Awe and Intimations of the Divine

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

A Reflection in Three Parts Part One The heavens are telling the glory of God. ~ Ps. 19:1 The world is charged with the grandeur of God ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins Awe is an intuition for the dignity Read more [...]

Being Human — Being Moved

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple. What you see is Read more [...]

The Categorical Imperative

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

The glory of God is the human person fully alive, and the life of the human is the vision of God. ~ St. Irenaeus of Lyons You shall lovingly accept the humanity entrusted to you! You shall be obedient to your destiny! You shall not continually try Read more [...]

What Makes the Soul Great

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

For the past 18 months I have been listening to the now President-Elect repeatedly encourage his followers with the slogan "Let's Make America Great Again." All the while I have been acutely aware of how different his understanding of greatness is Read more [...]

Soul Making

Posted on August 24, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

It takes three things to attain a sense of significant being: God A Soul And a Moment. And the three are always here. (Abraham J. Heschel, Insecurity of Freedom, 84) There is a word that has made a comeback the last dozen years or so. Maybe Read more [...]

Asking Permission to “Be” Once Again

Posted on May 28, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

I have been reading Matthew Fox’s new book A Way to God: Thomas Merton’s Creation Spirituality Journey courtesy of a long-time member of The Human & the Holy spiritual formation community. Merton, one of the most important spiritual writers Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — Effulgence

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Effulgence [ih-fuhl-juh ns] This week’s word is effulgence. Literally it means a shining forth and refers to a brilliant radiance. One of the reasons I was first drawn to the writings of Abraham Heschel was because of the sheer beauty of the language. Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — Antiphon

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Antiphon [an-tuh-fon] This week’s word is ANTIPHON. For a few years now I have been working on an acoustic theology that engenders an antiphonal spirituality, spirituality here meaning simply the enactment of one’s theology in the various spheres Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — Wonder

Posted on January 14, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Wonder [wuhn-der] This week our word is WONDER. This year in The Human & the Holy community (H&H), we are eavesdropping on and then joining in an imagined conversation between four wise guides. One of those sages is Rabbi Abraham Joshua Read more [...]

Being the Image of God

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Daniel J. Miller

For Rabbi Heschel, to be human means to be made in the image and likeness of God. Being made in God’s image is the sign of both God’s love and our human dignity. What being the imago Dei means to Heschel is a bit different than how people often Read more [...]

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