This category provides short essays written by Dr. Ron Miller. All of the essays were written for Ron’s website and date back a few years. The most recently written article in the collection was written on 5/1/2011, just three days before Ron passed away.
A recent edition of the National Catholic Reporter describes the celebration of a Tridentine Rite Mass in Rome, a liturgy recently restored by the current Pope. The photograph accompanying the article shows the celebrant entering the church with a red cape that is almost the length of the nave of the church. It beats any […]
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Watching Republicans wave signs of “The Country First” I sense once again the iconic character of this election. On the one hand, we have a leprously white old rich guy. His world is “the country” and whatever lies beyond its borders is there only to serve this country’s interests. He represents a long tradition of
This was a short play that Ron wrote for “something” at Lake Forest College and Common Ground. I found this tucked in an email that he had sent me in May of 2008. If anyone has any further knowledge about how this was used, please share in the comments section below. Jesus: a Life Staging:
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It was a hot St. Louis summer and I was trying to teach Metaphysics to a classroom of undergrads. I heard giggling from somewhere in the room, right after I had announced that the homework assignment was an essay on “the God problem”. I repeated the assignment, and again heard the same tinkling of laughter.