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Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
~ Ram Dass
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Author Archives: Daniel J. Miller
Resurrection: The Radical Imperative
The consumerist society in which we live has successfully commercialized religious holidays. This is well known, easily observed, and not a little ink has been spilled reminding us of it. Easter is no exception.
And yet, the blame game where Christians Read more [...]
Out of the Mouths of Babes
When my children were young, even back-seat-in-my-rear-view-mirror young, I used to derive a certain covert and droll pleasure from talking to them about various theological topics or spiritual issues as if they were my colleagues. Partially out of a Read more [...]
Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours.
Yours are the eyes through which Christ’s compassion
is to look out to the world.
Yours are the feet with which Christ is to
go about Read more [...]
A Poem for These Days
The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests Read more [...]
Practicing Resurrection
Hey Goodpeople—
Since Easter is a season not a day, here is a 2009 reflection on one aspect of Practicing Resurrection:
http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2009/12/03/simplcity-helps-us-see-the-essential/
Here’s to eastering, Dan Read more [...]
Life-Line
Today’s Life-Line is:
To be alive: not just the carcass
But the spark.
That's crudely put, but…
If we're not supposed to dance,
Why all this music?
~ Gregory Orr
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Triduum Triptych – Panel 3
The short reflections for each of the three days of Triduum were published as one piece in Spirituality Mar/Apr 2012; No. 101 under the title “The Paschal Mystery.”
Easter
Easter comes.
Into all of creation groaning for God’s salvation, Easter Read more [...]
Holy Saturday Poem
Easter Eve: A Fantasy
The day does not speak above a whisper, is a high dividing
upon a moment into ebbing and flowing,
two pairs of lips neither pressing nor quite yet parting,
the twilight between sleep and waking,
the bowl of hush held lifted Read more [...]
Triduum Triptych – Panel 2
The short reflections for each of the three days of Triduum were published as one piece in Spirituality Mar/Apr 2012; No. 101 under the title “The Paschal Mystery.”
Good Friday
The 13th century German mystic, theologian, and preacher Meister Eckhart Read more [...]