Eve of Thanksgiving, 2019
Matthew Fox
November 27, 2019
It being Thanksgiving Eve, it seemed to me that a meditation on God who is often called the “giver of gifts” seems in order. So
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The Four Paths are Non-Linear and Interdependent
Matthew Fox
September 27, 2019
We have taken a bit of a hiatus from the Via Negativa meditations to verge into the Via Creativa and Via Transformativa happenings around the
13 Pillars Summarizing Our Daily Meditations Journey So Far
Matthew Fox
September 16, 2019
I love the picture accompanying today’s Daily Meditation! Taken in 1941 during the construction of the Jefferson Memorial and its northern seawall adjoining the Tidal
Father Bede Griffith: On Religion in Conflict with Mysticism
Matthew Fox
July 14, 2019
We are discussing mysticism and our experiences of the divine. Father Bede Griffiths, a Benedictine monk who pioneered interfaith or deep ecumenism from his ashram
Thomas Merton: On Silence and Burning
Matthew Fox
July 13, 2019
In the following poem Merton names the spiritual practice of silence and the fire that is enkindled in the deep silence of meditation, the via
Thomas Merton and the Cosmic Christ
Matthew Fox
July 11, 2019
The Cosmic Christ theology was important to Thomas Merton. His famous mystical experience on crossing Walnut Street in downtown Louisville during noon rush hour, when
The Cosmic Christ and Hildegard
Matthew Fox
July 10, 2019
The word of God is everywhere and in everything, for “without the Word of God no creature has being. God’s Word is in all creation,
Time for the Cosmic Christ?
Matthew Fox
July 9, 2019
I think it may be time that Christians put the Nicene Creed on the shelf for a while and start paying attention more to the
Doxa or “Glory,” Signs of
the Presence of the Cosmic Christ
or Image of God
Matthew Fox
July 8, 2019
The term “glory” or doxa is prominent in texts that celebrate the Cosmic Christ in the Scriptures. Glory and its synonym “beauty” are cosmological categories.
The Cosmic Christ and Our Experiences of the Divine
Matthew Fox
July 7, 2019
To speak of our experiences of the Divine, as we are doing in the current Daily Meditations, is to speak of the Cosmic Christ. The
