Hidden Treasure & Reeling Joy

Posted on February 11, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. ~ Mt. 13:44 Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I say to you, many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear Read more [...]

Christmas 2022 ~ To Be or Not to Be—Involved

Posted on December 25, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

And the word became flesh and dwelt among us as one of us. After arduous and diligent digs for the past twenty-five years at Mount Precipice, or Mount of the Leap, in the southern outskirts of Nazareth, overlooking the Jezre'el Valley, archeologists Read more [...]

With All Due Disrespect, Tucker Carlson

Posted on March 7, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

It is Lent. Perhaps it was as a subconscious penance that I found my way to recent clips from the FOX News Channel’s flagship primetime cable "news" program hosted by Tucker Carlson (née Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson). I must confess, I'll take ten Read more [...]

Pensées – More on Hope

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

What is hope? It is a presentiment that imagination is more real And reality less real than it looks. ~ Rubem Alves So much is in the bud. ~ Denise Levertov As stated in my reflection “Pensées – Advent Pondering 2,” Advent is a season Read more [...]

Pensées — Advent Pondering 1

Posted on December 21, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

As you know, Advent literally means “coming toward” (ad- toward + venire- to come) Traditionally, it is the season when we pay special attention to the coming towardness of God, the divine presence in our midst. First, by entering again into the Read more [...]

The Bait-and-Switch Switch

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

ASH WEDNESDAY-- In advertising there is the well-known tactic of "bait-and-switch." There are different ways of doing this. One way is to advertise a particular product in such a way that it gets potential buyers into the store only then to substitute 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 [...]

Can the Word Christian Be Saved?

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Continued from (March 3: A Word to the Wise – Christening) A college friend of mine had a particular repetitive fondness for the jocular quip, “You and I have a strange and wonderful relationship (dramatic pause): You’re kind of strange and I’m 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 [...]

Bringing Our Blooming Gift

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

Tuesday of the 1st Week of Lent, Year B (Isaiah 55:10-11; Matthew 6:7-15) Yesterday I failed to mention that the gospel that was selected to accompany the reading from Leviticus 19 on being holy was the famous but frequently side-stepped passage from Read more [...]

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