A Song for Troublesome Times featuring JT

Posted on March 12, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

TODAY is a special day!!! It is James Taylor's birthday. JT has been the soundtrack for most of my life. Below is one of my favorite songs titled "Grace" from Jonathan Elias' PRAYER CYCLE that features James Taylor. In these troublesome days when the Read more [...]

The Assumption of Spirituality ~ A Life-Line

Posted on March 10, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The assumption of spirituality is that always God is doing something before I know it. So the task is not to get God to do something I think needs to be done but to become aware of what God is doing so that I can respond to it Read more [...]

With All Due Disrespect, Tucker Carlson

Posted on March 7, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

It is Lent. Perhaps it was as a subconscious penance that I found my way to recent clips from the FOX News Channel’s flagship primetime cable "news" program hosted by Tucker Carlson (née Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson). I must confess, I'll take ten Read more [...]

First Sunday of Lent

Posted on March 6, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. In today's first Read more [...]

SUGGESTION QUESTIONS: Food for Thought and Action

Posted on March 4, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

FOR FRIDAYS IN LENT After her talk, Sister Mahala asked: "If your life were a house and the house was on fire, and you had thirty-seconds to run into the house to retrieve and save three human qualities for yourself, what would we see you carry out Read more [...]

The Ridiculous Love of God

Posted on March 3, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

What good is it to believe in a merciful, forgiving God if we are not able or willing to forgive ourselves? Sister Helen Prejean who has given years of her life to accompanying inmates on death row—some who have committed atrocious crimes—reminds Read more [...]

Ash Wednesday 2022

Posted on March 2, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Today is Ash Wednesday. In some communities the lines will be out the door and around the block as if people were in line for a Springsteen concert. I suspect the mood is a bit different in these two lines. And it is right and just that it is so. While Read more [...]

This I Believe by Paul Farmer M.D. (1959 – 2022)

Posted on February 23, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

It is not hyperbole to say that throughout the world people are mourning the death of Dr. Paul Farmer—physician, anthropologist, humanitarian. Co-founder of Partners in Health, Dr. Farmer gave forty years of his life to drawing attention to the gross Read more [...]

Paul Farmer: What a Christian Looks Like

Posted on February 22, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

In 2016, I wrote an article for the Irish journal Spirituality titled "What a Christian Looks Like." It was a tribute to the Jesuit priest, poet, activist Daniel Berrigan (If you are interested, it can be found here). Below is the link for a good article Read more [...]

Brother Weeps on Becoming Whole not Perfect

Posted on February 6, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

One day Brother Weeps was talking about wholeness and holiness, emphasizing that neither has anything to do with perfection. "Perfection, or the preoccupation with it," he said, "which we call perfectionism, is the nemesis of holiness and a misguided Read more [...]

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