When Religion Goes off the Rails ~ A Life-Line

Posted on June 3, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Religion becomes sinful when it begins to advocate the segregation of God, to forget that the true sanctuary has no walls. Religion has always suffered from the tendency to become an end in itself, to seclude the holy, to become Read more [...]

The Deepest Bow to God is Awe

Posted on May 20, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Religion begins with the sense of the ineffable, with the awareness of a reality that discredits our wisdom, that shatters our concepts. It is the ineffable with which we must begin. ~ Abraham Heschel One reason I was drawn to Rabbi Abraham Heschel's Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Here’s what’s interesting— when studying shame and spirituality or shame and religion there are a lot of people—or over half of the people I have interviewed over the last thirteen years have pretty deep scars around faith Read more [...]

Joining the Something That God is Always Doing

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

I was doing some reading recently on spiritual direction and came across these lines from the late pastor, teacher, and writer Eugene Peterson and I thought it was apropos to our theme for the year in The Human & the Holy (H&H). In his book The Read more [...]

Litmus Test: Enlivening & Loving

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly, ~ John 10:10 Religion fails, at the personal, ecclesial, social, and cosmic level, whenever it fails to cultivate, encourage, and engender among its practitioners life and love. Certainly from Read more [...]

Prayer Engages Us in Reality

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

I have always agreed with the Anglican priest and theologian Kenneth Leech who writes that an authentic spirituality is one that necessarily points people in the direction of reality and equips them in some way to move consciously and faithfully in that Read more [...]

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