Remember Death, Live Life

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

Yesterday I wrote about the lovely cherry blossom trees that are holy hints of spring. Today it occurs to me that Spring is a great time to talk about ------ death and dying. What? Yep. Memento mori – “remember death.” There once was a time when Read more [...]

Lent: Making Room for . . .

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

When I speak of the three time-honored spiritual practices of Lent – prayer, fasting, and almsgiving – in terms of creating a vacancy, it is important to know that we do so not out of a spirit of sour-faced, self-deprivation, denigration, or punishment. Read more [...]

Lent: Season of Subtraction, Relinquishment, and Making Space

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

As a tangible way of living out the call to conversion, the Christian community suggests three specific spiritual disciplines: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving (sharing). As the image of the townspeople burning their gathered junk as part of spring cleaning Read more [...]

Compass for the Sacred Journey

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

My hope is to help us see how engaging poetry is a viable and enlivening spiritual practice. In addition to the icon or window, I want to offer the image of the compass as a way of explaining the relationship between poetry and the spiritual life since, Read more [...]

Nonviolence as a Way of Practicing Resurrection

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Before it is a personal spiritual practice or a social strategy for cultural transformation, non-violence is an integral part of the mutual reverence and dynamism of the economy of love within the Trinity (the beloved community). Jesus is the nonviolent Read more [...]

Holding What Is

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

A NOTE (to the H & H community): Some of you have mused about the synchronicity of it all, the sudden or continued unsolicited descent in your life or the life of those close to you during this month when our focus is Practicing Descent (wondering, Read more [...]

Daring the Descent

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

When we talk about the path of descent it is important to realize that descent is not always traumatic, automatically full of terror, or necessarily negative. At the risk of stating the obvious, what descent is meant to convey is going down into the depths Read more [...]

Simplicity and the Soul’s Task

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Daniel J. Miller

Simplicity is a counter-cultural practice. Never in the history of humankind have the subtle and not-so-subtle forces of culture been more at odds with a spirituality of simplicity. In this regard, the symbol of American culture is the man or woman at Read more [...]

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