by Barry Creamer | Jun 5, 2024 | Devotionals
Indulge me two paragraphs, one philosophical and one personal, and I will do my best to encourage your regard for others. Consciousness is a weird thing. Weirdness 1: The privileged access I have to my own consciousness. What I think is what I think I think, and...
by Daisy Reynolds | Sep 28, 2022
God knows how hard it is for us to hear what we need to acknowledge in order to change, which is why Jesus used the phrase “Let these words sink into your ears.” Barry talks about how challenging hearing can be for us, methods people use to be heard, and the lengths...
by Barry Creamer | Mar 23, 2022 | Devotionals
An alarm in the hospital room I am visiting obnoxiously and persistently signifies apparently nothing, but does make it equally impossible and inevitable to think of Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron. In that dystopian short fiction, the United States Handicapper...
by Daisy Reynolds | Jan 12, 2022
It is easy only to listen to voices that agree with our own. Barry suggests that fear and a desire for comfort keep us content with our current opinions, and yet growth requires the interjection of something new, something different. Let’s remove our earplugs and...
