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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 [...]

Small Catholic Group Chastised and Warned

Posted on August 29, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

The Little Brothers and Sisters of Joy and Delight at the rite of peace. Oh, Oh. Wednesday, August 29, 2018 U.S. Today (and Maybe Tomorrow - We Shall See) A tiny group of Catholics were publicly chastised and warned of more severe measures Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 8/28/18

Posted on August 28, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

There is a famous though likely apocryphal story of Ernest Hemingway wagering that he could write a story in six words. As one telling goes, he responded to his disbelieving takers with a six-word story that, indeed, had a beginning, a middle, and Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on August 27, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we will have to do what we can with the third. ~ Aubrey Menen, from Rama Retold, a modern retelling of Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 8/21/18

Posted on August 21, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

This story is tucked into an interview with the late American poet Stanley Kunitz. Kunitz has just referred to writing as “an act of transformation, that magical performance.” INTERVIEWER “Frost talks about the poet, or himself rather, as a Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on August 20, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: One of the harmful clichés of modern life is the exhortation to be nonjudgmental. Judgment is essential to the improvement of the world, the protection of the good, and the destruction of the bad. The responsibility of a freethinking Read more [...]

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Posted on August 13, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Part of me suspected that it was not the boy who made the velveteen rabbit real but the rabbit that made the boy real. ~ Eula Biss Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 8/7/18

Posted on August 7, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Several years ago on the popular television program "The Muppet Show" three of the puppet characters were on a rocket ship hurtling through space. A voice announced over the loudspeaker: "In two minutes we will reach the end of the universe and Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on August 6, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: This is not going to be your usual funeral homily, but Archbishop Hunthausen was not your usual bishop, was he? And I know: a homily is supposed to break open the scriptures and shed light on them. But Archbishop Hunthausen’s Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 7/31/18

Posted on July 31, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

It is my conviction that humans are a hungry lot starving not merely for attention but for blessing. I have written elsewhere (e.g. here), that to know oneself as blessed (as distinct from fortunate as the beatitudes of Jesus make clear) and to know one’s Read more [...]

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