
Creativity and the Poor—Bob Fox’s Ministry, part 1
Bob Fox was a street priest whose parish was in the heart of Harlem. As a young priest he had studied with Ivan Illich in
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Bob Fox was a street priest whose parish was in the heart of Harlem. As a young priest he had studied with Ivan Illich in

Among his teachings Ken Feit used to say: “My vocation is to make extraordinary things ordinary; and ordinary things extraordinary….To see the ordinary extraordinarily is

One faculty member in my MA program was Ken Feit who identified as an itinerant fool. A Jesuit seminarian, he was told by his provincial

In cultures where all of creation is honored for its sacredness, artists play an important leadership role. “Art,” observes Santayana, is “more spiritual than dogma.”

Mary Oliver calls herself a “praise poet.” She proves it with a Niagara of observations in praise of life and the beings of the Earth

It has been my privilege to teach Mary Oliver’s poetry in the context of courses on spirituality. She is a champion within the creation spirituality

Not only does today’s science instruct us in how creativity has been baked into the universe from the get-go 13.8 billion years ago, and not

In yesterday’s meditation we considered how science recognizes wildness to be intrinsic to creativity in the universe and how a dance between chaos and order

Today’s science is finding that the whole universe is permeated with the power of creativity. Physicist Brian Swimme puts it this way: “If you let

In her powerful book, Let the Circle Be Unbroken: The Implications of African Spirituality in the Diaspora, Dr. Marimba Ani (Richards) recognizes the profound spirituality
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