Find Your Own Calcutta ~ Two Life-Lines:

Posted on June 13, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Lines are a follow-up to my post on June 10, 2022, on COMPASSION. I link compassion immediately with intimacy. Compassion is the ability to vitally imagine what it is like to be an other, the force that makes a bridge from the island of Read more [...]

With All Due Disrespect, Tucker Carlson

Posted on March 7, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

It is Lent. Perhaps it was as a subconscious penance that I found my way to recent clips from the FOX News Channel’s flagship primetime cable "news" program hosted by Tucker Carlson (née Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson). I must confess, I'll take ten Read more [...]

Reverence: An Offering of Love – Part 2/4

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

~ continued from yesterday (since this is written as a conversation, you may want to hit "previous" and read the last paragraph or two) When we walk on the earth with reverence, beauty will decide to trust us. ~ John O'Donohue Authentic faith leads Read more [...]

The Christ-Life as a For-Prophet Endeavor

Posted on January 29, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

In his 1978 landmark book The Prophetic Imagination, renowned biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann, whose specialty is the Hebrew scriptures, writes as succinctly and poignantly about who Jesus was and what he was up to as any Jesus scholar out there. Read more [...]

Wise Counsel from Camus

Posted on November 11, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

A Life-Line As the great French writer Albert Camus once suggested, there is in the world beauty, and there are the humiliated, and we must strive, hard as it is, not to be unfaithful either to the one or to the other. ~ William Sloane Coffin Read more [...]

Compassion: A Radical Form of Criticism

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

A Life-Line: Jesus in his solidarity with the marginal ones is moved to compassion. Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural Read more [...]

Contemplative Seeing — The Look of Love

Posted on September 25, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE involves the discipline and willingness to let the Spirit “cleanse the doors of perception,” to use William Blake’s phrase, so that when we look we see with the eyes of our heart into the heart of whom or what we see. Or 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 [...]

Life-Line

Posted on February 25, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: [Americans] live by the grace of an unacknowledged inheritance from a rich godfather. The “civil” in our civilization was created by generations whose religious institutions taught them that the golden rule and the inalienable Read more [...]

The Work of Christmas Begins – (Again)

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

I posted Howard Thurman's famous poem "The Work of Christmas" in 2014 and 2016. Keeping with my every other year pattern, I post it yet again. It would be worth your time to listen to Dan Forest's beautiful choral arrangement. The words of the text are Read more [...]

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