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Guest Bios Show Transcript Pastoral ministry has increasingly been reshaped by the values of platform culture: visibility, growth, efficiency and the ability to draw a crowd. But Eugene Peterson embodied a radically different vision—a pastor who knew his people, paid attention to God and believed faithfulness was personal, slow and rooted in place. On this […]
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