Choices, 2021
Matthew Fox
March 29, 2021
All morality, all ethics, is about choices. Consider the ancient teaching from Deuteronomy: “I put before you life and death. Choose life.” Life is a
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On Slaughtering Old Trees While Rebuilding an Endangered Cathedral
Matthew Fox
March 10, 2021
Yesterday we proposed that a toxic masculinity may lie behind the folly committed by two governors to remove all masking — just as we are
Thurman & Hildegard on being Green Men and Women, continued
Matthew Fox
February 28, 2021
Yesterday we saw how Thurman underscores our inherent need for cosmology — the “curiosity of our race” includes curiosity about our origins, our beginnings, where
Wellness and Suffering in a Time of Chaos
Matthew Fox
January 17, 2021
Clearly Julian is not tiptoeing through the tulips—even as she says: “All will be well, all manner of things will be well.” This is while
David Korten on a New Economics
Matthew Fox
May 29, 2020
Having grounded ourselves in the solid spiritual awareness of Meister Eckhart on the topic of a just economics, we are now turning to twenty-first century
Eckhart on Birthing a New Economics of Justice and Compassion
Matthew Fox
May 28, 2020
Eckhart warns us that the “merchant mentality” can take over our souls. Some people look on God as they do a cow—”for the milk and
Christmas as Archetype, part 1
Matthew Fox
December 24, 2019
Let’s not talk about Jesus at all. Let’s talk about ourselves. Who are we? What is humanity and what are we evolving to be? Who
Thomas Merton’s Feast Day, Part 2
Matthew Fox
December 11, 2019
Regarding ecology, Merton spoke bluntly about the eco-devastation our species is engaged in: What a miserable bundle of foolish idiots we are! We kill everything
Dorothy Day, The Catholic Worker Movement, and Advent
Matthew Fox
December 8, 2019
In addition to founding the Catholic Worker movement with Peter Maurin in 1933 and which today numbers 203 communities around the world, Dorothy Day started
The Wisdom of Dorothy Day, continued
Matthew Fox
December 7, 2019
Dorothy Day speaks of love as “a harsh and dreadful thing” when she writes: We are not expecting utopia here on this earth. But God
