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# Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox

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- [Beauty & Grace, Aquinas & Eckhart: Medicine in a Time of Despair](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/07/13/beauty-grace-aquinas-eckhart-medicine-in-a-time-of-despair/) - In a time as fraught with despair and evil as ours, the need to remember the everyday presence of divine beauty becomes ever more important for our very survival. Instead of envy, celebration of one another’s gifts, talents and beauty. Instead of competition, celebration. Instead of sadness, joy. Instead of loneliness and rugged individualism, community.
- [Week of 7/6-11/2026: Music & Beauty, Good Ecological News, God as Freedom](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/07/12/week-of-7-6-11-2026/) - This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and some are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to include a video teaching by Matthew Fox.
- [Art & Beauty in a Time of Evil & Ugliness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/07/11/art-beauty-in-a-time-of-evil-ugliness/) - I was pleased to see Gianluigi Gugliametto’s recent daily meditations that pick up on Brendan Doyle’s insights about music, including liturgical music, in our time. Of course, GG never met Brendan, but it’s nice to see different generations contributing to the recovery of creation spirituality where art and creativity play such an important role. I
- [God as Freedom](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/07/08/god-as-freedom/) - The trial and execution of the three leaders of the Guglielmites in Milan (see the July 2 DM) must be seen in connection with the flourishing of many mystical strands in the late Middle Ages. The suspicion of heresy invested all of them, even though the repression was sporadic and capital punishments were rare until
- [Liturgical Music - part 2](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/07/10/liturgical-music-part-2/) - As yesterday, Gianluigi chose today’s videos to complement his theological reflections. Enjoy! We are examining liturgical music, following a prompt by Brendan Doyle (see yesterday’s DM). I have criticized the trend called “contemporary worship” or “progressive church songs,” but I have not yet touched the core of the matter. I need to explain what is happening
- [Liturgical Music - part 1](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/07/09/liturgical-music-part-1/) - Gianluigi chose today's videos to complement his theological reflections. Enjoy! Music has been one of my earliest passions. My father was a church musician (among other things), just like his father and his grandfather. My brother became a professional singer and a musicologist. I was trained as a classical pianist, and I directed church choirs
- [Amidst MAGA’s Bad News, Some Good News on the Ecological Front!](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/07/07/amidst-magas-bad-news-some-good-news-on-the-ecological-front/) - Headlines in the Guardian on July 4 read: “Washington DC’s Fourth of July Parade Canceled due to Soaring Temperatures.” There is bad news daily on the eco-front under Trump. Not just bad news, apocalyptic news. This president calls climate change a “hoax” and has done everything in his power to pay back the fossil fuel magnates who
- [Robert Thurman & Brendan Doyle, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/07/06/robert-thurman-brendan-doyle-continued/) - Last week I devoted my DMs to two persons who died recently: Buddhist teacher Robert Thurman and musician Brendan Doyle. Regarding Thurman, the other two sections of our dialogue at the Sacred Stream Buddhist Center in Berkeley can be found here. In speaking of Gustav Mahler, Doyle felt that the reason some people have trouble
- [Week of 6/29-7/4/2026: Thurman, Doyle, Guglielma, & America](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/07/05/week-of-6-29-7-4-2026/) - This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and some are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to include a video teaching by Matthew Fox.
- [“America” – part 2](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/07/04/america-part-2/) - Yesterday I discussed how the Enlightenment is truly foundational to U.S. society, for good and for ill. I praised the power of continual self-criticism, which – although seemingly utterly lost now in public life – comprises, in my view, the best of the American experiment. What Paul Tillich called “the Protestant principle” – that is,
- [“America” – part 1](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/07/03/america-part-1/) - My relationship with the culture and the people of the United States is complicated. One could say that we are in a perennial state of courtship but never engaged to be married. I spent a large portion of my adult life in Southern California — over 15 years. After my first contact, I have never
- [God as a Woman](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/07/02/god-as-a-woman/) - In the year 1300, a Catholic nun by the name of Maifreda was burnt at the stake in the public square in the city of Milan. With her, another nun and a layman were also executed by fire as leaders of a heretical group recently uncovered by the Inquisition. Historians believe that the ruling family
- [Brendan Doyle on Wagner & Mahler as Mystics and Prophets](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/07/01/brendan-doyle-on-wagner-mahler-as-mystics-and-prophets/) - We are remembering Brendan Doyle, an 18-year veteran and pioneer of the Creation Spirituality movement in its earliest years. He taught Art as Meditation courses, including singing Hildegard’s music and courses using the hermeneutic of the Four Paths to understand musicians for the mystics and prophets that they are. We are sharing portions of an
- [Brendan Doyle, An Early Leader in the Creation Spirituality Movement](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/30/brendan-doyle-an-early-leader-in-the-creation-spirituality-movement/) - This morning is the funeral of Brendan Doyle in New Orleans. Brendan was a Dominican brother for about 8 years, and we met in the Order. We worked closely together for 17 years, and the Creation Spirituality movement owes a lot to him. Among other things, he introduced me to the work of Gabriel Marcel
- [On the Passing of Robert Thurman, Gift-Giver of Buddhism to the West](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/29/on-the-passing-of-robert-thurman-gift-giver-of-buddhism-to-the-west/) - I learned this morning (Saturday) of the death of the great Buddhist scholar and teacher, Robert Thurman (who is also the father of actress Uma Thurman). The Dalai Lama ordained him over 65 years ago in India and was his mentor, and they maintained their strong friendship all those years.* He taught at Harvard and
- [Week of 6/22-27/2026: Character and Wholeness vs. Original Sin](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/28/week-of-6-22-27-2026/) - This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and some are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to include a video teaching by Matthew Fox.
- [Community](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/27/community/) - I have always had a lot of thoughts and hopes about community. I also became a community leader and enjoyed such a role for a while. The recent online meeting celebrating the 7th anniversary of the Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox made it clear that there is a sense of community among the readers, and
- [Wholeness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/25/wholeness/) - In recent years, there are two words that have captured my attention when it comes to the description of the spiritual journey. They are wholeness and determination/effort. I will discuss them separately, although obviously they are related as the goal and the road to achieve such a goal. I will start with the goal, that
- [Water and Fire: the Feast of St. John the Baptist](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/24/water-and-fire-the-feast-of-st-john-the-baptist/) - Today it the feast of St. John the Baptist. Besides Jesus and Mary, he is the only figure which the ecclesiastical tradition has deemed worthy of a feast to celebrate his birth rather than just his death — all the other saints are in fact celebrated on the anniversary of their departure from this earth.
- [Determination and Effort](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/26/determination-and-effort/) - Assuming that the goal of spiritual life is wholeness (see yesterday’s DM), it remains to be seen how such a goal can be obtained. Looking back at my life, I realize that for many years I was convinced that wholeness was not for me. I was not an apologist of brokenness either — I was
- [Character Development, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/23/character-development-continued/) - In yesterday’s DM, we named character development as intrinsic to healthy fathering. This in turn led to naming the “9 Cs” as a lead-up to the “10th C” or “Character Development.” We treated the first two Cs, Cosmology/Ecology and Contemplation/Meditation. The third C is Creativity. Getting in touch with our moral imaginations and releasing our
- [What If America Were To Have a President With No Character?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/22/what-if-america-were-to-have-a-president-with-no-character/) - Yesterday was Fathers’ Day. When I think about my father, I recognize him as a person of character. He had values and tried his best to live by them. In my book on The A.W.E. Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human, I give the role of building character a special place among the “10 C’s”
- [Week of 6/15-20/2026: "Real Men" vs. "the Gladiators," Evelyn Underhill, Juneteenth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/21/week-of-6-15-20-2026/) - This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and some are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to include a video teaching by Matthew Fox.
- [Father’s Day 2026](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/20/fathers-day-2026/) - In my book on The Hidden Spirituality of Men, the chapter on “Earth Father: The Fatherly Heart” presents fatherhood as one of the most foundational of the ten archetypes put forward on the sacred masculine. It can make a world of difference to both boys and girls as to what kind of fathering they underwent as
- [Juneteenth Day, 2026](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/19/juneteenth-day-2026/) - Today is Juneteenth National Independence Day, a federal holiday so declared on June 19, 2021 under the Biden administration. Other titles for the day include “Jubilee Day"; “Emancipation Day”; “Freedom Day”; “Black Independence Day.” Each title sheds light on its meaning. Juneteenth was first celebrated on June 19, 1866, and commemorated the final enforcement of
- [Cage Matches, Real Manhood, Senatorial Debates in Texas](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/17/cage-matches-real-manhood-senatorial-debates-in-texas/) - In Monday’s DM video, I shared some highlights from Robert Reich’s excellent article on “The Horrifying Truth About Trump’s Cage Match.” His thoughtful article talks of a “deeply troubling gladiator fight” whose message relayed of America is not about how “all are created equal” but about dominance. Trump’s cage match promotes violence as the American
- [Evelyn Underhill: a quiet revolutionary](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/18/evelyn-a-quiet-revolutionary/) - The 85th anniversary of the death of Evelyn Underhill passed this week without much fanfare, which she would have disliked anyway. “Quiet,” in fact, might be the best single word to summarize her message to the world, although the word “less” is also a strong contender. She insisted in particular on less noise, less (spiritual
- [On Distractions, Gladiators & Corruption on the White House Lawn](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/16/on-distractions-gladiators-corruption-on-the-white-house-lawn/) - In yesterday’s DM and video, we considered the very dubious historic watershed of the first trillionaire in human history. We also called for a re-do of the church’s definition of itself as the “mystical body of Christ” to include the “mystical/prophetic body of Christ” because all of us are called to be both mystics and
- [A Time For Interference from the Mystical/Prophetic Body of Christ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/15/a-time-for-interference-from-the-mystical-prophetic-body-of-christ/) - For some time, the Christian Church has talked about itself as “the mystical body of Christ.” That is a rich archetype to explore and to play out. But I think it’s time to update its self-definition and propose that its fuller vocation is to be a mystical/prophetic body of Christ. In my first book on
- [Why the Mass?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/13/why-the-mass/) - The Mass in its essence is a celebration of life. It is feast, thanksgiving, memorial, communion, compassion, cosmic joy. Its history goes back to the actions of Jesus — who had banquets with people of ill repute and was a guest at wedding parties — as well as to the earliest communities who remembered his
- [Week of 6/8-13/2026:](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/14/week-of-6-8-13-2026/) - This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and some are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to include a video teaching by Matthew Fox.
- [Why Ritual?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/10/why-ritual/) - Among the comments that we received about the recent series of DMs on ritual, two critiques caught my attention in particular: (1) Ritual for ritual’s sake is meaningless, and (2) What matters is social action, not ritual action. These are the two most classical modern criticisms of ritual. They make sense to me up to a certain
- [Doxa, Glory, M.C. Richards: A Good Way to Start the Day](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/12/doxa-glory-m-c-richards-a-good-way-to-start-the-day/) - On a wall in my bedroom, there is a painting about four feet by five feet by my good friend, former co-worker, and faculty member, M.C. Richards. (See banner picture above.) M.C. is best known for her iconic book, Centering: In Pottery, Poetry and the Person, a book I discovered at the very time I launched our
- [Why Jesus Christ?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/11/why-jesus-christ/) - Giving ritual such a place of honor as both Matthew Fox and the present writer have done in our last few DMs raises a number of questions. One of the most pressing of them, for me, regards my own definition of myself as a Christian. Everything that I said and believe about ritual and its
- [Ritual: When self becomes Self Uniting to the Universe Awakening Joy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/09/ritual-when-self-becomes-self-uniting-to-the-universe-awakening-joy/) - We ended Saturday’s DM with one of my favorite quotes from Teilhard de Chardin. It deserves our prolonged—and frequent— meditation: The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as humanity found itself facing the frost, the sea, and the stars. And since then, we find evidence of it in all our experience of the great
- [Recovering Creation, Gratitude and Ritual](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/08/recovering-creation-gratitude-and-ritual/) - I was energized to read GG’s recent DMs (here, here, and here) about his workshop/retreat in Sardinia for 45 people who underwent rituals and other practices to connect to the collective memory of our ancestors there. And to learn of the energy that was raised by the experience. Ritual is always in some ways a
- [Week of 6/1-6/6/2026: Good Work, Sardinia, Ritual, Disarming AI](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/07/week-of-6-1-6-6-2026/) - This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and some are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to include a video teaching by Matthew Fox.
- [Making Rituals for Our Troubled Days](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/06/making-rituals-for-our-troubled-days/) - In his major work The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, Matthew Fox explains the six principles that he has adopted for planning and leading rituals: Reset all worship in a cosmological context. Bring the body back. Bring play back. Make room for the via negativa — darkness, silence, suffering. Awaken and nurture the prophet. Bring
- [Pope Leo on the Limits, Dangers & “Disarming” of AI](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/01/pope-leo-on-the-limits-dangers-disarming-of-ai/) - In two previous DMs (here and here), we discussed important elements of Pope Leo’s encyclical on “Magnificent Humanity.” In addressing AI, he talks about “disarming” it, meaning resisting “ever more powerful algorithms and larger datasets, driven by the desire to secure geopolitical or commercial dominance.” In other words, resisting patriarchal dynamics of always needing to
- [Ritual as the Narrow Gate to Larger Pastures](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/05/ritual-as-the-narrow-gate-to-larger-pastures/) - During my recent retreat in Sardinia (see yesterday’s DM), I experienced again the tremendous power of ritual action. A Gospel verse comes to mind: “Endeavor to walk through the narrow gate, because large is the path leading to perdition and narrow is the one leading to life” (Matthew 7:13). As is often the case with
- [Awakening the Divine Human](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/04/awakening-the-divine-human/) - The consciousness of mysticism is on the rise. Mysticism is about our experiential union with the Divine. The rediscovery in the West of the role that the wisdom tradition played in the life of the historical Jesus, and the rediscovery of the Creation Spirituality tradition and its great Earth-based mystics, bring back to life theological
- [Bernard Amadei's Challenge to his Engineering Profession](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/03/bernard-amadeis-challenge-to-his-vocation-as-an-engineer/) - Yesterday we meditated on Work and Spirituality. I was inspired to do so by several recent experiences including Pope Leo’s encyclical, the interaction with attendees of the Sardinia retreat, and also an email that arrived from a student in our Spirituality and Work Doctor of Ministry program at UCS, Bernard Amadei. When he joined our
- [On Work and Spirituality](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/06/02/on-work-and-spirituality/) - Pope Leo’s ambitious encyclical on "Magnificent Humanity" discusses work and its importance. I, of course, took up the same topic in my book, The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time, where I applied the four paths of creation spirituality to our work worlds and employed deep ecumenism as a method, drawing on
- [Week of 5/25-30/2026: Andrew Harvey, Spiritual Counseling, Pope Leo's AI Encyclical](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/31/week-of-5-25-30-2026/) - This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and some are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to include a video teaching by Matthew Fox.
- [Some Highlights from Pope Leo’s New Encyclical](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/30/some-highlights-from-pope-leos-new-encyclical/) - As I pointed out in Tuesday’s DM, a great emphasis on the dignity and rights of the individual courses through the pope’s encyclical, “Magnificent Humanity.” Another element that stands out to me is that the term “the common good” is invoked on 72 separate occasions! Clearly, Pope Leo is driving home the need for humanity
- [Know Thyself in Spiritual Counseling](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/29/know-thyself-in-spiritual-counseling/) - Jungian analyst and scholar of religion Antonio Dorella has offered such a convincing parallel between the four paths of Creation Spirituality and the four psychological functions of C.G. Jung that I took it as the basis of my own book on Matthew Fox and Jung. It is also possible to pair the paths and the
- [Spiritual Counseling, Creation Spirituality Style](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/28/spiritual-counseling-creation-spirituality-style/) - To me, doing spiritual counseling, a.k.a. spiritual direction, represents a great spiritual adventure. Having immersed myself for many years in Creation Spirituality and, before that, in the kind of post-Vatican II and liberation theologies that are the humus itself of contemporary Creation Spirituality, as well as in interreligious dialogue and process thought, I find that
- [New Monasticism and Spiritual Counseling](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/27/new-monasticism-and-spiritual-counseling/) - "The New Monastic Movement." Global Spirit There are many things that could be said about my lifestyle, which is not anymore unique or special, to the point that people have coined the expression New Monasticism. The question remains, just like in old times, whether retreating from the hustle of society means also to renounce having
- [Pentecost Season & Pope Leo’s Encyclical on AI](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/26/pentecost-season-pope-leos-encyclical-on-ai/) - I write this on Monday morning, which is the day after the Feast of Pentecost for Christians and happens to be also the day of the release of Pope Leo’s much-awaited encyclical on AI. The document boasts a very uplifting title, Magnifica humanitas, Magnificent Humanity. (It almost sounds like “Original Blessing” to me.) Its subtitle is, appropriately,
- [The Latest News from the Exciting Spiritual Journey of Andrew Harvey](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/25/the-latest-news-from-the-exciting-spiritual-journey-of-andrew-harvey/) - This past week I received news from Andrew Harvey, a good friend and co-worker of mine in the field of a renewed spirituality, one that brings service, “sacred activism,” and healthy mysticism together. He and I have taught together on many occasions, including a series on “The Christ Path” at several locations in the country,
- [Week of 5/18-23/2026: Civil Rights, Breath, Humor, Creativity, Israel](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/24/week-of-5-18-23-2026/) - This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and some are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to include a video teaching by Matthew Fox.
- [Seven Steps to Untap Our Creativity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/23/seven-steps-to-untap-our-creativity/) - As we often say in these Meditations, tapping into creativity is especially important in times of crises such as ours. In Chapter 8 of Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet, Matthew Fox offers an exercise in Deep Ecumenism, which is itself an act of creativity. He weaves, in fact, Taoist wisdom into his
- [Hope for Palestine - Hope for Humanity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/22/hope-for-palestine-hope-for-humanity/) - The situation in Palestine has become a litmus test for humanity, not just for Judaism. In the last few days we have seen a few signs of hope: the ban imposed by the U.S. on Francesca Albanese, special rapporteur for Palestine, has been lifted; the international court at The Hague has indicted Israeli minister Ben
- [Stephen Colbert’s Firing, the Demise of Laughter at the Hands of Tyrants](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/21/stephen-colberts-firing-the-demise-of-laughter-at-the-hands-of-tyrants/) - Today is a sad day for America and American democracy. Today is Stephen Colbert’s last day hosting The Late Show. Humor and Satire are so important for spiritual survival, especially in a time of rising authoritarianism. Laughing at the emperor with no clothes is part of both resistance and survival. I will personally miss Colbert’s
- [Breathing - part 3](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/20/breathing-part-3/) - Please note: Breathing - parts 1 and 2 - were published two weeks ago. If you'd like, you can read them HERE and HERE. James Reho elaborates beautifully on the breathing techniques of Christian Orthodox (i.e. Greek) monks. He underlines especially the connection of such techniques with the “Jesus Prayer” and highlights the similarities with
- [The Wisdom of Fred Shuttlesworth, continued…& Lies from SCOTUS](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/19/the-wisdom-of-fred-shuttlesworth-continued-lies-from-scotus/) - In a time of resistance, it is important to remember our ancestors and their courage to fight battles that we still need to fight. In yesterday’s DM, I invoked the spirit of Fred Shuttlesworth, who invited me to dialogue with him on “Racism and Ecology” in 2004 in Birmingham, Alabama, because the most polluted county
- [Fred Shuttlesworth: Civil Rights & Eco-Justice Visionary & Activist](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/18/fred-shuttlesworth-civil-rights-eco-justice-visionary-activist/) - In Saturday’s DM, I carried on GG’s theme from last week about Jesus and the New World Order by invoking some of the wisdom of Dr. Howard Thurman, the spiritual genius behind the Civil Rights Movement. With SCOTUS seeking to drag America back to Jim Crow times, and racists eager to lead the charge to
- [Howard Thurman on Jesus & Resistance & a New World Order](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/16/howard-thurman-on-jesus-resistance-a-new-world-order/) - In his two recent DMs, GG has lamented the small role religion plays in Europe today for those trying to imagine a more just future for humanity. He calls up the memory of the crusades, inquisitions, and religious wars in Europe. He could also, of course, have named the Holocaust and the role that antisemitism
- [Week of 5/11-16/2026: DM Anniversary, Civil Rights & a New World Order](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/17/week-of-5-11-16-2026/) - This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and some are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to include a video teaching by Matthew Fox.
- [Jesus, Christ, and a New World Order](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/15/jesus-christ-and-a-new-world-order/) - If I look at the religious factor within society from a detached point of view — to the extent that I am able to do so, having gotten a Ph.D. in “religion” — I cannot help but see that religion played a very negative role in the history of Europe and, by extension, what we
- [A Threefold Collapse, and the Search for a Way Forward](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/14/a-threefold-collapse-and-the-search-for-a-way-forward/) - Last Sunday I listened to a lecture by Alessandro Colombo, a professor of international relations at the University of Milan. The occasion was remarkable, as the three Jungian associations of Italy — comprising virtually all Jungian analysts — had asked him to present on the dissolution of the global order as we have known it.
