Living Faithfully in the Tension

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-line is: [A]s the great French writer Albert Camus once suggested, there is in the world beauty, and there are the humiliated, and we must strive, hard as it is, not to be unfaithful either to the one or to the other. ~William Sloan Read more [...]

Wise Counsel from Camus

Posted on November 11, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

A Life-Line As the great French writer Albert Camus once suggested, there is in the world beauty, and there are the humiliated, and we must strive, hard as it is, not to be unfaithful either to the one or to the other. ~ William Sloane Coffin 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 [...]

Embracing Life, Engaging Death: Part III

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

“. . . beyond all evil is the compassion of God.” ~ Abraham Heschel “Granted, darkness, chaos, death and hell do appear, but not for a moment are they allowed to prevail …. What occurs in Mozart is rather a glorious upsetting of the balance, Read more [...]

The Blessed Tension

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

The late (and in my opinion), great Catholic Bishop Kenneth Untener from Saginaw, Michigan once wrote a very practical and illuminating book on preaching. Before doing so, he visited every parish in his diocese and asked parishioners one-to-one how they Read more [...]

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Category Archives: Blessed Tension

Living Faithfully in the Tension

Wise Counsel from Camus

Life-Line

Embracing Life, Engaging Death: Part III

The Blessed Tension