Eugene Peterson, The Message and Bono
2 Eugene Peterson fans hanging out. I started theological studies at Regent College in the fall of 2001. In December of that year, Rolling Stone magazine published an interview with Bono. In the interview Bono said this: there's a translation of Scriptures -- the New Testament and the Books of Wisdom -- that this guy Eugene Peterson has undertaken. It has been a great strength to me. He's a poet and a scholar, and he's brought the text back to the tone in which the books were written. I seized on this quote and wrote a brief article for the Regent student newspaper at the time. After awhile NavPress got permission to quote Bono and it started showing up on the back of later editions of The Message translation. Bono had mentioned Eugene and his writings in the past - but this was the most explicit and straightforward comment that he had made. He had also mentioned that the band would read the Psalms from the Message backstage before a concert and then go out