I don't like politics. Men and women struggling over power, wealth, and good. Forces of human action contending valiantly and corruptly, if need be, to control, coerce, or more nobly, to free. Senators beaten with canes in full view (see pre-Civil War politics), Congresswomen shot at close range in grocery store parking lots, and …
Learning to Work on Your Work
So I went from full time to half time to all-the-time. From lots of people everyday to hardly any people any day. From interactions with people focused primarily on what some would call "spirituality" to interactions based on whatever happens to be flying around the human experience at the moment. From intense Biblical …
Thirty Years of Marriage
Some celebrations are better done in quiet. I don't mean as in keeping them a secret--I mean as in keeping the voice down, much as you do when you enter a sanctuary. Pasts are sanctuaries of a kind, especially those that contain so much love, so much intimacy, so much shared understanding of our fallen …
The Task in Life
What a ride we're on... Sometimes I think the anxious people, the people with high blood pressure, the people always on edge, maybe even the paranoid folks...sometimes I think they're more right that the calm ones. Why should we think good things will happen today? Heaven knows there are lots of bad things happening. Reading …
Taking Transformation
After over a decade of teaching an Arts and Culture class at Abilene Christian University, you'd think I'd have it figured out by now. Truth is, I'm in my annual panic. It's a bit of ritual, to emerge from the daily privilege of family, work, and more work, to raise my head and try to …
JEFF BERRYMAN 