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Ugliness and Beauty

September 2, 2020 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Stop. Take a slow, deep breath. Fill your diaphragm first and then let it out slowly. Try it again, closing your eyes perhaps. Ah. There is a relentless car alarm blaring at us, emanating from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Beauty, Hope, ugliness

The Indescribability of Beauty and Com-unus

May 31, 2020 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ37wOXcSok Text of Pentecost 2020 Sermon Today is the Feast of Pentecost, a red letter day on the church calendar that we enter into with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Beauty, Community, Sacred

Seeing Beauty

April 19, 2020 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

The text for preaching today, is the Gospel of John 20:19-31. It is that old story about the disciple Thomas who did not believe his fellow disciples when they told him about a risen Jesus, at least … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Beauty, Believing, Seeing, Touching

Change

January 8, 2016 By Cam Miller 13 Comments

For more than two decades I shared my days with automobiles starting and stopping at poorly syncopated traffic lights, people rushing to work, class, or in and out of restaurants and stores along … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Beauty, Change, spiritual refleciton, urban and rural

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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

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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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