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Matt Miller

Matt Miller, a native Nebraskan, teaches English at College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Missouri. He is the author of an essay collection on the garden year and the church year, titled Leaves of Healing: A Year in the Garden, from Belle Point Press.

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Matt Miller

Matt Miller, a native Nebraskan, teaches English at College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Missouri. He is the author of an essay collection on the garden year and the church year, titled Leaves of Healing: A Year in the Garden, from Belle Point Press.

Matt MillerTechnologyFormation

Lauds

We have optimized our lives so much that we have forgotten where we belong, what life that thrums around us beyond our ambitions and devices.

Matt MillerChurchFormation

Against Vision Statements

Though well-intended, the ubiquity of church 'vision statements' suggests our ideas of church life may be too shaped by capitalism.

Matt MillerEducation

New Initiatives at the Center for Needless Splendor

Announcing: The Robert Farrar Capon Memorial Center for Needless Splendor and Research Institute in Unnecessary Studies (RFCMCFNSARIUS)

Matt MillerLiberal ArtsWriting

Empty Words: Against Artificial Language

The shape of our language will in turn shape us. When we become comfortable with the crude and banal, we ourselves become crude and banal.

Matt MillerDevotional

Singing as Part of Family Worship | Mere Orthodoxy

Matt Miller and his family have leaned heavily on hymnody as a primary part of their evening family worship with their younger children.

Matt MillerTelevision

Downton Abbey as a Jane Austen style Tragedy

Downton Abbey may look like a Jane Austenesque piece of culture, but the moral power of Austen's books--formative, not didactic--is absent in Downton Abbey.

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Capitalism Won’t Save the Arts—Vocation Will

Capitalism won't save the arts. But a conception of vocation probably will.

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Advocacy and Ending Copyright Infringement

The Internet's already over two decades old, and we still haven't figured out how to cope with its potential for copyright infringement.

Matt Miller

Ray Bradbury, J.R. R. Tolkien, and the Benefits of Nostalgia

Tolkien was a British, Catholic, Oxford professor; Bradbury was an American, vaguely Buddhist, self-educated writer.