Deacon Arthur L. Miller
Deacon,
author, radio host, revivalist, and retired businessman.
Deacon Miller is director of the Office for Black
Catholic Ministries for the Archdiocese of Hartford. In addition to his assigned
parishes, he is also the Catholic chaplain at Hartford's Capital Community
College. He is also the President of the National Association of Black Catholic
Administrators.
A nationally known preacher of God's Holy Scripture,
he has traveled throughout the country raising the need of conversion to
"Radical Love". The kind of self-denying love that can only be accomplished
through the grace and power offered to us through Jesus Christ. From New England
to the Katrina-ravaged gulf coast of Mississippi, from the Rocky Mountains of
northern New Mexico, to the south side of Chicago, Deacon Miller teaches and
preaches Christ's call to His life changing "Radical Love".
At public forums, houses of worship, schools and
universities across the country, Deacon Miller addresses issues of social
injustice. With firsthand knowledge he speaks to his audiences from the
perspective of an African American who grew up on the South Side of Chicago
in the 1940s and 1950s. Deacon Miller was 10 years old in 1955 when his
schoolmate Emmett Till, age 14, was brutally murdered in Mississippi for
allegedly whistling at a white woman-an incident that energized the nascent
Civil Rights Movement. His recently released book "The Journey to Chatham",
details the historic events seen through the eyes of Emmett's friends.
Today, Deacon Miller addresses 21st-century
examples of the same intolerance. He is the Hartford Archdiocese
representative to the Connecticut Coalition to Save Darfur, a group formed
specifically to influence state, national, and international officials and
institutions to use their political clout to stop the conflict in Darfur,
Sudan. Deacon Miller sees such racial divisiveness as an example of "human
hatred that is the result of what happens when one group seeks power by
dehumanization." Echoing the thoughts of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he
believes that as part of the great human experience, no one can sit idly
tolerant of the great injustices that happen anywhere in the world.
"If God were to give us an 11th commandment,"
Deacon Miller proposes, "I believe it would read: Thou shall not be a
bystander."
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