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Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

Embracing Life, Engaging Death: Part VI

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

“How should we live in a way which is compatible with our being a likeness of God?” ~ Abraham Joshau Heschel “Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love.” ~ John of the Cross “Tell me how much you know of the sufferings Read more [...]

Embracing Life, Engaging Death: Part V

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

passion [pash-uh n] Strong amorous feeling or desire; love; ardor. The sufferings of Christ from the Last Supper to his death on the cross. The Passionate Life The wise ones from all wisdom traditions know that authentic spirituality Read more [...]

Embracing Life, Engaging Death: Part IV

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

Religion Right and Religion Lite If we are honest, we must admit that the blessed tension is not only counter-cultural to what is promoted, celebrated, and rewarded in 21st century American society, but also to the modus operandi of what frequently Read more [...]

Come, O Freedom, Come, O Death

Posted on November 1, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

“EMBRACING LIFE, ENGAGING DEATH” A Preface I was planning on sending you Part IV of the initial H&H reflections today but I’d like to take a temporary (though related) detour, especially given today is the Feast of All Saints and tomorrow, Read more [...]

Embracing Life, Engaging Death: Part III

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

“. . . beyond all evil is the compassion of God.” ~ Abraham Heschel “Granted, darkness, chaos, death and hell do appear, but not for a moment are they allowed to prevail …. What occurs in Mozart is rather a glorious upsetting of the balance, Read more [...]

Engaging Life, Embracing Death: Part II

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

“Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too Read more [...]

Embracing Life, Engaging Death: Part I

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

There is a task, a law, and a way: The task is redemption, The law, to do justice, to love mercy, and the way is the secret of being human and holy. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity Read more [...]

Triduum: The Story of Our Life in God

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

In the book O Pioneers by Nebraska novelist Willa Cather, one of the characters opines: “There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.” Sometimes when I use this Read more [...]

Art as Prayer and the Day as Canvas

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

Remember the year when our H&H theme was "Faith and Film?" The favorite film that year, by consensus, was the first film we watched, a documentary about Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy called Rivers and Tides. The art of Andres Amador reminds Read more [...]

Maybe the Emptiness

Posted on March 22, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

Lent is to Easter what Advent is to Christmas: the tomb of death becomes the womb of life just as the darkness holds the unseen light. During Advent we hear from Isaiah (and it is echoed in Matthew) “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great Read more [...]

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