This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by Matthew each Monday.
November 24, 2025: Resistance Takes Many Forms (MF)
There are many forms of resisting the authoritarian regime of the current administration. Here are a few: 1) A recent headline: “The Pope stepped up his criticism of the Trump administration’s immigration policies.”* It appears that about 9 out of 10 persons rounded up in the anti-migrant drive are Catholics from Latin America. 2) The American Catholic Bishops put out a rare special message, approved 216 to 5: “We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people.” 3) The most recent “No Kings” protests numbered 7 million. (Some say much higher.) 4) A documentary on the American Revolution aired this week on PBS—even though it was recently stripped of all federal support.
November 25, 2025: Our Holy Ancestors: Resistance Takes Many Forms, Part II (MF)
Another way to resist evil in the world is to celebrate the Good and the Holy. John Nava is an artist who creates tapestries. The University of San Diego invited him to create 52 tapestries for “Holy People for Our Times.” Even reading the names is inspiring. He featured people such as the Dalai Lama, Pope Francis, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day, Sr. Dorothy Stang, Rabbi Heschel, Gandhi, Oscar Romero, C.S. Lewis, etc. Some of their words of wisdom? Prayer is not a substitute for action; rather it is a preparation for it. (Rabbi Heschel); Do not accept anything as the truth if it lacks love…. (Edith Stein); We must live simply so that others may simply live. (Not a quotation by Sr. Dorothy, but words that she lived by.)
November 26, 2025: Wholeness (part one) (GG)
St. Augustine is responsible for putting forth the doctrine of original sin. This created in people a belief that I am essentially faulty, but I must become perfect, which is a perfect recipe for neurosis. Matthew Fox, a critic of the concept of original sin, espoused instead the concept of Original Blessing. Through the years, Gianluigi has met many people familiar with Matthew’s theology. Virtually all of them felt relief and joy in understanding that they weren’t carrying with them some unearned blemish from the time of their birth. GG believes that psychological health and spiritual health are deeply connected. The spiritual path is a search for wholeness. And Matthew has helped many people to feel more whole, thanks to the concept of Original Blessing.
November 27, 2025: Wholeness (part two) (GG)
The archetype of wholeness has a long history. It appears, for example, in the Pauline letters under the name of pleroma, where it refers to the Cosmic Christ — or God’s Wisdom — holding the universe together. The archetype of wholeness can also appear in our social interactions, but GG warns against projecting it onto our families and societies. This is a case in which the archetype can be destructive rather than healing. Thanksgiving can be an occasion for inner work, observing one’s projections, being able to own them and withdraw them.
November 28, 2025: Wholeness (part three) (GG)
GG believes that wholeness, not to be mistaken for moral perfection, is available to everyone as long as they put forth real effort. Mechthild of Magdeburg was no stranger to the harshness of life, yet she lived as somebody not weighed down by sin in any way. Catherine of Genoa believed in the purifying qualities of Christ’s blood, but she was also utterly convinced that no (male) authorities, and perhaps not even celestial ones, could prevent her from becoming truly and completely herself. The Creation Spirituality critique of the doctrine of original sin is solid. The challenge we face today is that of bringing to the fore the archetype of wholeness as a solution to the narcissism which is on full display in today’s society.
November 29, 2023: 3I/Atlas: A Visit From a Far-Distant Civilization? (MF)
Matthew finds it extremely exciting that the largest of all comets ever sighted in our solar system might not be a comet at all, but an artifact created by a civilization billions of years ago that may well be currently extinct. It is, he says, certainly worthy of contemplation. The possibility that intelligence far more advanced than ours exists elsewhere in the universe (or did in the past) is an opportunity for deep gratitude and awe. Can this event (and the possibility of making contact) wake us up to what matters (i.e., connection) rather than the banal folly of war and hatred against our own kin? Can it bring us together as a species?
* Isabel Van Brugen, “Pope Leo Torches Trump’s ‘Extremely Disrespectful’ Agenda,” The Daily Beast, November 19, 2025.
Banner image: “RESIST!’ Banner at a protest in central Florida. Photo by Cynthia Greb. Used with permission.
Related Readings by Matthew Fox
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society
Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ
A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice
Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision For a New Generation, by Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox
Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Vision of Love and Action, by Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, and Jennifer Listug
The Return of Father Sky
Passion for Creation: The Earth-Honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart
3 thoughts on “Week of 11/24-29/2025: Resistance, Wholeness & 3I/Atlas”
“We are at the dawn of a new consciousness, a radically fresh approach to our life as the human family in a fragile world. This journey is what spirituality is really about. We are not meant to remain just as we are. We cannot depend on our culture either to guide and support us on our quest. We must do the hard work of clarification together ourselves.
This revolution will be the task of the Interspiritual Age. The necessary shifts in consciousness require a new approach to spirituality that transcends past religious cultures of fragmentation and isolation. We need to understand, to really grasp at an elemental level that the definitive revolution is the spiritual awakening of humankind.”
— Words from Brother Wayne Teasdale’s “The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World’s Religions,” (1999).
Recommended books:
1) “The Coming Interspiritual Age,” (2012), by Kurt Johnson & David Robert Ord
2) “Interspirituality: The Heritage,” Volume 1 (2025): “ Brings together more than 100 global contributors to explore the roots, emergence, and meaning of the interspiritual experience —
a dynamic convergence of the world’s wisdom traditions grounded in shared values of compassion, justice, unity, and love. It along with “Interspirituality: The Future,” forms a historic two-volume set.”
Thanks for the references and your always uplifting posts.
I absolutely love Matthew Fox’s meditations. I wish he wouldn’t delve into pseudoscience with remarks about 31 Atlas. It has been definitely determined to be a comet and not part of any alien civilization. Remarks like those hurt credibility in a world where we are in desperate need of it.