Being Alive to the Aliveness of God

Posted on October 9, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

If we want to be spiritual, then, let us first of all live our lives. . . Let us embrace reality. ~ Thomas Merton Nineteenth century American poet Emily Dickinson famously wrote "Tell the truth/ but tell it slant." These days, from where I'm sitting, Read more [...]

The Two Great Spiritual Practices

Posted on July 23, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

The two great spiritual practices are receiving love (that is, open-heartedly being the beloved of God) and incarnating love. Everything else that is good, true, just, beautiful, excellent, and worthy of praise shoots and flowers forth from this anomalistic Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on October 8, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Christian spirituality, that is, living the Christ-life, involves the conscious, intentional, immediate, and ongoing choice to incarnate love wherever we are, in the full awareness of our own contingency and imminent death. ~ Read more [...]

An Intimate and Necessary Connection

Posted on August 13, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Those who have no flame in their hearts for justice, no consciousness of responsibility for the reign of God, no raging commitment to human community may indeed be seeking God. But make no mistake, God is still, at best, only an idea to them, Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. ~ G. K. Chesterton Read more [...]

The Human & the Holy

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

After spending this afternoon and early evening together, The Human & the Holy spiritual formation community completed our 13th year together. What a blessing these people are to each other and to me as we come together once a month from September Read more [...]

Of Mystics and Prophets, of You and Me

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

My favorite quote to illuminate what it means to be holy is the well-worn line from St. Iranaeus: “The glory of God is the human person fully alive.” From the perspective of faith, the sacred drama of life involves and avails us the opportunity to 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 [...]

Joining the Something That God is Always Doing

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

I was doing some reading recently on spiritual direction and came across these lines from the late pastor, teacher, and writer Eugene Peterson and I thought it was apropos to our theme for the year in The Human & the Holy (H&H). In his book The Read more [...]

Litmus Test: Enlivening & Loving

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly, ~ John 10:10 Religion fails, at the personal, ecclesial, social, and cosmic level, whenever it fails to cultivate, encourage, and engender among its practitioners life and love. Certainly from Read more [...]

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Category Archives: Spirituality

Being Alive to the Aliveness of God

The Two Great Spiritual Practices

Life-Line

An Intimate and Necessary Connection

Life-Line

The Human & the Holy

Of Mystics and Prophets, of You and Me

Embracing Life, Engaging Death: Part IV

Joining the Something That God is Always Doing

Litmus Test: Enlivening & Loving