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 [...]

Our Cause for Concern

Posted on January 6, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Among the many lessons the American citizenry should have learned from the daily dishonorable behavior of former President Donald Trump is that leadership that lacks invited pushback, contrary ideas, and different viewpoints is doomed to move toward totalitarian Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise ~ Integrity / Part 4

Posted on October 30, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Integrity [ in–teg–ri-tee ] Part 4, The righteous walk in integrity— happy are the children who follow them. ~ Proverbs 20:7 Cease to do evil. Learn to do good. Make justice your home forever. ~ Isaiah 1:16 If the main arbiter for Read more [...]

Easter 2020 – Two by Buechner

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Lines are: “Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

The Last Life-Line of 2018 is: Kindness and truth shall meet, justice and peace shall kiss. Truth shall spring out of the earth, and justice shall look down from heaven. ~ Psalm 85: 11-12 Read more [...]

Pensées — Advent Pondering 2

Posted on December 21, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

All religious traditions have at least this in common: the articulated perception of a gap between what is and what should be; between reality as actuality and reality as an ideal. ~ Lawrence Cunningham HOPEFULNESS When I was young, from time to time Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 10/2/2018

Posted on October 2, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Judging Truth Once there was a religious man who wanted to go on a pilgrimage. He did not want to take his life savings with him on his journey, so he went to one of his good friends and took him to a forest so that he could talk to him in private. Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on May 7, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. ~ Blaise Pascal (1623 -1662) Some things never change. Read more [...]

The Truth that Matters ~ A Life-Line

Posted on January 8, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. ~ Albert Einstein Read more [...]

Life-Line + 1

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Lines are: If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. ~ Marcus Aurelius Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. ~ Albert Einstein Cross Reference: Lk. Read more [...]

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When Religion Goes off the Rails ~ A Life-Line

Our Cause for Concern

A Word to the Wise ~ Integrity / Part 4

Easter 2020 – Two by Buechner

Life-Line

Pensées — Advent Pondering 2

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 10/2/2018

Life-Line

The Truth that Matters ~ A Life-Line

Life-Line + 1