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A Rant and Then Perspective

November 14, 2021 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Text a reflection on Mark 13:1-8  Video version is available following the text Thirty seven or eight years after Jesus was executed the Roman army reduced the Temple to ruins and conducted a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Mark 13, Perspective, rant

Take A Millennial To Lunch

August 1, 2017 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

This post first appeared in the weekly column, "Denim Spirit," from The Finger Lakes Times (NY), July 26, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Frame of Reference, Millennial Generation, rant

Ode to Karl

October 7, 2016 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

He was my therapist for five years, off and on but only because I was chickenshit. I don’t know how old he was, but I’m guessing he had me by at least fifteen years – just enough to keep me almost … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: dreams, rant, spirituality

Confused

July 19, 2016 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

Dream by Cameron Miller Halfway in halfway out squeezed in the middle by a dream-catcher.Lowered here by sleep into this floppy dimension chairs are wobbly and misshapen, people wear wrong … [Read more...]

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Naked Blonde in yard hears nothing

February 15, 2016 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Stroking her soft blond hair, she looks into my soul with pooled brown eyes – shutters of light to bring the world inside but never allowing the inner animal of her soul to be seen by me. We live … [Read more...]

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One foot in the past, one in the present, imagining a future

January 19, 2016 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

After Martin Luther King Day I find myself humming or whistling “Lift Every Voice” for a week, the same as with any of a dozen carols from Christmas Eve until New Year’s. This year was a particularly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: rant, spirituality, theology

What do you do when you meet a giant?

June 10, 2015 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

One generation grew up believing in the Lone Ranger and that one person could change the world, while a newer generation grew up knowing that a couple of people could blow up the center of American … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: communalism, Individualism, rant

A Wednesday Rant: Loving Judas

May 13, 2015 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

Archive Rant Adapted from a presentation delivered to a 12-Step Worship in 2012 “We do not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.” (C … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Judas, Jung, Mary Oliver, rant, Shadow

What we need in an ugly time

May 6, 2015 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

There is so much to rant about, so much. It is impossible to know where to begin when the culture and economy are skewed toward lunacy in such bald faced ways. From adoration of guns to violent … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Beautiful, Breathe, rant, Ugly

A Power Greater than Ourselves: Lament or Benediction?

April 15, 2015 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

Water dances and the soul delights. Water sings, too. Even a tiny creek sings and sometimes those most of all with their furious gurgling, trickling, and chortling giggles. Bigger streams, arroyos, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: power greater than ourselves, rant, Water

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