just wrote about pastoral work and how to live it.
by David J. Wood
Remembering Eugene Peterson the pastor
Gene was deeply rooted in scripture and in a Christ-centered spirituality.
by Richard A. Kauffman
Eugene Peterson, author of The Message and pastor to pastors, dies at age 85
“I’ve loved being a pastor, almost every minute of it,” Peterson once told the Century.
by Christian Century staff and Religion News Service staff
David Keck offers a refreshing addition to the conversation about vocational expectations. Eugene Peterson’s vision of holiness resonates with Keck, but Keck takes a different tack.
reviewed by Phil Waite
selected by Otis Moss III
To Eugene Peterson, a church is not a demarcated zone of idealized community. The potential for misdirection and distraction abounds.
Eugene Peterson on pastoral ministry
David J. Wood interviews Eugene H. Peterson
by David R. Stewart