If folks a thousand years from now preach sermons on your life, what would they walk away with... Those are the opening lyrics to a song I wrote several years ago. My reading yesterday in IMAGE journal reminded me of it by way of an interview with Walter Brueggemann, professor emeritus of Old Testament studies …
World Building
Jonathan Harris is an artist I just came across last night, but already, there's something about what he's up to that appeals to me. Go to his website to explore. He begins with a clear statement of vision, and then you go to a page with descriptions of his work. He is …
Catching a Glimpse of the World
http://vimeo.com/26378195 Have you seen One Day On Earth? On October 10, 2010, people from all over the world shot video and have been in the process of uploading those videos ever since. Click on the archive, and see a map of the world with links to tons of snapshot videos of all kinds of …
Making Up the Afterlife: David Eagleman’s SUM
One of my favorite books is Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams, in which Lightman, an MIT physicist, imagines Einstein considering multiple modes of experiencing time. Time moves backwards, in endless repetition, in varying cycles of stunning strangeness. Einstein's Dreams is an elegant, vastly imaginative look at one of life's deepest mysteries. David Eagleman's SUM: Forty …
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Possibility as a First Word
If you sat down quietly to listen for and to God (or at least "the small still voice inside") and after awhile, a series of words presented themselves to you, and the first word was "possibility", what would you do with it? If you took "possibility" to be a word of direction, where would it …
JEFF BERRYMAN 