A Word to the Wise — Effulgence

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Effulgence [ih-fuhl-juh ns] This week’s word is effulgence. Literally it means a shining forth and refers to a brilliant radiance. One of the reasons I was first drawn to the writings of Abraham Heschel was because of the sheer beauty of the language. Read more [...]

Of Mystics and Prophets, of You and Me

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

My favorite quote to illuminate what it means to be holy is the well-worn line from St. Iranaeus: “The glory of God is the human person fully alive.” From the perspective of faith, the sacred drama of life involves and avails us the opportunity to Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today’s Life-Line is: Beautiful people do not just happen. ~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — Antiphon

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Antiphon [an-tuh-fon] This week’s word is ANTIPHON. For a few years now I have been working on an acoustic theology that engenders an antiphonal spirituality, spirituality here meaning simply the enactment of one’s theology in the various spheres Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on January 18, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: "Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand." ~ Thomas Merton Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — Wonder

Posted on January 14, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Wonder [wuhn-der] This week our word is WONDER. This year in The Human & the Holy community (H&H), we are eavesdropping on and then joining in an imagined conversation between four wise guides. One of those sages is Rabbi Abraham Joshua Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — An Explanation

Posted on January 12, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

I have always been a lover of words. When I was a young boy, my mother’s older bachelor brother used to visit us in the States from Panama where he lived and take me for long walks to feed the ducks down at the Lake Washington Ship Canal in Seattle. Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Occasionally The Sacred Braid will feature a Life-Line for the day or the coming week. As I am offering it, a Life-line is meant to point the way, to guide us to safety, to deliver food that nourishes us, or to keep us tethered to reality. A life-line Read more [...]

Being the Image of God

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Daniel J. Miller

For Rabbi Heschel, to be human means to be made in the image and likeness of God. Being made in God’s image is the sign of both God’s love and our human dignity. What being the imago Dei means to Heschel is a bit different than how people often Read more [...]

A Radical Love

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Daniel J. Miller

Some years ago I watched a made-for-TV movie that I found provocative. Called Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Women, each story had its own separate title. The first story “Mamusha,” starred Elizabeth Perkins as Gertruda Babilinska, a Catholic housekeeper Read more [...]