The Feast of the Friends of God & the Beatitudinal Life

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

TODAY is the Feast of All Saints—those persons theologian Elizabeth Johnson calls "the friends of God." It is a day to re-member ourselves to those who have gone before us marked with the sign of faith, hope, and love. We call to mind and heart Read more [...]

Musica Memento 13 ~ Keeping Quiet

Posted on October 19, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

In my teaching on Christian spirituality, spiritual formation, and spiritual guidance over the years, I have used a lot of poetry and music. One of my go-to poets has been the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. (1904 - 1973) My favorites are his love poems Read more [...]

Lectio Poetica No. 12 i thank You God for most

Posted on May 16, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

I first encountered E.E. Cummings' poetry during my freshman or sophomore year in college. I must have been exposed to Cummings in high school though I have no recollection of it. One of the few books I have on my shelf from back in the Paleolithic Read more [...]

Musica Memento 12 ~ Walk and Talk Like Angels

Posted on April 4, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

Music is the GPS of memory. It can take us back immediately to a place, relationship, or experience—painful, exhilarating, transformative—to a moment, month, or year of our lives. Toni Child's UNION brings me back to 1988, to her song "Walk and Talk Read more [...]

Love is Come Again, Like Wheat that Springs Up Green

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

"Now the Green Blade Riseth" may well be my favorite Easter Carol. The original meaning of the word “carol” was "a joyful song." This is a wonderful rendition by two monks—Isaiah and Cyprian—from The New Camaldoli Hermitage down the road from Read more [...]

Join the Revolution — Be a Pebble

Posted on March 4, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

Out of the mouth of babes. ~ some wise toddler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWQoZbgGh9o Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. ~ Rev. Sydney Smith What I want to bring out is how a pebble Read more [...]

Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere.

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham, Alabama jail, April 16, 1963. ARTWORK: Read more [...]

Cry of a Tiny Babe — A Carol

Posted on December 25, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

“For it isn’t to the palace that the Christ child comes, but to shepherds and street people, hookers and bums”. Cry of a Tiny Babe 1 March 1990. Toronto, Canada Mary grows a child without the help of a man Joseph get upset because he Read more [...]

O Holy Night

Posted on December 24, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dq199-_sFo O Holy Night O holy night, the stars are brightly shining, It is the night of our dear Saviour’s birth; Long lay the world in sin and error pining, 'Till he appeared and the soul felt its worth. The Read more [...]

The Blessed Tension—When Suffering and Beauty Kiss

Posted on November 15, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMxd_XwsKsw Beauty will save the world. ~ Dostoevsky Alexander Solzhenitsyn also wrestled with this line in his 1970 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, and we're lucky to be privy to his chain of thought here: "One Read more [...]

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