- [Transformation Through Work](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/13/transformation-through-work/) - Dear Friends, As we announced in Sunday’s DM, we are beginning the eighth year of Daily Meditations this week and celebrating seven years of bringing our “pray the news” reflections free to the public. Today and tomorrow, we will be reminding you about this anniversary and inviting your donations to help keep the DM serving
- [On Gutting the Civil Rights Act & The Need for Spiritual Warriorhood](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/12/on-gutting-the-civil-rights-act-the-need-for-spiritual-warriorhood/) - Dear Friends, As we announced in yesterday’s DM, we are beginning the eighth year of Daily Meditations this week and celebrating seven years of bringing our “pray the news” reflections free to the public. Today and tomorrow, we will be reminding you about this anniversary and inviting your donations to help keep the DM serving
- [Our Seventh Anniversary!](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/11/our-seventh-anniversary/) - Dear Friends, This year marks an important milestone for our online community: as we and all Earth’s creatures struggle through the impacts of war, climate change, and rising fascism, Matthew Fox’s Daily Meditations reach their seventh anniversary. Seven years ago on Mother’s Day, May 12, 2019, we launched this site and email. Since then, readers and subscribers have risen, ebbed,
- [Week of 5/4-9/2026: SCOTUS, Inequality, Sex, Flesh](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/10/week-of-5-4-9-2026/) - This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and some are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to include a video teaching by Matthew Fox.
- [Mother’s Day 2026: Gaia & Colbert Birthing the Art of Laughter](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/09/mothers-day-2026-gaia-colbert-birthing-the-art-of-laughter/) - A Blessed Mother’s Day to all mothers, grandmothers, and great grandmothers this year, 2026! Where would we all be without you? Bringing new life into the world—whether directly or indirectly—is an awesome marvel. And mothering it, caring for it, being with it in health and sickness is a vocation we are all called to in
- [The Universe and Flesh](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/08/the-universe-and-flesh/) - The way in which Matthew Fox deals with the issue of “the flesh” (see yesterday’s DM) is remarkable especially because of the widening of one’s vision that he almost forces on his readers. Rather than focusing on issues of sexuality, or just the human body, he places such themes within a cosmological context. Thus, he
- [Flesh and the Church](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/07/flesh-and-the-church/) - Yesterday, speaking of Sex and the Church, I hinted at the fact that the word “sex” is code for power and is also code for sensuality. Church officials for the most part love power or at least are good at exercising it; otherwise they can’t remain in their place. Sex is code for power because
- [Sex and the Church](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/06/sex-and-the-church/) - Last week I was struck by something that Pope Leo said regarding the blessings of same-sex partnerships that the German Catholic bishops are planning to authorize, beginning this coming Fall. Answering to a journalist, he said: “We (Rome) disagree, but the unity of the Church does not depend on sexual matters.” It is a pretty
- [Cinco de Mayo, May Day, & Explosion of Economic Inequality ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/05/cinco-de-mayo-may-day-explosion-of-economic-inequality/) - Happy Cinco de Mayo! The holiday originally celebrated a surprising military victory in the Battle of Puebla, Mexico, on May 5, 1862. A poorly equipped, smaller Mexican army defeated Napoleon III’s 6,000-man army attempting to establish a French presence in Mexico. The next year, Mexican Americans in California commemorated the date as a holiday and
- [Beyond SCOTUS: Conscience vs. Fascism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/04/beyond-scotus-conscience-vs-fascism/) - In Friday’s DM, we responded to the latest heinous Supreme Court decision from six judges eager to make a mockery of justice and court precedents. The deep-sixing of the 1965 Civil Rights Law that put an end to decades of Jim Crow thuggery accomplished by the sacrifices of so many, shows how actions speak louder
- [Week of 4/27-5/2/2026: Body & Spirit; Work; SCOTUS as Antichrist](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/03/week-of-4-27-5-2-2026/) - This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and some are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to include a video teaching by Matthew Fox.
- [Reflections on International Workers Day](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/02/reflections-on-international-workers-day/) - The crisis of work today is huge. Perhaps all illnesses of present-day society stem from it or are related to it. People leave their homelands because jobs are scarce or dangerous, and they risk their lives to find better jobs — sometimes to their disappointment, always at the price of uprootedness. People work three jobs
- [“Jim Crow 2.0”: SCOTUS as Antichrist](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/05/01/jim-crow-2-0-scotus-as-antichrist/) - Wednesday was a dark, dark day in American history, not unlike the day of the Dred Scott decision. It was, as Senator Raphael Warnock, pastor of Dr. King’s former church in Atlanta, put it, “Jim Crow of the 21st century… Jim Crow 2.0” enacted by the so-called Supreme Court of the United States. The Jim Crow
- [Breathing - part 2](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/30/breathing-part-2/) - If you think of breathing as a feature of Buddhist meditation (see yesterday’s DM) or as a component of Yogic as well as Shamanic traditions, you would be right, of course. It is less common; however, breathing is also found in an important branch of Christian spirituality. It is only from the 13th century onward
- [Breathing - part 1](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/29/breathing-part-1/) - I get so frustrated these days by the state of the world that I ask myself what it means to go back to the basics in order to survive and rebuild. And my own answer is: Remember to breathe. There is probably nothing more basic than breathing. Not by accident the Holy Spirit is also
- [More Experiences of the Spiritual & Sensual Found in Indigenous Prayer](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/27/more-experiences-of-the-spiritual-sensual-found-in-indigenous-prayer/) - I ended Saturday’s DM on the sensual and indigenous ceremonies with a promise to share the poem composed by M.C. Richards born of an honoring Flower Pelting Ceremony on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of her book, Centering. Here it is. Pelted by Beauty (after an American Indian Flower Ritual) The power of love
- [The Sensual, the Spiritual & the Prophetic: Heschel & Julian of Norwich](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/28/the-sensual-the-spiritual-the-prophetic-heschel-julian-of-norwich/) - Gianluigi Gugliermetto and I have been writing back-to-back DMs about sensual spirituality. There is much more to be said, and here I invoke Rabbi Heschel and Julian of Norwich. Rabbi Heschel is the author of the classic volume, The Prophets, and a scholar who descended from an ivory tower of academic privilege to take part in the
- [Spirituality and Sensuality](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/23/spirituality-and-sensuality/) - Early in his career, Matthew Fox wrote: No one who has admitted he or she is vulnerable to goose bumps can any longer believe in the violence that separates spirit and body, spirituality and sensuality. * James Reho takes this sentence as the starting point of his exploration into Tantric Christianity. He finds that the
- [Week of 4/20-25/2026: Victory in Hungary, Popes Leo & Francis, and Tantric Christianity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/26/week-of-4-20-25-2026/) - This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and some are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to include a video teaching by Matthew Fox.
- [Sensuality, Spirituality & Indigenous Prayer Ceremonies](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/25/sensuality-spirituality-indigenous-prayer-ceremonies/) - I appreciated GG’s fine meditation on sensuality and spirituality in yesterday’s DM along with his commentaries on the book Tantric Jesus: The Erotic Heart of Early Christianity. (I had forgotten I had written a Preface to it, actually.) I am reminded of the non-dualist attitude toward the body, matter, and prayer that one encounters in the
- [The Sensual Basics of Our Existence](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/24/the-sensual-basics-of-our-existence/) - James Reho’s project (see DMs for April 21-22) derives directly, by his own admission, from Matthew Fox’s joining of sensuality with spirituality, or rather can be seen as a specific response to Matthew’s call, which in Reho’s case becomes a Deep Ecumenism journey into Christianity and Tantra. Matthew made his case for the joining of
- [Tantric Jesus](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/22/tantric-jesus/) - Almost ten years ago, a book was published which perhaps did not get theattention it deserves. It is titled Tantric Jesus: The Erotic Heart of EarlyChristianity and was penned by James Reho, an Episcopal priest living inFlorida. In his preface to the book, Matthew Fox calls it an experiment inDeep Ecumenism. This is a phrase
- [Pope Francis: An Assessment One Year after His Death](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/21/pope-francis-an-assessment-one-year-after-his-death/) - Pope Francis died one year ago today. He was the first pope ever from the Americas, his family having fled Italy for Argentina in the 1930s to escape fascism. He brought a breath of fresh air following a 34-year rule by two popes who flirted mightily with the rising fascism that has become so visible
- [Word from Hungary, Washington D.C. and the Pope in Africa](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/20/word-from-hungary-washington-d-c-and-the-pope-in-africa/) - A friend of mine, Robert Kramer (a scholar of Otto Rank), lived in Hungary from 2015 to 2025. He holds dual citizenship with Hungary and the United States and is fluent in Hungarian. He shared his thoughts about the recent Hungarian election—and its implications for America. I am thrilled that Orbán, utterly corrupt and authoritarian,
- [Week of 4/13-28/2026: Chaos vs. Verdancy & Dancing](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/19/week-of-4-13-28-2026/) - This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and some are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to include a video teaching by Matthew Fox.
- [Dancing as a Way of Life - part 2](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/18/dancing-as-a-way-of-life-part-2/) - In the first chapter of his Danser sa vie, Roger Garaudy traces a spirituality of dance which is a spirituality of life. He quotes Ananda Coomaraswamy extensively with reference to the unity between human beings and nature/cosmos, which dance represents and enacts: Within this expression of the organic unity of human beings and nature, India
- [Chaos & Evil Under Trump & MAGA: Lessons From Hildegard](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/13/chaos-evil-under-trump-maga-lessons-from-hildegard/) - Many are speculating—and for good reason—that 79-year-old President Trump is demonstrating signs of dementia and being out of touch. Starting a war without purpose or end goals and with no explanation to the American people; screaming online about persons formerly his friends who now criticize his war that has brought devastation to the world that
- [Dancing as a Way of Life - part 1](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/17/dancing-as-a-way-of-life-part-1/) - These days I am obsessed — as most of you, I believe — by the theme of resistance. How to resist individually and collectively to the present rule of lunatics whose level of arrogance has become astonishing. Much can be done and should be done in the line of analysis: What kind of social malaise
- [Diary from the Italian Countryside - part 3](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/16/diary-from-the-italian-countryside-part-3/) - Do I live in Paradise? The majestic linden tree that lives in front of my house, and which last month was naked, is now showing off its Spring dress in its full glory. The hills are so incredibly green! It’s a vital, shouting, joyful green that only the Hildegardian word viriditas (“verdancy”) can describe. The
- [Trump Plays the Antichrist Role—Time for the 25th Amendment?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/14/trump-plays-the-antichrist-role-time-for-the-25th-amendment/) - This Sunday, Easter Sunday in the Orthodox tradition, the president of the United States attacked Pope Leo for being “woke” and “weak” and also pictured himself (again) as Jesus Christ raising people from the dead. Lucca Signorelli, in his giant fresco that has hung in the Orvieto Cathedral for over 500 years, also paints the
- [Annihilation of a Civilization? Annihilation of ALL Civilizations!](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/15/annihilation-of-a-civilization-annihilation-of-all-civilizations/) - Last Tuesday, Trump declared, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” His calling for the annihilation of a civilization if he did not get his way, many recognize as a war crime in itself. It is certainly not the language of a responsible leader or a decent human being. Following
- [Week of 4/6-11/2025: Reflections on the Resurrection & the Antichrist](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/12/week-of-4-6-11-2025/) - This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and some are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to include a video teaching by Matthew Fox.
- [Lessons from the Stories of the Resurrection of Jesus - part 3](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/11/lessons-from-the-stories-of-the-resurrection-of-jesus-part-3/) - It is not true that only modern people queried about the body of Jesus and its status after the Resurrection, as it might seem that I implied previously. I submit instead that it is interesting to look at what kind of resurrected body the New Testament writings reference, provided that we keep in mind the
- [Lessons from the stories of the Resurrection of Jesus - part 2](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/10/lessons-from-the-stories-of-the-resurrection-of-jesus-part-2/) - When interpreting the stories about the Resurrection of Jesus, one thing that is often overlooked or misunderstood is the eschatological hope connected to them. We live today in an era in which the end-of-the-world fantasies of the Judaic and the Christian traditions are very much in vogue again, with the American secretary of war reportedly
- [Lessons from the Stories of the Resurrection of Jesus, part 1](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/09/lessons-for-the-stories-of-the-resurrection-of-jesus-part-1/) - Even at a cursory reading of the New Testament, it appears quite clearly that the events of the Passion of Jesus are almost identical in the four canonical Gospels — more specifically, each Gospel after Mark adds meaningful details to the same plot. The stories of the Resurrection of Jesus, instead, differ quite dramatically from
- [Evil, Chaos & Antichrist at Home & Abroad Under Trump](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/08/evil-chaos-antichrist-abounding-at-home-abroad-under-trump/) - I write this DM on Tuesday morning. When DM readers read this on Wednesday, we will probably know whether the threats by the president of the United States to destroy an entire civilization have come through or not. In many ways, the damage is already done, the cat is out of the bag. The truth
- [The Resurrection in Emily Dickinson, Jung, & Steven Herrmann](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/07/the-resurrection-in-emily-dickinson-jung-steven-herrmann/) - In his excellent book on Emily Dickinson: A Medicine Woman for Our Times, Jungian analyst Steven Herrmann (who, for transparency's sake, I confess is a friend of mine) shares Dickinson’s insights about Resurrection. He cites Jung on the Resurrection: The better we understand the archetype, the more we participate in its life and the more we realize
- [Mechtild of Magdeburg on Undergoing “Our Easter”](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/06/mechtild-of-magdeburg-on-undergoing-our-easter/) - I ended my Saturday DM on “Easter 2026” with the phrase, “We become an Easter.” I want to give credit where credit is due. I am borrowing from Mechtild of Magdeburg who wrote: God speaks: When your Easter comes I shall be all around you, I shall be through and through you And I shall
- [Week of 3/30-4/4/2026: No Kings, Mary the Mother, the Cross](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/05/week-of-3-30-4-4-2026/) - This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and some are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to include a video teaching by Matthew Fox.
- [Easter, 2026](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/04/easter-2026/) - Easter is many things to many people, as are Passover and the crucifixion of Good Friday. That is the power of religious belief when it is not hardened into iron-clad dogmas, but is allowed to breathe. It speaks to us of universal longings, passions, and fears. When its symbols are not owned by an ego
- [Hopkins: “The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We Breathe,” Part II](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/01/hopkins-the-blessed-virgin-compared-to-the-air-we-breathe-part-ii/) - Yesterday we shared the first part of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem comparing Mary to the air we breathe. Here we share the second part with a brief commentary on the poem. Hopkins, a 19th century Jesuit poet and mystic, is thoroughly creation-centered as is evident in this poem. Again, look overheadHow air is azurèd;O how! nay do
- [Humanity Naked](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/03/humanity-naked/) - After offering quite an extended reflection on the cross of Jesus in yesterday’s DM, I would like to invite you today into an artistic meditative experience, more right-brain than left-brain. I have found on YouTube a quite remarkable work of art, a video watched already by almost two and a half million people in the
- [Why I Cannot Let Go of the Cross of Jesus](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/04/02/why-i-cannot-let-go-of-the-cross-of-jesus/) - There are several ways to understand the complex set of texts that goes under the name of the New Testament. One such way is to divide them into two portions: a recollection of the things that Jesus said and did, and a meditation about the facts surrounding his violent death. Matthew Fox has often warned
- [“Mothering Air”: A Poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/31/mothering-air-a-poem-by-gerard-manley-hopkins/) - It was a special grace for me to reconnect a week ago with David Abram, whose book The Spell of the Sensuous was a groundbreaker for me and others 30 years ago. He and I interacted last Tuesday in my current class on the Common Good sponsored by Cameron Trimble and her organization, Convergence. Our session was entitled,
- [Palm Sunday: Another March Mocking Emperors as Prophets Urge ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/30/palm-sunday-another-march-mocking-emperors-as-prophets-urge/) - In Saturday’s DM, we meditated on the meaning of marching on No Kings Day. No doubt many DM readers participated or supported those who did. In that meditation, I alluded to marches of Thich Nhat Hanh, Rabbi Heschel and Dr. King; the Buddhist monks from Houston; pilgrimages; the new woman leader of the Anglican church
- [“A Crime Against Humanity” - The Sacred Air We Take For Granted](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/10/a-crime-against-humanity-how-sacred-is-the-air-we-take-for-granted/) - We woke up this morning to the horror of poisonous smoke engulfing Tehran, a city of 10 million persons. Netanyahu, always buttressed by the current American president in spite of his record of genocide in Gaza, chose to bomb oil depots in Iran. The Guardian—a media source I highly recommend in contrast to the sick-billionaire
- [Week of 3/23-28/26: America, No Kings, Sardinia, Archbp Mullally](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/29/week-of-3-23-28-26/) - This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and some are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to include a video teaching by Matthew Fox.
- [Marching on No Kings Day: What’s It All About?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/28/marching-on-no-kings-day-whats-it-all-about/) - Walking can be a spiritual practice. I have been privileged to participate in several of Thich Nhat Hanh’s “walking meditation” events held at Lake Merritt Park in Oakland, California, when Jerry Brown was mayor there. On returning from marching with MLK, Jr. at Selma, Rabbi Heschel told his daughter that “I felt my feet were
- [She Was Enthroned](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/27/she-was-enthroned/) - Until she was the Bishop of London, she did not make the news very much. Still, after she was chosen as Archbishop of Canterbury — thus head of the Church of England and titular head of the Anglican Communion — Sarah Mullally became the topic of the day in ecclesiastical circles. For the first time
- [Sardinia as Mother](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/26/sardinia-as-mother/) - I have no connection by blood with the island of Sardinia and her people. At least not that I know. Yet in the course of the many visits I made to the island from my childhood to my early 40s, a bond was created which never faded. I am sure that there are people who
- [Awakening as Immersion and Changing of the Mind](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/25/awakening-as-immersion-and-changing-of-the-mind/) - Several months ago, in the wake of previous experiences, I put together a team of five people, including myself, and created a week-long retreat that will be held on the island of Sardinia toward the end of May 2026. Dennis Edwards, the secretary of the Matthew Fox Legacy Project, and Mario Bonfanti, who has worked
- [No Kings Day Satire & Hartmann on How America Was Poisoned](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/24/satire-for-no-kings-day-hartmann-on-how-america-was-poisoned/) - No Kings Day is this Saturday when millions of Americans will march to protest what America is becoming under MAGA. I certainly will be among them. Satire catches the public’s attention and one satirical proposal put forward comes from the “Trillionaires for Trump” lobby. “Dear aspiring billionaires,” it begins. Already planning on going to the
- [Current America: Important Stories From Today’s News](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/23/current-america-important-stories-from-todays-news/) - I will share here some articles this past week that shed light on America and the times in which we are living. In a brief post on X, Alex Jacquez remarked that 20 million people saw their health care premiums double because they were told, it would cost $30 billion to keep the service going.
- [Week of 3/16-21/2026: Maya Wisdom, Sacred Air, Anima Christi](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/22/week-of-3-16-21-2026/) - This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and some are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to include a video teaching by Matthew Fox.
- [The Wound Giving Birth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/21/the-wound-giving-birth/) - Since yesterday’s DM, I kept musing about being sheltered/hidden inside the wounds of Jesus. A very strong image, but also quite a weird one from a modern perspective. Historians point out that there was a turn toward bloody images of Jesus crucified in the 14th century, when death was omnipresent in society — around one-third
- [From ‘Time Means Money’ to 'Time Means Art’: A Mayan Perspective on Time](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/18/from-time-means-money-to-time-means-art-a-mayan-perspective-on-time/) - In yesterday’s DM, we invoked Mayan scientist José Argüelles, who points us to the power of creativity, art and synchronicity that follows on surrendering the Western Gregorian Time Calendar. The Mayan sense of Time includes the cycles of the different life forms, the rotation of the seasons, the oceanic times, and the waxing and waning of the
- [Anima Christi](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/20/anima-christi/) - My cousin Paolo died two days ago. We celebrated his funeral today. At communion, we sang a hymn whose words go back to the 14th century. This Latin hymn, a staple of traditional Catholic spirituality, has known an extraordinary success worldwide in Roman Catholic churches in the last few years, through a very simple and
- [Deep Sources of Creativity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/19/deep-sources-of-creativity/) - The shameful and tragic display of domination that we are witnessing today in the world is changing our spiritual landscape, simply because nobody who engages in a spiritual path lives in isolation. The scope of the havoc, the destruction, and the confusion caused today by evil might be unprecedented, or at least it feels huge,
- [Wisdom From José Argüelles and the Mayan Mind](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/17/wisdom-from-jose-arguelles-and-the-mayan-mind/) - In times of crisis like ours, it is good to call on ancient wisdom to give us perspective about what matters and why, and where we come from and where we are going. I have always found such wisdom in indigenous practices and teachings, and one indigenous wisdom keeper who has touched me deeply is
- [Our Sacred Air: An Original Blessing We Dare Not Take For Granted](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/16/our-sacred-air-an-original-blessing-we-dare-not-take-for-granted/) - Last week I wrote a DM about the bombing of oil depots in Iran that left me aghast. Cats on the streets of Tehran were coughing along with every human gasping for healthy air. How dare we take air for granted! Several years ago I read the book, Caesar’s Last Breath by Sam Kean. Ever
- [Week of 3/9-14/2026: War, Propaganda, & Adultism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/15/week-of-3-9-14-2026/) - This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and some are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to include a video teaching by Matthew Fox.
