I was culling back through my emails and noticed one that I must have missed somewhere along the way. It was from a pastor named Joel Pelsue down in Los Angeles where he runs a ministry called Arts and Entertainment Ministries. I haven't had a chance to look over the web site much yet, but …
Beauty and Race
I talked with some beautiful people last week. The Northwest Church has a history of doing special events on MLK Sunday, having long been interested in racial reconciliation. This year, I invited five panelists (two black men, two black women, and one white woman) to participate in a half-hour conversation about the current status of …
Beauty is Tension
Sometime back in the 1990's, a book was published by the Theatre Communications Guild (I think) that dealt in performance anthropology. The book chronicled performance traditions from cultures around the world, and one of the ideas the studies explored was the push/pull of balance and tension. In the body of the actor, the structure needed …
Beauty is Order
This sounds static, suggesting at first glance symmetry, a stolid arrangement of properties that 50's housewives might call beautiful, but to the eyes and hearts of the postmodern...boring. For the wilder romantic, order means predictability means oppression (in the realm of experience). To be alive means to meet the chaotic mix of experience full-on, without …
Beauty is Relationship
When it comes to perception, we start with the senses. We are a visual culture, and in casual usage, the word "beauty" is most often associated with what we see. Beauty that strikes us visually usually involves a pleasing or satisfying "form," some relationship between various aesthetic properties that we often perceive in an instant. …
JEFF BERRYMAN 