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My small film group watched Run, Lola, Run last night, a 1998 German film in which a young woman receives a desperate phone call from her boyfriend. He has lost 100,000 Deutsche Mark, and unless he can deliver this enormous amount of cash to his drug-dealing boss within 20 minutes, he will most likely be …
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It's a pause in a line of verse or meter. It implies, and most frequently, demands, a breath. It's an between-moment, a brief stop in a journey. So I'm trying to catch the breath offering itself in this particular ceasura. 2010 holds new promise, new possibilities. The season of full-time ministry is waning, though not …
So we're taking one day a month for spiritual retreat and renewal, and I hadn't gotten to mine yet, so yesterday, I took half a day. I spent the early morning reading from the prophet Isaiah and from Matthew's gospel, then went on to Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton, and then to poetry by …
Another opening night tonight. Enchanted April, at Taproot Theatre, opens tonight at 8:00 p.m. It's been a good process, a nice re-entry back into the world of acting after a two year hiatus. My role is small, but has enough in it to make it challenging, and I'm pretty sure I'm not really hitting the …
This was a question we asked at church on Sunday. It's a different way to phrase the old question of legacy: what do you want to be remembered for? What heritage do you want to leave your kids? After all is said and done, what will your legacy be? One man had a fascinating answer …
JEFF BERRYMAN 