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 …
Time for Rest, Change, and Refocus
My blogging has dropped off for the past few months, and with the change of job (no longer employed by the Northwest Church, back to the freelance life), I'm going to officially take a vacation from blogging and other online activities for the next two-three months. I'm diving headfirst into a new play that I'm …
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 …
Does Art Matter?
I've rarely asked this question. I've always believed in my bones that it does. But in exiting paid ministry, in which lives can change pretty dramatically as a direct or indirect result of your work, I wonder not only about the theatre, but about art in general. Who gets their busted lives put back together …
A Christian Aesthetic
My intellect is getting a pretty robust workout these days, pressing some heavy reading about aesthetics, moral creativity (does that make anyone nervous? I'm loving it...), and the notion that surfaces may actually have substance. Just think, lots of people are designing things that are aimed straight at my amygdala, my pre-cognitive, emotional self, …
JEFF BERRYMAN 