Reflecting on a daughter... 21 Years of Amy (to borrow a phrase). I can't remember what it was like before her, really. I have memories of pre-Amy days, but they're all colored with the knowledge of her coming. I even have a couple of pre-birth letters I wrote to her, though I didn't know her …
Margins, Fringes, and Outsiders
Yesterday was overload. Failure is the resonance that allows connection. - Dave Gibbons My heart is so full today, so challenged, so humbled. Leadership is profound. To answer the call of God, to step out into an unknown reality, to accept the uncertainty because of faith in Him. Yesterday was a parade of men who …
To See
Two weeks ago, I preached a sermon that was the beginning of a new series at church I'm simply calling "The Jesus Lab: Discovering and Practicing the Artful Action of Jesus." I'm borrowing an idea from the world of acting, wondering out loud what Jesus was doing from moment-to-moment, asking the question the way I …
Beauty Arriving
"Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face..." You never know when a face is going to show.... I have always enjoyed teaching acting. There's always a small voice in the back of my head wondering about the whole notion of memesis, the old Greek idea of imitation, and the various means by …
Girl with a Pearl Earring
After frozen pizza that was better than you'd think, spicy chicken fingers and potatoes, and salad that someone wondered over, asking if anchovy might be in the dressing, we finally wandered downstairs to watch a film only one person besides myself had seen. "This doesn't have much dialogue, does it?" she said, and she was …
JEFF BERRYMAN 