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The Beginning of God (according to Exodus 3:1-15)

August 30, 2020 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Sermon Video Sermon Text We are Christians, but the reason we talk about the Judeo-Christian tradition is that we were Jews first. Jesus, who is the central figure of our religion – the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: 5 senses, god, Moses

Primeval Atom

December 29, 2019 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

You will have to determine if this sermon is about the Big Bang or angels in my head. From time to time someone will ask me why I always dig around and poke things when it comes to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Big Bang, god, Primeval Atom

An Overgrown Metaphor

June 19, 2019 By Cam Miller 10 Comments

My neighbor’s peonies blossomed long before mine and are bigger and more vibrant. What gives? Perhaps she is better than me, and that means her peonies are superior too. I mean, maybe she has done … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: god, metaphor, religion

A Bloody Mess

March 17, 2019 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

This sermon is a bloody mess. Literally. This story from Genesis 15 depicts a bloody mess, and it is the mythology underneath a bloody mess. First of all, we should notice some huge problems … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Bonhoeffer, Christianity Come of Age, god

Evil Part Two: We don’t want to know what absence would feel like

December 16, 2015 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Presence…God has to be present in order to influence change. If God were not present - absent - our experience of life would be radically different. Strangely, presence and absence can be equally … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Evil, god, Hope, Presence

Evil Part One: An Email thread post-Paris

December 14, 2015 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

This is a two-part rant that probably does not belong the week before Christmas, but neither do mass shootings or national political leaders vomiting their own ugliness on the rest of us belong in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Evil, god, Paris Attacks, Presence

We won’t encounter God in the past or the future

September 21, 2015 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Summer arrived in mid-August. Perhaps it was the severity and length of last winter that so raised the expectations for summer that even the most sublime growing season could not fill the empty space … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exported, Spiritual Writing/Practice Tagged With: god, mindfulness, spiritual practice

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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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