Peterson: "Eat This Book"

I am listening to Eugene Peterson's lecture in the Calvin January Series as I write this, for the 2nd time tonight. http://www.calvin.edu/january/2006/peterson.htm

By the way, I did have change several things in the Realplayer Preferences on the Tools menu. Specifically, I changed the number in "More options" under Playback Settings to "Buffer up to 300 seconds of the clip before playing if needed", in addition to changing the Connection and Server settings to 300 seconds under Connection.

Peterson's lecture reminds me of the Bible entry in Frederick Buechner's Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC (or A Theological ABC, as the subtitle in the original edition put it. The book is still in print: see http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060611391/sr=8-1/qid=1139715409/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-8593109-6450365?%5Fencoding=UTF8.

It was from Beuchner that I first heard of Karl Barth's dusty windows. That struck me as TRUE, and I suppose that looking through the windows and getting out into the street is what I have been trying to do ever since (and maybe before, of course). This vision of things is one reason that I do not much worry about which translation I use, though I still tend to favor a more word-for-word translation. Any translation is good enough to see through, though, and of course what we're really supposed to do is to move out into the real world outside: the Christian claim is not that "religion is good" but rather, first of all, that each of us can know the God who spoke to Moses from the burning bush, and also that we truly will if we will but seek Him.