- [Crackpot Christianity in MAGA Defense Department, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/12/crackpot-christianity-in-maga-defense-department-continued/) - MAGA Christianity is a Crackpot Christianity. And dangerous beyond words in the hands of today’s head of the defense department. Of Hegseth, one Marine Corps veteran has said, “I can’t even muster the words to describe his self-adulation, matched only in scope by his apparent moral depravity.” He is “an embarrassment.” Hegseth wears two tattoos
- [The Role of Crackpot Christianity in the Iran War & Defense Department](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/11/the-role-of-crackpot-christianity-in-the-iran-war-defense-department/) - It must be said that there is such a thing as Crackpot Christianity. Crackpot Christianity is Christianity that leaves the teachings of Jesus out. Teachings like “love your enemies,” “blessed be the peacemakers” and other beatitudes, “love your neighbor as yourself,” “do onto others as you would like done onto you,” “do it to the
- [Diary from the Italian Countryside, part 2](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/14/diary-from-the-italian-countryside-part-2/) - Even though I live in the countryside, I am not becoming a misanthrope. Four days a week, I drive to the nearby city. Serendipitously, a job was carved out for me there: the high school students who are “suspended” from their classes due to misbehaving are each to spend time with me, instead of staying
- [Diary from the Italian Countryside, part 1](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/13/diary-from-the-italian-countryside-part-1/) - Last week, I moved to an old farmhouse that I am renovating. I decided that enough rooms were ready and enough comfort was available already. I chose this place three years ago, before a very serious illness. Perhaps I would not have chosen it now, as it feels quite isolated, almost like a hermitage. The
- [Oligarchs & MAGA Minions Busy Emasculating American Media](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/09/oligarchs-maga-minions-busy-emasculating-american-media/) - There is much to be spiritually and morally outraged about these days in MAGA America. A crazy war rages in Iran that has already cost over 1,000 lives, many of them children and at least six American soldiers. The president of the United States follows after the Israeli prime minister—already guilty of war crimes in
- [Week of 3/2-7/2026: Community, Ritual & Resistance](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/08/week-of-3-2-7-2026/) - This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to offer a video teaching by Matthew Fox. Thank you for your loyal readership. March 2, 2026: Kaira Jewel: The Role of Community in Practicing
- [Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and the Power of Ritual](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/07/dorothy-day-thomas-merton-and-the-power-of-ritual/) - We have been meditating on the story and person of Dorothy Day this week. I was inspired to do so on listening to an interview last Saturday with Robert Ellsberg, author of Dorothy Day: Spiritual Writings. Dorothy seems especially pertinent to our challenges today since she was a Resister of the first order. She had a
- [Dorothy Day: An Incarnated Icon of Resistance](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/04/dorothy-day-an-incarnated-icon-of-resistance/) - I had the privilege last Saturday morning of participating in a gathering headed by Kaira Jewel and Adam Bucko that was grounded in deep ecumenism and where they interviewed Orbis editor Robert Ellsberg about Dorothy Day. Robert lived with Dorothy for the last five years of her life, and when she was slowing down physically,
- [Dorothy Day & Thomas Merton on Indigenous Wisdom](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/06/dorothy-day-thomas-merton-on-indigenous-wisdom/) - Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day were good friends. He admired her life and work, and she visited him on several occasions at the monastery and at his hermitage. They had friends in common, including Fathers Daniel and Philip Berrigan who had a strong mentor relationship to Merton. Merton frequently contributed articles to Dorothy’s newspaper The Catholic
- [Dorothy Day on Love & Action as a Harsh & Dreadful Thing](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/05/dorothy-day-on-love-action-as-a-harsh-dreadful-thing/) - Dorothy wrote about her experience in solitary confinement in prison for doing non-violent disobedience. She reminds us that suffering can open us up so we become far bigger than our own ego, we learn to identify with others who are suffering. She writes: All through those weary first days in jail when I was in
- [The Black Madonna, Icon of Resistance, Mother of Chaos](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/03/the-black-madonna-icon-of-resistance-mother-of-chaos-and-more/) - Recently, I received an invitation from Christena Cleveland, author of God Is a Black Woman, to offer a blurb about her new book that comes out this fall, called The Black Madonna: Icon of Resistance & Nourisher of Souls. The title derives from bell hooks, who urged her people to “reclaim the Black Madonna as an icon of
- [Kaira Jewel: The Role of Community in Practicing Resistance & Compassion](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/02/kaira-jewel-the-role-of-community-in-practicing-resistance-compassion/) - For today’s DM, I share, with her permission, a shortened version of a recent essay from Kaira Jewel’s Substack.* It was originally titled, “Compassion as Protection: Practicing with Those Who Cause Harm.” Kaira Jewel lived for sixteen years as a nun in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Buddhist community in Plum Village. She and Father Adam Bucko
- [Week of 2/23-28/2026: Interspirituality, Science, Creation & Ancestral Messages](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/03/01/week-of-2-23-28-2026/) - This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Father Adam Bucko (AB) is guest writer this week for Friday and Saturday. You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to offer a video teaching by Matthew Fox. Thank you for your
- [Do Ancestors Connect To Us After Death? A Story From Nancy Abrams](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/28/do-ancestors-connect-to-us-after-death-a-story-from-nancy-abrams/) - All religions deal in some way with life after death. I dedicate a chapter to this in my book, One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing From Global Faith Traditions. Indigenous religions often speak of the ancestors and deliberately call them in when they pray. Christianity talks of the “communion of saints.” But here I ask the
- [The Cosmos and Other Original Blessings: Lessons From Mother Africa](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/26/the-cosmos-and-other-original-blessings-lessons-from-mother-africa/) - Swimming in the wisdom of Ghanaian musician Rocky Dawuni’s talk that I shared yesterday, and aware that we are coming to the close of February the month of Black Awareness, I want to continue the meditation about creation spirituality and its rootedness in Africa, humanity’s Mother continent. One thing I appreciate about the phrase “original
- [How Indigenous Rituals in America & Africa Bring Connection to the Whole](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/27/how-indigenous-rituals-in-america-africa-bring-connection-to-the-whole/) - In yesterday’s DM, we learned anew of the African wisdom that all creation is sacred. This is echoed surely in other indigenous traditions, such as among Native Americans. Black Elk writes: We regard all created beings as sacred and important, for everything has a wochangi, or influence, which can be given to us, through which we may
- [A Report from an Interspirituality Symposium](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/25/62431/) - This weekend Kurt Johnson and other editors of the two-volume work on Interspirituality: The Heritage and The Future sponsored a very rich Unity Earth Symposium bringing together many of the 200+ authors who contributed to the books. The Dalai Lama offered an “Opening Message” for the volumes, I wrote a Foreword and Ken Wilber wrote an Afterword. The contributors represent
- [More Gifts From Science that Awaken Awe & Gratitude & Expand the Soul](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/24/more-gifts-from-science-that-awaken-awe-gratitude-expand-the-soul/) - In their book The View from the Center of the Universe, Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams discuss humanity’s special moment in the history of the universe. We are living in “the midpoint of time for our solar system” when our sun and planets are about five billion years old. Around six billion years from now, our
- [Gifts From Today’s Science that Can Grow the Soul by Awakening Awe](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/23/gifts-from-todays-science-that-can-grow-the-soul-by-awakening-awe/) - Last week I shared news of the wonderful Celebration of Life in Santa Cruz honoring the life and work of scientist Joel Primack. Here I would like to share more of Joel’s and his wife’s teachings that contribute heartily to a mature spiritual vision amidst the chaos and disturbances that beset our species today. In
- [Saints Among Us: Encouraging and Good News](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/16/saints-among-us-encouraging-and-good-news/) - We have been discussing saintliness or holiness of late, as a counter measure to the smallness and hatred and pettiness and retribution that marks a big part of politics in our country of late. As the poet and farmer and prophet William Berry used to say, “fight the worst with the best.” And as Carl
- [Week of 2/16-21/2026: Joel Primack & Saints among Us vs. Epstein, et al & a Compromised EPA](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/22/week-of-2-16-21-2026/) - This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Father Adam Bucko (AB) is guest writer this week for Friday and Saturday. You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to offer a video teaching by Matthew Fox. Thank you for your
- [Adam Bucko on Holiness & The Image & Likeness of God, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/21/adam-bucko-on-holiness-the-image-likeness-of-god-continued/) - We continue to share, with permission, guest writer Fr. Adam Bucko's powerful Substack essay,* which includes parts of my recent DM on “Why Meditate on Sainthood in a Time of ICE, Epstein Files, & the Rest?” Adam is the author of Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide: Lessons in Engaged Contemplation. Howard Thurman understood both how
- [Wisdom from Adam Bucko: The Image of God as Defiant Language](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/20/wisdom-from-adam-bucko-the-image-of-god-as-defiant-language/) - I welcome guest writer Fr. Adam Bucko for today’s and tomorrow’s DM. He is the author of Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide: Lessons in Engaged Contemplation. He wrote a powerful essay in his Substack* that includes parts of my recent DM on “Why Meditate on Sainthood in a Time of ICE, Epstein Files, & the Rest?”
- [Not Only Epstein, But MAGA’s EPA Is Now Victimizing Children](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/19/not-only-epstein-but-magas-epa-is-now-victimizing-children/) - We have praised the people of Minneapolis and the marching Buddhist monks for standing up for democracy and diversity in opposition to attacks on DEI from the MAGA White House. People are blowing the whistle on the Epstein world, where billionaires and other powerful men the world over have been involved in abusing over 1200
- [Joel Primack Eulogy, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/18/joel-primack-eulogy-continued/) - I am sharing my eulogy that I began in yesterday’s DM at Joel Primack’s Celebration of Life event. Geologian Thomas Berry used to say, “We will recover our sense of wonder and our sense of the sacred only if we appreciate the universe beyond ourselves as a revelatory experience of that numinous presence whence all
- [Joel Primack: The Passing of a Special Man and Scientist](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/17/joel-primack-the-passing-of-a-special-man-and-scientist/) - This Saturday, I was part of a Celebration of Life gathering held at the UCC Peace Church in Santa Cruz, California. There, we remembered the life and legacy of physicist and cosmologist Joel Primack. He and his wife, Nancy Abrams, co-authored two very important books, The View From the Center of the Universe and The New
- [Week of 2/9-14/2026: Saintliness & Satire in Troubled Times](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/15/week-of-2-9-14-2026/) - This is a summary of the previous week's daily meditations. You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember that each Monday DM continues to offer a video teaching by Matthew Fox. Thank you for your loyal readership. February 9, 2026: Leonard Cohen on Saintliness, continuedWe continue to reflect
- [Becker on Saintliness, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/12/becker-on-saintliness-continued/) - Ernest Becker sees religion today as failing to open up our perception based on “celebrating God’s creation.” He praises indigenous religions for doing exactly that. Archaic cosmic rituals humanized the heavens and spiritualized the earth and so melted sky and earth together in an inextricable unity.* The Cosmic Mass fulfills this powerful need. Becker explains
- [Confronting Large-Scale Lies Through Satire, Opera & Humor](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/14/confronting-large-scale-lies-through-satire-opera-humor/) - We meditated in yesterday’s DM on challenging “large-scale social lies” (Becker’s words) through naming them, which is journalism’s task. And indeed, a task for all of us. But another way to confront large-scale lies is through satire. As America is becoming a laughing stock in the world today—as well as a source of fear—Europe is
- [Why Meditate on Sainthood in a Time of ICE, Epstein Files, & the Rest?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/13/why-meditate-on-sainthood-in-a-time-of-ice-epstein-files-the-rest/) - We have been meditating on Leonard Cohen’s and then Ernest Becker’s understandings of holiness or saintliness. Why? Because evil is so present in our news every day that we have to entertain its opposite, that is, news of the holy. We hear daily of the “Epstein files” and how he and other uber-rich and uber-powerful
- [Ernest Becker Offering More Thoughts on Saintliness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/11/earnest-becker-offering-more-thoughts-on-saintliness/) - We concluded a three-part meditation on the meaning of saintliness from Leonard Cohen in yesterday’s DM with his definition that a saint is “a balancing monster of love.” How does this fit with your versions of saintliness? Does it trigger some open-heartedness in yourself? Does it work for yourself as a saint? And for other
- [Leonard Cohen on Saintliness, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/10/leonard-cohen-on-saintliness-continued-2/) - We continue our exegesis of Leonard Cohen’s observations on saintliness. The saint is grounded and earthy and following the contours of the earth—not angel-like and ethereal and airy. He/she is far from flying with the angels. Instead, she traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape.* The earth’s landscape
- [Leonard Cohen on Saintliness, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/09/leonard-cohen-on-saintliness-continued/) - We are meditating on what Leonard Cohen says about saintliness, in his book Beautiful Losers.* Saturday’s DM ended with his observation that Love is at the center of the saint’s energy. But Cohen doesn’t define what love is—instead he does name its effect. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of
- [Week of 2/2-7/2026: The Good Fight, Silence & Mystery](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/08/week-of-2-2-7-2026/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video
- [Leonard Cohen on Saintliness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/07/leonard-cohen-on-saintliness/) - Buddhist and Jewish musician and sage Leonard Cohen asks the question: What is a saint?* He answers his question this way in his 1966 novel, Beautiful Losers: A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the
- [More Lessons From Soviet Occupation Re Government Violence in Minneapolis](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/02/more-lessons-from-soviet-occupation-re-government-violence-in-minneapolis/) - I continue the excellent article penned by Fr. Adam Bucko the morning after Alex Pretti was murdered by government thugs, paid for by our tax dollars. Bovino (now dismissed) said Pretti “wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.” Steve Miller from the Oval Office called Pretti an “assassin” who “tried to murder” federal
- [What Can We Do In Response to the Amazon Catastrophe?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2019/08/26/what-can-we-do-in-response-to-the-amazon-catastrophe/) - We are considering the suffering in the Amazon forest and how best to respond to it. Small farmer and poet mystic and prophet Wendell Berry advises us to “Fight the worst with the best.” Since Jung says the mystics represent “what is best in humanity” it would seem that listening to the mystics who are
- [What Is a Prophet?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2019/06/17/what-is-a-prophet/) - I am meeting more and more young adults these days telling me they feel called to be “prophets” in this time of Earth crisis. If we say with Ornstein that “art as meditation is the way of the prophets,” then art as meditation will prove to be a very valuable process for nurturing the prophet
- [God](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/04/god/) - As a theologian, I am interested in “God” and everything thereunto connected. No surprise here. I am supposed to articulate a discourse (logos, from which the desinence -logian) about the divinity (theos = God). And I do that a lot, sometimes in ways that are surprising to the people I talk to. One time I
- [Mystery](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/05/mystery/) - Having clarified that you are not referring to mystery novels, but still being a theologian who talks about mystery, you are most likely going to be dismissed as somebody who does not have an answer to the question that has been posed. Yet the deepest realities of life cannot be completely understood with our intellect,
- [Silence](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/06/silence/) - Silence and silent meditation are amongst the most precious human activities. They are enjoyed in all cultures and religions, though at times they are treated as secondary to dogmas or rituals. In any case, it seems that human beings have always known that their penchant for words and activities must be balanced by a time
- [Bearing Up While Fighting the Good Fight](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/03/bearing-up-while-fighting-the-good-fight/) - St. Paul instructed us to “fight the good fight.” Clearly, a major fight ensues today at the hands of our government, busy invading city after city with armed and masked and mostly untrained forces. The murdering of citizens; the ripping away of citizens’ rights; the arrest of journalists for doing their jobs; the First Amendment
- [Week of 1/26-31/2026: Poetry, Solidarity & Protest in Response to Evil](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/02/01/week-of-1-26-31-2026/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video
- [Lessons from Soviet Occupation Pertinent to the News from Minnesota](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/31/lessons-from-soviet-occupation-pertinent-to-the-news-from-minnesota/) - In a recent Substack, my friend and often co-worker, Adam Bucko, tells a powerful story based on his years growing up under Soviet rule in Poland. I share it here and in my next DM with his permission. His article is called “They Killed Him in Public and Called It Order: On Practicing Contemplation When
- [Poetry of Resistance and Songs of Protest](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/30/poetry-of-resistance-and-songs-of-protest/) - Since I started collaborating with Matthew Fox on these Daily Meditations, I have often been praised for offering a non-American point of view on things: on current events, as well as on America itself. This is made possible only by the fact that I lived in America for a total of almost 18 years. One
- [A Poem for Renee and Alex](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/28/a-poem-for-renee-and-alex-2/) - I am broken by the beauty of the worldby pain exploding in the midst of lifeand by the sheer goodness of the peoplemarching and singing. It seems wrong that I see the blood poured out,that of Renee Good and Alex Pretti,as something beautiful when it is yet warmglaring and shining.The blood of the innumerable Abels for all
- [Powerful Statement from a Minneapolis Chaplain](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/29/powerful-statement-from-the-rev-matt-moberg-artist-and-chaplain/) - Yesterday, we published a poem that truly gushed out of me on Sunday morning. I don't think of myself as a poet. Yet the disturbing image of the blood of two young people poured out in such a violent and absurd way was working in my mind, and the urge to write about it grew
- [A Poem for Renee and Alex](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/28/a-poem-for-renee-and-alex/) - I am broken by the beauty of the worldby pain exploding in the midst of lifeand by the sheer goodness of the peoplemarching and singing. It seems wrong that I see the blood poured out,that of Renee Good and Alex Pretti,as something beautiful when it is yet warmglaring and shining.The blood of the innumerable Abels for all
- [Is Minneapolis Finally Teaching America the Meaning of “Solidarity”?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/27/is-minneapolis-finally-teaching-america-the-meaning-of-solidarity/) - Years ago, when I was fighting with the fascist forces of the Roman Catholic Church that were bringing back the Inquisition in our time, silencing theologians and expelling many of us, I sat down with a hero of mine, Father Albert Nolan. A Dutch Dominican working with Bishop Tutu and others to end apartheid in
- [Witness & Response to the Rampaging Evil in American Society](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/26/witness-response-to-the-rampaging-evil-in-american-society/) - The purpose of our Daily Meditations, as laid out in our opening meditation seven years ago, is to assist one another “to pray the news” and not just watch it. This seems an appropriate goal, as we are not just receivers or passive citizens, but people with values and opinions and experiences worth sharing, people
- [Week of 1/19-24/2026: Combating the Madness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/25/week-of-1-19-24-2026/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video
- [In the Midst of Madness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/24/in-the-midst-of-madness/) - At the time of my writing this piece, Donald Trump is expected in Davos, Switzerland, where the Western World leaders are waiting for him. You readers know by now what transpired, if they finally had the decency to call for his resignation, and if a successful movement builds up for his removal in the US
- [Report From the Ground in Minneapolis, Part II](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/21/report-from-the-ground-in-minneapolis-part-ii/) - We continue here our report from the ground in Minneapolis that we began in yesterday’s DM. To me, it constitutes a 5-alarm fire for all who believe in democracy. (Including the fellow from Australia whose powerful article I shared in Sunday's video who spoke to the global response to the invasion of Minnesota by the
- [King’s Optimism & Realism amidst Temptations to Despair](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/23/kings-optimism-realism-amidst-temptations-to-despair/) - Shortly before he was murdered while marching for justice with garbage workers in Memphis, Dr. King penned the following essay. There are lessons here for those tempted to despair in the difficult times we are passing through today. People are often surprised to learn that I am an optimist. They know how often I have
- [How MAGA’s SCOTUS Lit the Fire Burning American Democracy    ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/22/how-magas-scotus-lit-the-fire-burning-american-democracy/) - How did we get to where America is today? Much credit must go to today’s SCOTUS. Is it the most corrupt Supreme Court in history? Let us count some of the mortal, i.e., deadly sins they have foisted on our democracy. In an insane opinion, Citizens United declared that corporations are people, giving them and billionaires practically
