Few authors are as radical, stubborn and determined when it comes to shaking up ministers and ministries as Eugene Peterson, and what a gift he is. I have read all of his books and none of them disappointed me.

Using the scriptural references in the Fall story, we go back to discover the missing and the missed to reclaim the intimacy of the garden which is available to us today. "We sight life, we realize God and hear his word, we grab the sleeve of a friend and demand, 'Look! Listen!'"
The Rev. Dr. Richard B. Gilbert, The World Pastoral Care Center