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Dancing with Truth or Something Else

May 10, 2020 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

TEXT Did you ever know something – know it in your bones? What I mean is the kind of certainty deep down where we know such things. But then, you discovered it wasn’t true? Truth. Oh, how we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Experience, Holy, Presence, Truth

Facts Pointing the Way

July 3, 2019 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

Facts are measurable and verifiable. By themselves they do not tell the truth, but by themselves they often point to the truth. Here are some facts – measured, verified, and irrefutable. These are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Election, Facts, Truth

How to Win Back Your Heart (Not for the Faint of Heart)

January 6, 2019 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

There is an experience in seminary I want to slice open and so share its fruit with you. But I doubt I can do it justice. It has to do with the Bible – with entering into the text for the first … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Courage, Rilke, Truth

Aristotle, Wittgenstein, and Rudy

August 25, 2018 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

“Truth isn’t truth” is just too ripe and juicy not to write about this week. Especially because, surprisingly, I might agree with Rudy Giuliani. Only those in the midst of a personal news blackout … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Facts, Truth, Truth isn't truth

The Difference Between Truth & Fact

May 23, 2018 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

I have been thinking a lot about truth lately. When we hear from talking heads and politicians about fake news or such-and-such politician lying, it often has to do with facts more than truth. We … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Fact, Trump, Truth

The End Of Truth As We Know It

June 15, 2017 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

This post appeared first in The Finger Lakes Times, this week's installment in the "Denim Spirit" … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: perspetive, the end of truth, Truth

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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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