Dear Friends,
It seems fitting to interrupt for one day our current daily meditations on recovering the sacred masculine to invite you to join me, in person or via Zoom livestream, a very special event tomorrow.
That event, explained below, has to do with my life’s work with Creation Spirituality: namely the donation of my papers to the University of Colorado, Boulder where people can study them.
I share with you, below, the special invitation from the University Library.
Matthew Fox recently donated his papers to the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries and they constitute an important addition to our Rare and Distinctive Collections. We are extremely grateful for his donation and for the honor of preserving his legacy.
In keeping with the message of the Creation Spirituality Movement, which emphasizes community, justice, eco-justice, gender balance, and deep ecumenism, the event will feature a panel discussion along with musical interludes featuring prayers and songs representing different religious traditions. Matthew will be speaking at the ceremony.
Please join us in person or online September 21 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. to celebrate Matthew’s exceptional work.
Best,
The University Libraries
Joining me as speakers and panelists at this event will be some of the visionary men and women I have had the privilege to work with over the years, including (in alphabetical order) Bernard Amadei, Rev. Adam Bucko, Dr. Stuart C. Lord, Rev. Jerry Maynard, Kami McDaniel, Dean Robert McDonald, Netanel Miles-Yépez, , Dr. Carolyn Million, Aaron Stern, Brian Thomas Swimme, and Lama Tsomo.
This launch concerns the actual physical papers. The digital collection will be completed by early next summer and in that way they will be made available online to a global audience.
As a reminder, you are cordially invited to a very special event celebrating Matthew Fox – founder, with his mentor Pere Chenu, of the Creation Spirituality movement. This celebration will take place on September 21, 2023, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. MT in the Center for British & Irish Studies, on the 5th floor of Norlin Library. Refreshments will be served. There will be an option to attend virtually. The event will be recorded so you could see it from another time zone, etc. if that is more convenient for you.
You can learn more about the event HERE; please RSVP HERE if you plan to attend.
Banner Image: Norlin Library at the University of Colorado at Boulder campus. Wikimedia Commons.
Queries for Contemplation
What has been your life’s work? What would you like to say you have devoted your life to furthering?
Recommended Reading
Confessions: The Making of a Post-Denominational Priest (Revised/Updated Edition)
Matthew Fox’s stirring autobiography, Confessions, reveals his personal, intellectual, and spiritual journey from altar boy, to Dominican priest, to his eventual break with the Vatican. Five new chapters in this revised and updated edition bring added perspective in light of the author’s continued journey, and his reflections on the current changes taking place in church, society and the environment.
“The unfolding story of this irrepressible spiritual revolutionary enlivens the mind and emboldens the heart — must reading for anyone interested in courage, creativity, and the future of religion.”
—Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, World as Self
Matthew Fox: Essential Writings on Creation Spirituality
Selected with an Introduction by Charles Burack
To encapsulate the life and work of Matthew Fox would be a daunting task for any save his colleague Dr. Charles Burack, who had the full cooperation of his subject. Fox has devoted 50 years to developing and teaching the tradition of Creation Spirituality and in doing so has reinvented forms of education and worship. His more than 40 books, translated into 78 languages, are inclusive of today’s science and world spiritual traditions and have awakened millions to the much neglected earth-based mystical tradition of the West. Essential Writings begins by exploring the influences on Fox’s life and spirituality, then presents selections from all Fox’s major works in 10 sections.
“The critical insights, the creative connections, the centrality of Matthew Fox’s writings and teaching are second to none for the radical renewal of Christianity.” ~~ Richard Rohr, OFM.
7 thoughts on “A Special Invitation to a Celebration of Creation Spirituality”
Congratulations Matthew for another recognition of your life’s work in Creation Spiritualiy.
My humble life’s work has been serving others in the area of psycho-spirituality, for forty years as a clinical social worker, and since retirement in the area of spiritual guidance with an emphasis on contemplative spirituality and meditation. The last few years my spiritual journey has involved the inner and outer exploration/awareness/understanding of our sacred multidimensional-interdimensional subtle realms (Microcosm and Macrocosm), mainly through silent meditation and the shared experiences on the internet of genuinely spiritual channelers/psychic mediums, whom I like to call our modern mystics….
Wonderful! Thank you for making this awesome event available to all. Your work has inspired me and nurtured my soul since the 1980’s. How wonderful that it will be preserved and honored in this way in the years to come! I send my heartfelt gratitude for your life’s work, Matthew.
Congratulations Matthew!
I have devoted my adult life to Cosmic Spirituality. (I turn 65 in a few weeks.) The story of my journey and experience will be published next year in the UK. The book is titled “Maya Mire – A Spiritual Journey into Cosmic Truth and the Dawning of a New World”. I look forward to sharing it with you.
Matthew, Congratulations, you deserve this !!! I wish I could be there in the flesh, but I will be with you in spirit. Creation Spirituality changed my life, and you have changed many others, and touched so many. “Thank you” (Eckhart)…
Congratulations, Matthew, on the recognition of your decades of dedication to wider, more inclusive, and ecological-affirming forms of spirituality.
My focus now is on sharing and preserving information about the (neoplatonic) mystical Revelation and its specific “Path” or teachings of spirituality, as experienced directly, (thanks to the graced gift of Spirit), and as subsequently researched and tracked to several religious traditions and their core theologies and spiritual teachings. This complex, profound mysticism, the Bible’s core embedded theology and a fundamental source of its ethics, was mostly erased from post-Enlightenment’s focus and Western Christianity’s practice, and the little information still available is often wrapped in distortions and guesswork masquerading as facts and certainty.
This is the mysticism that was modeled and expounded upon by Jesus, enshrined in creeds, and eloquently expressed by Meister Eckhart. It deserves to be better understood and appreciated for its complex, nuanced insights, its radical implications of equality, and its ethics of love and justice.
Making this information available to people, (for whatever my insights may be worth), is my offering. It’s what I believe I was meant to do. Let people explore this for themselves, if they wish, and decide if any of it deepens their spirituality and helps them to better understand their religion.
Marvelous, simply marvelous. Our loss in Toronto, Canada. University of Toronto would be a great home for your collection too Matthew.
I was at a reunion of the Great Peace March in 1996, and wanting to move the world in a positive direction I decided to either go into politics or focus on playwriting–a pursuit at which I was starting to become accomplished. Running for office as a progressive candidate seemed a quicker way to move the country forward, but looking at the skills I’d developed, I chose playwriting. The difficulty is/was that to have one’s writing affect minds and hearts you must get your work in front of an audience. It means submitting plays to theatres and usually being turned down. This year my director collaborator and I decided to produce a play ourselves. That meant raising $20,000. The play opens October 6th. (https://www.mickishelton.com/here-s-what-s-new) But consider this: maybe the practice of writing itself has a positive effect on the world in some mystical way, even if the play is never produced. I kind of have to believe that because some of my seemingly most important plays have not yet found productions even though I’m sure spirit asked me to write them. So I write; and while I actively seek productions, I believe in some way, the act itself helps to heal the world.