Last week I introduced Henri Nouwen and Lent as a journey of the heart; this week let’s consider Eugene Peterson and Lent as a season of reorientation.
I met Eugene Peterson at a campus ministry gathering in the early 90s. I took classes from him and consider him my spiritual father, though we had only a handful of times together. Lent, as an annual remembrance, was, like other practices, a time for reorienting one’s life toward God’s kingdom. He emphasized what he might even have called the countercultural nature of Lent by which Christians learn to resist the pull and lure of consumerism and self-centered living. Read More
