Race. Labor. Civil War. Apple. Corporate responsibility, art, and Christ. The present moment, Sabbath, friendship, taking on the world. Somewhere in China, men, women, boys, and girls, each having singular, personal names just like we do, sacred mysteries all (see yesterday's post), will go to work today, and the only thing keeping them from flinging …
The Sacred Mystery of Each
"Every person is a sacred mystery." A few years back, Ron Austin caught my attention with this little statement in a brief talk at Act One: Screenwriting for Hollywood. He was reminding us that each person has an essential beauty and mystery, and that to see each person we meet as sacrament is to heighten the …
Hunting for Books: Lead Me To A Good One
There were hundreds of books, and as always, the stakes were high. But you can't think about it that way. Who wants to remember that every single time you read a book, you--and the world--change? Choosing a book is like choosing anything these days. There are uncountable choices, and we are given that crazy …
Counting on the Sublime
The word "sublime" came across the Facebook news feed this morning. I fell in love with "the sublime" in an old treatise, either 1st or 3rd century CE, attributed to a Greek tradition calls Longinus. On the Sublime lifted me into the ether of literary contemplation back in graduate school, and I've been on the …
Differences, INFPs, and Making Room
One of the strange things about the constant swirl of advice our consumer culture (and I include preaching as part of that because "consumer culture" refers to the mindset of the audience) is that it almost always sounds as if it's meant for everyone. And from inside our own heads, that seems sort of right, …
JEFF BERRYMAN 