
Deep Feeling, Not Sentimentalism
How can one differentiate between deep feeling and sentimentalism? I have run the risk of throwing out deep feeling together with sentimentalism, so I will
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How can one differentiate between deep feeling and sentimentalism? I have run the risk of throwing out deep feeling together with sentimentalism, so I will

Last week I was in Florence, Italy, to deliver a lecture on Matthew Fox and Creation Spirituality. My job was to close a series of

In the Western Catholic tradition, this time of Advent — roughly coinciding with the darkening month of December — is a time of imploration for

Italian poet Franco Arminio recently said something very simple yet profound: “We must fight for justice, otherwise we get sick.” To me, this is a

When the foundations of the world are shaken, what can the just do? This old cry from the Psalms is more contemporary than ever. Francesca

The construction of a European common identity in the last 50 years or so has been delegated to the so-called “Western values,” which were supposed

Bombing and killings in Gaza have not stopped, despite the ceasefire agreement. About 100 violent deaths per week. Violence in the West Bank has increased

Evagrius Ponticus, writing in the fifth century, states openly that there is nothing within the person that may keep her from desiring wholeness and that

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

Over the course of many years, I have met many people who have encountered the theology put forward by Matthew Fox. Often, he was the
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