About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

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 [...]

Rescuing Peace

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

It is a sad but recognizable fact that the word peace has lost a bit of its punch these days although it seems to be more adept at taking one. The word peace seems to evoke one of two very different responses, each of which shows that the word has seen Read more [...]

Holy Foolishness: Taking an Interest in the Not Me

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Yesterday I suggested the primary folly was the folly of God as revealed in the original creative act. As an action of freedom, it was oriented toward and done on behalf of the other. I also proposed that, for Christians, Jesus is the embodiment of this Read more [...]

Tzimtzum: The First Folly of God

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Whatever your personal cosmogony, the Jewish-Christian scriptures place great emphasis on the idea of creation. Literate Jews, Catholics, and main-line Protestants have little time or patience for the repartee between rigid fundamentalist Christians and Read more [...]

Two Poems for Easter

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Hi Everyone: I am enclosing two poems, one introduced to me by my brother Kevin by Jim Harrison, and the other the Wendell Berry poem that ends with the provocative two word imperative that is our theme for this year in The Human & the Holy. Each Read more [...]

Good Friday: Back to the Future

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

GOOD FRIDAY If there is any danger during the Triduum (three days) it is merely the accentuated danger Christians face any other time of their lives: to reduce faith to an exercise of “remember when." The risk is to reduce the life of faith to nothing Read more [...]

The Foolishness of Love

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

HOLY THURSDAY In her book O Pioneers! Willa Cather the Nebraskan novelist and chronicler of pioneering life in 20th century America has one of her characters say this: "There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves Read more [...]

Self-Compassion: On Our Way to Yes

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” – Jack Kornfield When the theological pendulum gains enough momentum that it swings all the way to one side and then gets stuck, it is time for the lubricating words of surprise. Read more [...]

Widening the Circle of Compassion

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Recently I was in Louisville, Kentucky and I had the urge to ask the airport cabbie to take me to Fourth and Walnut (now 4th and Muhammad Ali Boulevard) where Thomas Merton had his famous epiphany. But since it was late at night and dark, and I did not Read more [...]

A Noble Trajectory

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Recently, someone relayed to me their story of growing up as a Christian Fundamentalist. She recalled how her minister, prominent in Fundamentalist’s circles, had a propensity for deciding and proclaiming whether or not other persons (including renowned Read more [...]

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