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What about grief?

March 3, 2021 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

This is overly autobiographical but I mean it as an illustration. It points toward something true for all of us, especially right now. I learned about the covert nature of grief the hard way. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: COVID, grief, healing

Healing?

December 2, 2020 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

I do not know how to introduce this topic so that readers on the left and the right won’t immediately react by rejecting or embracing it as political. I would rather us take a deep breath and ponder … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Co-dependency, Dysfunction, healing

A Data-Driven Theology

November 10, 2019 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

“I know that my redeemer lives.” That line in Job seems pretty clear and it forms the heart of the anthem that begins the Episcopal burial liturgy. Clearly the Lectionary Committee that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Goes, healing, Redeemer, spiritual community

The Healing of a Cool Rain on a Dark Morning

September 26, 2018 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

Six-thirty in the morning is dark again, an envelope of stillness as dog and I walk beneath the canopy of trees along the street. No other human or canine life was visible this morning, suppressed … [Read more...]

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

Tending to National Character

August 6, 2018 By Cam Miller 12 Comments

An unusual email arrived following upon a recent “friending” through the increasingly oldster Facebook network. An eighty-something retired minister I knew decades ago, contacted me along with several … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: healing, public policy, theology

The Cat That Fell From On High

November 29, 2016 By Cam Miller 8 Comments

When I was in seminary there was a guy who had a fat, furry cat in his third floor dorm room, and it would rest on the windowsill of the open window swishing its tail back and forth all day. It was a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: healing, patience, prepare for action

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

Practice Change

June 10, 2016 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

This post first appeared as one in a series of regular columns in The Finger Lakes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Change, healing, Openness

Healing

May 29, 2016 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

A Thank-You Note, by Michael Ryan For John Skoyles My daughter made drawings with the pens you sent, line drawings that suggest the things they represent, different from any drawings she — at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: death and dying, healing, woundedness

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