Flaming Torches and Flickering Lights
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
August 13, 2025
I am writing from a cellar where I took refuge from the summer heat. It is a comfortable space, furnished with a table, a sofa,
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Good News and the Bible
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
July 25, 2025
There are many signs that a positive change is underway. Last week, two Israeli soldiers who were vacationing in Belgium were arrested and interrogated, being
Youth: Speaking Truth to Powerful Guardians of Education
Matthew Fox
May 9, 2024
The youth need to speak truth to power—someone has to after all. The powerful are often tired guardians of the status quo and its mighty institutions.
Gratitude for Youth Protest on Campuses in a Time of Moral Crisis
Matthew Fox
May 7, 2024
Having come of age in the time of protests against the Viet Nam war and ossified education that were happening in Europe and North America in the
More on Love & Collective Atonement from Jews of Conscience
Matthew Fox
April 19, 2024
We are meditating on God as Love and the World as Love—the latter being a statement proposed by Teilhard de Chardin in light of the
Jews of Conscience Speaking Out on Brutality to Palestinians
Matthew Fox
April 18, 2024
We have been meditating on Teilhard’s teaching that not only is God Love but also “the world is Love.” We have brought Thomas Aquinas, Julian of
Jose Andres: Wisdom & Hope for a Transformed Humanity
Matthew Fox
April 6, 2024
Jose Andres is founder of World Central Kitchen and a well-known chef. He knew and worked alongside the seven people who were trying to relieve starvation
Rabbis Speaking Out on the Evil in Gaza & One Man’s Sacrifice
Matthew Fox
March 7, 2024
Two rabbis have spoken to me recently about the tragedy going on in Gaza—one in person and the other in his newsletter. One said, “It
Good News of Human Nobility & Compassion from 150 Rabbis
Matthew Fox
November 10, 2023
We ended yesterday’s DM with this question for pondering: How is humanity today, how are we today, doing in expressing our divine nobility by way
Week of 10/29-11/04/2023: All Saints, All Souls, & Compassion
Matthew Fox
November 5, 2023
October 29, 2023: Good News in Times of War: We Are Capable of Compassion (Aquinas)Matthew reviews Thomas Aquinas’s definition of compassion, “To be compassionate is
