Brother Weeps on the Withness of God

Posted on April 24, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Brother Weeps taught that the gospel of Jesus is not so much that God comes to save us, but that God saves us by coming to us and by being with us as one of us. ~ Dan Miller. All Rights Reserved. © 2019. COMMENTARY: For those of us who come Read more [...]

The Anointing

Posted on April 17, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

This was originally posted two years ago. For some reason it tugged on my sleeve today, got my attention, and asked if maybe it could get yours as well. I said okay. MANY YEARS AGO, when I was in my mid-twenties, I drove once a week from Princeton, Read more [...]

We’re All in this Together *

Posted on March 21, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

A LENTEN REFLECTION ~ 26 Today, I offer an image (We Are All in this Together) and a song (Meet Me in the Middle of the Air) in the midst of and in response to a frightening, anxiety-producing, non-discriminating pandemic. Happening in this season of 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 [...]

Consecrating the Common Deed

Posted on January 18, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

One of the great realizations I gleaned from my years studying the life and works of Rabbi Abraham Heschel is the power, imperative, and sanctity of the common deed, the seemingly simple gesture, word, or act so typically overlooked and often left Read more [...]

Where Christ Hides and Resides

Posted on December 29, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Sadly, Merton's oft-quoted passage, is as timely, stinging, revealing, and indicting as when he penned it in 1960. Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited. But because Read more [...]

Dream Me God

Posted on December 13, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

It’s not you who should solve my problems, God, but I yours, God of the asylum-seekers. It’s not you who should feed the hungry, but I who should protect your children from the terror of the banks and armies. It’s not you who should make room 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 [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is:

The compassion of Jesus is to be understood
not simply as a personal emotional reaction
but as a public criticism in which he dares to act upon
his concern against the entire numbness of his social context.

Empires Read more [...]

Re-Lenting

Posted on March 6, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

For your prayerful meditation on the three practices of Lent

I invite you to read the quotes below in the spirit of Lectio divina: notice what word, phrase, or line catch your attention, tug at your heart, speak to you. Take a few minutes to ruminate Read more [...]

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