Incarnation as Compassionate Solidarity

Posted on December 17, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

From Advent 2009: The gospel of God is not so much that God comes to save us but that God saves us by coming to us, by coming and being with us as one of us. God’s saving presence is manifested and accomplished not by the Divine waving a magic celestial Read more [...]

Advent 2016: The Reason for the Seasons

Posted on December 13, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Christians would do well to stop blaming the big, bad secular culture for the bastardization of Christmas and to retire the accusatory, catchy slogans. Instead, we are heralded, as we always have been heralded, to prepare the inn of our hearts and 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 November 28, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today’s Life-Line is: That pregnancy and the entry of divine life into the world are inextricably related is, of course, at the heart of the Christian message. . . Like the simple young woman in Nazareth, we may be surprised, at any time, by Read more [...]

Saints Alive!

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

I was relistening to a podcast this week in which the interviewee, Francis Weller, a psychotherapist, writer, and expert in the healing work of grief ritual, made the comment that in his work he sees two ailments that especially seem to afflict people 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Humanity’s Yes to Creation

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

The prophets and preachers of the new cosmology like the late Father Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme, Sister Miriam MacGillis of Genesis Farm, Diarmuid O’Murchu, and John Philip Newell to name just some, have highlighted how anthropocentric is Read more [...]

The Joy in Meaningful Differences

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

Practicing the Presence (continued) And what are we called to be present to? Well, to everything and to everyone. I should say to each thing and to each one in its own unique, precious particularity. The poet David Ignatow describes the importance Read more [...]

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Tag Archives: Incarnation

Incarnation as Compassionate Solidarity

Advent 2016: The Reason for the Seasons

Advent: The Tender Heart and the Unreasonable Thing

Life-Line

Saints Alive!

Life-Line

A Word to the Wise — Christening

The Work of Christmas

Humanity’s Yes to Creation

The Joy in Meaningful Differences