Duane Pederson

Duane Pederson (September 1938 – July 20 2022) was an American Eastern Orthodox priest and former self-proclaimed "Jesus freak",[1] and leader of the "Jesus movement". In his capacity as founding editor of the Hollywood Free Paper, he was credited with coining the terms "Jesus people" and "Jesus movement".

This article is about the Eastern Orthodox minister and leader of the Jesus movement. For bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, see Duane C. Pederson.

Pederson clarified in an audio interview that those words were attributed to him by a news agency when he said "We're people who love Jesus."[2] However, Pederson did popularize the words "Jesus People" and "Jesus Movement" in the pages of the Hollywood Free Paper.

Priesthood

Pederson joined the Antiochian Orthodox Church where he received Holy Orders as an Archimandrite.

Orthodox Prison Ministry

In 1991, Metropolitan Philip, Primate of the Antiochian Archdiocese of North America, asked Pederson, an experienced prison minister, to establish a prison ministry for the Archdiocese.

In 2005, Philip offered the Archdiocese’s prison ministry to the Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA). Shortly thereafter, Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry (OCPM) was chartered by SCOBA as its official prison ministry.

Later life and death

In 2009, Pederson also edited a 35th anniversary edition of the Hollywood Free Paper.[3]

Pederson wrote Larger Than Ourselves: The Early Beginnings of the Jesus People, (Hollywood CA: Hollywood Free Paper, 2014). In the book, Pederson recounted some of the earliest stories of how the Jesus People movement began and includes pictures of key figures and places throughout the early years of the movement.

Later semiretired, Pederson ministered to prisoners and those on the street, through homeless shelters, as well as serving various parishes in Southern California and Minnesota of the Antiochian Orthodox Church.

Pederson died in July 2022.[4]

See also

References
  1. Phillips, Natalie. The Pop Apocalyptic: Keith Haring's and Kenny Scharf's Remaking of Contemporary Religious Art, p. 16 (ProQuest, 2009).
  2. "The Hollywood Free Paper". Archived from the original on 2007-10-11.
  3. Hollywood Free Paper. Archived July 5, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  4. "+Fr. Duane Pederson+ Founder of OCPM – Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry". Retrieved 2022-07-21.




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