Eugene Peterson | Blind Man's Fancy

“We have celebrities but not saints”

June 2, 2016June 2, 2016 B.J. MaxwellCurrent Events, Psalms, Quotes of Interest

Eugene Peterson wrote in 1983, before the Internet and smartphones: “The puzzle is why so many people live so badly. Not so wickedly, but so inanely. Not so cruelly, but so stupidly. There is little to admire and less to imitate in the people who are prominent in our culture. We have celebrities but not saints. Famous entertainers amuse a nation of bored insomniacs. In famous criminals act out the […]

Don’t Pray More or Better, Pray Like Jesus

December 27, 2014March 17, 2015 B.J. MaxwellBiblical Meditations, Christian Life, Church Life, Matthew

Eugene Peterson writes in Tell it Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers (pp51-52): “Prayer can be learned only in the vocabulary and grammar of personal relationship: Father! Friend! It can never be a matter of getting the right words in the right order. It can never be a matter of good behavior or proper disposition or skillful manipulation. It can never be a […]