David L. Miller

Miller is pastor of St. Timothy Lutheran Church, Naperville, Ill. He was on the staff of The Lutheran from 1988 to 2005, the last six years as editor. He is the author of Friendship with Jesus: A Way to Pray the Gospel of Mark; Book of Faith Lenten Journey: Marks of the Christian; and Book of Faith: Ephesians, all published by Augsburg Fortress.

• Serving in harm's way
  Imprisoned ELCA pastor needs the church's prayers, support
• Think on these things
  With Tim's death, we lost a good friend, and the church an apt teacher
• In you
  We are safe, hidden in the One who whispers, 'I will keep your life'
• Sex task force struggles with diverse science, theology
• Seeking spiritual ecumenism
  ELCA ecumenical journey reveals accomplishments and challenges
• Bring us home
  ... to where sorrowing wives and little Iraqi girls alike find comfort
• Pope John Paul II receives ELCA presiding bishop
  Hanson suggests eucharistic sharing between Lutherans and Catholics at Vatican audience
• Whatever happens ...
  We belong to the love and joy that shines from the face of the Risen One
• Lamb
• Joined at the heart
  Kathy's detention reveals the strength of our worldwide communion
• The gift of the stranger
  Life is a circle of sharing that is impoverished by barriers of exclusion
• Able influence
• Hamza's hands
  To hold his hand is to touch the flesh of Christ
• Listen to Jesus
• Listen to your life
• Rachel still weeps
  Surely it was God's arms that carried them to the sea
• Listen to who God is
• The Christmas miracle
  God's face shined through their moist eyes and open arms
• Do you see them?
  Faithfulness to Jesus challenges our pinhole vision of the world
• We must say 'no'
  America's drift toward war with Iraq fails the just war test
• Coming home
  NYC after 9/11 invites us to recover greater balance in our spiritual life
• What we need
  We live in tension with a culture that erodes our core identity
• Minn. floods damage homes, churches
• Revelation at JP's
  I live in a world where flower-shop clerks walk around shining like the sun
• Sexuality task force seeks 'strongest argument'
• Good as gold
  Editor's business card becomes the ticket to a Kosovar student's future
• The absent voices
  Through them, Jesus teaches us justice and mercy
• An axis of hope
  Bombs may subdue enemies, but they never build a safer world
• Bishops focus on planning and studies
• Easter on Kedzie Avenue
  Amid grief comes the whisper of One who says, 'I will never leave you'
• Sowing seeds of peace
• The hungering Spirit
  We crave a oneness, a communion, to heal our terrible loneliness
• Jadallah Shihadeh
• Abdel Fattah Abu-Srour
• Hiam Abu Dayyeh
• Hamza's hands
• Hope school, Ramallah
• Samir Victor Abudayyeb
• Bishop Michel Sabbah
• David Rosen, Ron Kronish & Ophir Yarden
• Shall we dance?
  May all things be drawn into the dance of the One whose name is Love
• Beyond normal
  The light of Bethlehem gives us more than we lost
• A city not forsaken
  Sorrow and grace woven together in stories of New York's Lutherans
• Disaster support unites ELCA, LCMS
• ELCA bishops' letter responds to crisis
• Holy ground
  At Union Square we joined the divine struggle to grace the day
• Holy fearlessness
  May we listen less to our fears than to God's grace
• Her other 22
  God calls us to see their faces and join a holy work
• Monica and Darryl
  New research reveals need for stronger marriage ministries
• Time & me
  If I'm to make peace with time, I need clarity and courage

• Moving on