Balancing the Good News and the Hard News
Matthew Fox
April 9, 2021
Global news that arrives online in minutes from all around the world these days can easily weigh us down. Today it is the sad news
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Christmas Eve, 2020: Out of the Dark and Silence…
Matthew Fox
December 24, 2020
Christians employ a passage from the Book of Wisdom at the Christmas Midnight Mass readings. Recall that rabbi Jesus derives from the Wisdom tradition
An Infected President, A Whiff of Karma, A Dose of Mortality
Matthew Fox
October 4, 2020
It is a significant moment when the president of a country comes down with a virus infection that has so far killed 210,000+ Americans and
Indigenous American and African Americans on Art & Creativity
Matthew Fox
August 27, 2020
Creativity is at the heart of our being human beings. Among the songs of the Mesoamerican peoples are the following hymns about the Toltecatl artists.
Merton (and Eckhart) on Contemplation
Matthew Fox
August 15, 2020
We are exploring the foundational question: What does it mean to be human? We are drawing from the “10 C’s” to learn what they tell
Courage: Another “C” Representing What It Means To Be Human
Matthew Fox
July 30, 2020
Yesterday we honored the memory of John Lewis as a fine model of what it means to be human highlighting his call for “standing firm”
Further Lessons from John Lewis on What It Means to be Human
Matthew Fox
July 29, 2020
The body of John Lewis lying in state in the capitol rotunda with congressmen and women gathered around was an appropriate setting for a leader
Ecology & Our Coming to be Human Beings, Part III
Matthew Fox
July 28, 2020
One essay in our OSE book came from Trevien Stanger, instructor in environmental studies at St. Michael’s College, who writes: For some years now, I’ve
Ecology and Our Search for What it Means to be a Human – Part II
Matthew Fox
July 27, 2020
In times like ours, so marked by apocalyptic goings-on from climate change to climate change denial, from the failures of education, media, politics, economics and
How Ecology Teaches Us What it Means to be Human
Matthew Fox
July 26, 2020
We are meditating on what it means to be human. We are focusing on the dimension of cosmology and therefore ecology since, as Thomas Berry
