Praying with Queen Esther
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
August 21, 2025
Meditating upon prayer and the four paths, I realize that in our historical moment it is especially the via negativa that must be made present
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The Scope of Our Hope
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
July 5, 2025
Early in his career, Matthew Fox named one “unholy” or “demonic” trinity made of competition, compulsion, and dualism, all strongly and virulently opposed to compassion,
Balance
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
May 2, 2025
If I were asked to say in one word what spirituality is all about for me, I would say “balance.” I could also say “justice”
Compassion, Eckhart, and Humanity’s Future
Matthew Fox
May 6, 2024
I am genuinely excited about a new class I am teaching with Shift Network beginning tomorrow, called “Cultivating Compassion in Spirituality: What Meister Eckhart &
Christmas, Grace & the Divine Life Inside Us & Our Actions
Matthew Fox
December 26, 2023
Yesterday, on Christmas, we cited Peter’s epistle and Clement of Alexandria and Saint Irenaeus, a second century Celtic bishop in Lyons, France, about God becoming
From the City of St. Louis—More Good News of Humanity’s Nobility
Matthew Fox
November 11, 2023
More good news about humanity’s capacity for compassion, and therefore nobility, comes from the city of St. Louis. In an article entitled “St. Lous Looks to
Compassion and Earth vs. War and Retribution
Matthew Fox
October 27, 2023
Yesterday’s DM ended this way: Where are our “defense departments” when we need them? Can’t the climate crisis awaken all humans everywhere to address the common foe:
Justice, Holiness, & Cries from Prisoners Baking in Texas
Matthew Fox
July 1, 2023
We cited Ernest Becker in yesterday’s DM who alerts us to our capacity, thanks to science and to “authentic religion” (I call that spirituality) to
Week of 3/27-4/1/2023: Compassion, Truth & the “Unregarded”
Matthew Fox
April 2, 2023
March 27, 2023. God, the Holy Spirit as Fire & CompassionMany mystics equate Divinity with fire and with compassion. Hildegard of Bingen said, “Who is
God, the Holy Spirit, as Fire & Compassion
Matthew Fox
March 27, 2023
The Holy Spirit is often depicted by the mystics as a kind of fire. Thus Hildegard of Bingen writes: Who is the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit is
