Moving Beyond Fear
Matthew Fox
May 24, 2023
We spoke yesterday about how sometimes we choose fear. Why would anyone choose fear over love? Sometimes, to make money. Big money and big power. Riling up fear
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Fear & Guns in America
Matthew Fox
May 23, 2023
A fine article in the Washington Post this weekend by Christine Emba explored the cause of the American gun fetish. In America today there are about 393 million
Sadness & Acedia: Julian, Hildegard, Aquinas on the Opposites of Joy
Matthew Fox
May 5, 2023
One way to grasp a spiritual concept is to consider its opposite first. What constitutes the opposite of joy? Sadness is an opposite of joy
Joy, Love & Consciousness Among All Creatures
Matthew Fox
May 2, 2023
Aquinas connects joy to consciousness when he says, “God is supremely joyful and therefore supremely conscious.” Is that your experience too, that consciousness and joy
Joy and Holiness, continued
Matthew Fox
May 1, 2023
We are meditating on Joy as a sign of holiness. A patriarchal version of Divinity appears more occupied with judgement and denunciations than with joy. A
Buddhism, Christianity and Fox News War on Truth
Matthew Fox
March 31, 2023
Buddhism offers the “Noble Eight-Fold Path” as a way that all should follow. Among these Eight Paths is that of “Right Speech.” One who follows that Path
Creation: Original Blessing, Original Goodness at Work
Matthew Fox
March 30, 2023
My teaching about Original Blessing that so disturbed the previous two popes can be understood as an exegesis of the first page of the Bible. There
God, Justice and Concern for the “Unregarded”
Matthew Fox
March 28, 2023
Rabbi Heschel cautions that it is not enough to have a regard for the Ground of Being. We must also have “concern for the unregarded.” This is
Aquinas, Eckhart, Heschel and Hart on Holy Existence
Matthew Fox
March 21, 2023
Thomas Aquinas reminds us that “to exist is the most perfect thing of all, for compared to existence, everything else is potential.” And that “God is
Thomas Aquinas & Deepak Chopra on “the Glory of Existence”
Matthew Fox
March 20, 2023
In a time of struggle and darkness, with lies and false prophets with very large megaphones and audiences, it helps to call on the wisdom
