Life-Line

Posted on October 17, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The root of Christian love is not the will to love, but the faith that one is loved. The faith that one is loved by God. That faith that one is loved by God although unworthy---or, rather, irrespective of one's worth! ~ Read more [...]

What a Christian Looks Like

Posted on October 1, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Daniel Berrigan, S.J. (1921-2016) -- A Personal Remembrance This article is from SPIRITUALITY, Volume 22, September – October 2016, No. 128 In my office there is a facsimile of a check. It is xeroxed on green paper and paper-clipped to a stole-like Read more [...]

Happy Meal or Risky Meal?

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Much as Baptism has lost almost all of its original sense of danger and risk evoked by references to drowning and the baptismal font being shaped like a coffin, womb, or cross, so too in many Christian communities the celebration of the Eucharist has Read more [...]

A Blessed Creation Day

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

A Blessed Creation Day to you. One of my favorite scripture passages is Acts 17: 28 where it affirms that it is in God that “we live and move and have our being.” Today is a great day to remember not only that the resplendent universe is a Read more [...]

Little Books with Big Meaning

Posted on August 2, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

The last class I offered the last year I worked full-time in a parish was titled “The Mustard Seed Conspiracy: Little Books with Big Meaning.” The title was lifted from a book by Tom Sine. I thought it sounded tantalizingly subversive. The sub-title Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

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Today’s Life-Line is:

We can never be born enough. ~ E.E. Cummings

Life-Line

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

The Life-Line below is my response to those searching for a DNA-based argument for the existence of God. Today's Life-Line is: I hope there’s an animal somewhere that nobody has ever seen. And I hope Read more [...]

Three Gates, The Donald, and How the Sap Rises

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

A sage once said--- some insist it was Buddha, some say Rumi, others Beth Day or Mary Ann Pietzker or the Quakers or Sai Baba or Eleanor Roosevelt or their grandmother. It doesn’t much matter who--- that Before you speak, your words must pass through Read more [...]

The Touch of Love — It Is Everything

Posted on May 29, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today is the Feast of Corpus Christi (The Body of Christ). I have spoken and written a fair amount over the years about the Eucharist. My article “Listening to the Wind in the Wheat” says much though not all of what I believe is important about the Read more [...]

God — The Beloved Community

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

This past Sunday was the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity. Before we get too far removed from it, I’d like to offer a few reflections on this central mystery of our faith. When it comes to the Trinitarian nature of God, some Christians grew up with Read more [...]

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Life-Line

What a Christian Looks Like

Happy Meal or Risky Meal?

A Blessed Creation Day

Little Books with Big Meaning

Life-Line

Life-Line

Three Gates, The Donald, and How the Sap Rises

The Touch of Love — It Is Everything

God — The Beloved Community