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Hope Secularized: Super Power for Mortals

December 30, 2020 By Cam Miller 3 Comments

It is a very thin line between secular and sacred. In fact, there need not be anything at all separating them. If you have read even a few posts from subversivepreacher, then you know I am all about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Hope, super power, wishful thinking

If you wanted to know about hope…

December 27, 2020 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Snow Anne Sexton Snow, blessed snow, comes out of the sky like bleached flies. The ground is no longer naked. The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Hope, wishful thinking

Poked by Hope

October 7, 2020 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

In his column last week, Michael Fitzgerald went digging for silver linings in the dark clouds hanging over our heads these days. In her reflection on personal mortality, into which she invited the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Hope, Integrity, wishful thinking

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

What Hope Looks Like

July 29, 2020 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Honestly, it is difficult to move beyond scalding words this week, or morose millstones nobody but nobody needs to hear. It is bad out there in the nation, especially in those many states New York has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Hope, reconciliation, South Africa

BONES

March 29, 2020 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

We are in the endangered days of a global pandemic when we are navigating uncertainty and acting in ways we never have before. We are alive in dangerous times – not only for our bodies and our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: bones, Ezekiel, faith, Hope

Merry Christmas

December 24, 2019 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Babushka, Christmas, Hope, Peace

Is this sermon about hope?

December 15, 2019 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

If I can be personal for a moment, I want to echo Wendell Berry’s poem about trees: “They are the advent they await.” Advent, an arrival or emergence, or as we say in church-speak, a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Advent, Hope, Isaiah, Trees

Hope: Work For It

September 29, 2019 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

This is about hope. It is about hope in hard times when hope is hard work even for people who are by nature optimistic. It begins with a man and a story we might imagine has absolutely … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Go-el, Hope, Jeremiah

To My Grandson, a Note in a Bottle

May 26, 2019 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Ptolemy World Map 1467 To my grandson. My Dearest Declan, Just this week for the first time, you escaped your play blanket on your own. Your mom and dad celebrated it by texting us all a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: cynicism, Hope, Jesus

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Each of these posts appeared first in The Finger Lakes Times (NY) as an entry in the weekly series, “Denim Spirit.”

 

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