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This Says It All For Today

July 4, 2015 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WAWAnJOnRI For those who live in the United States, may you have a blessed and extended holiday weekend. For those of you who do not live here, I beg your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT, Sermons, Song Therapy Tagged With: SPECIAL MESSAGE

An Uncharacteristic Wednesday Rant from subversivepreacher: Individualism is an idea that effectively destroys spirituality

July 1, 2015 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

We were taught not only what it means to be a Buddhist, Christian, or Muslim, but also a particular brand within that religion such as Roman Catholic, Sunni or Mahayana. With a specific set of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Nones, spiritual not religious, spirituality

A Wednesday Rant: Small act of subversive imagination

June 24, 2015 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

I want to engage in a small act of subversive imagination. I hope you will play along. Let’s imagine that we did away with social barriers. Let’s just imagine no dress codes, no private clubs, no … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Borders, Boundaries, Environmental Disaster, Segregation, vulnerability

A Friday Rant (in place of Prep for Preachers & Hearers)

June 19, 2015 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

“It doesn’t happen in other places with the same kind of frequency, and it is in our power to do something about it.” President Obama about the shootings at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT, Prep for Sermons Tagged With: gun control, racism, SC, shootings in Charleston, Violence

A Wednesday Rant: The rotten spot in Christian theology

June 17, 2015 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

A Rotten Spot in Christian Theology I have been invited to a conversation regarding the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. I do not know the intent of the person who asked me to talk about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Garden of Eden, Original Sin, Paul was wrong

What do you do when you meet a giant?

June 10, 2015 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

One generation grew up believing in the Lone Ranger and that one person could change the world, while a newer generation grew up knowing that a couple of people could blow up the center of American … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: communalism, Individualism, rant

Playing Cute with God, a reflection on “The Journey” by Mary Oliver

June 3, 2015 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Link to Journey: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/356684-the-journey-one-day-you-finally-knew-what-you-had It is true you know, the only life you can save is your own. Maybe it is because of what … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: "Calling", Mary Oliver, Spiritual Direction, The Journey

A Wednesday Rant: Carbon-loading

May 27, 2015 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Here I sit in a wooden Adirondack rocker (a pretense of hominess) in the Baltimore airport, tethered by cord to a fresh supply of electricity my phone and computer are nursing. I am doing all this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: carbon footrprint, saving the planet, urgency

A Wednesday Rant: A Prayer for Extroverts

May 20, 2015 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

A prayer on behalf of those who speak to listen (Extroverts) Beloved God of many voices act kindly toward my incessant chatter, those squealing disharmonies hideously slithering from within … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Extroverts, Introverts, Prayer, Prayer for Extroverts

A Wednesday Rant: Loving Judas

May 13, 2015 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

Archive Rant Adapted from a presentation delivered to a 12-Step Worship in 2012 “We do not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.” (C … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Judas, Jung, Mary Oliver, rant, Shadow

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

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