- [A Report From the Ground in Minneapolis](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/20/a-report-from-the-ground-in-minneapolis/) - This report from Minneapolis constitutes a 5-alarm fire for all Americans and all who believe in democracy. It is reposted with permission from Crones of Anarchy Facebook activist, who tells us it derives from someone in Minneapolis who has to remain anonymous…and echoes what I am hearing privately from people in Minnesota. I believe every word
- [More on Minnesota & the Spiral of Violence Playing Out There](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/19/more-on-minnesota-the-spiral-of-violence-playing-out-there/) - In Saturday’s DM, I shared stories of my links to Minnesota. Another is this. One January I was invited to conduct a weekend retreat at a center outside the twin cities. It was 75 degrees below zero with windchill, and participants drove up in cars, plugged them into outdoor outlets so their engines would not
- [Week of 1/11-17/2026: Finding Resilience & Joy even in Dark Times](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/18/week-of-1-12-17-2026/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by
- [Minnesota Bleeding](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/17/minnesota-bleeding/) - Thomas Aquinas has something to say about ICE. He writes: “The first effect of Love is melting.” Let love win the day, we pray. Non-violence and not violence. ICE has unleashed in the streets of Minnesota not only violence, but what the saintly Brazilian Bishop Helder Camera called, “the spiral of violence.” Things are spiraling
- [Our wee-ness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/16/our-wee-ness/) - If you look at the history of the rise of Nazism, and you blend the postures and the job descriptions of the Brown Shirts and the Gestapo, you get a pretty good idea of the activities of ICE in American cities today. I have gathered this impression by watching several undoctored videos. The point is
- [Enjoyment in Troubled Times](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/15/enjoyment-in-troubled-times/) - Here is a list of quotes from Matthew Fox’s WHEE! we, wee: A Guide to Sensual, Prophetic Spirituality, which I believe make clear why such a 1976 book is in fact a treasure to rediscover, while also explaining the roots or the core of his own sensual, prophetic endeavor. A religious person tends to want
- [Keeping Our Hearts & Souls Alive, Fresh, Young, Green & Inspired amidst Dark Times](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/12/keeping-our-hearts-souls-alive-fresh-young-green-inspired-amidst-dark-times/) - I ended our Saturday DM with the following question: “How do you keep your heart and soul alive and fresh, young, green and inspired, even when the news is bleak and painful?” Here I would like to offer some soul-food that helps accomplish that purpose. One way is to pray. What does that mean? I
- [Overcoming Divisions](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/14/overcoming-divisions/) - More than a century ago, some enlightened individuals deeply involved in their respective churches understood how terrible the conflicts among Christians had been and what a horrible counter-witness the still-existing divisions were for the spreading of the message of Jesus Christ. From that time, several reciprocal excommunications have been lifted, and today churches celebrate the
- [Resilience, Resistance, Interfering & Practicing Our “No” As a Prayer](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/13/resilience-resistance-interfering-practicing-our-no-as-a-prayer/) - In Saturday’s DM, we reflected on “Keeping the Heart Bright in Times of Heavy News,” and in Monday’s DM and video, we considered how to “Keep Our Hearts & Souls Alive, Fresh, Young, Green & Inspired amidst Dark Times.” In doing so, we shared practices of responding to life by way of the Via Positiva,
- [Week of January 5-10, 2026: Otto Rank, Marching Monks, and Ecstasy as God-Experience](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/11/week-of-january-5-10-otto-rank-marching-monks-variants-of-ecstasy/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by
- [Keeping the Heart Bright in Times of Heavy News](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/10/keeping-the-heart-bright-in-times-of-heavy-news/) - Here we are in the first week of a New Year, and the news is indeed heavy. All the more reason to call on our deepest reserves of faith, hope, and love to see our way through it and to keep on keeping on. The news was rarely positive in Jesus’ day, either, living as
- [Tactical Ecstasies](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/09/tactical-ecstasies/) - Besides natural ecstasies (see yesterday’s DM), Matthew Fox discusses tactical ecstasies in his 1976 book WHEE! We, wee All The Way Home. A Guide to Sensual, Prophetic Spirituality. Under this name he considers those techniques which people invent and develop in order to reach ecstatic states. But why are such techniques necessary, when we already have
- [Natural Ecstasies](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/08/natural-ecstasies/) - There are many ways through which we human beings can achieve a state of ecstasy, that is, transcend ourselves and touch the divine. Matthew Fox beautifully describes some of such natural ecstasies in his book WHEE! We, wee All The Way Home. A Guide to Sensual, Prophetic Spirituality, a book which (as I said yesterday)
- [Monks March For Peace While Politicians Make Crazy Wars](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/06/monks-march-for-peace-while-politicians-make-crazy-wars/) - We are taught to “read the signs of our times.” One sign of our times is that many, many human voices from popes to everyday citizens are calling humanity to its capacities for peace. At the same time, exploding budgets built by scurrilous politicians are bloated with more and more weaponry—as if war is what
- [The Experience of Ecstasy as the Experience of God](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/07/the-experience-of-ecstasy-as-the-experience-of-god/) - I have always been interested in exploring the beginnings of Matthew Fox’s theological career, as I am convinced that the way one lays out one’s perspective on life and being is key to understanding everything that happens later. However, in this exploration of mine, I have overlooked until now a book published originally in 1976,
- [Otto Rank’s Spiritual Vision, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/05/otto-ranks-spiritual-vision-continued/) - Why did I end my last DM calling Otto Rank a “spiritual giant” of the 20th century? One reason is this. During my training as a Dominican, around 1965, I told my Dominican superiors that “my generation will be more interested in spirituality than in religion.” When it came time to choose a topic for
- [Week of 12/29-1/3/2025: Art, Peace & War](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/04/week-of-12-29-1-3-2025/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by
- [A Great Book from 2025 on a Great Spiritual Teacher—Otto Rank](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/03/a-great-book-from-2025-on-a-great-spiritual-teacher-otto-rank/) - With one year ending and another dawning, it is customary to reflect on the outgoing year. One sees articles, for example, on “the best movies of 2025 nobody knows of.” In today’s and Monday’s DM, I would like to meditate on what I consider one of the most important spiritual books of 2025 that few
- [The Root of War is Fear (and Denial)](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/01/the-root-of-war-is-fear-and-denial/) - It is natural to aspire to peace, and even more so to wish peace to the world at the threshold of a new year. Moreover, the angelic singing “Glory to God, Peace on Earth” has not yet ceased to resonate at least in the minds of liturgically-minded Christians, who celebrate today the “Octave of Christmas,”
- [The Prince of Peace](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/31/the-prince-of-peace/) - One of the wonderful archetypes of Christmas is that of “Prince of Peace.” All over the world, in many cultures, one can find the story of a wondrous male child born in difficult or miraculous circumstances, belonging to a royal household or on his way to found one, who must live for a time in
- [Evaluating the Past Year: The Bad News & The Good](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/30/evaluating-the-past-year-the-bad-news-the-good/) - Looking toward a New Year is often a time for evaluating the year we have just undergone. From the point of view of a new presidency, things have not been pretty. Not at all. Headlines I have seen just in the last 24 hours include the following: “Trump says broadcast licenses should be terminated…networks are
- [Concerning News](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2026/01/02/concerning-news/) - This year, 2026, is opening with some very concerning news regarding Israel/Palestine. As spiritual people, we are called to keep our eyes open, be informed, and devise all possible actions to alleviate the suffering of the population of Gaza and the West Bank, even though we are exhausted to hear about it. The parliament of
- [More Artists on the Christmas Archetype](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/29/more-artists-on-the-christmas-archetype/) - In remembering the many dimensions of the Christmas stories as we have been doing in our recent DMs, I have praised the artist M.C. Richards and other artists. On Christmas morning, I attended Mass in my local Episcopal church and was blessed to hear a very solid sermon on the reading of John 1 which
- [Week of 12/22-27/2025: Antidotes to Loneliness & a Deeper Look at Christmas](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/28/week-of-12-22-27-2025/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. As you know, Matthew’s colleague Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG) has been writing three DMs each week to give Matthew time to work on several concurrent book projects. Unfortunately, GG needs to take some time off due to ill health, and so for the near future,
- [The Multiple Dimensions to the Christmas Archetype](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/27/the-multiple-dimensions-to-the-christmas-archetype/) - Christmas has multiple dimensions to it. Its stories in Luke’s Gospel, Matthew’s Gospel, and John’s Gospel are varied and absolutely loaded with archetypes that are nothing short of delicious. Roman Catholic biblical scholar Raymond Brown used to stress how one finds in the Nativity stories hints and summaries of the entire Jesus story to come,
- [Glory, Doxa, Christmas and Continuous Incarnation](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/25/glory-doxa-christmas-and-continuous-incarnation/) - A Blessed Christmas to all. Theologian Dorothy Soelle talks in one of her poems about the “irresistible appeal” of Jesus. One does not have to be Christian to feel that appeal—Thich Nhat Hanh felt it as a child and wrote two significant books about Christ as an adult. He understood the message of Christ as
- [Loneliness: Bede Griffiths on Meditation, Ground, Cosmic Solidarity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/23/loneliness-bede-griffiths-on-meditation-ground-cosmic-solidarity/) - In yesterday’s DM, both the essay and the video, we addressed some of the ways that spirituality heals loneliness. Among them are the art of friendship, connecting to the greater-than-human world, and ritual, which, when authentic, always connects psyche to cosmos. We underscored how meditation teaches us the difference between aloneness/solitude and loneliness. Father Bede
- [Loneliness, Part II: Ways Spirituality Combats Loneliness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/22/loneliness-part-ii-ways-spirituality-combats-loneliness/) - For combatting loneliness, it helps to learn the difference between aloneness and loneliness. Meditation and contemplation can teach us deep lessons of aloneness and solitude, being one with oneself and alone with oneself. Another way to deal with loneliness is to realize that creation itself is our companion. People in relationships with animals--dogs, cats, birds,
- [What do Christmas and 3I/ATLAS Have in Common?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/26/what-do-xmas-and-3i-atlas-have-in-common/) - Comet 3I/ATLAS passed Earth on December 19 at a safe distance and appears to be heading out of our solar system. It exhibited unique features such as an anti-tail that pointed towards the Sun and not away from it, which is not normal. Its immense speed suggests it has been traveling for perhaps 7 billion
- [Father Bede, Berdyaev & A Fuller, Non-Sentimental Meaning to Christmas](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/24/father-bede-berdyaev-a-fuller-non-sentimental-meaning-to-christmas/) - Dear friends, As you know, Matthew's colleague Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG) has been writing three DMs each week to give Matthew time to work on several concurrent book projects. Unfortunately, GG needs to take some time off due to ill health, and so for the near future, Matthew will be doing all six weekday DMs. Please
- [A Surge in Loneliness?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/20/a-surge-in-loneliness/) - These headlines caught my attention this week: “Loneliness Surges Among Key Groups of Americans”; “'Lonely, terrifying and scary’: 70% of students in UK university Halls feel isolated, poll shows”; “Tech Companies Have Created a Loneliness Doom Loop.” It is often said that loneliness comes to a head around holiday times, so this topic seems appropriate
- [Week of 12/15-20/2025: ICE, Jung, Sentimentality & Sustainability](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/21/week-of-12-15-20-2025/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by
- [The Face of the Other](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/19/the-face-of-the-other/) - Musing upon my last two DMs — one on deep feeling and the other on sustainability — it occurs to me that the two topics are linked in a profound way. One of the accusations that ecologists have recurrently received in the last few decades is that of being “tree huggers.” Such an accusation shows
- [Sustainability as a New Word](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/18/sustainability-as-a-new-word/) - Last week, I dropped a sentence about “sustainability,” which sparked a conversation. I wrote that "Sustainability, in reality, is not about bringing back a substantial balance — as we would like to believe — but it’s simply about reducing the damage we do" (see DM Dec. 13). Then Matthew sent me an email in which
- [Deep Feeling, Not Sentimentalism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/17/deep-feeling-not-sentimentalism/) - How can one differentiate between deep feeling and sentimentalism? I have run the risk of throwing out deep feeling together with sentimentalism, so I will say one word or two on the subject. I realized at some point, with dismay, that the church is filled with sentimentalism and hypocrisy, and that those two go side
- [Carl Jung, Murray Stein, Steven Herrmann & Christianity’s Future](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/16/carl-jung-murray-stein-steven-herrmann-christianitys-future/) - Jungian analyst Steven Herrmann has gifted us with significant books on topics such as Spiritual Democracy, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Jung and William James, Jung and Swami Vivekananda, Jung and Meister Eckhart, Vocational Dreams, and much more.* Now he kicks off the new series on Neo-Jungian studies with a book on Murray Stein, subtitled “Individuation,
- [Prophetic Responses to ICE: Mangers With a Message & a Non-Sentimental Christmas](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/15/prophetic-responses-to-ice-mangers-with-a-message-a-non-sentimental-christmas/) - In a Nativity scene at St. Susanna Roman Catholic Parish in Dedham, Massachusetts, the Christ child is missing this Christmas. So too are Mary and Joseph. Instead, there sits a hand-painted sign: “ICE was here.” Another sign reads: “The Holy Family is safe in the Sanctuary of our Church. If you see ICE please call (617) 370-5023”
- [Week of 12/8-14/2025: Gratitude, Justice & Our Lady of Guadalupe](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/14/week-of-12-8-14-2025-gratitude-justice-our-lady-of-guadalupe/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by
- [Ecological Justice](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/13/ecological-justice/) - Last week I was in Florence, Italy, to deliver a lecture on Matthew Fox and Creation Spirituality. My job was to close a series of lectures on “Saving Planet Earth,” which sounded very much like the 1970s to me, but I guess it was meant tongue-in-cheek. In fact, the speakers before me were well-known biologists
- [Today: The Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/12/today-the-feast-day-of-our-lady-of-guadalupe/) - It so happens that this past Sunday, I had the privilege of attending a rich seminar on the Black Madonna taught by Christena Cleveland, PhD, author of God Is a Black Woman. And on Monday night, Alessandra Belloni and I conducted a workshop on the Black Madonna as well. Alessandra is the author of the powerful
- [Origin of Deep Ecumenism in My Writings](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2021/10/26/origin-of-deep-ecumenism-in-my-writings/) - The other day I was asked by a Sufi practitioner who is also a Jewish scholar: “where did you first wrote about the term “Deep Ecumenism?” He reminded me that the late Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, who was one of his mentors, loved my term “Deep Ecumenism” and was a pioneer in it used the term
- [Advent and the Seed of Justice](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/11/advent-and-the-seed-of-justice/) - In the Western Catholic tradition, this time of Advent — roughly coinciding with the darkening month of December — is a time of imploration for justice. The faithful know that such a request is answered with the birth of the Savior, yet they are not spared from invoking such a birth in earnest. There is
- [Justice and Love](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/10/justice-and-love/) - Italian poet Franco Arminio recently said something very simple yet profound: “We must fight for justice, otherwise we get sick.” To me, this is a direct way to touch on the theme of action detached from the hope of success, that is present in so many spiritual traditions. Arminio insists that the call to act
- [Ingratitude in the Religion Silicon Valley Billionaires Are Pushing](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/09/ingratitude-in-the-religion-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-pushing/) - We have been meditating on gratitude in recent DMs. The peculiar religion being pushed by certain Silicon Valley billionaires currently in very high places in American politics strikes me as being very lacking in either joy or gratitude. But ever so big in visions of apocalypse and destruction. On reading the four lectures on the
- [December 10: A Special Day.](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2019/12/10/december-10-a-special-day/) - We are taking a brief, two-day pause from our reflections on YELLAWE and re-inventing education. This reflection on education’s failures to teach values is based on a so-called value-free ideology that hangs around from a discredited physics that still imagines “objectivity.” It is part of a tired modern consciousness that elevates rationality at the expense
- [More on Science, Spirituality and Gratitude](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/08/more-on-science-spirituality-and-gratitude/) - In Saturday’s DM, we meditated on gratitude by way of an excellent article by Thom Hartmann. Better known for his prophetic writing than his writing about his inner life, I for one appreciate his courage and candor in sharing his spiritual practice with us. Clearly, his prophetic and mystical work come together very organically. In
- [Gratitude & The Via Positiva in the Midst of Dark Times](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/06/gratitude-the-via-positiva-in-the-midst-of-dark-times/) - This past week I was struck by an article for Thanksgiving Day written by Thom Hartmann, whom I consider one of the most courageous and lucid prophetic writers of our time. I have been referring to him often lately in the DMs and respect his critical consciousness and his practiced way of “interfering” (what Heschel
- [Week of 12/1-6/2025: The Media, Gaza/Israel, & Gratitude](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/07/week-of-12-1-6-2025/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by
- [The Soul of Europe](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/05/the-soul-of-europe/) - When the foundations of the world are shaken, what can the just do? This old cry from the Psalms is more contemporary than ever. Francesca Albanese, special rapporteur of the UN for the occupied Palestinian territories, has clearly shown with facts and numbers in her last report that not only the U.S. but the E.U.
- [Hypocrisy and Colonialism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/04/hypocrisy-and-colonialism/) - The construction of a European common identity in the last 50 years or so has been delegated to the so-called “Western values,” which were supposed to have some magical value. It made some sense, given that the EU states do not make reference to a common nation, don’t have a common language, and religion, of
- [Victims/Colonizers](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/03/victims-colonizers/) - Bombing and killings in Gaza have not stopped, despite the ceasefire agreement. About 100 violent deaths per week. Violence in the West Bank has increased since the ceasefire, with Israeli settlers burning olive orchards, scaring people away, and occupying land. The ceasefire seems to have achieved two main results: redirecting the Israeli violence against the
- [Hope: What Good Journalism & Citizens Rising Up Can Accomplish](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/02/hope-what-good-journalism-citizens-rising-up-can-accomplish/) - In yesterday’s DM, we celebrated a victory for the free press and how The Guardian stood up to Trump’s $250 million lawsuit against them and won. We also honored writers like Mary Trump, Gil Duran and Thom Hartmann. Surely Common Dreams deserves a shout-out as well for the perspective they lend on behalf of a
- [Trump vs. The Media: A Guardian Victory & Lessons For Media Who Grovel](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/12/01/trump-vs-the-media-a-guardian-victory-lessons-for-media-who-grovel/) - Today, Saturday morning, I received some good news in the mail from The Guardian. A judge threw out a $250 million case against them from Donald Trump’s media company. The suit goes back to March, 2023, when The Guardian revealed that a federal criminal investigation was examining Trump Media, owners of “Truth Social,” the president’s
- [Week of 11/24-29/2025: Resistance, Wholeness & 3I/Atlas](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/30/week-of-11-24-29-2025/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by
- [3I/Atlas: A Visit From a Far-Distant Civilization?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/29/3i-atlas-a-visit-from-a-far-distant-civilization/) - In our monthly Order of the Sacred Earth meeting this week, I brought up the topic of 3I/Atlas now occupying astronomers around the world. If “ecology is functional cosmology,” as Thomas Berry instructs us, the possibility that a cosmic artifact over seven billion years old is visiting our solar system and even communicating with us
- [Wholeness (part three)](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/28/wholeness-part-three/) - Evagrius Ponticus, writing in the fifth century, states openly that there is nothing within the person that may keep her from desiring wholeness and that there is no point in not trying to achieve it. Subsequent readings of Evagrius have moralized the tenor of his affirmations, but I am convinced that he meant to say
- [Wholeness (part two)](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/27/wholeness-part-two/) - The archetype of wholeness has a long history. It appears, for example, in the Pauline letters under the name of pleroma, where it refers to the Cosmic Christ — or God’s Wisdom — holding the universe together. It is also recognized in Jungian psychology as the symbol of the final aim — the integration of
- [Wholeness (part one)](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/26/wholeness-part-one/) - Over the course of many years, I have met many people who have encountered the theology put forward by Matthew Fox. Often, he was the very reason why I was meeting such people, so it is not a surprise that the great majority of them were aware of Matt's criticism of the doctrine of original sin.
