Part of my response to Henry Cloud's book Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality has been to look my work habits square in the eye. I am now keeping a log of what I actually do with my time from day to day. It's been eye-opening, to say the least. From reading …
Integrity, The Wake
Here's a results-oriented book for you: Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality, by Dr. Henry Cloud. Henry Cloud is a name I've heard a couple of times before from friends at Willow, but I've never read one of his books. He's a clinical psychologist who many people know as "the Boundaries guy," …
Willow Creek, Dawkins, and Cloud
Last Tuesday morning, I flew back to Chicago to teach and perform at the Willow Creek Arts Conference. After a dip in last year's attendance, this year's conference attracted around 5000 from around the country, all of them involved in various ministries in their local churches. Musicians, actors, writers, dancers, technicians, and many of the …
Evangelical Atheists
Atheism is on the offensive. The slew of new books out (none of which I've read yet) by people like Christopher Hutchins (God is Not Great -- #11 at Amazon), Sam Harris (The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason and Letter to a Christian Nation), and Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion …
Kids Performing
I spent the weekend watching my children perform. First it was Daniel in the opening show of the second weekend of Roosevelt High School's Thoroughly Modern Millie. It was a first class show by some sixty wonderful performers, and of course, I always enjoy watching Daniel sing and dance. Then Anjie and I caught a …
JEFF BERRYMAN 