{"id":5399,"date":"2018-10-22T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/?p=5399"},"modified":"2024-01-26T12:12:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T19:12:14","slug":"eugene-peterson-goes-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/blog\/eugene-peterson-goes-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene Peterson Goes Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Peterson, beloved pastor and NavPress author, passed away October 22, 2018. He was 85. Eugene is perhaps best known as the translator of <em>The Message, <\/em>a rendering of the Scriptures into contemporary language. His high regard for the Scriptures led him to this work as a byproduct of his decades-long pastoral ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The Navigators U.S. President Doug Nuenke considers Eugene \u201cforever connected to the ministry of The Navigators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is so often identified as \u2018the author of <em>The Message<\/em>,\u2019 which is the heart of our NavPress ministry,\u201d Doug says. \u201cBut Eugene was more than that. He was a pastor of pastors. He showed us all what it means to love a community of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5401\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5401\" style=\"width: 701px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/EP_IMG_1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/EP_IMG_1024.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/EP_IMG_1024-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/EP_IMG_1024-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/EP_IMG_1024-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eugene speaks at a special event celebrating <i>The Message<\/i>\u00a0at Glen Eyrie in 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/messagebible.com\">messagebible.com<\/a> for more details on Eugene\u2019s life and influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Peterson, beloved pastor and NavPress author went home to be with the Lord October 22, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_helpful_pro_status":1,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1227],"tags":[1367],"mission":[],"topic":[47],"class_list":["post-5399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-organization-news","tag-in-memoriam","topic-site-content"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/EP_feature.png","author_info":{"display_name":"The Navigators","author_link":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/staff\/thenavigators\/"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260717,"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions\/260717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5399"},{"taxonomy":"mission","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mission?post=5399"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}