- [Our Holy Ancestors: Resistance Takes Many Forms, Part II](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/25/our-holy-ancestors-resistance-takes-many-forms-part-ii/) - In yesterday’s DM, we spoke of the resistance going on in our time. Honoring people of courage and values is a kind of resistance, also. We sometimes call them saints for what they have undergone in defense of values that speak to the best of humanity’s struggles for peace, justice, and the common good. Last
- [Resistance Takes Many Forms](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/24/resistance-takes-many-forms/) - The purpose of the daily meditations, as promised when we launched six years ago, is to assist in “praying the news” and not just watching it. This imperative has increased as we watch the terror of our own government play out in the streets. Having lunch yesterday with a friend, the table next to us
- [Week of 11/17-22/2025: Beyond Greed -- Aeesha Clottey & Inspiring Female Mystics](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/23/week-of-11-17-22-2025-aeesha-clottey-other-inspiring-women/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by
- [Nothing can Prevent a Woman from Loving](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/22/nothing-can-prevent-a-woman-from-loving/) - 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 greatest “expert” of Purgatory itself. Her name is Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510). Married to a nobleman of the Adorno family, and coming herself from the noble and powerful Fieschi family
- [Living in Hell, Purgatory, or Heaven](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/21/living-in-hell-purgatory-or-heaven/) - Yesterday in my DM, I did not intend in the least to trivialize mental pain, or to suggest that it can simply be cured through a diet. I wanted instead to underline how our mental and physical health are inextricably linked. Our spiritual health is yet another dimension that is often undervalued, misunderstood, or separated
- [Aeesha Clottey: A Friend, Co-Worker, Champion for Love & Justice](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/18/aeesha-clotteey-a-friend-co-worker-champion-for-love-justice/) - This past year has been particularly moving for me regarding the deaths of many wonderful people—I would even call them saints—whom I have known or worked with over the years. It began with the death of Buddhist teacher and activist Joanna Macy. I invited you, DM readers, to develop a practice of meditating on the
- [November: Sadness and Its Remedies](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/20/november-sadness-and-its-remedies/) - As the month of November rolls on, some of us living in the Northern hemisphere experience mental suffering more than usual. Contemporary medicine has coined the term Seasonal Affective Disorder. The acronym, very appropriately, is SAD. I am in love with the month of November, with its bright foliage, the wood stove chirping away again,
- [More on The Holy Life Journey of Aeesha Clottey](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/19/more-on-the-holy-life-journey-of-aeesha-clottey/) - Aeesha and Kokomon Clottey contributed to our YELLAWE program for inner city teenagers who were on the verge of dropping out of school. Kokomon would drive up in his small SUV piled with drums and unload them in front of Historic Sweets Ballroom, where we held the YELLAWE class (as well as Cosmic Masses). He
- [Wisdom From Jane Goodall: Some Teachings, Actions & Stories ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/13/wisdom-from-jane-goodall-some-teachings-actions-stories/) - Last week I wrote of how blessed we were to share a planet with two stalwart lovers of Mother Earth and her creatures, Joanna Macy and Jane Goodall, both of whom died recently. I shared some of the teachings of Joanna Macy, and promised to share some from Jane Goodall. Here is one from late
- [Joanna Macy on Original Blessing: A Practice in Deep Ecumenism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/25/joanna-macy-on-original-blessing-a-practice-in-deep-ecumenism/) - On Saturday, there was a beautiful gathering in celebration of the life of Joanna Macy. About 1,000 people participated live by Zoom and another 2,000 registered to tune in later. In today’s video, I share some of the marvelous stories told by some of the persons invited to speak, including two of her children (I
- [Celebrating the Life & Gifting of Joanna Macy at Grace Cathedral](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/07/celebrating-the-life-gifting-of-joanna-macy-at-grace-cathedral/) - Saturday, the eve of St. Francis of Assisi’s Feast Day, a full house of enthusiastic people gathered at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco to celebrate the extraordinary life and work of Joanna Macy. Not all of the 1200 present were local. In front of me there were two Catholic sisters, one from Toronto and one
- [Joanna Macy & Jane Goodall: Great Souls, Great Teachers](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/08/joanna-macy-jane-goodall-great-souls-great-teachers/) - Buddhist teacher and deep ecologist Joanna Macy died on July 19 this year, but the Celebration of her Life took place at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco on October 3, the eve of the Feast Day of St. Francis. Jane Goodall, lover of the animal kingdom and remaker of scientific attitudes toward animals, died on October
- [More Saints I Have Known, part iii](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/05/more-saints-i-have-known/) - In yesterday’s DM, I continued to share some saints I have interacted with in my life, and invited you to do the same. And in the video yesterday, I pointed out how Père Chenu, the historian and theologian who named the creation spirituality tradition for me, stressed how the renaissance of the 12th century was a
- [More Saints I Have Known and Worked With](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/04/more-saints-i-have-known-and-worked-with/) - I am inviting people to meditate on saints they have known. Further saints I have known include the following: Rabbi Zalman Schactner, founder of the Jewish Renewal movement and deep ecumenist par excellence. He liked my term, “deep ecumenism” because, as he told me, he had been doing it for years but didn’t have a
- [Saints I have Known, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/02/saints-i-have-known-continued/) - In Tuesday’s DM, I named some saints I have known and worked with and promised that discussion would be continued. Why is it a good idea—even a good spiritual practice—to pause and meditate on saintly people we have known and worked with? Because we must combat the flood of news about the evil deeds of
- [Saints I Have Known and Worked With](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/29/saints-i-have-known-and-worked-with/) - Reflecting on Joanna Macy’s death has brought to my attention that I have been blessed to work with many saints over my lifetime. I wonder if that is your experience too? I wish to share some of their names here and maybe there is a practice that can emerge from this sharing that will be
- [Aquinas and Korten on Limiting Institutionalized Greed](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/17/aquinas-and-korten-on-limiting-institutionalized-greed/) - Where does the ever-growing gap between haves and have nots, the making of over 800 billionaires in the past 42 years, the soon-to-be first trillionaire in the world, come from? It comes surely from the institutionalization of greed by way of a society so rigged in favor of the haves that they, through their bought
- [Billionaires Behaving Badly & Other Lessons from the Epstein Story](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/15/billionaires-behaving-badly-other-lessons-from-the-epstein-story/) - This week the news has been filled with headlines such as these: “Trump’s Connection to Epstein much worse than we knew”; "Colombian President Petro Calls US Leaders ‘Clan of Pedophiles”; "White House In Panic Mode As New 'Smoking Gun' Emails Link Trump to Epstein"; “Trump Summons Boebert to Situation Room over Epstein”; “New Epstein Files Dump Incriminates Andrew
- [Week of 11/9-15/2025: Greed & Democracide vs. Love](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/16/week-of-11-9-15-2025/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by
- [Lady Love and Her Queen](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/12/lady-love-and-her-queen/) - Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210-1297) is yet another beguine who lived in the 13th century, like Hadewijch and Marguerite Porete (see DMs Nov. 6 and 7). In some ways, these three — who might have never heard of each other —form a trio. Each of them is remembered as the first woman to have written a
- [Peter Thiel, Democracide & The Authoritarian Stack: The Antichrist, Continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/10/peter-thiel-democracide-the-authoritarian-stack-the-antichrist-continued/) - Peter Thiel is kingmaker to the current administration. His company Palantir has taken in billions in defense and ICE contracts since joining the MAGA team in a big way, from 2015 through the 2024 election. Thiel’s speeches on the antichrist have especially drawn my attention since it is stunningly rare to hear financial titans and
- [The Sacred Heart](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/14/the-sacred-heart/) - The devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is something that one is inclined to toss into the sentimental garbage bin, until one finds its origins. Gertrude of Hackeborn (1232–1292) gave shelter to our Mechtild of Magdeburg (1210-1297) in the convent of Helfta, of which she was the abbess. There, Mechtild was recognized as a
- [Culling Flowers on a Bright Pathway?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/13/culling-flowers-on-a-bright-pathway/) - Dante’s scholars agree that the character of Matelda represents the “prelapsarian” human being, that is, the person not weighed down by original sin. In yesterday’s DM, I argued, following Matthew Fox, that among the peculiarities of women mystics of the Middle Ages, it’s easy to find a kind of disregard for the doctrine of original
- [No Regulation: A Government Replacing Democracy with Greed?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/11/no-regulation-a-government-replacing-democracy-with-greed/) - In yesterday’s DM and the video that accompanied it, we laid out the latest attempts at democracide, that is the conscious killing of democracy by people like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk (on track to become the first trillionaire in the world). And we must not leave out their patron, he who occupies the present White
- [Week of 11/3-8/2025: Interspirituality, Powerful Women, Elections](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/09/week-of-11-3-8-2025/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by
- [America’s Tuesday Election: Hope on the Horizon for Democracy?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/08/americas-tuesday-election-hope-on-the-horizon-for-democracy/) - There is much to ponder over the election results on Tuesday. Even Republicans are showing concern. Texan Senator Ted Cruz called it “a disaster” and “an electoral blowout.” Sean Hannity called it “a disaster of a night” and tells us his New York friends “are officially depressed and scared.” One letter writer, identifying himself as
- [Hadewijch and Love](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/07/hadewijch-and-love/) - Like Marguerite Porete (see yesterday’s DM), Hadewijch of Brabant was a beguine, a learned woman, and wrote in the language of the people — in her case, Middle Dutch. Like Marguerite, she also remained quite unknown for centuries, and her writings have been edited, translated, and published only in the last few decades. Like Marguerite,
- [Marguerite and Love](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/06/marguerite-and-love/) - The majority of the witches’ trials and executions happened in the early modern era, with the Malleus Maleficarum — the main textbook on how to recognize, torture, and condemn witches — being published in 1486. The practice vanished in Europe after 1630, while it continued in the American colonies up to the end of the
- [Witchcraft](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/05/witchcraft/) - In response to the latest report on the Palestinian occupied territories by special UN envoy Francesca Albanese, the Israeli ambassador to the UN accused her publicly and vehemently of witchcraft. She replied calmly that if she could make spells, she would stop the killings “from the river to the sea” and she would give to
- [Good News: Interspirituality, The Cosmic Mass, Democratizing Mysticism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/04/good-news-interspirituality-the-cosmic-mass-democratizing-mysticism/) - In a DM last week, I celebrated the get-together of Pope Leo XIV and the king of England, for 500 years the head of the Anglican Church, to pray together in the Vatican. This was a symbolic moment, of course, but with deeper meaning as well. Pope Francis first approved of the idea, but he
- [Does America (and the Earth) Have a Billionaire Problem?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/03/does-america-and-the-earth-have-a-billionaire-problem/) - Chuck Collins directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy studies. I confess I have a bias toward anyone who has the “common good” in their everyday vocabulary—it forms the basis of politics according to Thomas Aquinas, after all. It is another way of talking about fairness and justice
- [Week of 10/27-11/1/2025: Reflecting on Cruelty, the Destruction of the East Wing, and All Hallows' Eve](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/02/week-of-10-27-11-1-2025/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by
- [Is Cruelty the Name of the Latest MAGA Politics?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/11/01/is-cruelty-the-name-of-the-latest-maga-politics/) - Whatever happened to the idea of the “common good”? It seems to have been washed out by the recurrent flood of hatred, cruelty, lies, and cold-heartedness that marks the current MAGA political era. Wiping out aid to starving millions around the world by gutting USAID was the opening gun for this policy. Hundreds of thousands
- [All Hallows’ Eve (Halloween)](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/31/all-hallows-eve-halloween/) - We who live in the Northern Hemisphere have begun to experience the shortening days and lengthening nights. Tonight is marked traditionally by the feast of the ancestors, which is connected to the diminishing of sunlight at least since the time when Celts lived all over Europe, but it could be even an earlier occurrence. One
- [The Remnant](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/30/the-remnant/) - Daniel, who is a member of the community of readers of these DMs, yesterday offered a threefold answer to my question about the legitimation of cruelty. I find his answer enlightening. He points to the objectification of the “other” starting with Nature, to sensory overload which produces desensitization, and to the “syndrome of the cornered
- [On Cruelty](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/29/on-cruelty/) - I don’t think it would be too far from the truth when I say that many of the readers of these DMs are worried about the legitimation of cruelty that has become so apparent in the last few months — or maybe years. For example, I hear on the news that the German government is
- [Is Peter Thiel Afraid to Debate Me on the Anti-Christ?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/28/is-peter-thiel-afraid-to-debate-me-on-the-anti-christ/) - After I read the transcripts of Peter Thiel’s four lectures on the antichrist at the Commonweal Club in San Francisco, I invited him to a debate on the topic. I have some credentials for such an exchange, as a theologian who published a book on the Antichrist 14 months ago. That book included two major
- [Big But Quiet News Buried Behind the News of White House Rubble](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/27/big-but-quiet-news-buried-behind-the-news-of-white-house-rubble/) - Last week we were thunderstruck to watch the entire East Wing of the White House reduced to rubble, with no permissions asked and no warnings given. In fact, the US president had promised the nation that the existing structure would not be touched—“it won’t interfere” and will “be near but not touching it,” he proclaimed.
- [Week of 10/20-25/2005: No Kings, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, & Reinventing Education](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/26/week-of-10-20-25-2005/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by
- [Educating under the Shadow of Neo-Fascism (part two)](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/25/educating-under-the-shadow-of-neo-fascism-part-two/) - For the past two weeks, after forty years, I have returned to high school in Italy, this time as a teacher. My first impression is that very little has changed, and the changes have been for the worse. Bureaucracy dominates; nobody who is there gives the impression that they want to be there, and the
- [Shamanism and the Goddess](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/22/shamanism-and-the-goddess/) - Continuing on the theme of how social religious history affects us personally, I am observing that the further back our memory tries to go, the deeper it penetrates also into our souls. Questions such as those I touched upon last week — differences on the understanding of the Eucharist or the democratization of the religious
- [Educating under the Shadow of Neo-Fascism (part one)](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/24/educating-under-the-shadow-of-neo-fascism-part-one/) - Years ago, I translated into Italian one of the lesser-known — but no less important — books penned by Matthew Fox. Its original title is The A.W.E. Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human. We called it in Italian simply Educare alla meraviglia (“teaching through wonder”) because the original acronym, A.W.E. — meaning Ancestral Wisdom Education
- [Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Friend, Brother & Jewish Prophet of Our Time](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/23/rabbi-arthur-waskow-friend-brother-jewish-prophet-of-our-time/) - I was saddened to learn this past hour that Rabbi Arthur Waskow has passed on at the age of 92. Activist, wisdom-seeker and teacher, his teachings and his actions interfered with injustice in so many ways. Prophets by definition interfere, as Rabbi Heschel teaches. Over his lifetime, Arthur was arrested more than two dozen times. He also wrote
- [The New Fundamentalist Religion from Silicon Valley](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/21/the-new-fundamentalist-religion-from-silicon-valley/) - A new and dangerous religion is emerging from the bowels of Silicon Valley. In a recent article entitled “How Silicon Valley Became a Center of Reactionary, Anti-Democratic Politics,” Jacob Silverman tells the story. It is excerpted from his book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley.* When Gil Duran, with whom I dialogued
- [Beyond Kings—and Beyond Führers Too?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/20/beyond-kings-and-beyond-fuhrers-too/) - This past week was a revealing one for American politics culminating in seven million Americans marching in protest of MAGA and its sins. The Speaker of the House, third in line for the presidency, who proudly tells everyone he is a Christian when he seems to mean a christian nationalist, calls the Americans protesting yesterday
- [Week of 10/13-18/2025: Goodall, Thiel, Oxford Martyrs](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/19/week-of-10-13-18-2025/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are penned by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by
- [The Oxford Martyrs](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/18/the-oxford-martyrs/) - The Oxford Martyrs — whose feast-day was celebrated yesterday in worldwide Anglicanism — were three men who held ecclesiastical rank and power in England under Edward VI, the boy-king, and were killed by the state under his sister and successor, Mary. It is very unlikely they ever heard of a Spanish nun named Teresa (see
- [Matthew Fox Challenges Peter Thiel to Debate on the Antichrist](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/17/matthew-fox-challenges-peter-thiel-to-debate-on-the-antichrist/) - Two days ago, in response to the DM posing questions to Peter Thiel, a reader told us she wanted to share the essay with Thiel and others. Yesterday, we put out a press release for other media who may be interested in my invitation to discuss or debate with Mr. Thiel. I have also written
- [Questions Posed to Peter Thiel on His Recent Talks on the Antichrist](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/15/questions-posed-to-peter-thiel-on-reading-his-recent-talks-on-the-antichrist/) - I offer here questions arising from your recent four-part seminar. — What does capitalism do to the human soul? — What does unchecked capitalism do to society itself? Do only the rich survive? What about other species as well--do they have a right to exist? — Why do you feel those who sit at the top of the
- [Peter Thiel, Billionaire & Silicon Valley Preacher of the Anti-Christ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/14/peter-thiel-billionaire-silicon-valley-preacher-of-the-anti-christ/) - Last week I was part of a two-part “CounterPoint” to entrepreneur Peter Thiel, creator of PayPal, Palantir, and other successful Silicon Valley start-ups. Recently, Thiel has been publicly ruminating on the Antichrist in talks at Harvard, Oxford, to clergy in Innsbruck, and most recently in a four-part series in San Francisco. I have studied the
- [Peter Thiel, Carl Schmitt, & Silicon Valley’s New Religion](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/23/peter-thiel-his-mentor-carl-schmitt-silicon-valleys-new-religion/) - Yesterday we meditated on the media takeover by billionaires in America. This is not a new thing entirely. After all, Rupert Murdoch has had a stranglehold on right-wing America for decades, and the results are there for all to see in Fox News, the New York Post, and often the Wall Street Journal. And, of
- [Teresa the Great](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/16/teresa-the-great/) - Yesterday, October 15, was the feast day of Teresa of Avila (1515-1582). This most famous and revered Spanish saint — proclaimed “doctor of the Church” by Pope Paul VI in 1970 — brings up for me very contradictory feelings. In some ways, she is recognized as the epitome of that intimist and unengaged spirituality which
- [Week of October 6-11, 2025: Elephants, Macy & Finding Balance](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/12/week-of-october-6-11-2025/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are penned by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by
- [Understanding and Awareness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/09/understanding-and-awareness/) - We all need frames of reference. Human life — all animal life, in fact— cannot thrive without knowing its surroundings, and thus by adopting frames of reference with which one can analyze, anticipate, predict, and mostly importantly understand. Understanding a situation does not bring about change in the situation immediately, but brings about a very
- [Elephants in Danger: African Droughts, A Sign of Our Times](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/06/elephants-in-danger-african-droughts-a-sign-of-our-times/) - In Saturday’s DM, which corresponded with the feast day of St. Francis, we remembered the beautiful life and inspiring accomplishments of Jane Goodall. As a young woman, she chose to travel from England to Africa to live among chimpanzees and learn more about them up close and personal. And how her devotion to the chimpanzee
- [Balancing as a Spiritual Act](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/11/balancing-as-a-spiritual-act/) - Each human being must develop all four psychological functions, according to Jungian theory, to become whole, even though it is understood that there will always be disparity among the levels of development of such functions in each individual. Each human being must consciously walk the Four Paths, according to Creation Spirituality, to become whole, and
- [Feeling(s) as Source of Values](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/10/feelings-as-source-of-values/) - One of the frames of reference for interpreting reality that I adopt is the Jungian theory of the four psychological functions (sensation, feeling, intuition, and thinking), which I have paired with the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality (via positiva, via negativa, via creativa, and via transformativa). As we have seen from Matthew in Tuesday's DM,
- [In Praise of Praise](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2022/11/15/in-praise-of-praise/) - Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel instructs us that “Praise precedes faith.” To practice faith—any faith tradition—we need to bring the experience of praise to the table. That is what this great religious teacher is telling us. In these daily meditations, we have talked frequently of how we are called to do both our inner work and our outer
- [Jane Goodall, A Creation Spirituality Saint for Our Times, Dies at 91](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/04/jane-goodall-a-creation-spirituality-saint-for-our-times-dies-at-91/) - Today is the Feast Day of St. Francis, friend of the animal kingdom. The day following our most recent gathering of the Order of the Sacred Earth on Zoom, the world and I heard the news that Jane Goodall died at 91 years of age. She was on tour in California, still carrying on the
- [Week of 9/28-10/4/2025: Gaza, Yom Kippur, Pronoia, Diversity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/05/week-of-9-28-10-4-2025/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are penned by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by
- [The Sumud Flotilla as a Sign of Hope](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/01/the-sumud-flotilla-as-a-sign-of-hope/) - At the time of my writing, the Sumud Flottilla has left the island of Crete and is sailing directly toward the shores of Gaza. The flotilla has already been attacked in international waters by Israeli drones, which managed to damage some of the ships. Because of the damages, or other technical reasons, some ships stopped
- [Two Truths and Sadofascism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/03/two-truths-and-sadofascism/) - Some people disparage the Global Sumud Flotilla, calling their enterprise “foolish” or “wanton”—while in my mind, they mark a very high point in the moral history of humanity. The prime minister of Israel has declared that the deadly attack in Manchester was caused by “weakness” in the face of terrorism—as if he did not drop
- [Yom Kippur 2025](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/10/02/yom-kippur-2025/) - David Adler is a young man embarked on one of the vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Two days ago, while the flotilla was approaching the Gazan waters — which Israel treats as its own territorial waters — David wrote an open letter about his Jewishness in this context and in the context of Yom
- [Creation Spirituality vs. the Outlawing of Diversity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/30/creation-spirituality-vs-the-outlawing-of-diversity/) - At the heart of ICE thuggery perpetrated by masked soldiers on our streets, at the heart of $150 billion in the new Republican budget dedicated to erecting concentration camps for immigrants, lies the issue of diversity. This war on diversity is not new in America; it is just a new nomenclature. When Chief Justice John Roberts
- [Original Blessing as Pronoia: The Antidote to Paranoia](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/29/original-blessing-as-pronoia-the-antidote-to-paranoia/) - In Saturday’s DM, I wrote of two persons whom I recently read, who spoke of Original Blessing each in their own powerful way. One was Aaron Stern, who wrote of “innate goodness” that he experienced in music and his love of music as he was growing up in a turbulent household. The second is Rob
- [Original Blessing & “Innate Goodness” as Medicine During Dark Nights](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/27/original-blessing-innate-goodness-as-medicine-during-dark-nights/) - It is good, in times of struggle and darkness, the dark night of society and soul and democracy that we find ourselves in, to reconnect to the big picture. That is to say, to the cosmic story from both science and Scripture: that we are blessed to be alive in this vast and amazing cosmos
- [Week of 9/22-27/2025: Sacred Vows & Defending Democracy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/28/week-of-9-22-27-2025/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are penned by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by
- [Vows (part I)](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/24/vows-part-i/) - The comments I received after last’s week meditation on the Order of the Sacred Earth (see DM for Sept. 20) made me think deeply of the issue of making vows. Vows, of course, include commitments but they are fundamentally different, as it is indicated by the fact that I can be overcommitted, but not “over-vowed”.
