UPDATE July 17, 2017 This post makes reference to, in my words, Eugene Peterson's "permissive" view of homosexual behavior by Christians. Peterson partially clarified, partially retracted his comments on the subject that he made in a recent interview, with the upshot that he ended up at a traditional, albeit sensitive and compassionate, position on the issue. (Peterson's original comments, however, are not really the subject of this post.) Eugene Peterson, long-time evangelic