A Mysticism of Ecological Praxis – Part 1

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

A Life-Line: What i think we need for the twenty-first century is what might be called a mysticism of ecological praxis. The liberation theologians of the twentieth century and their European counterparts came to Read more [...]

A Week with Mary Oliver — Day 6

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

In light of Mary Oliver's death on January 17, let us honor her life and savor her words The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice-- though the whole house began Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Resurrection is not a consoling opium, soothing us with the promise of a better world in the hereafter. It is the energy for a rebirth of this life. The hope doesn’t point to another world. It is focused on the redemption of Read more [...]

Holy Saturday — The Fertile Darkness

Posted on April 15, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Fine wine takes time. ~ every skilled vintner It takes a very long time to become young. ~ Pablo Picasso I have said elsewhere that the tendency to skip over Good Friday and to rush unperturbed and undisturbed in our Sunday best to Easter is fraught Read more [...]

The Foolishness of Love

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

HOLY THURSDAY In her book O Pioneers! Willa Cather the Nebraskan novelist and chronicler of pioneering life in 20th century America has one of her characters say this: "There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves Read more [...]

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A Mysticism of Ecological Praxis – Part 1

A Week with Mary Oliver — Day 6

Life-Line

Holy Saturday — The Fertile Darkness

The Foolishness of Love