- [Vows (part III)](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/26/vows-part-iii/) - In the book Order of the Sacred Earth, Matthew Fox gives concrete examples of how an important premodern human reality, such as that of making vows, can be transferred into our postmodern times and consciousness. Not by replicating the same identical forms, but through transformation and adaptation. Even though the Middle Ages in Europe were
- [Vows (part II)](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/25/vows-part-2/) - Modern materialistic consciousness cannot understand that making a vow in a solemn way — be it private or public — makes an objective difference in the world. Unfortunately, the Reformation of the 16th century already misconstrued the meaning of making vows, denouncing them as a product of human will detached from the intentions of the
- [Humor Repressed, Savage Capitalism Alive & Well in the Media](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/22/humor-repressed-savage-capitalism-alive-well-in-the-media/) - It is a sad and dangerous day when the president of the US teams up with large corporations to kill humor and satire in the country. But clearly this is happening as we speak, first with Stephen Colbert at CBS and now with Jimmy Kimmel at ABC. Such goings-on are a canary in the coal
- [The Order of the Sacred Earth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/20/the-order-of-the-sacred-earth/) - I have insisted already that those who feel called to resist nonviolently the violent and dehumanizing socio-political atmosphere of today, which is both epitomized and instigated by Donald Trump, need to find their tribe. It is simply impossible to engage in such resistance alone and survive. The Order of the Sacred Earth, born of one
- [Week of 9/15-20/2025: Billionaires, Kirk & Radicalism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/21/week-of-9-15-20-2025-billionaires-kirk-radicalism/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are penned by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by
- [Roots](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/19/roots/) - Radicalization is not always geared toward violence and is not always bad. However, being radically nonviolent is a way of existing in the world that might leave you alone, or rather in search of your tribe. Because it is not just about taking sides, it is much deeper. My mind runs to the poet Rilke
- [Three Lessons in Radicalization](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/18/three-lessons-in-radicalization/) - The word “radicalization” and its cognate verbal forms, such as “radicalized” and “radicalizing,” have been in use for at least the past 25 years. They used to be employed exclusively about young Muslims and in connection to mosques where anti-Western sentiments were preached. Today, their use has seemingly spread to cover all those who, in
- [Lessons from the Murder of Charlie Kirk](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/17/lessons-from-the-murder-of-charlie-kirk/) - A number of important lessons to learn—and relearn—loom from the tragedy of the murder of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. First is obvious—or should be: That it is wrong to murder persons for speaking their political beliefs however wretched they may be. Second is that words and ideas hurt and hurt deeply. We now know that
- [Let Us Not Canonize Charlie Kirk](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/16/let-us-not-canonize-charlie-kirk/) - Last week, still another tragic political assassination occurred when popular right-wing speaker Charlie Kirk was murdered on a Utah University campus. The act was despicable and should never have happened in a healthy society. Responsible political leaders, such as the Republican governor of Utah, called for unity and peace. But not the president of the
- [More on Thiel & the Billionaire Religion Seeking to Conquer the World](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/15/more-on-thiel-the-billionaire-religion-seeking-to-conquer-the-world/) - In Saturday’s DM, we meditated on the new kind of religion emanating from some very influential billionaires in Silicon Valley such as Peter Thiel, who today launches his four-part seminar on his take on the Anti-Christ. A version that proposes, among other things, that Greta Thunberg is an antichrist in our day. (sic and sick.)
- [Silicon Valley's “Scary Religion,” Peter Thiel, et alia](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/13/the-scary-religion-from-silicon-valley-peter-thiel-et-alia/) - Monday marks a unique day in Silicon Valley and San Francisco history. It is the day that Silicon Valley billionaire and maker of presidents and vice presidents, Peter Thiel, begins his four-part series on the Antichrist at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. Not surprisingly, a number of persons have brought this event to my
- [Week of 9/8-13/2025: ICE, Epstein, Thiel & Resistance through Song](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/14/week-of-9-8-13-2025/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are penned by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by
- [Resistance and Songs - part 2](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/12/resistance-and-songs-part-2/) - There is no clearer example of how music and songs can be a means for resistance than the Gaza Birds Singing, a group of children and young people who continue to gather in Gaza City under the most trying circumstances. There is a page on the official UN website about them, which talks about sacred
- [Leadership, Past and Present](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/11/leadership-past-and-present/) - After 9/11/2001, the world changed for the Arab populations more than for anybody else. The criminal invasion of Iraq in 2003 provoked around 200,000 direct casualties and about 300,000 indirect deaths. The Arab Spring of 2010 let hope rise for entire populations, but was dramatically followed by the rise of ISIS and the Syrian civil
- [Thanks & Lessons for Epstein Victims & Other Assault Survivors](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/09/thanks-lessons-for-epstein-victims-other-assault-survivors/) - A succinct but wise video from Tara Sullivan came my way recently. She is a graduate of our Creation Spirituality program, and I am proud of her as I am of so many of our graduates. It concerns the current news around the Epstein tapes that, for some untold reason, the Trump administration is taking
- [Week of 8/4-9/2025: Everyday Saints, Clouds, Ecocide](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/10/week-of-8-4-9-2025/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Three of them are penned by Matthew Fox (MF), and three by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). On Monday, we will also continue to offer a video teaching by Matthew. August 4, 2025: More Saints I Have Known and Worked With (MF)Continuing to inspire us with
- [Resistance and Songs - Part 1](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/10/resistance-and-songs-part-1/) - I am very fond of the Anglican hymns written at the turn of the 20th century. I love their melodies, their harmonies, and even more their texts. More exactly, I love how all of these combined create a unique flavor and ambience which is not just that of religious exaltation, but include a profound sense
- [America’s People-Shortage vs. ICE Deportation Mania](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/08/americas-people-shortage-vs-ice-deportation-mania/) - There has been such an onslaught of bad news and immoral behavior from the current administration and covering such a range of subjects that it is hard to go deeply into any one of them. This relentless dumping of bad deeds has been a conscious strategy on the part of the MAGA government. One of
- [Week of 4/14-19/2025: Empathy, Dark Nights, Holiness & Resurrection](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/20/week-of-4-14-19-2025/) - April 14, 2025: Rabbi Heschel & Hildegard of Bingen on Dark Nights & HolinessReflecting on the dark night of the soul that our country and world is enmeshed in, it can be helpful to read the wisdom of the mystics. Rabbi Heschel said: The Biblical answer to evil is not the good but the holy. It is
- [A Second Announcement & Earth Day, 2025](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/22/a-second-announcement-earth-day-2025/) - First, I want to acknowledge the loss of Pope Francis who died yesterday. He was a champion for the Earth: his first encyclical, Laudato Si, was dedicated to that cause, as was his surprise name since no pope had ever before chosen the name of Francis. More another time on his other achievements and limits as pope. In yesterday’s
- [Merton and the Via Creativa](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/29/merton-and-the-via-creativa/) - Thomas Merton is without any doubt one of the most creative individuals that the Earth has seen. His listening to the prompts of the Spirit and thus the flourishing within himself of interests, character traits, and ideas that he was not aware of in advance — not to speak of his monastic superiors — made
- [Week of 5/26-31/2025: Thomas Merton's Inspiring Life](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/01/week-of-5-26-31-2025-the-inspiration-of-thomas-merton/) - Please note: As Matthew Fox continues to work on his next book, Gianluigi Gugliermetto (often called GG), his friend and colleague, will be filling in and composing the Daily Meditations this week. May 26, 2025: “The deepest ground of my being is love”Thomas Merton was a Roman Catholic monk who was an intellectual, a prophet
- [Four Bad Fathers & The Price Society Pays](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/17/four-bad-fathers-the-price-society-pays/) - It is a good thing to celebrate the archetype of Fatherhood as a springboard to the healthy masculine. I do that in my book on The Hidden Spirituality of Men and in yesterday’s DM I reported on a rich conference on that topic. We need a lot more such conferences and open discussions on What Constitutes Healthy
- [Walt Whitman as a Spiritual Ancestor](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/19/walt-whitman-as-a-spiritual-ancestor/) - Stating that the root cause of today’s violence is unhealthy masculinity exposes one to all sort of critiques. One-sidedness, over-simplification, insufficient proofs. But how can the USA be run by such a cruel toddler as it is, unless there is enough patriarchal thinking in the country to back him up? Unless Trump is the manifestation
- [Etty Hillesum and Peace-Making](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/26/etty-hillesum-and-peace-making/) - Etty Hillesum wrote her diaries in Nazi-occupied Netherlands. In 1941 she ended up in the transit camp of Westerbork because she volunteered to accompany the first group of Jews rounded up by the Germans. She was a counselor and a friend to many in the camp. Only recently the witness of her colleague, Ies Spetter,
- [Alligator Alcatraz and Jung on Evil](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/17/alligator-alcatraz-and-jung-on-evil/) - Yet another main 20th-century author who can help us in our journey of deeper understanding of our current plight is C.G.Jung. We can approach Jung’s musings about evil through his notion of archetypes. He observed that such unconscious conglomerates of images and ideas which activate behaviors can not only lead or direct an individual personality,
- [More Talk on Ecstasies](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/23/more-talk-on-ecstasies/) - I am very grateful to GG for his thoughtful DM yesterday on my article published in Progressive Christianity on the Johns Hopkins/NYU study done with clergy using LSD. Let me add some more points. When I was a young Dominican studying in Europe in the 1960s, I was part of a movement of about 80 young Dominicans
- [Celebrating a New Study on Otto Rank](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/06/celebrating-a-new-study-on-otto-rank/) - I rejoice that a new book has appeared on my favorite psychologist, Otto Rank. In Otto Rank and the Creation of Modern Psychotherapy, Robert Kramer has done a superb job in bringing alive the major contributions Rank made to psychology, social work, and spirituality while alive and since his death in 1939. To be transparent, I confess
- [Week of 9/1-6/2025: Good Work & Embodied Prayer](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/07/week-of-9-1-6-2025/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are penned by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by
- [Labor Day 2025](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/01/labor-day-2025/) - Good work and bad work are very much in the news this Labor Day Season of 2025. At the foundation of both is the issue of conscience and values. Here are a few examples to meditate on. This past week four very qualified experts at CDS quit. They walked out the door in protest a
- [The Essential is Very Visible](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/05/the-essential-is-very-visible/) - There are moments and times in human history when everything becomes tragically simple and clear. Rather than being invisible to the eyes — as in Saint-Exupéry’s famous sentence — the essential becomes very visible. I believe we live in such a historical moment. We have all seen China’s recent parade, displaying strong military power and
- [Prayer and the Body - part 4](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/04/prayer-and-the-body-part-four/) - I just came back home from leading a retreat in the beautiful city of Verona, Italy. As always — following Matthew’s teaching — my retreats include one portion of intellectual learning, questioning, and debate (left brain engagement) and one portion of art as meditation, creativity, silence, prayer (right brain engagement). As in previous retreats, two
- [Prayer and the Body - Part 3](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/03/prayer-and-the-body-part-3/) - In recent years, more and more frequently I have heard activists talking about putting one’s own body “on the line,” which these days might literally mean putting oneself in the line of fire. Right now, as I am writing, it has been confirmed that the personnel of the two Christian communities in Gaza city —
- [Transforming Work & Academia: A Vision from Bernard Amadei](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/09/02/transforming-work-academia-a-vision-from-bernard-amadei/) - In yesterday’s DM honoring Labor Day, I pointed out the heroism of those who are standing up in their places of work to speak truth to power and pay the consequences. This is true of the four leaders at HHS who quit to protest how ideology at HHS is trumping science and jeopardizing the health
- [Prayer and the Body — part 2](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/28/prayer-and-the-body-part-2/) - A contemporary of Saint Dominic, much less renowned than he, but even more radical in her bodily prayer, was Saint Christina, nicknamed “the Astonishing” (1150-1224), who lived all her life in Flanders (now part of Belgium). Christina was known for climbing up trees and staying there for long stretches of time immersed in prayer. The
- [Supplications](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/29/supplications/) - Last week on August 22 — which for Roman Catholics is the feast of Mary Queen of Peace — Pope Leo presided over a solemn day of fasting and prayer. His words unfortunately let people believe that there is a God who can miraculously stop wars — and famines, and droughts, etc. — but He
- [Week of 8/25-30/2025: Prayer, Psilocybin, & Original Blessing](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/31/week-of-8-25-30-2025/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are penned by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by
- [Prayer and the Body, Part I](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/27/prayer-and-the-body-part-i/) - Western Christianity is often considered the less embodied of all religious expressions of humankind. And for good reasons, starting with Saint Augustine reducing religion to a discourse between God and the soul. A quite disembodied soul, alas. Many premodern examples of bodily prayer, however, are often excluded from consideration. One such example is represented by
- [Two Republican Presidents: “I am not a dictator.” “I am not a crook.”](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/30/i-am-not-a-dictator-i-am-not-a-crook/) - On Tuesday this week our sitting president said at a most unusual cabinet meeting that “I am not a dictator.” Then he went on to say he could do “whatever I want” as president and that “many” Americans want a dictator. That he can do whatever he wants is a lie. There are—or are meant
- [Psilocybin & the Brain: A Doctor Reports on Science & Mysticism  ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/26/psilocybin-the-brain-a-doctor-reports-on-science-mysticism/) - In last week’s DMs (HERE and HERE), GG and I discussed how some clergy invited to participate in taking a guided LSD experience had positive responses. I wrote of people I admire including some former students and scientist Rupert Sheldrake, who profited from such trips. And how Rupert has written a substantive chapter on the
- [Fighting Despair with Action: A Fruit Tree Planting Project in Nepal](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/28/fighting-despair-with-action-a-fruit-tree-planting-project-in-nepal/) - This week I received a letter from Marianne Grosspietsch, whom I have written about before, and who founded an orphanage named Shanti among the poor in Nepal. The subject of her letter was titled “Let us not give up despite the Anti Christ’s painful activities.” She presents a request here. I believe her project makes
- [Week of 8/18-23/2025: Shame, Masculinity, Prayer, Ecstasy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/24/week-of-8-18-23-2025/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Three of them are penned by Matthew Fox (MF), and three by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video
- [Ecstasies](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/22/ecstasies/) - There has been a resurgence of interest regarding the effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) on the brain, and particularly on its connection with spirituality, prayer, and mystical experiences. Yesterday, August 21, in the online magazine Progressing Spirit, Matthew Fox published his comments about a scientific study which was conducted by the John Hopkins and
- [Praying with Queen Esther](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/21/praying-with-queen-esther/) - Meditating upon prayer and the four paths, I realize that in our historical moment it is especially the via negativa that must be made present to everybody’s consciousness. It is terribly offensive to see people dancing and having fun in TV commercials while an entire people is scheduled to be deported — or exterminated if
- [Shame, Fascism, Healthy & Unhealthy Leaders & Father Figures](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/19/shame-fascism-healthy-unhealthy-leaders-father-figures/) - We are discussing the overriding role that shame can play in male consciousness. It can be shame-inducing for men to seek help from other men. “The hero” such as John Wayne is by definition solitary and the pinnacle of the individualistic self-ideal for men, writes psychologist Gordon Wheeler. The act of introspection becomes “shame laden.”
- [Prayer as Openness to Life](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/20/prayer-as-openness-to-life/) - When the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Psalm 11:3). “The righteous” meaning the seekers after truth and the Divine; “foundations” meaning both the pillars of the earth and the bases of society, i.e. true values. This anguished cry of the Psalmist echoes today in our hearts more than ever. What can we
- [Healthy & Unhealthy Shame and Healthy & Unhealthy Masculinity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/18/healthy-unhealthy-shame-and-healthy-unhealthy-masculinity/) - I wish to follow up on GG’s recent DM on shame, and the lively interaction that followed. The topic of shame played a big role in my research on men in my book, The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine. I will share here some of the lessons I learned
- [The Gaza Horror and Israel’s & America’s Decline in Morality](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/16/the-gaza-horror-and-israels-americas-decline-in-morality/) - I very much appreciate Gianluigi’s DMs this week on the Gaza tragedy—a horror unfolding before our eyes daily and in great part being paid for by American tax dollars. The relationship between Palestinians and Israelis is, as he points out, very complicated. But that does not mean we can ignore it or excuse the new
- [Week of  8/11-16/2025: Gaza, Shame, & Lion's Energy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/17/week-of-8-11-16-2025/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Three of them are penned by Matthew Fox (MF), and three by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). On Monday, we will also continue to offer a video teaching by Matthew. August 11, 2025: World Lion Day 2025 (MF)World Lion Day was August 10th, and Matthew believes
- [World Lion Day 2025](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/11/world-lion-day-2025/) - World Lion Day was yesterday, August 10. I think lions are worth our meditation and appreciation—as is any beautiful and wonderful creature. Such meditations are a spiritual practice for those who walk the path of creation spirituality, after all. Wisdom is synonymous with “beauty and terror” as Nicolas of Cusa and the poet Rilke, among
- [The Role of Shame](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/15/the-role-of-shame/) - Having embarked on a psychological analysis of the current world scene, I can’t avoid saying something about Donald Trump. Many professional psychologists have asserted that his words and behaviors clearly and unmistakably show that he suffers from malignant NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder). Besides confirming with a medical acronym what many of us knew already, psychologists
- [Awareness of Tragedy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/14/awareness-of-tragedy/) - After writing yesterday’s DM, a question arose in me: Awareness of what? Awareness of the tragedy that is playing out under our eyes? How is that going to help? Having meditated upon this question, I can now say that the awareness of tragedy is indeed an important part of the answer that the world needs.
