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, …
Going to the End
Run past the finish line, I was told. Endings are better than beginnings, a wise man said. Finish well, the old saying goes. Problem is, beginnings come much easier to me. Maybe to all of us. When watching actors audition, there is a moment I wait for, look for, anticipate with great hope. It's the …
How to Pray
The disciples wondered how to pray, and asked Jesus to teach them. The gospel of Matthew records the version of Jesus' reply we know as The Lord's Prayer. Simple, direct, covers all the bases; praise, petition, and ascribing appropriate glory. Paul says plainly, "Pray continually" or more famously, "without ceasing." And …
The Questions, The Moral Fight, and Love
I don't like politics. Men and women struggling over power, wealth, and good. Forces of human action contending valiantly and corruptly, if need be, to control, coerce, or more nobly, to free. Senators beaten with canes in full view (see pre-Civil War politics), Congresswomen shot at close range in grocery store parking lots, and …
JEFF BERRYMAN 