[Unedited] Eugene Peterson with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

“Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.” These are words of the late legendary biblical interpreter and teacher Eugene Peterson. At the back of the church he pastored for nearly three decades, you’d be likely to find well-worn copies of books by Wallace Stegner or Denise Levertov. Frustrated with the unimaginative way he found his congregants treating their Bibles, he translated the whole thing himself and that translation has sold millions of copies around the world. Eugene Peterson’s literary biblical imagination formed generations of pastors, teachers, and readers. His down-to-earth faith hinged on a love of metaphor and a commitment to the Bible’s poetry as what keeps it alive to the world.

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0:00.0	On being with Christa Tippett is supported in part by the Fetzer Institute, helping build
0:04.5	the Spiritual Foundation for a loving world.
0:07.4	Fetzer's sharing Spiritual Heritage Report asks, how will we reimagine our spiritual
0:12.5	infrastructure for today's time?
0:14.7	Learn more at Fetzer.org.
0:17.7	I'm Christa Tippett.
0:19.1	Up next, my unedited conversation with the late legendary pastor and literary theological
0:25.7	writer, Eugene Peterson.
0:28.3	There is, as always, a shorter, produced version of this wherever you found this podcast.
0:35.3	That's hilarious.
0:37.3	They're calling you.
0:39.3	Hello.
0:40.3	So this sadly, we're going to have to go over to that so you go ahead and answer it.
0:44.3	Hello.
0:45.3	Hello, Pastor Peter Sons.
0:47.3	Yes.
0:48.3	This is Christa Tippett.
0:49.3	Hi, Christa.
0:50.3	I'm so glad to be on the phone with you, but I'm sorry it's the phone.
0:54.3	Well, it's doing fine.
0:56.3	Lily's doing just fine with it.
0:58.3	Yeah.
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