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 [...]

To Be Spun as Christ was Spun

Posted on October 21, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Tuesday of Holy Week Today's Life-Line: How do we live by faith, in love, with hope, in the face of the incompatibility of the luminous mystery and the sorrowful mystery of human existence? How do we live responsibly while fully Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The whole process of coming to wholeness through being willing to take the learnings of the past to the challenges of the present shrivels in the face of denial. In the traditional view, struggle required one of two things: Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on September 17, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: It is ironic that often our breakthroughs into consciousness of the divine grow out of breakdowns in ordinary consciousness. Contacts with the divine may at the time feel like pure suffering, and I sometimes wonder if all suffering Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 9/4/18

Posted on September 4, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

The following story comes from an eighteenth-century Hebrew book. A young man once wanted to become a blacksmith. So he became an apprentice to a blacksmith, and he learned all the necessary techniques of the trade: how to hold the tongs, how Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on September 3, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: To make bread or love, to dig in the earth, to feed an animal or cook for a stranger—these activities require no extensive commentary, no lucid theology. All they require is someone willing to bend, reach, chop, stir. Most Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 3/27/18

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

The country and world we live in suffer from a REVERENCE deficiency. For this reason I offer you the following story. The Rabbi's Gift There was a famous monastery which had fallen on hard times. Formerly its many buildings were filled with Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 3/20/18

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. ~ Barry Lopez Great stories happen to those who can tell them. ~ Ira Glass Martin Buber passes on a delightfully transformational Hasidic tale: MY GRANDFATHER was paralyzed. Once he Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 3/12/18

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

ON THE DAY OF THE RACE, he waited with the others and felt that life was waiting in the hills. He couldn’t say why, but a blessing was about to happen. As the gun went off, he could hear the rush of all the racers breathing---like Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: ”Even in the pit of hell, it’s a mitzvah to be joyful.” So said Rabbi Nachman of Bretslov, a mystic in the Hasidic tradition. A mitzvah is an act that honors the Divine. Even in hell, it is possible to be joyful, because 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

To Be Spun as Christ was Spun

Life-Line

Life-Line

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 9/4/18

Life-Line

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 3/27/18

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 3/20/18

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 3/12/18

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