Where Does Creativity Come From?
Matthew Fox
October 9, 2019
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
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The Via Creativa in African Traditions
Matthew Fox
October 8, 2019
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
The Via Creativa Among the Celts
Matthew Fox
October 7, 2019
W. B. Yeats believed that it was only with Greek and Roman culture that humans became all-important. Until then, other questions occupied the human soul:“One
The Via Creativa in Islam
Matthew Fox
October 6, 2019
We are examining the role of art and creativity among various spiritual traditions of the world. In Islam, the Sufi mystic Hafiz addresses the question:
Indigenous Cultures and
the Via Creativa
Matthew Fox
October 5, 2019
A Creation story of the desert areas in the west of South Australia tells how the Creator, Bunjil, made all of Creation but was lonely.
The Via Creativa and Brother Francis on his Feast Day,
October 4
Matthew Fox
October 4, 2019
Brother Francis was an artist in founding a new religious order and in his relationships with others, especially the more-than-human ones, as well as in
Via Creativa: Compassion, Creativity, and Everyone an Artist?
Matthew Fox
October 3, 2019
Potter, poet, painter and philosopher M. C. Richards writes: “We have to realize that a creative being lives within ourselves, whether we like it or
Creativity: The “Fate of Poetry”
Matthew Fox
October 2, 2019
Caribbean poet Derrick Walcott, on accepting the Nobel Prize for poetry in 1992, remarked: “The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the
Human Beings: Bipeds who Make Things
Matthew Fox
October 1, 2019
In caves in Africa on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, scientists have recently discovered artifacts dating to 90,000 years ago. These findings indicate that
Creativity: A Special Form of Encountering Spirit
Matthew Fox
September 30, 2019
The title of my book, Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet, suggests that there is a special encounter with the Divine where creativity
