Author Archives: Naomi Miller
About Naomi Miller
The Rev. Naomi Miller has served 14 rural, small-town, and small city congregations in 15 years of ordained ministry. She currently resides in Tottenham, Ontario and delights in her role as incumbent of the Church of the Evangelists, New Tecumseth- a recently amalgamated congregation embracing 4 villages in 3 municipalities. Her ministry is held in balance with a 16-year marriage to Tim, parenting their two young daughters, singing silly songs with the local Sparks unit, and the easily-combined hobbies of binge-watching 90s television, and knitting.A day late and a dollar short
Maybe it’s a good thing that this story is one of the stories of our faith. Or what else would we tell to those of our friends and neighbours, what else would we tell ourselves, when Divine Justice comes up a day late, and a dollar short? Continue reading
Compare and contrast
This week’s pair of stories from the Gospel of Mark beg to be compared and contrasted. Continue reading
Choices
In these readings for Lent 5 I see story of choices, laid out for us. God chooses covenant. God chooses death and resurrection. God, clearly, chooses us.
The immensity of that is really more than I can get my head around. Continue reading
But probably not today
Can we, who do not live in most ways as if the appointed time is growing short, hear in chapter 7 an invitation to the same kind of freedom that Paul was writing about last week in chapter 6? Continue reading
The easy life
But once more, we meet in Jesus a God who firmly insists on offering more than we could ask or imagine. Continue reading
You will respect my authoritah!
By what right do we come? By the right of our education and training? the authority of our ordination? By the strength of the 2am rewrite because the Holy Spirit wouldn’t let us sleep? By the power of God whose presence in our own lives permits nothing less? Continue reading