- [Flaming Torches and Flickering Lights](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/13/flaming-torches-and-flickering-lights/) - I am writing from a cellar where I took refuge from the summer heat. It is a comfortable space, furnished with a table, a sofa, electricity, running water, and a toilet. Later, I’ll get out of my hole to get food and coffee. And I can’t stop thinking of the people in Gaza who are
- [Evil on the Rise and on the Table: A Call for Lion Energy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/12/evil-on-the-rise-and-on-the-table-a-call-for-lion-energy/) - In yesterday’s DM, we meditated on the beauty, majesty, nobility, communal consciousness, fierceness, strength and virility of lions. And on two lion-like individuals, Hildegard of Bingen and Joanna Macy. Hildegard of Bingen took on Evil in her day with the strength and assurance of a lion. Read her letters to emperors, popes, abbots and archbishops
- [EPA: Environmental Protection Agency or Ecocidal Promotion Agency?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/09/epa-environmental-protection-agency-or-ecocidal-promotion-agency/) - The EPA was born on December 2, 1970 in an executive order by Republican President Richard Nixon. Congressional hearings followed. It was a time when rivers were catching fire regularly in the United States. It was effectively murdered on July 29, 2025 by the MAGA Republican White House occupant*. Will the MAGA congress object—or lawsuits
- [Clouds, Part I](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/06/clouds-part-i/) - On many church calendars, the feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus falls on August 6. The Gospel episode to which it refers — the earliest version is found in Mark 9:2-10 — can be described as a collective mystical experience which included four people: Peter, James, John, and Jesus himself. They had prepared themselves for
- [Clouds, part 3](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/08/clouds-part-3/) - An homiletic treatise of the 1st century C.E. presents a list of ancestors who trusted in God since the origins of the world. All together they are called a νέφος μαρτύρων ὄγκον, that is, a great cloud of witnesses/martyrs (Hebrews 12:1), who are surrounding and supporting the present believers. The word νέφος is usually translated
- [Clouds - part 2](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/07/clouds-part-2/) - I might be able to drive up next week in the nearby Alps, just to lie on the grass and watch the clouds. Though I am not rich by Western standards, I am surely privileged. I am not under siege, hungry, or in any way at risk. I care though for those who are, and
- [Week of 7/28-8/2/2025: Honoring "Everyday Saints" and the Great Work](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/03/week-of-7-28-8-2-2025/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Three of them are penned by Matthew Fox (MF), and three by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). On Monday, we will also continue to offer a video teaching by Matthew. July 28, 2025: Fighting Despair with Action: A Fruit Tree Planting Project in Nepal (MF)Marianne Grosspietsch, who
- [Emptiness and Work](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/08/01/emptiness-and-work/) - Recently, I led a weekend-long workshop on the themes of Matthew Fox’s book The Reinvention of Work. Among the high moments of the event, I can surely count the deep impression that the participants felt with regard to some poetry quoted in the book. This poem by Rumi stunned them: I have said before that
- [Fighting Despair with Understanding](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/30/fighting-despair-with-understanding/) - Last Sunday night, here in Italy, a great number of Catholic churches, from cities to the smallest villages, rung their bells at 10pm — an unusual time —to signify solidarity with the Palestinians who are being killed by an engineered famine. As a friend put it, “At least we feel we are a portion of
- [Attuning to the Great Work](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/31/attuning-to-the-great-work/) - Last year I translated into Italian Matthew Fox’s book The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time. My team and I chose this book among the ones not yet translated, as we were convinced that spirituality today can only make sense if it is deeply related to our everyday tasks and
- [On Display January 6: Lies, Not Masculinity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2021/12/18/on-display-january-6-lies-nor-masculinity/) - We continue our lead-up to discussing the Sacred Masculine with some thoughts on its opposite. When I listen to today’s news--including the denial of the violence that we all saw happening on television on January 6; and the denial of the results of a presidential election; and now the revelation of how many conservative
- [Week of 7/21-26/2025: Joanna Macy, Mentorship & Shambala Warriors](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/27/week-of-7-21-26-2025/) - This is a weekly summary of the previous week's Daily Meditations. Three of them are penned by Matthew Fox (MF), and three by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). On Monday, we will continue to also offer a video teaching by Matthew. July 21, 2025: Joanna Macy: A Note of Gratitude (MF)Joanna Macy, a great soul, passed away
- [Mentorship as an Archetype](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/26/mentorship-as-an-archetype/) - During a conversation a few days ago, Matthew Fox and I realized how much we have been talking about mentorship and mentors in recent times. He is being featured as one of four mentors in an autobiography that will soon appear; I have suggested that his forthcoming book on Marie-Dominique Chenu bear the subtitle “A
- [Good News and the Bible](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/25/good-news-and-the-bible/) - There are many signs that a positive change is underway. Last week, two Israeli soldiers who were vacationing in Belgium were arrested and interrogated, being credibly accused of war crimes. Footage and images from their own social media were presented as elements to support the accusation. Many Jews, within and without Israel, are aware of
- [Bad Trees bearing Evil Fruit: A Litany of Mortal Sins of MAGA](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/23/bad-trees-bearing-evil-fruit-a-litany-of-mortal-sins-of-maga/) - 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 they bear. It seems appropriate after 7 months of the MAGA administration to judge the fruit it is bearing. Jesus reminds us, in Luke’s gospel, that the key to bearing
- [Shambhala Warriors](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/24/shambhala-warriors/) - In face of destructive powers, we are called to enhance our joy of living and our resistance to evil. Because of the enormity of the cruelty that is unleashed, we are forced to become more and more what we always wish we were. Comfortable situations breed acedia, i.e., lack of action: it’s a rule of
- [Joy in the Midst of Anguish: A Fruit of the Spirit](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/22/joy-in-the-midst-of-anguish-a-fruit-of-the-spirit/) - In this DM, I wish to talk about Joy. Why talk about Joy? Because joy is why we are here—at least in St. Thomas Aquinas’s perspective it is—the universe has invited us into existence because of joy. “Sheer Joy is God’s and this demands companionship.” And, “joy is the human’s noblest act.” Traditionally, joy is
- [Joanna Macy: A Note of Gratitude](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/21/joanna-macy-a-note-of-gratitude/) - A great soul passed away 3:35 PM Saturday afternoon. It was my privilege to call Joanna Macy a friend and co-worker. I owe her much. She first introduced me to Thich Nhat Hanh by inviting me to attend a talk he gave to a large gathering in Berkeley. Years later, she assisted in bringing him,
- [Week of 7/14-19/2025: Jung, the Antichrist Archetype & Shadow Work](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/20/week-of-7-14-19-2025-jung-the-antichrist-and-shadow-work/) - Please note: The Daily Meditations are penned by both Matthew Fox (MF) and Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). On Monday, Matthew offers a video teaching in addition to a DM. On Sunday, we offer a summary of the prior week's meditations. July 14, 2025: Heschel, the “Demon of Power” & The New Budget Bill (MF)Rabbi Abraham Joshua
- [The Shadow & MAGA’s Eagerness to Shut Down NPR & PBS](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/19/the-shadow-magas-eagerness-to-shut-down-npr-pbs/) - In a recent DM, GG reported how Carl Jung warned of the antichrist as an archetype that can take over a society and that is how Hitler succeeded in getting majorities of people to follow him without conscience. This underscores the spiritual dimension of evil. Evil appeals to depths of ourselves—hurt, trauma and outrage that,
- [René Girard and Human Violence](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/16/rene-girard-and-human-violence/) - The maîtres à penser of the MAGA movement, such as Peter Thiel and J.D. Vance, make use of some great Christian authors to support their understanding of Christianity. In reality, they mangle, bend, and ultimately utterly misunderstand their sources. We saw a blatant example of this when the late pope Francis issued a public rebuke
- [The Speck and the Log in Jungian Terms](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/18/the-speck-and-the-log-in-jungian-terms/) - Resistance to the sway of unconscious archetypes can be done — according to C. G. Jung — both individually and socially. That is, by the individual uncovering one’s own shadow, i.e. bringing it to consciousness, and then by the same individual exposing the shadow-side of a society, i.e. the negative archetypes that are acting up
- [Demons of Power & MAGA: Alligator Alcatraz](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/15/demons-of-power-maga-continued-consider-alligator-alcatraz/) - In yesterday’s DM, we meditated on Rabbi Heschel’s observation that “man’s worship of power has resurrected the demon of power.” To look into the face of the “demons of power,” one need look no further than the swamp land of Florida where a place called Alligator Alcatraz was built recently with our tax dollars. This
- [Heschel, the “Demon of Power” & The New Budget Bill](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/14/heschel-the-demon-of-power-the-new-budget-bill/) - The Via Positiva is all about awe and wonder, beauty and gratitude that fill our hearts and minds when we consider the wonder of life. Or the “miracle of existence” as poet Rilke put it. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel tells us that “the world is not just here. It shocks us into amazement.” And that “grandeur
- [Mark Day, Thomas Merton, California Missions & Genocide](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/12/mark-day-thomas-merton-california-missions-genocide/) - In his book, Reimagining the California Missions: A Former Franciscan Friar’s Search for the Truth, award-winning journalist and ex-Franciscan Mark Day has composed a valuable, readable, succinct but substantive summary of much of the rich scholarship that has emerged in our time to tell the truth of the California Missions. This truth has been covered up to serve
- [Week of 7/7-12/2025: Evil, Genocide, & Goodness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/13/week-of-7-7-12-2025/) - Please note: The Daily Meditations are now authored by both Matthew Fox (MF) and Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). The Monday video teaching will continue to be created by Matthew. July 7, 2025: The Banality of Evil 2.0 (MF)Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt started a philosophical free-for-all with her reportage on the trial of Adolf Eichmann 61 years
- [One Year Ago in Orvieto](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/10/one-year-ago-in-orvieto/) - The evangelical opponents of progressive politics have long adopted the label of “Satan” or “Antichrist” for their enemies. For quite a long time, progressives have objected to their use of such terms, including the present writer. Then, about one year ago, I was visiting the Cathedral in Orvieto, Italy, with Matthew Fox, and while we
- [Satan, Divided](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/09/57436/) - Hearing about Elon Musk launching his own political party made me think at once that a division in the U.S, electorate oriented toward the right can only bring victory to progressive candidates everywhere in the country. The Gospel adage “If Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand; his end has come” (Mark 3:26)
- [The Core of Goodness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/11/the-core-of-goodness/) - Two great 20th-century thinkers have surpassed all others for the depth of their reflections on evil: Hannah Arendt and Paul Ricoeur. One is especially remembered for her phrase “the banality of evil” while the other is known for his investigation of “radical evil.” In a recent Daily Meditation, Matthew Fox has written that evil is
- [Catholic Bishops & Other Faith Leaders Condemn MAGA Budget Bill](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/08/catholic-bishops-other-faith-leaders-condemn-maga-budget-bill/) - Before the passing of the MAGA budget bill, twenty Roman Catholic bishops signed an interfaith letter stating that its “passage would be a moral failure for American society as a whole.” Here are its talking points that can be shouted aloud, as responses to the bill gain traction and the 2026 elections unfold. Signatories include
- [The Banality of Evil: 2.0](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/07/the-banality-of-evil-2-0/) - Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt started a philosophical free-for-all with her reportage on the trial of Adolf Eichmann 61 years ago, proposing that he was not such a deep-down evil person, but more a hum-drum bureaucrat—therefore banal—who went along with an evil system. But that he deserved his fate of being put to death by the
- [Week of 6/30-7/5/2025: Violence, Evil, & Resistance](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/06/week-of-6-30-7-5-2025/) - This is a gentle reminder that authorship of the Daily Meditations is now shared by Matthew Fox (MF) and Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). Meanwhile, Matthew will continue to record a video for each Monday. June 30, 2025: More Ways to Resist the Billionaire Welfare Bill & Honoring Bill Moyers (MF)In what ways can we resist the
- [The Scope of Our Hope](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/05/the-scope-of-our-hope/) - Early in his career, Matthew Fox named one “unholy” or “demonic” trinity made of competition, compulsion, and dualism, all strongly and virulently opposed to compassion, which is the true name of God. Based on psychologist Karen Horney, Matthew writes:We seek power to brace ourselves against helplessness and our resultant hostility is expressed in a tendency
- [The Great Tragedy of Humanity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/02/the-great-tragedy-of-humanity/) - With all my talk on evil in the past few months, especially about evil as a mystery, I might have given the impression of being a believer in the “total corruption” of human nature. This is not the case. When I speak about evil — much as Matthew Fox does — I simply acknowledge that
- [Fourth of July, 2025](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/04/fourth-of-july-2025/) - Today is a complex holiday indeed. One wants to celebrate America’s independence and courage and imagination at launching a great experiment in democracy 258 years ago. But the reality is that many are grieving today rather than celebrating. A new poll found that “national pride is declining in America” and only about 4 out of 10
- [Violence and Human Nature](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/03/violence-and-human-nature/) - Here in Europe we are still reeling from the shock of all the EU governments but Spain’s bowing to Trump’s demand of doubling their military expenses. Right away, Pope Leo has spoken about these events with unusual force: How can one continue to betray peoples' desires for peace with the false propaganda of rearmament, in
- [When Animals Pass On: A Rare Gift from Andrew Harvey](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/07/01/when-animals-pass-on-a-rare-gift-from-andrew-harvey/) - Today’s meditation is an unusual gift from my friend and co-worker in the vineyard of spirituality, Andrew Harvey. As I shared in a previous DM, he lost all his books, possessions and beloved cat companion, Jade, in a recent fire. A friend of Andrew’s has a gift of communicating with deceased animals and she reports
- [More Ways to Resist the Billionaire Welfare Bill & Honoring Bill Moyers](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/30/more-ways-to-resist-the-billionaire-welfare-bill-honoring-bill-moyers/) - Saturday, I proposed writing vulnerable congress people to resist the BBB bill. Today I urge you to write or contact bishops and archbishops of your diocese and beyond. Are they marching? Are they visiting ICE centers and demanding to get in to examine the conditions? If not, why not? This is especially important in the
- [Week of 6/23-28/2025: Creativity, Wisdom & Resistance in Challenging Times](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/29/week-of-6-23-28-2025/) - June 23, 2025: Art, Artist & Work in a Time of a Collective Dark NightThe Via Transformativa is all about our work, how we usher the spirit into the world. It's about our vocation, our calling, our purpose. Today we honor, once again, the work of Jennifer Hereth. In her book my brush—my voice is also a
- [Resistance: Help Kill the Billionaire Welfare Bill!](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/28/resistance-what-to-do-help-kill-the-billionaire-welfare-bill/) - People are rightly asking: What can I do to express my resistance to lies, chaos, injustice, violence, evil? How to resist ignorance, cruelty, ignorance, and so-called “christian nationalism”? More than 11 million Americans marched two weeks ago to protest under banners—many of them super creative—and declare “No Kings.” That was a good thing, a worthy
- [Etty Hillesum on Real Men](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/27/etty-hillesum-on-real-men/) - Boys play with soldiers, girls play with dolls. This sentence describes a 19th century state of facts, but also a way of socializing children that goes back a long way, before toy soldiers and dolls. The fact that women are now serving in the military is worsening the situation, not improving it. The deep split
- [Etty Hillesum on Oneness in Hard Times](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/25/etty-hillesum-on-oneness-in-hard-times/) - With the recent attacks on Iran nuclear facilities, the USA has lost any residual credibility on the world scene. Meanwhile, as the world’s eyes are on Iran, the people in Gaza are still being slaughtered every single day, as Pope Leo reminded everybody in his Sunday address. There is enough suffering, wantonness, and sheer display
- [Moral Imagination, Immoral Imagination & An Energy Breakthrough](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/24/moral-imagination-immoral-imagination-an-energy-breakthrough/) - In my recent DMs, I have been praising the power of human creativity—to make the world a better place. The power of the Via Creativa cannot be underestimated for solving problems, healing, building community, celebrating the common good, creating a better democracy and a world that “works for everyone.” And resisting. Imagination as shapeshifting: "The Eagle and
- [Art, Artist & Work in a Time of a Collective Dark Night](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/23/art-artist-work-in-a-time-of-a-collective-dark-night/) - In Saturday’s DM, we meditated on the role of the artist in naming our deepest concerns. We invoked the poetry of W. H. Auden writing about refugees on the cusp of WWII, and shared paintings by Jennifer Hereth naming the plight of refugees in 2025. Included in Jennifer’s most recent book called my brush—my voice is
- [Week of 6/16-21/2025: Exploring Masculinity, Walt Whitman, & Refugees](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/22/week-of-6-16-21-2025/) - Please note: These Daily Meditations will be written by Matthew Fox (MF) on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Saturdays; and Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG) will write those on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Matthew will continue to offer a video teaching each Monday. June 16, 2025: Report From the “Healthy Masculinity” Summit Gathering (MF)At this summit, which featured Matthew,
- [W. H. Auden, Jennifer Hereth on Refugees & Fascism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/21/w-h-auden-jennifer-hereth-on-refugees-fascism/) - The following poem was composed by W. H. Auden during the disturbing goings-on in 1939, when Europe was exploding with fascist fervor and democracies were busy making accommodation instead of standing up for humanitarian principles such as the rights of refugees for dignity and shelter. Accompanying the poem are paintings by Jennifer Hereth, a friend
- [The Male Toddler Archetype](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/18/the-male-toddler-archetype/) - My brain is buzzing with ideas about what it means right now to be a man. No doubt, the buzzing is due to the wealth of input that Matthew has given us in his recent DMs on this topic, but also by the very fact that dealing with masculinities means to get one step deeper
- [Making Evil Conscious](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/20/making-evil-conscious/) - Patriarchy as a social system spread all over human cultures is at least 4,000 years old. Some scholars date it back even further. This information alone shows the depth of the issue and the enormity of the problem that radical feminism has revealed and has been tackling for decades. But, indeed, what are a few
- [Report From the “Healthy Masculinity” Summit Gathering](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/16/report-from-the-healthy-masculinity-summit-gathering/) - I reported in Saturday’s DM that I had participated in a “Healthy Masculinity” Summit on Friday. My participation consisted of a talk entitled “What is Healthy Masculinity?” followed by a panel with four other presenters whose names were John Lee, Daniel Ellenberg, Bryan Reeves and Mikey Brackett. Steve Stein was the sponsor of the entire conference
- [Celebrating Father’s Day Tomorrow & No Kings Day Today](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/14/celebrating-fathers-day-tomorrow-no-kings-day-today/) - This weekend feels sort of packed with issues of healthy/unhealthy fathering and masculinity. On Friday I was part of a 1-day conference on “Healthy Masculinity.” And Saturday the White House occupant is celebrating his birthday, having called for a military parade down the streets of Washington D.C. to do him the honors. We are all
- [Stability and Empathy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/12/stability-and-empathy/) - Two days ago we read what Matthew’s niece wrote to him: “To me, liberty and justice for all has to mean that people get to live with dignity, hope, and with some kind of stability.” This is a good summary of American democracy. It is not advocating for socialism or redistribution of all wealth. It
- [Week of 6/9-14/2025: Chaos, the Constitution, and Change](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/15/week-of-6-9-14-2025/) - Please note: This is a reminder that Matthew will be writing the Daily Meditations for Mondays, Tuesdays, and Saturdays; and Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG) will be writing those published on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Matthew will continue to offer a video teaching each Monday. June 9, 2025: Thank You, Walter Brueggemann! (MF)Matthew shares the news of
- [The Power of Words](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/13/the-power-of-words/) - Although we need to look the truth straight in her eyes, which today means facing evil, and although building shelters made of pleasant lies won’t serve any good purpose, it remains true that words create reality. This has been known since very ancient times. The capacity of symbolization through sounds has especially been developed by
- [Chaos, Cruelty, and Education](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/11/chaos-cruelty-and-education/) - At the time of my writing this DM we don’t know if the “Big Immoral Bill” — as Matthew called it — received a passing vote in the Senate of the United States. In any case, it is immoral for many reasons, including the attempt to sneak in provisions that would shelter the federal government
- [A Report From the Front Line re the Upcoming Senate Budget Bill](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/10/a-report-from-the-front-line-re-the-upcoming-senate-budget-bill/) - A Big Immoral Budget Bill sits before the Senate. A niece of mine with a PhD as a nurse practitioner sent this report recently from the front lines that I think is important for all to consider and act upon in the context of the upcoming Senate vote. For the past four months, I have
- [Thank You, Walter Brueggemann!](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/09/thank-you-walter-brueggemann/) - Yesterday I learned of the death of theologian Walter Brueggemann at the age of 92. Like many theologians of my generation and beyond, I was deeply influenced by him—his work is central to mine in creation spirituality. In fact, I just counted 11 times that I cited him in my Original Blessing book alone. Immediately
- [Rising from the Ashes of Severe Loss: A Current Story from Andrew Harvey](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/07/rising-from-the-ashes-of-severe-loss-a-current-story-from-andrew-harvey/) - I want to bring attention to the readers of these Daily Meditations that a tragedy has befallen my friend, and a friend of many of yours, this past month. Andrew Harvey, mystic par excellence and spiritual warrior in his own right who has awakened so many to their deepest selves, underwent a Via Negativa of
- [Week of 6/2-7/2025: Dualism, Evil, and Rising from the Ashes](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/08/week-of-6-2-7-2025/) - Greetings, dear readers. This week marks a new beginning. From now on, the daily meditations will be shared equally between Matthew Fox and Gianluigi Gugliermetto. Matthew will write the meditations for Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday (and will continue to offer a video each Monday) and GG will write the meditations for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
- [The American Chasm](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/06/the-american-chasm/) - I have often encountered good people in America who fight for justice and are suffering, more than ever, from the chasm existing today between them and those who support the current POTUS. Such suffering is real and must be respected. More than that, I believe it must be investigated. It is, after all, a kind
- [The American Empire and Spirituality](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/05/the-american-empire-and-spirituality/) - I lived in the United States for about 20 years. On my encounter with America I did not realize immediately how deep is the intertwining of society with the military industrial complex. Only after some time I started to observe that every person I knew was implicated directly or indirectly with the military. In church,
- [Overcoming Dualism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/04/overcoming-dualism/) - One of the most important things that I learned from Matthew Fox is that spiritual growth, that is, real human growth, is realized through the overcoming of dualisms. I would dare to say that it can be (individually) measured thus, meaning that one can look back over one’s life and observe which dualisms held a
- [St. Hildegard on Senator Ernst’s & MAGA’s “Big, Beautiful Budget”](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/03/st-hildegard-on-senator-ernsts-magas-big-beautiful-budget/) - Today’s America, a little like Alice in Wonderland, seems to be getting “crazier and crazier” the further we descend into the rabbit hole. Last week, a sitting senator from Iowa, a state I attended school in for five years of my life and was ordained in, held a town hall with her constituents. When told by
- [Matthew's Return](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/06/02/matthews-return/) - I am back. Deep thanks to our DM team including: Phila Hoopes, Cynthia Greb, Rosanna Tufts, Dennis Edwards and Ellen Kennedy for keeping things going splendidly in my five-week absence. It was a bit complicated coordinating with very different time zones (Italy vs East Coast) and the rest, but they assured me things ran smoothly. And of course
- [Thomas Merton, a Humorous Saint](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/31/thomas-merton-a-humorous-saint/) - Working on Merton and the four paths of Creation Spirituality during the whole week, I realized in a new way how accomplished he was. While in my experience most people excel in one or two of the four paths, Merton seems to have mastered them all. His complete immersion in the blessings of creation around
- [Merton and the Via Transformativa](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/30/merton-and-the-via-transformativa/) - During his lifetime, the social and political writings of Thomas Merton caused a ruckus in the Catholic Church and in public opinion at large. No Catholic theologian, and especially not a monk, was supposed to be as explicit as Merton was in his denunciation of racism and his support of the social rights movement, so
- [Merton and the Via Positiva](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/27/merton-and-the-via-positiva/) - “Contemplation is the highest expression of man’s intellectual and spiritual life. It is that life itself, fully awake, fully active, fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is gratitude for life, for awareness and being.” Merton’s definition of “contemplation” is
- [“The deepest ground of my being is love”](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/26/the-deepest-ground-of-my-being-is-love/) - Thomas Merton was a Roman Catholic monk and writer who died rather young in 1968, in suspicious circumstances. He was in Bangkok, Thailand, at that time, teaching a class to the superiors of RC religious orders of Asia, male and female. He was engaged in a deep dialogue with Buddhists, he fiercely opposed the Vietnam
- [Merton and the Via Negativa](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/28/merton-and-the-via-negativa/) - “To each of us there is a point of nowhereness in the middle of movement, a point of nothingness in the midst of being: the incomparable point, not to be discovered by insight.” As a student of Meister Eckhart and D.T. Suzuki, Thomas Merton was very aware of the teachings about emptiness and void both
- [Week of 5/19-24/2025: Exploring the Chakras & 7 Sins](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/25/week-of-5-19-24-2025/) - Please note, last week's daily meditations were written by Gianluigi Gugliermetto. GG, as he is often called, is a colleague and friend of Matthew Fox's, and will be writing the DMs while Matthew is finishing the writing of his next book. Please also note that any italicized quotations, unless otherwise noted, are attributed to Matthew.
