Episode Two
Eugene Peterson
The Quest to Becoming Fully Human
Episode Summary —
Eugene believed that to be truly human, truly enlivened by God, was the deepest need.
Winn Collier shares about Eugene Peterson’s quest to be fully human, and why he has given so much of his life devoted to this pastor. Learn about spiritual geography, the holiness of words, and discovering how becoming more like God means becoming more truly human. Winn tells how we need women and men to sift after the scent of the Spirit with courage and boldness, to go out ahead in darkness, their capacity to sift after the scent of the Spirit with courage and boldness.
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A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson, Translator of The Message
The Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination
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Part 1 — Meeting Winn & Eugene
Influence of Pastors, Writers, and Friends
Part 2 — Place
The Spiritual Tenure of One’s Soul
Part 3— Imagination
Relational Words and Triune Imagination
Guest
Joining host Josh Yates this episode is Winn Collier.
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Winn serves as the Director of The Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination at Western Theological Seminary. Winn loves the church and beauty and all the things that make up being human in God’s verdant, sacred world. A pastor for over 25 years, Winn was the founding pastor of All Souls in Charlottesville, Virginia, and also serves as the founding director of The Genesis Project, a community providing circles of friendship and contemplation for pastors and writers. The thread through all of his work is delight in the God who exists as the blazing center of everything that is good, beautiful and true.
His teaching centers in pastoral theology, connecting the ancient streams of Christian wisdom to the grit and wonders of the parish, where our stories and hopes and sorrows are enveloped in God’s mercy. His most recent book is A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson.
