Where Christ Is Present in This World

Posted on December 25, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited. But because he cannot be at home in it, because he is out of place in it, and yet he must be in it, His place is with the others Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: There are many wise, inspiring, and challenging statements from the treasury of words written and spoken by Oscar Romero who was canonized a saint yesterday by Pope Francis. Here are just three. A church that does not provoke Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 5/1/18

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

The Power of the Powerless For about 35 years I have had the pleasure of going on retreat at Weston Priory. Tucked into the Green Mountains of Vermont, it is the home of a small community of Benedictine monks. I have gone with family, friends, and Read more [...]

The Unbecoming of God & the Incarnation of Love

Posted on December 25, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Grant, we pray, that we may share in the divinity of Christ who humbled himself to share in our humanity. from the Collect for The Nativity of the Lord At the Mass of the Day The mystery of the incarnation we celebrate at Christmas, no less than Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on December 5, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited. But because he cannot be at home in it, because he is out of place in it, and yet he must be in it, his place is Read more [...]

Resurrection: The Radical Imperative

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

The consumerist society in which we live has successfully commercialized religious holidays. This is well known, easily observed, and not a little ink has been spilled reminding us of it. Easter is no exception. And yet, the blame game where Christians Read more [...]

The Work of Christmas

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flocks, The work of Christmas begins: To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry, To Read more [...]

Widening the Circle: Jesus’ Ethic of Radical Inclusion

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

One of the scenes in the Gospel of John has provided fodder for centuries of speculation. What did Jesus “write in the sand?” You remember the scene-- “Early in the morning [Jesus] arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started Read more [...]

Palm Sunday: The Misdirection of Jesus

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

As Jesus rode along, the people were spreading their cloaks on the road; and now as he was approaching the slope of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of his disciples began to praise God aloud with joy for all the mighty deeds they had seen. They Read more [...]

Three Poems for Christmas

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Madeleine L'Engle (November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American author best known for her young adult classic and Newberry Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time. Also widely read were its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Read more [...]

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Where Christ Is Present in This World

Life-Line

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 5/1/18

The Unbecoming of God & the Incarnation of Love

Life-Line

Resurrection: The Radical Imperative

The Work of Christmas

Widening the Circle: Jesus’ Ethic of Radical Inclusion

Palm Sunday: The Misdirection of Jesus

Three Poems for Christmas