Easter, 2021
Matthew Fox
April 4, 2021
Much in the Resurrection story is set in the context of cosmology. Those persons who encountered Jesus after he died did not claim to have
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Holy Saturday and the Shamanic Descent of Jesus
Matthew Fox
April 3, 2021
How do we find meaning in suffering? How do we respond to it without projecting more suffering onto others? How do we, in Leonard Cohen’s
Crucifixion and the Cosmic Christ
Matthew Fox
April 2, 2021
Bad theology can readily over-psychologize the Crucifixion. In the Gospels, the Good Friday event is placed in a cosmic context. Scholarship now tells us that
Eckhart on Driving Merchants from our Souls and Temples
Matthew Fox
April 1, 2021
Part of the Holy Week story is the revolutionary act attributed to Jesus of turning over tables of the sellers in the Temple. New Testament
Soul Wounds, continued
Matthew Fox
March 31, 2021
We considered in yesterday’s DM the great price that Native peoples have paid for their colonization. They call it a soul wound. The healing begins
Meditating on Evil during
Holy Week
Matthew Fox
March 30, 2021
Holy Week seems like a good time to meditate on evil, since not only Christians, but most people can recognize in the Jesus story, a
Choices, 2021
Matthew Fox
March 29, 2021
All morality, all ethics, is about choices. Consider the ancient teaching from Deuteronomy: “I put before you life and death. Choose life.” Life is a
Palm Sunday 2021
Matthew Fox
March 28, 2021
In their fine work, The Last Week, New Testament scholars Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan inform us that the paths humans can choose to
Passover, 2021
Matthew Fox
March 27, 2021
Today is Passover. That great day in Jewish memory when the people commemorate the Liberation and Exodus, from servitude, slavery and the Pharoah’s cruelty. What
More from Hildegard on the Spiritual Warrior in Us All
Matthew Fox
March 26, 2021
Hildegard develops further her deep and useful teachings about our spiritual warriorhood in a visionary image she painted: two walls coming together, building a “heavenly
