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    Eugene Peterson Still Speaks, Even Though He Is Dead

    By faith, the writer of Hebrews tells us that the lives of believers continue to speak, to bear witness to the truth they lived by, even after they have died. Eugene Peterson, best known as translator of THE MESSAGE, was born November 6, 1932 and he died October 22, 2018, days short of his 86th birthday. A recent podcast interview [1] led me to read the authorized biography of Eugene Peterson, A Burning in My Bones, ©2021, which chronicles Eugene’s life from birth to death. Biography––tells the story of a well-known individual and is written by someone else; usually a chronological account autobiography––a well-known person tells his own story, beginning…