We Can Be

Posted on October 23, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

One of the best pieces of advice that I can give to preachers is to preach as if YOU were sitting in the front pew. That simple counsel is meant to prevent preaching from getting preachy. It reminds the homilist that he or she is not up there preaching Read more [...]

The Coming of Your Bones

Posted on June 12, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Yesterday, I posted a reflection on compassion which I believe is a constitutive element of any authentic spirituality. I told a story about when I was in college and on the receiving end of a simple but profound act of compassionate presence. At Read more [...]

Brother Weeps on Life as Preparation for the Great Giveaway

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

The text was the Gospel of John, chapter 12, verse 24. The words were those of Jesus. A foreshadowing of his fate. His fate not being some final, static state, feeble as nothing and dead as a cross nail, but transformed, alive, vivacious, and bearing Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 5/29/18

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

STOP and Listen When Mitch Albom, a successful, award-winning sportswriter for the Detroit Free Press, was 37 years old he learned that his favorite teacher from Brandeis University, Morrie Schwartz, was dying of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (commonly Read more [...]

The Madness of March, the Audacity of April

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Daniel J. Miller

"There is no resurrection that is not the resurrection of love" ~ Dan Miller The Madness of March, the Audacity of April In the culture, at least the American sporting culture, these past two or three weeks and this week especially are considered Read more [...]

Come, O Freedom, Come, O Death

Posted on November 1, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

“EMBRACING LIFE, ENGAGING DEATH” A Preface I was planning on sending you Part IV of the initial H&H reflections today but I’d like to take a temporary (though related) detour, especially given today is the Feast of All Saints and tomorrow, Read more [...]

Embracing Life, Engaging Death: Part III

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

“. . . beyond all evil is the compassion of God.” ~ Abraham Heschel “Granted, darkness, chaos, death and hell do appear, but not for a moment are they allowed to prevail …. What occurs in Mozart is rather a glorious upsetting of the balance, Read more [...]

Embracing Life, Engaging Death: Part I

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

There is a task, a law, and a way: The task is redemption, The law, to do justice, to love mercy, and the way is the secret of being human and holy. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity Read more [...]

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