Published March 15th, 2008
‘It was Isaiah’
My friend Chris Oakes sent me a terrific YouTube link: it’s author and pastor Eugene Peterson, best known as the author of the Bible paraphrase “The Message.” It’s about a half-hour interview, but worth bookmarking until you have the time to watch it.
The interview talks about the importance of story and imagination to the Gospel, and to life and it also includes Peterson’s account of turning down an invitation to spend a few days with one of his great admirers — a fellow you might know as Bono.
The interviewer, a journalism professor at Point Loma Nazarene University, manages to get in a great line about The Living Bible: “Mine died. I didn’t know what to feed it.”
The video is after the jump:
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