About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

for the Feast of All Souls – A Remembrance Prayer

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Here is a prayer for The Feast of All Souls, on November 2nd. We re-member ourselves today to those who have died, gone before us marked with the sign of faith, and to those whom we entrust to the faith of God, extravagant in mercy and generous Read more [...]

Musica Memento 3

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly, to love kindly, and to walk humbly with your God. ~ Micah 6:8 The vision, essence, and life pattern that characterize what it means to be a Christian are perhaps most succinctly and clearly Read more [...]

Lectio Poetica No. 2

Posted on October 24, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

The Bright Field by R. S. Thomas I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had treasure in it. I realise now that I Read more [...]

To Be Spun as Christ was Spun

Posted on October 21, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Tuesday of Holy Week Today's Life-Line: How do we live by faith, in love, with hope, in the face of the incompatibility of the luminous mystery and the sorrowful mystery of human existence? How do we live responsibly while fully Read more [...]

A Prayer: Harvest of the Heart

Posted on October 16, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

AUTUMN We give thanks for the harvest of the heart's work; Seeds of faith planted with faith; Love nurtured by love; Courage strengthened by courage. We give thanks for the fruits of the struggling soul, The bitter and the sweet; For that 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 [...]

Remember

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

"If we approach nature and the environment without . . . openness to awe and wonder, if we no longer speak the language of fraternity and beauty in our relationship with the world, our attitude will be that of masters, consumers, ruthless exploiters, Read more [...]

When I Walk in the Woods and Fields ~ Found Poem 1

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

The Academy of American Poets defines a Found Poem as follows: "Found poems take existing texts and refashion them, reorder them, and present them as poems. The literary equivalent of a collage, found poetry is often made from newspaper articles, street Read more [...]

A Mysticism of Ecological Praxis – Part 2

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

from Denis Edwards, Ecology at the Heart of Faith" The Change of Heart that Leads to a New Way of Living on Earth What then would a mysticism of ecological praxis look like? I suggest that it might embrace some of these kinds of experience: ⊕ Read more [...]

A Mysticism of Ecological Praxis – Part 1

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

A Life-Line: What i think we need for the twenty-first century is what might be called a mysticism of ecological praxis. The liberation theologians of the twentieth century and their European counterparts came to Read more [...]

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