Pray with us
God, give us eyes to see the wideness of your world, shimmering with beauty and holiness.
Stimulate our imaginations, infusing us with courage and hope.
Surround us with friendship.
Plant us as seeds of resurrection.
Amen.
With God as the burning center, we are restored toward our true humanity.
Eugene’s life – his books and sermons, prayers and friendships – hummed with one basic, unwavering theme: God. The pastor’s essential responsibility, Eugene insisted, was to stand amid our confused, restless world and speak one word: God.
In the same way, poets and novelists, carpenters and musicians – artists of every sort – are necessary guides because with every sentence, brushstroke or cut of the saw, their creativity (whether they recognize it or not) point us to the origin of all beauty.
Greg Lookerse Art Opening
The Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination is hosting an Art Opening with Professor Greg Lookerse on Thursday, October 10 from 4:30pm – 5:30pm in the Western Seminary Cook Library.
An Evening with Daniel Nayeri
On Tuesday evening, October 1, 2024, The Peterson Center is hosting award winning author Daniel Nayeri.
The Journal
Pastoring in a Secular Age: Confessions of a Recovering Deist
A sense of dissonance crept in unnoticed during my first few years as a pastor. It wasn’t that I didn’t feel called to this place or to this vocation. It wasn’t that anything had even happened or gone wrong. Things were actually going well. I felt loved and encouraged by my congregation, like I was trusted. But I just couldn’t shake the feeling that I was failing as their pastor…
In the wood shop with Eric Peterson
I’ll start by saying that vocationally I identify as a village pastor, and I serve the church I founded twenty- six years ago. I very much like being rooted in a particular community over a long stretch of time, and it’s important to me that I know everyone’s name…
