Rabia, my five-year-old Golden-Lab mix who retains the puppiness of a one-year-old, does not understand that this morning is Christmas. She does understand visitors, more food around, cardboard and … [Read more...]
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas. On one level Christmas has been hidden in the Miller house this year. That is because we are moving and we expected to be in our new home before Christmas. So we packed … [Read more...]
A Dirty Sermon – as in earthen
This sermon is kind of dirty. I don’t mean obscene, I mean muddy – as in, earthen. You will be happy to know it is kind of short too’ I am looking forward to Christmas Eve this year, when I … [Read more...]
Christmas Eve 2018: Gulping Milk and Knowing Presence
Merry Christmas. This may not seem like a Christmas sermon at first, but wait for it. When we were small the world was liquid and grown-ups poured it into us, sometimes in small … [Read more...]
A Sunday Sermon, Shrunk and Secularized for the General Public
There is a message wrapped in the Christmas story that doesn’t get opened on Christmas Eve, and for good reason. It is counter-cultural. We can save it for other times of the year. But it is a message … [Read more...]
A (Christmas) Note in a Bottle
This post was originally published in The Finger Lakes Times (NY), as a weekly column in the series, "Denim … [Read more...]
Denim Spirit: The Thinning of the Cervix
This first appeared as a regularly scheduled column in The Finger Lakes Times … [Read more...]