Poem 5 for The Season of Creation*

Posted on September 19, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

LECTIO POETICA If you have not read the explanation for Lectio Poetica, I encourage you to read it here before reading Hopkin’s poem below. As Kingfishers Catch Fire As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in Read more [...]

Let Us Pray with Our Eyes Open

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

"I am not interested in most conversations about equality. To whom would you like to be equal, given a broken and morally bankrupt system? Do you want to be equal to the persons, forces, and systems which generate the very terms of your oppression? I Read more [...]

The Marriage of Justice & Love

Posted on August 30, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love. ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Read more [...]

A Prayer, a Vision, a Call

Posted on August 21, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

O Divine Spirit! During the weeks and months ahead, stir our hearts and minds that we might fight for a vision that is worthy of you and your call to honor the dignity of all of your creation. A vision of who we are as a people, grounded in Read more [...]

John Lewis, February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020, R.I.P.

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

“I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I Read more [...]

Sister Mahala and the Storefront Sign

Posted on June 8, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Sister Mahala once told this story to a group of grade school students: Two boys were walking down Main Street in Anywhere, USA. When they came to the General Store, the owner stood in the doorway leaning against the doorjamb. To the store owner's Read more [...]

Consecrating the Common Deed

Posted on January 18, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

One of the great realizations I gleaned from my years studying the life and works of Rabbi Abraham Heschel is the power, imperative, and sanctity of the common deed, the seemingly simple gesture, word, or act so typically overlooked and often left Read more [...]

Where Christ Hides and Resides

Posted on December 29, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Sadly, Merton's oft-quoted passage, is as timely, stinging, revealing, and indicting as when he penned it in 1960. Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited. But because Read more [...]

Musica Memento 3

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly, to love kindly,
and to walk humbly with your God.
~ Micah 6:8
The vision, essence, and life pattern that characterize what it means to be a Christian are perhaps most succinctly and clearly Read more [...]

Of the Prophet Amos, George Takei, Colin Kaepernick, and What Offends Us

Posted on September 9, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is:

I spurn with loathing your pilgrim feasts. I take no pleasure in your sacred ceremonies. When you bring me your whole offerings and your grass offerings I shall not accept them. Nor pay heed to your shared offerings of straw-fed Read more [...]

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