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A little something about spiritual practice…

January 9, 2022 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

The five promises of the Baptismal Covenant With God’s help, we will continue in the apostle’s teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of the bread, and in the prayers. With God’s help, we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Baptism, covenant, spiritual practice

Don’t wait for the angels…

February 21, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Scroll down for Video version  I’m starting all over again. This is a second stab at a sermon, the first one just didn’t seem right. It may have been okay if we weren’t in our eleventh month of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Community, Lent, spiritual practice

A word about “spiritual not religious”

February 19, 2020 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Psst, you there, can I have a word? I’m talking to you, Ms. and Mr. ‘spiritual-not-religious.’” I know you think that everyone who participates in church, synagogue, mosque, or temple sees the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: impact event, spiritual not religious, spiritual practice

Discovering Holes In Our Differences To Explore Our Commonness

May 20, 2016 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

DENIM SPIRIT: Just like a cat…or a sea slug This column first appeared in The Finger Lakes Times, May 11, 2016 and was posted at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: ecosystems, interdependency, spiritual practice

Finding Your Place

March 1, 2016 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

Few things are as obnoxious and boring as actors talking about acting or writers writing about writing, especially when they go on at length about their challenges. Oh, and college professors: they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Managing Change, spiritual practice, Writing Practice

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

Adapt (even Ritual) or Die

August 4, 2015 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Born in late April in northern Vermont, my puppy’s first year of life was dominated by the coldest winter in recent memory. It was last winter when even life-long Vermonters were getting edgy about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Denim Spirituality for Any Day of the Week Tagged With: adapt or die, ritual, spiritual practice

It Begins with a Place

July 28, 2015 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

To say that everyone needs ‘a place’ in which to be spiritual sounds absurd, and yet we do. To say that we need a ‘sacred place’ is simply ridiculous and true. It was long believed, and still is by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Exported, Spiritual Writing/Practice Tagged With: Sacred space, spiritual practice, spirituality

A Wednesday Rant: Spiritual practice has little to do with doctrine, rituals, stretching, or crystals

July 15, 2015 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

Spiritual practice has little to do with doctrine, rituals, stretching, or crystals “I like to find what’s not found at once, but lies within something of another nature…” From, “Pleasures” by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Denise Levertov, paradox, spiritual practice, spirituality

Modernist Christian Spiritual Practice: Knowing the difference between ideas and God

June 16, 2015 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

From the moment Jesus breathed his last breath to 381 (probably three hundred and fifty years), Christianity was a highly conflicted movement of loosely affiliated followers of Jesus. As would happen … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Denim Spirituality for Any Day of the Week Tagged With: modern mysticism, orthodoxy vs heresy, spiritual practice

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