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We meditated in yesterday’s DM on challenging “large-scale social lies” (Becker’s words) through naming them, which is journalism’s task. And indeed, a task for all
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We meditated in yesterday’s DM on challenging “large-scale social lies” (Becker’s words) through naming them, which is journalism’s task. And indeed, a task for all

We have been meditating on Leonard Cohen’s and then Ernest Becker’s understandings of holiness or saintliness. Why? Because evil is so present in our news

Ernest Becker sees religion today as failing to open up our perception based on “celebrating God’s creation.” He praises indigenous religions for doing exactly that.

We concluded a three-part meditation on the meaning of saintliness from Leonard Cohen in yesterday’s DM with his definition that a saint is “a balancing

We continue our exegesis of Leonard Cohen’s observations on saintliness. The saint is grounded and earthy and following the contours of the earth—not angel-like and

We are meditating on what Leonard Cohen says about saintliness, in his book Beautiful Losers.* Saturday’s DM ended with his observation that Love is at

Buddhist and Jewish musician and sage Leonard Cohen asks the question: What is a saint?* He answers his question this way in his 1966 novel, Beautiful

St. Paul instructed us to “fight the good fight.” Clearly, a major fight ensues today at the hands of our government, busy invading city after

I continue the excellent article penned by Fr. Adam Bucko the morning after Alex Pretti was murdered by government thugs, paid for by our tax

This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto
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