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While Mechtild of Magdeburg might well have influenced Dante concerning the imaginary shape of Purgatory (see DM Nov. 21), another woman is remembered as the
In yesterday’s DM, we celebrated the teaching of Jesus about good trees that bear good fruit and his advice to judge people by the fruit
Working on the seven capital sins and the seven chakras has brought to my attention once again that spirituality is intensely personal and political at
Journeying up from the fourth to the seventh chakra, we have been dealing with lighter and subtler energies, it seems to me. If we follow
The fifth chakra, located at the level of the throat, can be naturally paired with the capital sin of gluttony, which in Latin is spelled
Just as smoke indicates fire, so anger indicates love. Anger has a necessary and important role to play in response to our pain or abuse.
In his revisiting the seven deadly sins of the Catholic tradition, after speaking of sloth or acedia as the root-vice, Matthew Fox examines “lust” and
Acedia means essentially lack of interest and absence of passion. It is not the same as the sin of omission, which is the lack of
We live in very troubled times. The more we are aware of this, the more we realize that we cannot count on external events to
In his book Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh, Matthew Fox describes the ten deadly sins of our time. Such sins are nothing
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