The Face of the Other
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
December 19, 2025
Musing upon my last two DMs — one on deep feeling and the other on sustainability — it occurs to me that the two topics
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Fighting Despair with Understanding
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
July 30, 2025
Last Sunday night, here in Italy, a great number of Catholic churches, from cities to the smallest villages, rung their bells at 10pm — an
Etty Hillesum and Peace-Making
Matthew Fox
June 26, 2025
Etty Hillesum wrote her diaries in Nazi-occupied Netherlands. In 1941 she ended up in the transit camp of Westerbork because she volunteered to accompany the
Moral Imagination, Immoral Imagination & An Energy Breakthrough
Matthew Fox
June 24, 2025
In my recent DMs, I have been praising the power of human creativity—to make the world a better place. The power of the Via Creativa
Greed vs. Compassion
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
May 19, 2025
In the middle chakra, the energies of the other chakras converge. This notion is not peculiar to Matthew Fox, nor is the idea that the
Week of 5/12-17/2025: Pope Leo, the Seven Chakras, & the Motherhood of God
Matthew Fox
May 18, 2025
Note: As Matthew Fox works to complete his next book, our Daily Meditations continue to be penned by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (aka GG), a friend and
The Motherhood of God and the Power of Compassion
Matthew Fox
May 16, 2025
Following is an excerpt from Matthew Fox’s homily on Mother’s Day at Unity Inspired Living church, Brentwood, CA. For the whole talk, see LINK. Julian of
Holiness as Cosmic Hospitality
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
May 5, 2025
Howard Zinn famously said: “Human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize
Empathy and Cosmic Pain
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
May 3, 2025
I suffer from nostalgia. I yearn for some forgotten time/space niche, perhaps in the distant past, where communication among human tribes was limited. I would
The War Against Empathy (in the Names of Trump & Christ)
Matthew Fox
April 16, 2025
Yesterday we meditated on the essential lesson of Passover: that of empathy. Empathy is the “central message” of the 8-day season of Passover, said Rabbi Jonathan
