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A little more about the sun…

April 7, 2021 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

From the waterfront in Geneva, the sun seems to rise from behind Vintosa vineyards. On a clear morning a finger of yellow or pink fire curls over the slope on the east side of Seneca Lake. Light from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Awe, Mary Oliver, Sun

In the shadow of the Spring Equinox

March 31, 2021 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

This year, as in many years, there is a double-exposure taking place: a primal transition in nature is appearing at the same time as human ceremonies marking transitions within the sacred. Think of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Equinox, religion, Spring

Twenty-four hours along the lakefront in Geneva

March 24, 2021 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

You can see a lot of things along the lakefront in Geneva. Sunday morning, after walking the dog, we took our customary seat on the bench and felt intense morning sunshine glance off diamonds of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Memories, Red-Wings Blackbirds, Robins

SMOL Small Book Fair

March 22, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

A Reading from "Cairn, Marking the Trace" On March 5, 2021, sponsored by Unsolicited Press and the SMOL Book Fair, Cameron Miller held a reading of poems and an essay from "Cairn." Following the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT, podcasts Tagged With: "Cairn, Essay, Poems

This is about Ethics in case you’re not interested

March 17, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

I once served on the Bio-medical Ethics Board of one of the largest hospitals in the state where I lived. As the only community member in a group otherwise made up of hospital or medical corporation … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Discernment, Ethics, neutrality

Dogs and Lady Bird

March 10, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

I write this on a cloudy thirty-degree day as if in January or February - though thirty would feel warm during those frigid stretches we had. The forecast for Wednesday, when you may be reading this, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Keep America Beautiful, Lady Bird, Wear a mask

What about grief?

March 3, 2021 By Cam Miller 8 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

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

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

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Books, Poems, & Events

NOMINATED FOR A PUSHCART PRIZE 2020 Unsolicited Press (Portland, OR) chose "Cairn" among its many fine publications this year, as a nominee for one of the most respected literary awards in the … ...Read more

Books, Poems, & Events

Books, Poems, Sermons, and Columns for navigating the globalization of spirituality, and author visits and lectures available for building up the sacred community. Read more...


Each of these posts appeared first in The Finger Lakes Times (NY) as an entry in the weekly series, “Denim Spirit.”

 

Sermons, and preaching as an art, are not for dispensing content or proclaiming doctrines and dogma. Like poetry, prose, and music, they are for provoking and inspiring thought, memory, and imagination within those receiving them. Please allow your thoughts to wander as they will in response to what you hear, rather than following along word for word.

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