On Voting
Matthew Fox
November 4, 2022
Please Vote. And get others to vote. Vote for the Planet, for the future therefore, and for the young and generations not yet born. Vote for
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bell hooks and Thomas Aquinas on Truth and Justice
Matthew Fox
November 3, 2022
Cultural critic bell hooks is in agreement with Aquinas who, as we saw yesterday, says that truth and justice lie in the heart. hooks tells us
Hannah Arendt & Thomas Aquinas on Truth, Justice & Politics
Matthew Fox
November 2, 2022
In a recent DM we learned from Hannah Arendt that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world is destroyed when politicians lie
Lies, Violence and Politics
Matthew Fox
November 1, 2022
Lies beget violence. Lies have consequences. We saw this on January 6 live in our living rooms. The insurrection was a response to a “Big Lie” and
Cynicism, Politics and Violence — Signs of Our Times
Matthew Fox
October 31, 2022
In Saturday’s DM, we meditated with Hannah Arendt on her book, In Lying and Politics, which seems especially fitting in this season of mid-term elections. One
Week of Oct. 24-29: Wisdom Teachings, Democracy, and the Mid-Term Election
Matthew Fox
October 30, 2022
Each Sunday, we are offering a brief summary of the meditations from the previous week, as a kind of “index” inviting you to return to
The Meaning of the Mid-Term Elections, part IV
Matthew Fox
October 28, 2022
We are meditating on what the mid-term elections are about this year. We are choosing whether to have a government that is “of the people,
The Meaning of the Mid-Term Elections, part III
Matthew Fox
October 27, 2022
We are meditating on government of the Koch brothers, by Opus Dei and for the corporations and billionaires who flood elections with dark money. This
The Meaning of the Mid-Term Elections, part II
Matthew Fox
October 26, 2022
In yesterday’s DM, we looked at some of the factors involved in this year’s midterm elections…prominent among them the far-right forces influencing the Supreme Court
What Is This Election About Anyway?
Matthew Fox
October 25, 2022
The mid-term election officially begins two weeks from today but has already begun in many states. I ask the obvious question: What is this election about?
