Self-Love and Healthy Pride: Beyond Selfishness
Matthew Fox
August 26, 2021
The story about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden has often been preached as a story about the sins of pride and disobedience.
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Thomas Merton on the Genocide of Indigenous Peoples
Matthew Fox
July 6, 2021
Thomas Merton’s book on Ishi: A Meditation begins with the following stark words: Genocide is a new word. Perhaps the word is new because technology
July 4th, 2021: Can We Heal Our Lost & Violent Souls?
Matthew Fox
July 4, 2021
Let us this July 4th look for medicine that can heal our ailing species that is busy threatening itself and other beings on our planet
Sacred Creation, Democracy, and Unsacred Politics
Matthew Fox
June 5, 2021
Some may wonder why we are meditating on creation and its sacredness when the very foundations of our democracy are burning to the ground in
Eckhart on Driving Merchants from our Souls and Temples
Matthew Fox
April 1, 2021
Part of the Holy Week story is the revolutionary act attributed to Jesus of turning over tables of the sellers in the Temple. New Testament
Soul Wounds, continued
Matthew Fox
March 31, 2021
We considered in yesterday’s DM the great price that Native peoples have paid for their colonization. They call it a soul wound. The healing begins
Meditating on Evil during
Holy Week
Matthew Fox
March 30, 2021
Holy Week seems like a good time to meditate on evil, since not only Christians, but most people can recognize in the Jesus story, a
Palm Sunday 2021
Matthew Fox
March 28, 2021
In their fine work, The Last Week, New Testament scholars Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan inform us that the paths humans can choose to
From Meditations on Evil to Meditations with Howard Thurman
Matthew Fox
February 23, 2021
This past week, while meditating about the epiphany of evil that revealed itself on January 6, I experienced a welcome counterpoint in the fine PBS
Hope and the Future of the Body Politic
Matthew Fox
February 22, 2021
The radicalization of the Republican party is happening in front of our eyes and is deeply dividing that party. The effort to subvert the right
