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Apr 2022
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[Unedited] Eugene Peterson with Krista T...

ON BEING STUDIOS
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“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 foun ... Show More
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