If your Facebook feed was filled with posts from The Jack Miller Project today, I owe you an apology. Over the last several days I’ve been rebuilding the website from the ground up, and part of that work involved migrating my 2026 Substack essays onto the WordPress blog. Facebook treated each one as a new post and pushed them all at once. I’m sorry about the flood.
For the past year I’ve been writing on Substack while the website sat mostly untouched. The site needed work, and I finally had the time and the tools to do it. I’ve spent the last several days going through every page — rewriting, reorganizing, adding new content, fixing what was broken.
I was right in the middle of that work, putting the finishing touches on the A New Life Course page and updating The Jack Miller Project page, when I learned that Rose Marie Miller had died.
I had to stop. I closed the laptop and prayed for the Miller family. I had been planning to write about Jack on April 8 — the 30th anniversary of his death in Spain — and I will still do that. But I could not go on updating a website dedicated to Jack Miller’s legacy without first stopping to acknowledge the woman who shared that legacy with him for over fifty years.
Rose Marie Miller (1924–2026)
Rose Marie passed away in her sleep in Spain. She was 101 years old. She died in the same country where Jack preceded her nearly 30 years ago.
I am grateful to God for Rose Marie’s life. Her story is inseparable from Jack’s — they met at First Orthodox Presbyterian Church in San Francisco in 1949, married in January of 1950, and spent their lives together in the gospel. Rose Marie’s journey from self-reliance to trust in the Father’s love became one of the defining stories of their shared ministry. Jack once said that grace is courage, and Rose Marie lived that out for a century. At 100 she was still ministering among South Asian communities in London through Serge, alongside her daughter Keren and son-in-law Bob Heppe.
I want to express my sorrow and my love to the Miller family — to Roseann, Ruth, Paul, Barbara, and Keren, and to all who called Rose Marie a spiritual mother. Scotty Smith, who knew Rose Marie since 1975, wrote that she “woke up in the unfiltered glory and presence of Jesus.” I believe that with all my heart.
Jack and Rose Marie Miller’s lives and teaching have shaped my own life, my marriage, and my ministry since 1991, when I first encountered The Sonship Course. I wrote about Rose Marie’s 100th birthday last December, and I’d encourage you to read that piece if you’d like to know more about her remarkable life:
100 Years of Grace and Courage: Happy Birthday, Rose Marie Miller!
April 8 will mark 30 years since Jack died in Spain. Rose Marie’s passing gives that anniversary an even deeper weight. I will be thinking and praying about what I want to say in the days ahead.
To God be all glory for the lives of Jack and Rose Marie Miller.
Back to The Jack Miller Project Rebuild
With that on my heart, let me tell you what we’ve done with the site. This was a rebuild, not a refresh — every page has been rewritten or reworked.
The Home Page. The home page has been rewritten to reflect where the project is today. It tells the origin story of The Jack Miller Project — how it grew out of my doctoral work and the writing of Cheer Up! — and introduces the current initiatives: A New Life Course, the Jack Miller Timeline, and the Jack Miller Study Center.
A New Life Course. A New Life Course now has its own page on the website. This is a phone-based evangelism and discipleship tool built on Jack Miller’s A New Life booklet. It includes a course curriculum for adults and children, the full text of the booklet, a prayer journal, and a sharing feature so groups can follow along together. All you need is an email address to register. You can learn more and get started at anewlife.thejackmillerproject.com.
The Research Page. My doctoral dissertation — the full academic biography of Jack Miller that became the foundation for Cheer Up! — is now available to read online. The Research page also includes a simplified process for archival requests from the Jack Miller Library and an updated bibliography.
The Blog and the Master List. The blog is current again. All ten of my 2026 Substack essays have been migrated to the website with their original publication dates, so the full archive lives in one place. The Master List of Publications — the pinned post at the top of the blog — has been redesigned with collapsible sections organized by year. You can expand any year and click through to the original essay. There are entries going back to 2019. Going forward, every new essay will be published on both Substack and the website blog, and added to the Master List.
The Biography Page and the About Pages. The Jack Miller Biography page — the page for Cheer Up! — has been cleaned up and the reviews reorganized. The About the Jack Miller Project page has been rewritten to describe what the project does and where it’s going. My bio has been updated to reflect our move from Italy to the Cayman Islands, where I now serve as pastor of Boatswain Bay Presbyterian Church.
The Jack Miller Timeline and the Jack Miller Study Center. Two new pages are on the site. The Jack Miller Timeline will be a comprehensive, interactive timeline of Jack’s life and ministry. The Jack Miller Study Center is a longer-term vision — a physical place for pastors and ministry leaders to come for sabbatical study, and an online study center for the broader church. Both are a few years out, but they are on the site now so you can see where things are headed.
Site Improvements. Beyond the content, I’ve improved the site itself. The fonts are darker and easier to read. The navigation menu has been reordered. The social links point to the right pages.
Looking Ahead
I began this update about the website and ended up writing about Rose Marie Miller, which is fitting. The Jack Miller Project exists because Jack and Rose Marie’s lives bore fruit that is still bearing fruit. Everything on this site — every essay, every page, every tool — traces back to what God did in and through their family. Rose Marie’s death does not end that story. It deepens it.
I will write more in the days ahead, especially as April 8 approaches. For now, I’d love for you to visit the rebuilt site, look around, and tell me what you think. And if you know someone who might be interested in Jack Miller’s life and teaching, or in A New Life Course, I’d be grateful if you’d pass the link along.
Reply here, or email me at thejackmillerproject@gmail.com.
Grace and peace,
Mike
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