On Voting
Matthew Fox
November 4, 2022
Please Vote. And get others to vote. Vote for the Planet, for the future therefore, and for the young and generations not yet born. Vote for
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bell hooks and Thomas Aquinas on Truth and Justice
Matthew Fox
November 3, 2022
Cultural critic bell hooks is in agreement with Aquinas who, as we saw yesterday, says that truth and justice lie in the heart. hooks tells us
Hannah Arendt & Thomas Aquinas on Truth, Justice & Politics
Matthew Fox
November 2, 2022
In a recent DM we learned from Hannah Arendt that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world is destroyed when politicians lie
Week of Oct. 24-29: Wisdom Teachings, Democracy, and the Mid-Term Election
Matthew Fox
October 30, 2022
Each Sunday, we are offering a brief summary of the meditations from the previous week, as a kind of “index” inviting you to return to
The Meaning of the Mid-Term Elections, part IV
Matthew Fox
October 28, 2022
We are meditating on what the mid-term elections are about this year. We are choosing whether to have a government that is “of the people,
The Meaning of the Mid-Term Elections, part II
Matthew Fox
October 26, 2022
In yesterday’s DM, we looked at some of the factors involved in this year’s midterm elections…prominent among them the far-right forces influencing the Supreme Court
Week of Oct. 17-22: Defending Democracy, Honoring Albert Nolan, OP.
Matthew Fox
October 23, 2022
Each Sunday, we are offering a brief summary of the meditations from the previous week, as a kind of “index” inviting you to return to
The Price of Democracy and the Price of Compassion
Matthew Fox
October 22, 2022
A few DM’s ago, we posed the question of whether the idea of democracy is a “sacred” term. What I think we can agree on
September 5-10: Exploring Joy, Work, Justice, and Compassion
Matthew Fox
September 11, 2022
Each Sunday, we are offering a brief summary of the meditations from the previous week, as a kind of “index” inviting you to return to
Joy + Justice = Compassion
Matthew Fox
September 10, 2022
To commit to Joy and Justice and Celebration, as Barbara Ehrenreich does, is to commit to Compassion. As Meister Eckhart tells us, “what happens to another, whether it
