@jonimillerphd.bsky.social
Spiritual wanderer and guide * Marylander and Michigander * Dog lover and cat lover in equal proportions
Ep 69: The Future is Not Yet Written
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We don’t need one hero — we need millions of us choosing love at the same time. Alone, none of us can shift the tide. Together, we are the tide.
#nokings #collectivehope #bluewave #growmorelove
Ep 60: Cucumbers, Grapes, and the Stories We Tell About Fairness
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We’re wired to resist unfairness, but politicians have learned to weaponize that instinct. Too often we end up angry at the vulnerable instead of questioning the systems that create the struggle.
Ep 68: The Cost of Silence - and the Courage to Speak
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Courage doesn’t always stand in front of tanks. Sometimes it simply refuses to stay silent.
When we choose love over fear, we make courage contagious.
#growmorelove #courageiscontagious #integrity
Ep 67: Strange Bedfellows
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The real revolution begins when we learn to welcome those who’ve changed their minds.
#GraceInAction, #DemocracyWithHeart, #BecomingBetterTogether
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The back of my No Kings sign says, “We’re fighting for you, too.” That’s what I'll say to anyone who gives us the finger or yells.
Because we are.
Democracy, at its best, is an act of love: a covenant to care for one another’s dignity, even when we disagree.
#nokings
Ep 40: Why I Still Love America (but I don't like her much right now)
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I’m attending a No Kings protest. I hear some Republicans think that means I "hate America." Definitely not true.
#nokings
Ep 66: Hitching Your Wagon to a Sinking Ship
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Some will go down with the ship just to avoid saying they were wrong. Integrity asks us to choose truth over pride. Freedom begins the moment we admit what’s sunk … and choose again with love.
Ep 65: Let Gratitude Walk Beside Your Pain
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The ground feels shaky.
Fear and hate are loud.
But gratitude steadies us – not by pretending everything is fine, but by reminding us that love still pulses through the cracks.
#growmorelove #spiritualgeography #gratitude
Ep 64: Confessions of a Hypocrite
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I am a hypocrite, wrestling with my own judgment and anger when I so often speak about love.
What does it mean to keep choosing love when fear is loud and cruelty is cheered?
Ep 63: In the Name of Religion
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When faith becomes performance, love gets lost.
Online, it’s easy to perform: certainty over compassion. Some use the label Christian like armor, as if it shields from the hurt their words cause. Love is the point. Not the name badge.
Ep 62: Five Hundred Years of Disagreement (and Counting)
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Faith thrives in diversity, not control. Certainty comforts some and devastates others—so what happens when it’s written into law?
Ep 61: "Thoughts and Prayers"
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‘Thoughts and prayers’ -- words we hear after every tragedy. But what do they really mean, and can prayer ever move us beyond words into action?
Ep 60: Cucumbers, Grapes, and the Stories We Tell About Fairness
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‘Waste, fraud, and abuse.’ We’ve heard the phrase for decades, but what happens when that story collides with lived experience? This episode explores why fairness resonates so deeply in us.
Ep 59: Why Some Think the Emperor is Wearing Clothes
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Illusions may feel safe and they’re everywhere. But clinging to them costs us more than facing the truth ever will. Be the brave voice that speaks out, breaking the fog of illusion for others.
Ep 58: Where's My Flying Car?
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Where's the world of inclusion I was promised? Oh ... and where's my flying car?
Ep 57: I Still Don't Understand Evangelism
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Federal employees can encourage co-workers to “re-think” their religious beliefs? Yikes. This has been one of the things I have been (1) repelled by and (2) really curious about since I was a teenager. Hear my story below.
Ep 56: Women Are So Scary
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Women are so scary. We’ve locked away too much wisdom in the name of fear—fear of "disruptive" women, of change, of truth. What happens when we stop tightening the grip... and start opening the door?
Ep 55: Fool's Gold open.substack.com/pub/jonimill...
Our culture perpetuates that we are “never enough” - not powerful enough, not rich enough, not "manly" enough. But beneath the noise we can find the real motivation and the real solution.
Not fool’s gold. The gold of Love.
Ep 54: This is not How the Story Has to End open.substack.com/pub/jonimill...
Maybe it’s not the world that changes first; maybe we need to change before anything else can happen.
Ep 53: "I Told You So! Why Didn't You Listen to Me!?!" open.substack.com/pub/jonimill...
It’s hard to resist saying “I told you so” when the ruin proves you right. Even in the wreckage there's another choice: lay down pride, soften our hearts, and invite in those who failed to heed those warnings.
Ep 52: Growing Beyond the Self-Made Myth open.substack.com/pub/jonimill...
We’d rather watch everything burn than admit we need each other. That’s the self-made myth at work.
#growmorelove
I saw that and read it 3 times to see if there was another way to interpret the comment. After my eyes uncrossed, I decided ... maybe ... but probably not.
29.06.2025 23:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Isn't he? I've seen a lot of soul and compassion in dog's eyes.
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Ep 51: Who Gets to Speak for God? open.substack.com/pub/jonimill...
If your theology celebrates destruction, maybe you're not following the Divine. Religion often gets used to enforce obedience & control. Spirituality rooted in love doesn’t coerce or demand certainty; it invites & welcomes mystery.
Ep 50: "Power Over" and the Politics of Silence open.substack.com/pub/jonimill...
Emotional manipulation has become a tactic of power — and it thrives in isolation. Healing begins when we name what’s happening, choose connection over compliance, and start to trust what we see, feel, and know again.
Ep 49: Tearing Holes in History open.substack.com/pub/jonimill...
Erasing Harvey Milk’s name isn’t just about a ship — it’s about whose stories get to matter.
History isn’t just what we remember. It’s what we’re told to forget.
At the Unite for Veterans rally on 6/6/25 on the National Mall. We stayed until the end and very glad we did - wonderful speakers! Some people left early when it started to rain. @unite4vets.bsky.social #uniteforveterans
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Ep 48: Integrity in the Age of Misdirection open.substack.com/pub/jonimill...
When power feels threatened, it tells us where to look. Integrity invites us to notice what we’re being asked to ignore.
Ep 47: Love in a Time of Cruelty open.substack.com/pub/jonimill...
When the world feels cruel, love asks us to get up from the beach chair and step into the wave. You don’t have to do everything. But you do have to get up. Let your life speak.
Let it speak of love.
