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Hillel and Jesus, Practice and Transformation…

March 7, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

“We live on only one side of the world,” Kenneth Patchen concluded his poem. ”Through the flames I can see the lowered faces of creatures that watch us in amused love. We live on only one side … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Hillel, Practice, transformation

What about grief?

March 3, 2021 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

This is overly autobiographical but I mean it as an illustration. It points toward something true for all of us, especially right now. I learned about the covert nature of grief the hard way. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: COVID, grief, healing

Good at right-angle with good

February 28, 2021 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

A video version is found at the end of the sermon text I have a friend who, with a younger wife, had his first child at age 49. He was both joyful and anxious in anticipation of having kids in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: good, Jesus, Peter, wilderness

A blushing request

February 26, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

subversivepreacher.org is first and foremost, a ministry. Honestly, it is only a ministry. By ministry I mean literally the meaning of the two Greek words that compose its root: to be sent and to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT, Sermons Tagged With: Apology, growth, like

While waiting for angels

February 24, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Photographer, Tracy Genovese, and I were overcome with restlessness at the same time. Our pandemic agitation led to a collaboration between poet and visual artist. Because it is was almost Lent, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: angels, Facebook, wilderness

Don’t wait for the angels…

February 21, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Scroll down for Video version  I’m starting all over again. This is a second stab at a sermon, the first one just didn’t seem right. It may have been okay if we weren’t in our eleventh month of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Community, Lent, spiritual practice

A Shot at Connecting

February 17, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

“I got mine.” It sounds like an awful personal injury law firm commercial in which a supposed client crows at getting a financial settlement, as if it was a birthright. But instead, I am referring to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: "I got mine", Community, connections, vaccine

You

February 14, 2021 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

The video format of this sermon can be found by scroll to the end of the text Today is the Last Sunday of Epiphany and this is a reflection on the “Transfiguration” story in the gospel of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: beloved, embraced, primary spiritual experience

Fear

February 10, 2021 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

“noun: fear; an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat...a feeling of anxiety concerning...safety and well-being... … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: cities and towns, distance, fear, Segregation

Sneaking out the back door

February 7, 2021 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

TEXTS Dove that ventured outside by Rainer Maria Rilke Dove that ventured outside,      flying far from the dovecote: housed and protected again,      one with the day, the night, knows what … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Assumptions, first things first, Rilke

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