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 [...]

The Ridiculous Love of God

Posted on March 3, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

What good is it to believe in a merciful, forgiving God if we are not able or willing to forgive ourselves? Sister Helen Prejean who has given years of her life to accompanying inmates on death row—some who have committed atrocious crimes—reminds Read more [...]

Brother Weeps Sets Us Straight

Posted on November 9, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

One of the themes or convictions that Brother Weeps was most passionate about was that each and every person is the singularly precious beloved of God. He always reminded us: "To say that you are the beloved of God or that I am the beloved of God is a Read more [...]

Say It Ain’t So, Jean

Posted on February 25, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

My father grew up in the 1920's. He was a good athlete and an avid sports fan. He was also a good storyteller. So by the time I was six or seven I had heard about the 1919 "Black Sox Scandal" when eight ballplayers on the Chicago White Sox were found Read more [...]

A Purification ~ A Life-Line

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: A Purification At start of spring I open a trench in the ground. I put into it the winter’s accumulation of paper, pages I do not want to read again, useless words, fragments, errors. And I put into it the contents Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: To commit a crime against the natural world is a sin. ... For humans to cause species to become extinct and to destroy the biological diversity of God's creation, for humans to degrade the integrity of the earth by stripping the Read more [...]

The Blessed Tension

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

The late (and in my opinion), great Catholic Bishop Kenneth Untener from Saginaw, Michigan once wrote a very practical and illuminating book on preaching. Before doing so, he visited every parish in his diocese and asked parishioners one-to-one how they Read more [...]

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