Impossible Blossom

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

I was walking through the nearby park a few days before Easter and snapped this picture. I think the photo is an apt icon for Easter. I like that the blossoms catch the eye first and are pronounced but also how on closer inspection it appears the flowering Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Oscar Romero was the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador. He served from February 1977 until March of 1980 when he was assassinated. A studious, humble, and conservative priest, Romero had disappointed the ruling oligarchy of El Salvador by Read more [...]

Resurrection: The Radical Imperative

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

The consumerist society in which we live has successfully commercialized religious holidays. This is well known, easily observed, and not a little ink has been spilled reminding us of it. Easter is no exception. And yet, the blame game where Christians Read more [...]

End of Year Reflections

Posted on May 30, 2015 by Daniel J. Miller

Note: I have decided to upload this [edited and abridged] end-of-the-year letter to the H&H community in the hopes that it might have something of value to those outside this gathered community. Our focus for the year was "Embracing Life, Engaging Read more [...]

Triduum: The Story of Our Life in God

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

In the book O Pioneers by Nebraska novelist Willa Cather, one of the characters opines: “There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.” Sometimes when I use this Read more [...]

Good Friday: Back to the Future

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

GOOD FRIDAY If there is any danger during the Triduum (three days) it is merely the accentuated danger Christians face any other time of their lives: to reduce faith to an exercise of “remember when." The risk is to reduce the life of faith to nothing Read more [...]

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