I just found out that the latest installment of Eugene Peterson's series on spiritual theology has a publication date. Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers is set to hit the shelves on September 29, 2008. The title of this fourth book comes from a poem by …
The Church in Algeria
In the past few years, I have been particularly interested in what is happening in the church in North Africa. There are a variety of reasons for my interest, but I'll offer two of them here: 1) North Africa was one of the most vibrant centers of Christianity in the first 500 years after Christ, …
Emerging Church and Evangelism
One area that the emerging church struggles with , it seems, is how to consider evangelism. There is a tendency to downplay or be particularly cautious about up-front evangelistic efforts. The reasons for this are many: reacting against over-zealous evangelism in the evangelical church that had no regard for people as individuals, a misappropriation of …
Dream Sleep – a poem
pale sleep, undetected, takes mefrom my body into haze dreamslike a picker from the fruit treebrings half-ripes into the grocery3 December 2001
Eugene Peterson on G. M. Hopkins
There's nothing like finding one of my favorite contemporary authors commenting on one of my favorite authors from another era. I love the works of Eugene Peterson. His works on pastoral theology are outstanding, as have been the first three books of his new series on spiritual theology (see my comments on a few of …
