Bah Hum Bug or the Bishop’s Bug?

Posted on December 6, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

If I had to run into my home because of the proverbial fire (which sadly is not merely proverbial this week in Southern California) and retrieve the proverbial treasured things that one could escape with without risking one’s life, one of the cherished Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on December 4, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: It is Advent and we are a people, pregnant. Pregnant and waiting. . . . Waiting, because it will always be with us, can be made a work of art, and the season of Advent invites us to underscore and understand with a new patience Read more [...]

Advent Prayer I

Posted on December 3, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Advent Blessings, Friends. To pray and reflect on Advent Prayer I, click here: Read more [...]

What is Christmas?

Posted on December 25, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

It is the Yes of Mary to the Yes of God inviting the Yes of us to the Yes of God. It is the surrogacy of love giving birth to new possibilities. It is the magnificat of Mary’s hospitality undoing the homelessness of hope. It is the face of the Read more [...]

Merry Christmas & Blessed Holidays Goodpeople

Posted on December 24, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Wishing you, your family and friends, all creatures great and small, all neighborhoods and nations, all people of the earth, & the community of creation Hope Healing Peace Justice & Joy EMMANUEL ~ Dan ~ Read more [...]

The Glory of God-Given, the Solidarity of God-Present

Posted on December 24, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

"Emmanuel (God-with-us), to whom we pleadingly sing “O come, O come,” is the human enfleshment of the one same divine presence that has been from the beginning but to which humans have a habit of becoming blind. Christ makes God present in the Read more [...]

Participating in the Labor of Love

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

In two days we hear the story of Miryam of Nazareth's journey, labor, and giving birth to Jesus. And again we are confronted with the question of how and where we are to join in the labor of love by bringing Christ into our world in deeds of kindness, Read more [...]

Seasons for Beholding

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Given that we are just days from the turn from the season of Advent to the season of Christmas, let’s give way to wonder since these seasons, in addition to the feast of Epiphany, are perhaps best entered into by understanding prayer as the art and Read more [...]

The Call to Spiritual Surrogacy

Posted on December 21, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

There is a word I love and have mentioned before, a Greek word essential to a Catholic understanding of the Eucharist and, I think, to our celebration of the hallowed events that we celebrate each Advent and Christmas. The word is anamnesis. It refers Read more [...]

Advent Poem

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Here is an Advent poem for your prayerful pondering. It is by Rowan Williams, Welsh theologian, priest, and former Archbishop of Canterbury. Later commissioned to be set to music as a carol, the poem captures a wintry spirituality. Read more [...]

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