I've been back for a week now, and life is settling back in to a more normal routine. Writing projects are coming at me fast and furious, and as usual, I am enmeshed in Christmas tales. "'Tis the season" from a writing point of view. I am reworking "The Creche Collector" for Taproot Theatre (although …
Good Friday
It was an ordinary event. People being beaten at the hands of oppressors, occupying forces in a middle-eastern land. Sure it was bloody, but what wasn't? Pilate must have hated the place, hated what it meant in his life, hated how it played havoc with his ambition. And now this, this Jesus person that the …
Daily Life Stuff
Since the weekend, the days have been packed. Saturday night, Anjie and I got a special treat. We went to Taproot Theatre's annual Gala at the Triple Door in downtown Seattle, where they unveiled the first plans for a new facility built on the property they own at 85th and Greenwood. It's a stunning conceptual …
Helmuth James Von Moltke
In the last chapter of Os Guinness' The Call, he opens with the story of Helmuth James von Moltke, a name I had never heard before. Moltke was a German official at the center of the underground resistance to Hitler during WWII, and a man who was eventually executed just months before the the end …
God Thoughts
In several conversations this week, I called God terrifying. The overwhelming response of people encountering the Shekina Glory of God in both the Old and New Testaments was one of sheer terror. We forget that God is not human. The coming of the Christ brought Him near and gave us His image in flesh, but …
JEFF BERRYMAN 