TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 7/24/18

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

As I posted yesterday, retired Seattle Archbishop Raymond “Dutch” Hunthausen died this past Sunday. He led the Catholic archdiocese of Seattle from 1975 - 1991. From the moment I met him, I found him to be impressive. He was the least power-driven Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 5/22/18

Posted on May 22, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

The Prisoner and the Potato Tosser Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.~ Dalai Lama XIV In 2009, John J. McNeill psychotherapist, theologian, and Catholic priest received New Ways Ministry’s Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: A homie named Cruz spent his last dollars taking a Metrolink train sixty miles to Los Angeles from San Bernadino, where he had relocated his lady and newborn to avoid the dangers and desperation of his previous gang life. He had Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The joys and hopes, the grief and anguish of the people of our time, especially those who are poor or afflicted, are the joys and hopes, the grief and anguish, of the followers of Christ as well. ~ Gaudium et Spes, Vatican 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 [...]

Words Spoken, Lessons Learned

Posted on June 18, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

A few days ago I discovered a box in the garage that contained a red three-ring binder. It contained five of the first homilies I ever preached. I offered them at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, a small parish in a small town that billed itself as the Gateway 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 Authority of Love

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

At its core, the Christ-life specifically, and the spiritual life more broadly, involves the recentering of our subjectivity from self to God. In this conscious, ongoing, and radical realignment there is a dethroning of successive emperors who rule and Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — Extravagant

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Extravagant [ik-strav-uh-guh nt] After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions Read more [...]

Happy Meal or Risky Meal?

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Much as Baptism has lost almost all of its original sense of danger and risk evoked by references to drowning and the baptismal font being shaped like a coffin, womb, or cross, so too in many Christian communities the celebration of the Eucharist has Read more [...]

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TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 7/24/18

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 5/22/18

Life-Line

Life-Line

An Intimate and Necessary Connection

Words Spoken, Lessons Learned

Life-Line

The Authority of Love

A Word to the Wise — Extravagant

Happy Meal or Risky Meal?