Second Friday of Lent — Gideon’s Bible, My Unsung Hero, and the Practice of Hope as an Act of Resistance

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

One deed of an individual may decide the fate of the world. ~ Abraham Heschel I confess to a wee bit of eye-rolling in response to the GBS otherwise known as The Gideon's Bible Syndrome. Most of you who have spent time pilfering hotel bathrooms Read more [...]

ADVENT—ure No. 4

Posted on December 16, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

WANTED: Couriers of Love These days, with marketing insisting on playing top dog, authors are lucky if the books they write bear the names they choose. The books of Abraham Heschel, my spiritual guide and second favorite Rabbi, however, were written Read more [...]

Consecrating the Common Deed

Posted on January 18, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

One of the great realizations I gleaned from my years studying the life and works of Rabbi Abraham Heschel is the power, imperative, and sanctity of the common deed, the seemingly simple gesture, word, or act so typically overlooked and often left Read more [...]

Enlarge Our Hearts

Posted on January 11, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

A Life-Line to Take Hold of: We face the situation that there is nothing we can do for people except to love them. . . . We continue in our fourteenth year of feeding our brother and clothing him and sheltering him and the more we do it the Read more [...]

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Second Friday of Lent — Gideon’s Bible, My Unsung Hero, and the Practice of Hope as an Act of Resistance

ADVENT—ure No. 4

Consecrating the Common Deed

Enlarge Our Hearts