Apocalyptic Times
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
October 14, 2026
Recently, it looks and feels as if some of the best honed skills and achievements of the human race are being trashed. We rightly sense
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Hildegard’s Politics
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
August 31, 2026
Psychologist, healer, theologian, painter, musician… most likely Hildegard would not have recognized or claimed these titles for herself, for a number of different reasons. Yet
The Prescient Painting of Hildegard of Bingen on the Antichrist
Matthew Fox
August 17, 2026
In Saturday’s DM, I shared —not for the first time—the powerful painting by Hildegard of Bingen on the Anti-Christ. I first shared it in my
Art & Beauty in a Time of Evil & Ugliness
Matthew Fox
July 11, 2026
I was pleased to see Gianluigi Gugliametto’s recent daily meditations that pick up on Brendan Doyle’s insights about music, including liturgical music, in our time.
Adam Bucko on Holiness & The Image & Likeness of God, continued
Matthew Fox
February 21, 2026
We continue to share, with permission, guest writer Fr. Adam Bucko‘s powerful Substack essay,* which includes parts of my recent DM on “Why Meditate on
Why Meditate on Sainthood in a Time of ICE, Epstein Files, & the Rest?
Matthew Fox
February 13, 2026
We have been meditating on Leonard Cohen’s and then Ernest Becker’s understandings of holiness or saintliness. Why? Because evil is so present in our news
Week of 2/2-7/2026: The Good Fight, Silence & Mystery
Daily Meditations Team
February 8, 2026
This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto
Bearing Up While Fighting the Good Fight
Matthew Fox
February 3, 2026
St. Paul instructed us to “fight the good fight.” Clearly, a major fight ensues today at the hands of our government, busy invading city after
Lessons from Soviet Occupation Pertinent to the News from Minnesota
Matthew Fox
January 31, 2026
In a recent Substack, my friend and often co-worker, Adam Bucko, tells a powerful story based on his years growing up under Soviet rule in
Powerful Statement from a Minneapolis Chaplain
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
January 29, 2026
Yesterday, we published a poem that truly gushed out of me on Sunday morning. I don’t think of myself as a poet. Yet the disturbing
