A list of questions to work on in 2010: What is the essence of friendship? What are ten exercises you could conduct today to move toward the personal discovery of that essence? To what degree can “felt” religious experiences be trusted as evidence for any particular viewpoint concerning God, the Holy Spirit, or the miraculous? …
Plumbing a Rich and Diverse World
The choices are endless. Input of imaginative material is ever-streaming: books, songs, films, adverts, emails, voicemails, snailmail... There are the daily tasks of work and family, hobby and friend, thought and action. The mental life that Dallas Willard asserts is our life of both spirit and body is ever-present, ever-flowing, ever-full. I said yesterday that …
A Year of Going Deep
It's an oft-cited complaint: American Christianity is three-thousand miles wide and litte more than an inch deep. So they say. The four of us, Anjie, Amy, and Daniel and I sat over dinner last night and re-upped on an old family tradition. Well, that may be overselling it a bit...we did this particular activity several …
Snowflake Lane
Bellevue Square was packed. I stood outside in the small square on the east side of Macy's, just in front of the old Baskin-Robbins (closed). The brisk air seemed right, and what seemed to be multitudes had gathered. I didn't manage to crowd-surfed out to see the numbers on Bellevue Way, but several hundred lingered …
Ceasura
It's a pause in a line of verse or meter. It implies, and most frequently, demands, a breath. It's an between-moment, a brief stop in a journey. So I'm trying to catch the breath offering itself in this particular ceasura. 2010 holds new promise, new possibilities. The season of full-time ministry is waning, though not …
JEFF BERRYMAN 