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Denim Spirituality for Any Day of the Week

Kneading the dough of a small, doable, imaginative spiritual practice with unexpected ideas that open us to the ordinary presence of God.

Valuing Wonder Above Knowledge, Sometimes

March 14, 2018 By Cam Miller 1 Comment

This post appeared first in The Finger Lakes Times (NY), as an installment in the weekly series, "Denim Spirit." Even with weeks to go before March is gone, and an impetuous April to endure before it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT, Denim Spirituality for Any Day of the Week Tagged With: Graveyards, poetry, Wonder

Kayleigh

September 1, 2017 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

This post appeared first in the weekly column, "Denim Spirit" for The Finger Lakes Times (NY) Rabia never wakes up grumpy, and as far as I can tell, is never stiff in the morning either. In fact, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT, Denim Spirituality for Any Day of the Week Tagged With: Aging, Dogs, frolic

Dear Whitey

August 24, 2017 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

This post first appeared in "The Finger Lakes Times" as the weekly column, Denim … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT, Denim Spirituality for Any Day of the Week Tagged With: Race & Privilege

Denim Spirit: The Thinning of the Cervix

December 15, 2016 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

This first appeared as a regularly scheduled column in The Finger Lakes Times … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT, Denim Spirituality for Any Day of the Week Tagged With: Christmas, Sacred, Thin place

Denim Spirit: A Kinder, Gentler Storm

September 8, 2016 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

This column first appeared in The Finger Lakes Times, August 31st as part of the regular feature, "Denim … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT, Denim Spirituality for Any Day of the Week Tagged With: global warming, spirituality of observation, Wind

SECRETS!

September 16, 2015 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

Dear Subscribers, Followers, and Friends of subversivepreacher.org, I have secrets! Please don’t tell anyone because this is just between you and me, but very soon there will be an announcement … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT, Denim Spirituality for Any Day of the Week, Dirty Little Secrets for Doing Church, podcasts, Preacher as Gunslinger, Prep for Sermons, Sermons, Song Therapy Tagged With: Secrets! Announcement! New Book! Coming Soon!

Adapt (even Ritual) or Die

August 4, 2015 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Born in late April in northern Vermont, my puppy’s first year of life was dominated by the coldest winter in recent memory. It was last winter when even life-long Vermonters were getting edgy about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Denim Spirituality for Any Day of the Week Tagged With: adapt or die, ritual, spiritual practice

Modernist Christian Spiritual Practice: Knowing the difference between ideas and God

June 16, 2015 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

From the moment Jesus breathed his last breath to 381 (probably three hundred and fifty years), Christianity was a highly conflicted movement of loosely affiliated followers of Jesus. As would happen … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Denim Spirituality for Any Day of the Week Tagged With: modern mysticism, orthodoxy vs heresy, spiritual practice

How to turn a square church into a round community

June 9, 2015 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

How to turn a square church into a round community My frame of reference is The Episcopal Church but I have participated in and observed numerous other Protestant congregations that had stalled out … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Denim Spirituality for Any Day of the Week Tagged With: Congregational Development, Parallel Development

Hosting Community, Part Two

May 12, 2015 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

INCLUSION There is no way to mandate diversity in a spiritual community. Since such community is utterly voluntary and more often than not a collection (segregation) of the like-minded, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Denim Spirituality for Any Day of the Week Tagged With: Hosting Community, Inclusion

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