About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

The Universe as Composed of Subjects to be Communed with, Not as Objects to be Exploited ~ Two Life-Lines

Posted on June 3, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line(s) are: Only when redemption in Christ is understood as historical, as an affirmation of God's original intention for creation, rather than a rejection of creation, will it become possible to see the New Testament theme of equality Read more [...]

The Looking that is Revelatory ~ A Life-Line

Posted on May 27, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

If someone looks long enough at almost anything, looks with absolute attention at a flower, a stone, the bark of a tree, grass, snow, a cloud, something like revelation takes place. ~ May Sarton Read more [...]

“You’re here! You’re Here!” ~ A Life-Line

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Recently, I just buried my mom and she was ninety-two years old. She was a sweetheart and never afraid of death. Once she said to me, "You know I've never done this before" like it was skydiving. You know, she was just kind of Read more [...]

Rachel Held Evans R.I.P. ~ A Life-Line

Posted on May 6, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

SAD NEWS came out yesterday. Rachel Held Evans died early Saturday morning, May 4, 2019. She was 37 years old, happily married to husband Dan with whom she had two young sons. A gifted writer, she was a New York Times best-selling author, a sought Read more [...]

Dare to Be Bread

Posted on May 1, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

If we find our story in the stories of scripture, in the stories of Jesus, in the stories of the first Christians called people of the way, and if we hear of the time two disciples of Jesus on their way to Emmaus run into perhaps the only person within Read more [...]

NO to Death ~ A Life-Line

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

ANOTHER SHOOTING AND KILLING IN A SYNAGOGUE IN THE USA, this one in Poway, CA. One is left to wonder in the history of humanity, how many days has the sun set and the moon risen when a human didn't intentionally kill another human. And I wonder of Read more [...]

Impossible Blossom

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

I was walking through the nearby park a few days before Easter and snapped this picture. I think the photo is an apt icon for Easter. I like that the blossoms catch the eye first and are pronounced but also how on closer inspection it appears the flowering Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Oscar Romero was the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador. He served from February 1977 until March of 1980 when he was assassinated. A studious, humble, and conservative priest, Romero had disappointed the ruling oligarchy of El Salvador by Read more [...]

i who have died am alive again today

Posted on April 21, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun’s birthday;this Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The compassion of Jesus is to be understood not simply as a personal emotional reaction but as a public criticism in which he dares to act upon his concern against the entire numbness of his social context. Empires Read more [...]

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About Daniel J. Miller

The Universe as Composed of Subjects to be Communed with, Not as Objects to be Exploited ~ Two Life-Lines

The Looking that is Revelatory ~ A Life-Line

“You’re here! You’re Here!” ~ A Life-Line

Rachel Held Evans R.I.P. ~ A Life-Line

Dare to Be Bread

NO to Death ~ A Life-Line

Impossible Blossom

Life-Line

i who have died am alive again today

Life-Line