About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

The Modern Mystics School begins Saturday, February 3, 2024! — Have a look.

Posted on January 27, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

Goodpeople ~ I'm excited to let you know of a new online course called The Modern Mystics School in which I will be a featured speaker. We will go beyond cramped certainties to discover how 12 diverse wisdom bearers in the modern world forged their 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 [...]

Tonight in Somewhere, USA or in Whatever Country You Lay Your Head

Posted on December 22, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Jesus was born homeless in a makeshift shelter and he died homeless with nowhere to lay his head except—when he could lift it slightly— against a wooden beam that replaced a wooden headboard. A young girl was sitting on the ground a ways away Read more [...]

The Coming of Christmas and the Birth of the Rebel Jesus

Posted on December 22, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

rebel [noun, adjective reb-uhl; verb ri-bel ] a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of their country. Except in Jesus' case, it was adamantly an insurrection without arms. Read more [...]

Why I Do What I Do — An Advent Reflection

Posted on December 16, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

E-mman-u-el [ ih-man-yoo-uhl ] from Hebrew ʿimmānū'ēl “God is with us” I was listening the other day to an interview with Chris Herren who is in his mid-forties. He’s a humble, insightful, and articulate man. And he’s doing such Read more [...]

Reaching Out, Pulled from Within — A Lament

Posted on December 5, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

~ After Listening to an interview with Nick Cave and while reading his book Faith, Hope, and Carnage. Does it get better? Does it get better? Does it get better? Does it get better? Does it get better? Does it get better? ⊕ Does it ever 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 [...]

The Tragedy of Us and Them — A Lamentation

Posted on November 7, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Some are guilty, all are responsible. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel While men called adults keep playing the same old demented games where no one ever wins both sides always lose each side justifying violence so that violence and anguish and death and trauma Read more [...]

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