About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

The Human & the Holy

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

After spending this afternoon and early evening together, The Human & the Holy spiritual formation community completed our 13th year together. What a blessing these people are to each other and to me as we come together once a month from September Read more [...]

The Love that Returns

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Most, if not all of you, are familiar with the story in Luke 15: 11-32 typically called the parable of the prodigal son. Those of you who have read what I have written or heard me speak on this passage know that I feel it has been misnamed. It would be Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — Anamnesis

Posted on May 12, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Anamnesis [an-am-nee-sis] One of my favorite words is a Greek term. It is an important theological word used especially by Catholic Christians in reference to the Eucharist. But it seems to me that anamnesis might be a reconciling word where Christians Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today’s Life-Line is: Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your Read more [...]

Puddle Don’t Piddle

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

It rained yesterday and the night before. This is news in southern California. Suddenly the world seemed “mud-luscious” and “puddle wonderful.” With perfect synchronicity, a friend from the perennially precipitating Northwest posted Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Our Father, Mother, who are in the world and surpass the world, blessed by your presence, in us, in animals and flowers, in still air and wind. May justice and peace dwell among us as you come to us. Your will be our will. You Read more [...]

The Preeminent Question

Posted on May 1, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

To say that there is a God, to say that God is, is to say that “love is the source, center, and destiny of experience.”[i] To be made in the image of God means that we are gifted-into-being, that our very being, our being at all, our being here Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Don't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n you let the humor blot out the pain. ~ Slight adaptation from Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last Read more [...]

Going to Peace

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

This past Monday through Wednesday in Rome there was an unprecedented conference hosted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace that elicited a landmark result. Some 80 participants from around the world gathered at the Vatican to discuss Jesus' Read more [...]

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Author Archives: Daniel J. Miller

About Daniel J. Miller

The Human & the Holy

The Love that Returns

A Word to the Wise — Anamnesis

Life-Line

Puddle Don’t Piddle

Life-Line

The Preeminent Question

Life-Line

Life-Line

Going to Peace