It's hard to be truthful when telling our stories. It's hard to understand what the truth of our story is. I live in a world of Christian thought, a world I've been wandering in since I was born. After reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, I spent some time trying very hard to imagine …
Buechner and the Stewardship of Pain
When I was in my middle twenties, I happened across a writer. I'm not sure where I bought that copy of The Magnificent Defeat, but the language I encountered in those pages moved me, spoke to me, describing my own experience of life and God in ways that I could not. It's impact was profound. …
The Sabbath
This past Saturday, after working hard to get in the forty hours of writing that I mentioned last week--I got about 33, but that's another entry--I took a Sabbath. An imperfect, somewhat selfish, utterly amazing Sabbath. It was the first time I'd ever done an intentional Sabbath in that way, trying to cease from working, …
Forty Hours
Part of my response to Henry Cloud's book Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality has been to look my work habits square in the eye. I am now keeping a log of what I actually do with my time from day to day. It's been eye-opening, to say the least. From reading …
Pentecost Coming
Sunday is Pentecost, which means the Easter Season is coming to a close. From Advent to Christmas to Lent to Easter to Pentecost. Time takes on a different feel when these seasons are in the front of your mind. The Easter season has been diverse and rich. I've felt reborn and completely lost within the …
JEFF BERRYMAN 