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Remember when it was cold?

December 28, 2022 By Cam Miller 7 Comments

I am writing this on December 24th shortly after walking Rabia in four degrees with a minus-sixteen windchill. By the time you read this we’ll be peering into fifty degree weather. My first thought … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: MAGA, memory, moving forward

Christmas 2022: Presents? No, presence…

December 24, 2022 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

A link to YouTube video version is available at the end of the text Right here, right now is the eye of the Christmas storm. I love it when we get to Christmas Eve and we get to be here. Here’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Christmas, God slips in..., Presence

On the 25th…

December 21, 2022 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

Today is the fourth day of Chanukah and there are four days left until Christmas. It is the perfect occasion to mention how they are connected. The Gospel of John (10:22) makes a passing reference to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Antiochus IV, Chanukah, Christmas

A good day for truth-telling…

December 18, 2022 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

                                                                                               Scroll down for a YouTube video version Fourth Sunday of Advent 2022. We are spitting distance from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: 4 Advent, the end of time, Virgin

The Music Found Me

December 14, 2022 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

The music found me. It fingered my nerves like ivories, hammers on the strings pulling my toes up and down. All the way up the music moved -- my head side to side, my heart a beat faster. I was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Coltrane, Long Drive, Music

3 Advent: Trees

December 11, 2022 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

This is an Archive Sermon, from 2020, Year A in the Revised Common Lectionary. There is no video version this week. If I can be personal for a moment, I want to echo Wendell Berry’s poem about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Advent, Trees, Wendell Berry

The Circle Be Unbroken

December 7, 2022 By Cam Miller 8 Comments

A shout out to Allen! I hope I’m spelling his name correctly. He is my senior by a number of years, I am guessing, but he is still running...and running...and running. Every day in fact. You may … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Aging, Running, Suffering and Death

Reality Shift

December 4, 2022 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

A Youtube link for the video follows the text Let’s take this apart -- and then put it back together again. First of all, John the Baptist. He says to the leaders of the religion, ”...God is able … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Sermons Tagged With: de-construction, re-construction, Reality shift

In Celebration of the Herd

November 30, 2022 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

One party over, several more to go: Rohatsu (Bodhi Day) -- Buddhism Hanukkah -- Judaism The Unprecedented Martyrdoms -- Sikhism Winter Solstice -- Wicca and Paganism Christmas -- … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT

A stout and burly trust

November 27, 2022 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Picture this scene. Martin Luther King, Jr. sits by himself in an anteroom with his head in his hands knowing that assassins are prowling the perimeter of his life. Even so he must go forth into … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Memphis, MLK, trust

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