Life-Line

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Here’s what’s interesting— when studying shame and spirituality or shame and religion there are a lot of people—or over half of the people I have interviewed over the last thirteen years have pretty deep scars around faith Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on March 6, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: If, in my own life, there has been “good purpose” in living with AIDS, it has been this: I have learned, repeatedly, that we experience satisfaction and purpose in our lives when we do something kind and caring for others. Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Prophets from Amos and Isaiah to Gandhi and King have shown how frequently compassion demands confrontation. Love without criticism is a kind of betrayal. Lying is done with silence as well as words. William Sloane Coffin 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 [...]

Advent: The Tender Heart and the Unreasonable Thing

Posted on December 2, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today, December 2, 2016, marks the 36th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of the four US Catholic Missionaries in El Salvador who stood with the thousands of El Salvadoran people who themselves were martyred for the cause of justice and the gospel of life. Today Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on September 19, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried. ~ Oscar Romero Read more [...]

A Disturbing Blessing

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

May God bless us with discomfort at easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships so that we may live from deep within our hearts. May God bless us with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of God's creations so that we may Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ’s compassion is to look out to the world. Yours are the feet with which Christ is to go about Read more [...]

Triduum Triptych – Panel 2

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

The short reflections for each of the three days of Triduum were published as one piece in Spirituality Mar/Apr 2012; No. 101 under the title “The Paschal Mystery.” Good Friday The 13th century German mystic, theologian, and preacher Meister Eckhart Read more [...]

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Posted on February 29, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

When the Nazis came to get the Communists, I was silent, because I was not a Communist. When they came to get the Socialists, I was silent. When they came to get the Catholics, I was silent. When they came to get the Jews, I was silent. And when they Read more [...]

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What is Christmas?

Advent: The Tender Heart and the Unreasonable Thing

Life-Line

A Disturbing Blessing

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Triduum Triptych – Panel 2

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