Eugene Peterson obituary – from Canada, with love

The prolific author and Bible translator Eugene Peterson, whose memorial service is to be live-streamed Saturday, Nov. 3 (today), was a populist in the best sense. He was a spiritual searcher who connected with millions of ordinary people.
The former teacher at Vancouver’s Regent College wrote one of the world’s most popular translations of the Bible, The Message, which uses idiomatic expressions and contemporary slang. He was a major figure in contemporary evangelicalism. Obituaries