Music as Prayer in Hard Times
Matthew Fox
March 4, 2022
We are living through a fierce moment in history. On the one hand, we have a new report from scientists from the United Nations on
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Hildegard of Bingen on Fire & Spirit, Joy & Wisdom
Matthew Fox
February 24, 2022
Recently I was gifted with a wonderful recording of Hildegard of Bingen’s song, “O Fire of Comforting Spirit.” The singer is Jess Dandy and she had
Some Thoughts on Mysticism and Our Survival
Matthew Fox
February 23, 2022
The modern age was not only hostile to but ignorant of mysticism. This parallels its relationship of fealty to the idol called Patriarchy—which still reigns everywhere.
Silence Along the Desert Journey
Matthew Fox
December 11, 2021
Part of a journey across a desert is to make inner space and slow down in order to get a perspective on all the energies,
Filling Up Like Camels with Good News from the Mystics
Matthew Fox
December 8, 2021
Yesterday we promised to take a short respite from our meditations on the dark side including the toxic masculine and the rise of authoritarianism that
Soelle: Mysticism Represents a New Kind of Transcendence
Matthew Fox
November 18, 2021
Dorothee Soelle, like Bede Griffiths and Howard Thurman and many other mystic-prophets before her, recognizes the “external” factors of religion as being one thing, but
Dorothee Soelle, Mysticism, and the Undoing of Patriarchy
Matthew Fox
November 17, 2021
One way to bring back the Divine Feminine and Healthy Masculine is by way of mysticism itself. We have seen how Father Bede Griffiths insists
Deep Ecumenism and My Writings, continued
Matthew Fox
October 27, 2021
In my book, One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from Global Faith Traditions, (published in 2000) I treat 18 themes that I propose are found
The Spiritual Side of Men: A Young Man’s Testimony
Matthew Fox
October 6, 2021
We are meditating on the sacred masculine. Following is a testimony from a male undergraduate in an English university when he came across the work of
Thurman on the Via Positiva, continued
Matthew Fox
July 24, 2021
Thurman’s experience as a wonder-filled child as well as his peoples’ experience from an African Earth-based reverence for the cosmos permeates his many rich self-disclosures.
