Tag Archives: faith

What Would You Do With Only Months to Live?

Posted on August 11, 2020 by cdsmiller17

My Life (1993) I’d avoided this film until last night. I know why, of course, but I suppose I just wasn’t ready for it. Turns out that I couldn’t sleep for half the night after seeing it. (From IMDb:) Life … Continue reading →

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Seeing is Believing, Or is It?

Posted on August 3, 2020 by cdsmiller17

“It’s a Miracle!” I watched episode five of “Messiah” last night. It was the one entitled “So That Seeing They May Not See”. (All the episode titles have vaguely spiritual/mystical meanings to them.) I think this would have been better … Continue reading →

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Are We Too Close to the Truth to Appreciate What It Is?

Posted on July 31, 2020 by cdsmiller17

The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore (2008) I’ve had this book for almost 10 years, but I never had the motivation to read it before now. Perhaps I had to be more prepared for what it said. Perhaps … Continue reading →

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When Belief is Shaken

Posted on July 29, 2020 by cdsmiller17

Falling Leaves For those of us raised in the Christian tradition, it can come as a bit of a shock to discover that the Word of God is not what is written in the Bible but the One Spirit of … Continue reading →

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It’s Always Been a Question of Faith

Posted on April 27, 2020 by cdsmiller17

God Friended Me – Series Finale Well, that’s alright then. It’s over. And now we have an answer to the question: what’s this all about? As always, I won’t give the ending away, but I always suspected that this was … Continue reading →

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Title of the One True Cross?

Posted on March 21, 2019 by cdsmiller17

In Reverse… Holy relics, especially in the middle ages, were very lucrative business opportunities. Some would even say: crimes of opportunity. Here’s one that has a modicum of reality to it. For one thing, there are three versions of the … Continue reading →

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Coincidence or Something Else?

Posted on November 5, 2018 by cdsmiller17

God (be)friended me I’ve been wanting to correct that title ever since this TV show started in the fall. I know that having a Facebook relationship is a friendship, and the act of linking up is called clicking  the “friend” … Continue reading →

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A Celebration of Life

Posted on October 28, 2018 by cdsmiller17

The Raising of Lazarus In terms of a miracle, this is a big one. It may have been the final straw as far as the Jewish leaders were concerned. There was a lot at stake here. When you read the … Continue reading →

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It Started with One Man…

Posted on October 24, 2018 by cdsmiller17

A New Form of Protest Recently, one of the other administrators of Fountain International’s Facebook page posted this image from last January. It has had a lot of interest paid to it, in the form of ‘likes’ and other reactions. … Continue reading →

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It Wasn’t His Time to Die

Posted on August 11, 2018 by cdsmiller17

A Matter of Faith When 77 cm of rain fell on downtown Toronto on Tuesday this past week, flash flooding caught a couple of co-workers in an elevator. They had gone to the basement of the building where they work … Continue reading →

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