As I launch my research into my next writing project, the burden of the world seems heavy. People are both oppressive and oppressed, you know? Life is a puzzle, a problem, a challenge...pick your word that describes the difficulty of things. It's a war, it's a highwire act, it's a race. But it's also …
Wondering about the Promised Land: The Conversation on Racial Reconciliation
I’m white, middle-aged, male, Texan, and have lived in the Pacific Northwest for a combined total of 20 years. I'm a follower of Christ. I'm artistic, heterosexual, contemplative, English-speaking, have an IQ of whatever, and have decent emotional intelligence although my mind tends to go chaotic when I get in heated battles. And in saying …
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Everything’s A Photo Waiting To Be Taken…
So I got an invitation from my daughter to do a "365" project. What's that, I said? Well, it's an online project where you post a photograph a day, joining a community of pretty talented (make that "really, amazingly talented") photographers just practicing the craft, having a great time blowing each others' minds with these …
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Thoughtful Creatives, Resonance, and Hospitality
This past weekend was a game-changer. At the end of a pretty bumpy road just outside of Cle Elum sits a place called Chalet Talley, and there I spent a couple of days in the company of dear friends I'd never met before. It began with a ninety minute ride from Seattle with a …
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A Call for Syllabus Ideas
The title of the university class is this: The Arts and Culture: A Christian Aesthetic. It’s in January, is one week long, 8-5 for five days straight, beginning Monday, and there’s a two-three hour final on Friday afternoon. I’ve been teaching this class for ten years, a couple of years on my own, and the …
JEFF BERRYMAN 