Learning to Deal with Death

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Friday of the Third Week of Easter Today's Life-Line is: Easter? We focus more on dying than on death. How we deal with dying is more important to us than how we conquer death. [...] Learning to deal with dying, however, does not yet mean we Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — Christening

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Christening [kris-uh-ning] Instead of mapping out a schedule of predetermined words and dates for A Word to the Wise, I usually wait, in the spirit of lectio divina, until a word seems to be waving to get my attention like a pedestrian hailing a cab. Read more [...]

Litmus Test: Enlivening & Loving

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly, ~ John 10:10 Religion fails, at the personal, ecclesial, social, and cosmic level, whenever it fails to cultivate, encourage, and engender among its practitioners life and love. Certainly from Read more [...]

Tzimtzum: The First Folly of God

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Whatever your personal cosmogony, the Jewish-Christian scriptures place great emphasis on the idea of creation. Literate Jews, Catholics, and main-line Protestants have little time or patience for the repartee between rigid fundamentalist Christians and Read more [...]

Solitude: The Classroom of Compassion

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Daniel J. Miller

Note: Again, originally I wrote this for pastoral caregivers but it is appropriate for all of us as we respond to Wendell Berry’s invitation (and Jesus’ charge) to practice resurrection (The theme for H&H 2009-2010). As I mentioned in October Read more [...]

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Tag Archives: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Learning to Deal with Death

A Word to the Wise — Christening

Litmus Test: Enlivening & Loving

Tzimtzum: The First Folly of God

Solitude: The Classroom of Compassion