Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere.

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham, Alabama jail, April 16, 1963. ARTWORK: Read more [...]

Grand Standing ~ A Life-Line

Posted on September 18, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are Read more [...]

A Day for National Moral Reckoning

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends. ~ John 15:3 "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever Read more [...]

Reverence: An Offering of Love – Part 3/4

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

~ continued from yesterday (since this is posted in four installments and written as a conversation, you may want to hit “Previous” and read 1/4 and 2/4 or the last paragraph or two of the preceding post to get the context and flow) Reverence 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 [...]

Martin Luther King and Our Single Garment of Destiny

Posted on January 20, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. I call the main character in Jesus' story below, Bigger Barnes. Bigger Barnes lives with the all too common assumption that bigger is better. And so he spends his days Read more [...]

When Will We Ever Learn?

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

They shall beat their swords into plowsharesand their spears into pruning hooks;One nation shall not raise the sword against another,nor shall they train for war again. ~ Is. 2:4b; Micah 4:3 In this world of continuous wars and rumors of war, Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on February 11, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is:
There are no proofs for the existence of God. . .
There are only witnesses.

--Abraham Joshua Heschel Read more [...]

We Remember — MLK, Jr.

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)
We remember that fifty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, drum major for justice, follower of the Prince of Peace, martyr for rooting out racism as a gardener for God, and prophet of non-violence, was assassinated Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is:

Through violence you may murder a murderer but you can’t murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar but you can’t establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can’t murder hate. Darkness Read more [...]

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Tag Archives: Martin Luther King

Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere.

Grand Standing ~ A Life-Line

A Day for National Moral Reckoning

Reverence: An Offering of Love – Part 3/4

The Marriage of Justice & Love

Martin Luther King and Our Single Garment of Destiny

When Will We Ever Learn?

Life-Line

We Remember — MLK, Jr.

Life-Line