Easter, 2021
Matthew Fox
April 4, 2021
Much in the Resurrection story is set in the context of cosmology. Those persons who encountered Jesus after he died did not claim to have
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Holy Saturday and the Shamanic Descent of Jesus
Matthew Fox
April 3, 2021
How do we find meaning in suffering? How do we respond to it without projecting more suffering onto others? How do we, in Leonard Cohen’s
Crucifixion and the Cosmic Christ
Matthew Fox
April 2, 2021
Bad theology can readily over-psychologize the Crucifixion. In the Gospels, the Good Friday event is placed in a cosmic context. Scholarship now tells us that
The Feast of Epiphany 2021, Part III
Matthew Fox
January 9, 2021
The Infancy narratives in the Christian story weave in significant passages from the Hebrew Scriptures. Early Christians went hunting and gathering into their Jewish heritage,
The Feast of Epiphany 2021, Part II
Matthew Fox
January 7, 2021
In yesterday’s DM we discussed seven elements to the Epiphany story that seem useful to awaken our imaginations today about what it means to be
The Feast of Epiphany, 2021
Matthew Fox
January 6, 2021
Today, January 6, marks the Feast of Epiphany. I pointed out in a recent DM that the feast days our religions celebrate are invariably archetypal
Eckhart’s Call to Compassion and Justice
Matthew Fox
January 5, 2021
To follow Eckhart’s teaching on compassion and justice would be to enter a New Normal. Eckhart devotes a long and substantive Latin treatise to an
Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton on a “New Normal”
Matthew Fox
January 2, 2021
Dorothy Day once said that her life’s work was to make it more easy for people to be good. That seems like a very worthy
On Birthing the Son/Daughter of God in Us
Matthew Fox
December 28, 2020
For many people, the teaching from Meister Eckhart, which we treated in our meditations on advent–that humans are meant to birth the divine son within
Birthing a New Normal with Help from Present Day Mystics
Matthew Fox
December 27, 2020
In honor of the 12 days of Christmas we are sharing 12 teachings of current day mystics who can help us create a “New Normal”
