As I was working out this morning, I had to smile because the word I was living in the middle of wasn't the word I thought I was in the middle of. What I mean is this: About two years ago, in a quiet session of writing and prayer, six words came to me...no seven, …
What is the Service Art Provides?
In what sense is art-making service? If you give a person a drink of water, when they ingest it, there are immediate, real-world results. If you offer a hungry person bread, when they eat it, their bodies replenish and become better able to negotiate their day's tasks and responsibilities. If you offer a coat to …
The Crisis of Knowing How We Know: Postscript
There's knowledge, and there's faith. A final salvo in my rumination about epistemology, or the study of knowledge, and knowing how we know. Those things that require faith cannot, by definition, be proven to be true in the sense that epistemology demands if a thing is to be counted as "knowledge." Faith, by definition, is …
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Justified True Belief: The Crisis of Knowing How We Know – 5
From the days of Plato, here's what philosophers have said knowledge is: "Justified True Belief" Interesting that such a jumble of ideas connect to create a fairly solid place to stand. (Since the 60's, Plato's formulation has apparently come under fire, but let's just stick with that one idea for a moment.) Simply stated, knowledge …
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God Spoke to Me: The Crisis of Knowing How We Know – 3
This morning, I'm not writing about what I said I was going to write about. Instead, I offer you, hot off the presses of my experience, a case study...an experience in knowing. Years ago, I was tasked with writing a personal credo, and it began with the words, "We are not alone." And yet, loneliness …
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JEFF BERRYMAN 