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Preaching, Death, Trust

May 15, 2022 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

A video version follows the text Can I just say that preaching isn’t as easy as it looks. I know it is not really a job for a grown man or woman, but it’s all I know. And once in awhile I just … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: death, Preaching, trust

Good Friday: Stories are filters for making sense

April 2, 2021 By Cam Miller 1 Comment

When someone dies we need to make sense out of it. When it is George Floyd or Martin Luther King, Jr. or Bobby Kennedy or Abraham Lincoln, or a refugee child washing up on the shore with the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: death, Good Friday, making sense

A Harvest Metaphor

September 24, 2020 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

A friend shared with me an image that won’t stop fluttering in my thoughts. Sometimes that is not such a good thing, but in this case it is a pleasure. Picture if you will, an intensely blue autumn … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: death, Life, RBG

Preserving Social Stratification

July 11, 2018 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

There is nothing like an old cemetery for perspective. It is the same in nearly any cemetery. In Buffalo’s vaunted Forest Lawn, a president, a prince and princess, R&B icon Rick James, robber … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: death, Graveyards, social status

The Lost Opportunities of Empty Rituals

February 26, 2018 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

This post was originally published by The Finger Lakes Times (NY) as part of the weekly series, "Denim Spirit." Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return. That is the central motif of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Ash Wednesday, death, Meaning

What is best for us may not be best for those we leave behind

May 18, 2017 By Cam Miller 8 Comments

This post first appeared in The Finger Lakes Times series, (New York) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: death, dying at home, hospice

Denim Spirit: Death and Gratitude

August 18, 2016 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

http://subversivepreacher.org/denim-spirit-death-and-gratitude/ In dim light and thick air, when heavy emotions wet the atmosphere as life leaves the human body, there is an exquisite holiness … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT, Spiritual Writing/Practice Tagged With: death, gratitude, healing

Denim Spirit: Death and Gratitude

August 18, 2016 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

http://www.fltimes.com/opinion/denim-spirit-of-death-and-gratitude/article_32d9307e-648f-11e6-8329-df20461db823.html In dim light and thick air, when heavy emotions wet the atmosphere as life … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: death, gratitude, healing

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