Journal of Sacred Work

Beethoven

  • Days 166-170 – Special Genius

    Without light, genius does not matter. Without love, brilliance dips dark. But, what if we took the question of genius to a quantum level? Continue reading

  • Days 306-307 – Trapped

    The great thinker Schopenhauer believed that our lives personify longing. Recently, I felt a strange dose of this longing while trapped in the soul-killing world of a shopping mall. – Erie Chapman Continue reading

  • Days 334-336 – Radical Love

    In her insightful book, Touched With Fire, Dr. Kay Redfeld Jamison, professor of psychiatry at John Hopkins Medical School has offered one of the most important and provocative questions I have ever encountered: Do we diminish artists [and saints] if… Continue reading

  • Days 124 & 125 – Other Worlds

    “I’m not always sure what’s going on,” Ayers says through the voice of actor Jamie Foxx in the new movie, The Soloist, based on the true story of the lives of Ayers and Steven Lopez, the L.A. Times columnist who… Continue reading