- [Fighting the Dragon at the Time of the Black Jaguar](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/24/fighting-the-dragon-at-the-time-of-the-black-jaguar/) - In the Preface that he wrote ten years ago to the revised edition of Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh, Matthew makes reference to an ancient Andean teaching regarding the time of Black Jaguar,” which is the same to him as the dark night of our species. Quoting Arkan Lushwala, he describes such
- [Personal and Political](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/23/personal-and-political/) - 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 the same time. Each of the habits that we have considered affect both our individual lives and the political bodies of which we are members. It is quite obvious that
- [Envy vs. Community](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/22/envy-vs-community/) - 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 Matthew Fox’s revision of the seven capital sins of the Catholic tradition in his book Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh, after greed, the shadow of the compassionate
- [Rationalism and Reductionism vs. Intuition and Creativity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/21/56375/) - The sixth chakra concerns our “third eye,” intuition, and the bringing together of our left and right hemisphere of the brain in creativity. This is, of course, a description of when things work out well. The opposite situation, i.e. the illness of the soul that must be overcome to reach such optimal balance, is brought
- [Gluttony and Consumerism vs. Speaking Truth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/20/gluttony-and-consumerism-vs-speaking-truth/) - 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 “gula” meaning indeed “throat.” While in the Catholic tradition this sin simply indicates an excessive consumption of food, in Matthew Fox’s revisitation it extends to all sorts of excessive consumption,
- [Greed vs. Compassion](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/19/greed-vs-compassion/) - In the middle chakra, the energies of the other chakras converge. This notion is not peculiar to Matthew Fox, nor is the idea that the fourth chakra, the chakra of the heart, is connected to compassion. What is specific to him is the pairing of the heart chakra of the Indian tradition with the capital
- [Week of 5/12-17/2025: Pope Leo, the Seven Chakras, & the Motherhood of God](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/18/week-of-5-12-17-2025/) - Note: As Matthew Fox works to complete his next book, our Daily Meditations continue to be penned by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (aka GG), a friend and colleague of Matthew's. May 12, 2025: Letter of Humanity to Welcome Brother LeoGG sends an open letter to Pope Leo, welcoming him to the community of all who seek justice
- [The Motherhood of God and the Power of Compassion](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/16/the-motherhood-of-god-and-the-power-of-compassion/) - Following is an excerpt from Matthew Fox’s homily on Mother’s Day at Unity Inspired Living church, Brentwood, CA. For the whole talk, see LINK. Julian of Norwich, a 14th-century mystic who lived at the time of the Great Plague (which killed more than one third of the people in Europe) wrote extensively about the Motherhood of
- [Anger and Violence vs. Empowerment](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/17/anger-and-violence-vs-empowerment/) - 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. Indeed, anger is the first level of grief. Anger, motivated by love, moves us to act heartily and to persevere in our intentions. These words by Matthew Fox encompass very
- [Control and Addiction vs. Healthy Relationships](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/15/control-and-addiction-vs-healthy-relationships/) - 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 connects it, quite obviously, to the second chakra, which is where sexual energy concentrates. Matthew finds a good side to lust as well as a bad side, which is best
- [Acedia and Arrogance vs. Cosmological Approach](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/14/acedia-and-arrogance-vs-cosmological-approach/) - 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 moral response, but represents its breeding ground. In our privatized world, acedia is rarely seen as a sin/vice because what you do with your time is your own deal, after
- [Changing the Habits of the Mind](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/13/changing-the-habits-of-the-mind/) - 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 save us — including the election of a new pope. So after looking at holiness and evil last week, I have decided to look even more deeply into the roots
- [Acedia, Energy Loss, and Zealotry](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2021/09/02/acedia-energy-loss-and-zealotry/) - The first chakra is the beginning of all the chakras – it is where the fire, the seed, the snake lie coiled up and ready for action. If that fire, seed, or snake is not uncoiled, no energy happens. We are listless. Acedia is the first of the sins of the spirit because it is
- [Letter of Humanity to Welcome Brother Leo](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/12/letter-of-humanity-to-welcome-brother-leo/) - Dear brother Leo, welcome!You are one of us, a man in flesh and blood so you are entitled to a warm welcome. Just as on the day your mother gave you to the world, and today again because of the task to you entrusted. It must be indeed like a second or third birth to
- [Week of 5/5-10/2025: Holiness and a New Pope](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/11/week-of-5-5-10-2025/) - May 5, 2025: Holiness as Cosmic HospitalitySometimes we might get the impression that humanity is made of very defective individuals, because at some level we expect good people to be perfect. But Matthew explains how the ego quest for perfection is damaging to the individual and to society. He further says: Imperfection is not a sign of
- [Evil and Grief](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/10/evil-and-grief/) - The news of concentration camps being built in Gaza is too hard to stomach. It’s overwhelming. Decency, humanity, the rule of law… all those things that seemingly have kept the modern world together are now being abandoned. We know that we are called to act in all ways possible. But our deep feelings cannot easily
- [We Have a New Pope](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/09/we-have-a-new-pope/) - Two days ago, Gianluigi invited me to return to write a DM when the white smoke rose from the Vatican, and the world had a new pope. So here I am. First, let me thank GG for the fine contributions he is making to the DM. Regarding the new pope, let me say first that, like many
- [Catching The Wave](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/08/catching-the-wave/) - Although “hero,” “ancestor,” and “saint” do not mean exactly the same thing, I have suggested that they are functionally equivalent for us at the present time. All of them, in fact, are models of courage for us as well as strategic resources. Nonetheless, the archetype of the hero includes the notion that the fight against
- [Holy Trailblazers ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/07/holy-trailblazers/) - Stories about people who acted for the good of the whole in peculiarly difficult circumstances, even to the extreme sacrifice, are important for us. They confirm and nurture our path. We can call them heroes, or saints, or ancestors, or whatever we like. I want to underline in this meditation particularly their role as trailblazers,
- [Holiness as Cosmic Hospitality](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/05/holiness-as-cosmic-hospitality/) - Howard Zinn famously said: “Human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives.” Yes, our individual lives are shaped by our choosing values instead of cruelty and greed. We are not able to determine the
- [An Army of Camels](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/06/an-army-of-camels/) - Like many of you, I celebrate the release of Moshen Mahdawi, the Columbia University student, Buddhist peacemaker, born and raised in the West Bank, who was detained by ICE for two weeks. No reason was given for his detention. He committed no crime other than protesting against the genocide perpetrated by the Israeli government, together
- [Week of 4/28-5/3/2025: Denouncing Evil while Maintaining Balance](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/04/week-of-4-28-5-3-2025/) - Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG), who has been graciously subbing for Matthew Fox as he finishes writing his next book, each week writes on a theme. We thought it might be helpful to see his theme and summary of last week's DMs.How we can respond spiritually to the barrage of violence and cruelty that we witness every
- [Empathy and Cosmic Pain](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/03/empathy-and-cosmic-pain/) - I suffer from nostalgia. I yearn for some forgotten time/space niche, perhaps in the distant past, where communication among human tribes was limited. I would not know about distant wars and massacres. My village would be like a little Eden, following the rhythm of the seasons, and evil would basically never appear on the horizon
- [What to Do? A List to Resist Evil](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/01/what-to-do-a-list-to-resist-evil/) - 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 other than actions which, as an aggregate, define evil in a concrete way. But what is the point of knowing evil, you may ask, when so many are already suffering
- [Balance](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/02/balance/) - If I were asked to say in one word what spirituality is all about for me, I would say “balance.” I could also say “justice” or “compassion.” In my spiritual vocabulary these words are synonyms, albeit with different nuances. “Justice” is a bit more abstract, but is basically a matter of equilibrium. “Compassion” is about
- [Courage and Clarity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/30/courage-and-clarity/) - Courage and clarity are indispensible virtues for a time like ours in which everything is confused. A word that pairs well with courage, almost a synonym of it, is magnanimity. Courage bespeaks of fighting. Magnanimity indicates space, largeness. According to Thomas Aquinas, magnanimity is an aspect of courage. Those who are in the fight for
- [Experiencing Dark Times](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/29/experiencing-dark-times/) - Who likes to live in dark times? When the fool rules instead of the wise; when evil is called “good” and good is called “evil;” when the word “truth” is used to spread lies; when fear is all around? But this is what happens when societal bonds break down. The prophetic books in the Bible
- [Denouncing Evil as Prophetic Action](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/28/denouncing-evil-as-prophetic-action/) - Unless our spirituality becomes one with the way of the prophets we fail to have a real spirituality. Matthew Fox has taught incessantly that Creation Spirituality is not just about communing with nature. The creation tradition cannot imagine a spirituality without justice which, in turn, lies as the fulfillment of the need to birth oneself,
- [Week of 4/21-25/2025: Two Announcements & the Power of the Empty Tomb](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/27/week-of-4-21-25-2025/) - April 21, 2025: Two Announcements for DM ReadersMatthew informs us that he's taking a month off to focus on completing a new book. It's a new interpretation of John of the Cross’s poetry using the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality. John of the Cross wrote about the three paths of purgation, illumination and union as
- [Science and the Cosmic Christ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/26/science-and-the-cosmic-christ/) - Albert Einstein said: “We need a cosmic religion”. He saw his own religious heritage, that of Judaism, as “an ethical code that sanctifies life”. He would be horrified today at the crimes perpetrated by the state of Israel, as many Jews are. He thought that humanity’s aim should be that of “creating a cosmic man”
- [Retrieving the Cosmic Christ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/24/retrieving-the-cosmic-christ/) - Yesterday's Daily Meditation was about the need to emphasize again — or perhaps for the first time in America — the Empty Tomb as a primary Christian symbol. It is striking to me that the Gospel accounts of the Empty Tomb present a very specific detail: the linens in which Jesus’ corpse was bound are
- [ The Empty Tomb and Deep Ecumenism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/25/the-empty-tomb-and-deep-ecumenism/) - Retrieving the Empty Tomb of Jesus as a primary Christian symbol has many facets, including exploring deep ecumenism. Symbolically, the Empty Tomb is identical with the cave, which has an enormous relevance in earth-based spiritualities. When patriarchal cultures — such as Judaism at the time of Jesus — bury the dead in caves, they perform
- [Retrieving the Empty Tomb](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/23/retrieving-the-empty-tomb/) - At a time when Christian Nationalism is rampant, we may ask ourselves if Christianity has any resources to counteract it. Indeed it does. It is, for example, the tradition of the Empty Tomb. Many years ago, in his book A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew Fox lamented that Christianity historically placed too much emphasis on the
- [Two Announcements for DM Readers](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/21/two-announcements-for-dm-readers/) - I have two announcements to share, one this Monday morning and one on Tuesday. The first is this. I am going to be taking about a month off from the DM, beginning Wednesday morning (my final DM for this week will be tomorrow, Earth Day). This is so that I can work on a new
- [America Beware: Opus Dei Is Back in the News Again](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/17/america-beware-opus-dei-is-back-in-the-news-again/) - In yesterday’s DM we considered the truly scary crackpot evangelical Christianity that is making headway in the Trumpian world: A so-called Christianity that is defining itself as anti-empathy and anti-compassion in support of the Trump-Vance-Musk commitment to taking a chainsaw to aid to the poor in Africa. And in America, applying the chainsaw and deliberate
- [Two Brilliant Pieces on Passover & Palm Sunday in the “Secular” Press](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/15/two-brilliant-pieces-on-passover-palm-sunday-in-the-secular-press/) - I was thrilled to read two substantive articles on this week’s Passover and Palm Sunday/Holy Week celebrations this morning. Finding one in The New York Times and another in The Contrarian written by Jennifer Rubin who, out of conscience, quit the Washington Post recently, was a pleasant surprise. Both essays dare to question the values underlying faux religion and dangerous politics in
- [Easter 2025: Resurrection of the Body, Body Politic, Mother Earth?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/19/easter-2025-resurrection-of-the-body-body-politic-mother-earth/) - Easter is many things to many people. And to some people it is nothing or next to nothing. Let us meditate today on its potential to contribute to our entire species becoming less afraid of death and more committed to living wisely and fully. And let us meditate on what this might mean to a renewed or
- [Good Friday, 2025](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/18/good-friday-2025/) - Today is Good Friday, a day to meditate on evil and sacrifice and the price good people pay for following their conscience and having one, for following what Jesus called “the will of the Father.” The crucifixion of Jesus is an archetype that speaks to almost everyone—you do not have to be Christian to “get”
- [The War Against Empathy (in the Names of Trump & Christ)](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/16/the-war-against-empathy-in-the-name-of-trump-christ/) - Yesterday we meditated on the essential lesson of Passover: that of empathy. Empathy is the “central message” of the 8-day season of Passover, said Rabbi Jonathan Sacks of the UK. Empathy and compassion lie at the center of Jesus’ teachings as well. “Be compassionate as your Creator in heaven is compassionate” summarizes his life and teaching and
- [Rabbi Heschel & Hildegard of Bingen on Dark Nights & Holiness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/14/rabbi-heschel-hildegard-of-bingen-on-dark-nights-holiness/) - These days of the Dark Night of soul, society and our species, I find myself returning frequently to the wisdom of the mystics who dare to speak of the dark night, as well of the ecstasies of life and God and our souls. Of the Sacred or Holy as well as Evil. Rabbi Heschel is such
- [Week of 4/6-12/2025: The Evils of Musk & Justice Roberts vs. the People Rising in Resistance](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/13/week-of-4-6-12-2025/) - April 6, 2025: Protests Galore: Hundreds of Thousands Turn Out Around the Country*On Saturday, there were more than 1300 "Hands Off!" protests held around the country, in cities and towns big and small. In addition to the huge turnout, many protesters reported lots of honks of support from passing motorists, which fueled the excitement of
- [The Good News in Hildegard’s Paintings of Evil](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/12/the-good-news-in-hildegards-paintings-of-evil/) - I promised in yesterday’s DM that Hildegard was offering us good news along with the bad as she paints her picture of Evil and Satan at work in the world. The good news is this: In the same painting in which Hildegard paints Satan with his “poisonous arrows in his mouth,” she also paints him
- [The Moral Stench from the Trump/Musk Regime Spreads](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/11/the-moral-stench-from-the-trump-musk-regime-spreads/) - Like many in America and around the world today, I feel the darkness that is the regime of Donald Trump and Elon Musk spreading around the world like a poison fog. It is not unlike Hildegard’s painting of Satan with “poisoned arrows in his mouth” who sends a “very evil flame” and “poison” into the
- [The Ideology Behind Musk, DOGE & “Death Sentence for Millions”](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/10/the-philosophy-behind-musk-doge-death-sentence-for-millions/) - In yesterday’s DM, we learned that one of our current co-occupants of the White House is the grandson of a pro-apartheid activist from South Africa, while we already know that the other is a son of a father active in the KKK. Character matters and values matter in those who work in government and run
- [What Is Driving Elon Musk (& co-president Donald Trump)?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/09/what-is-driving-elon-musk-co-president-donald-trump/) - An important article published Monday in the New York Times deserves our attention. Titled “The Failed Ideas That Drive Elon Musk,” it helps explain some of the ideology behind DOGE and the current administration’s chainsaw attitude toward government programs such as Social Security, Medicaid and the rest. The author, Jill Lepore, professor of history and law at Harvard,
- [Simplistic Pollsters Asking about Impeaching Justice Roberts](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/08/simplistic-pollsters-asking-about-impeaching-justice-roberts/) - Recently I was asked by a Democratic pollster if I agreed with the MAGA crowd that Chief Justice John Roberts should be impeached for criticizing the White House occupant for calling for impeachments of judges who disagree with him. They gave me a Yes box or a No box to mark my response. I responded that
- [Protests Galore: Hundreds of Thousands Turn Out Around the Country](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/07/protests-galore-hundreds-of-thousands-turn-out-around-the-country/) - Small towns, large cities, courthouses, Tesla dealerships, community centers, the national mall, countless signs invoking values and imaginative opposition to the current administration! America voiced its opposition to the current MAGA administration at Saturday’s “Women’s March” and “Hands Off” events in over 1300 different actions. One participant wrote me this letter: Matthew, I hope you report
- [Week of 3/31-4/5/2025: Positive Masculinity, the Power of Art & Some Good News](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/06/week-of-3-31-4-5-2025/) - March 31, 2025: More Artists on Evil: An Opera on the Anti-Christ Playing in BerlinMatthew tells us that art helps us find a language for what is going on in the world today. And then, a friend sent Matthew an email about an opera being performed in Berlin right now called "Anti-Krist," or Anti-Christ. In
- [Positive Masculinity for Young Men on TikTok](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/05/for-young-men-providing-positive-masculinity-on-tiktok/) - In yesterday’s DM, I told the story of a professor of education at Colby College who is encouraging his male students to come up with stories of healthy masculinity via skits on TikTok.* Of course I want to encourage such efforts. I ended that DM with a brief listing of the healthy masculine archetypes (applicable to
- [Challenging Unhealthy Masculinity & a Cult of Toughness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/04/challenging-unhealthy-masculinity-a-cult-of-toughness/) - One of the most important issues of our day is the funk that many young men find themselves in. Studies show that it was the shift toward Trump among young men—black, Latino and white--that got him elected this past November. Gender rates of college students have shifted dramatically in the last few years where the current numbers
- [A Good Day For Democracy, Bad for Mad Hatter & His Boss](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/03/a-good-day-for-democracy-bad-for-mad-hatter-his-boss/) - Yesterday marked a positive moment for rescuing American democracy from the cynicism and greed of the richest man in the world and the wannabe-dictator who hired him to replace American democracy with a government of billionaires, by billionaires and for billionaires. In a previous DM I call Mr. Musk a “mad hatter” for good reason. Whether
- [The Power of Art to Melt Hearts, Minds, & Icy Politics](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/02/a-story-of-the-power-of-art-to-melt-hearts-minds-icy-politics/) - We have been meditating on turning to art to speak an alternative language in a time of Evil. We have considered the brilliant satire of Patrice Mersault who brings in the archetype of the antichrist and demons; the paintings of Hildegard of Bingen and Luca Signorelli who do the same; an opera written in the
- [From Empire Consciousness to Earth Consciousness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2022/09/23/from-empire-consciousness-to-earth-consciousness/) - The word “empire” has been in the air of late ever since Queen Elizabeth II died, perhaps. And it has been in our daily meditations as I introduced the term “Age of Reckoning” to summarize much that is transpiring in our time: From the truths of Black Lives Matter to the taking down of confederacy
- [Michael Moore Invites You to a Contest: Painting  The Donald](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/01/michael-moore-invites-you-to-a-painting-contest-of-the-donald/) - Have you been feeling just a little moral outrage lately about the current goings-on by he new regime in Washington D.C.? Lately, I have been pushing art and satire as one great way to name Evil, shed light on Evil, and laugh at Evil. (The demonic, I learned years ago, lacks any sense of humor.) Of course,
- [More Artists on Evil: An Opera on the Anti-Christ Playing in Berlin](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/31/more-artists-on-evil-an-opera-on-the-anti-christ-playing-in-berlin/) - In Saturday’s DM, I emphasized how Evil is often best spoken of by artists. (Hildegard and Luca Signorelli being integral to my most recent book on the subject and Mersault’s brilliant satire has been upfront in recent DM’s.) Lo and behold! A friend sent me an email recently with the post "a rare performance in Berlin of
- [Week of 3/24-29/2025: The Annunciation, Good vs. Evil, and Art](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/30/week-of-3-24-29-2025/) - March 24, 2025: Good News in the Midst of Evil News: The Feast of the AnnunciationThe mystics call this a time of the “Dark Night of the Soul,” which Rabbi Heschel changed to the “Dark Night of Society.” Matthew suggests we call it the “Dark Night of our Species.” The story of the annunciation, at its
- [Annunciation 2025: A Metaphor for Spirit Birthing Creative Resistance](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/25/annunciation-2025-a-metaphor-for-spirit-birthing-creative-resistance/) - In yesterday’s DM, which included paintings from over the centuries, we meditated on today’s feast day. The Annunciation story has clearly inspired many artists over the years. I share with you today a brand-new painting of the Annunciation, by Javier Garcia Lemus, who came to San Francisco from El Salvador in his young twenties and now
- [Talking about Evil](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/29/talking-about-evil/) - Yesterday I brought to your attention two brilliant pieces of writing by Patrice Mersault about dealing with the devil. Here are a few more insights from that document: The writer addresses the “Prince of Darkness” telling him how “a mortal man walks among us whose actions and rhetoric bear an uncanny resemblance to your legendary portfolio. That
- [Angels, Demons, and News of Our Time](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/28/angels-demons-and-news-of-our-time/) - It seems that angels and demons are in the news this week. Two amazing Substack posts came my way that speak brilliantly of the evil of our time with depth and humor and appropriate satire. The two pieces are titled "My Debate with Satan: Is Trump Your Masterpiece, or Your Replacement?" and “My Debate With Satan,
- [The 4 Paths As Spiritual Practices For Hard Times](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/27/the-4-paths-as-spiritual-practices-for-hard-times/) - The Four Paths of Creation Spirituality are themselves spiritual practices that lead to bringing compassion into the world. Not compassion understood as pity or handing crumbs from a table, but compassion understood as playing out the habit of the universe we call “interdependence.” As Meister Eckhart put it, “what happens to another, whether it be a
- [The Annunciation: One Artist’s Take on the Times We Live In](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/26/the-annunciation-one-artists-take-on-the-times-we-live-in/) - Yesterday I invited you to meditate on this new painting of the annunciation by Javier Garcia Lemus, an artist from El Salvador who came to California since leaving home during the war that murdered Archbishop Romero in his homeland some 45 years ago. Recently I interviewed him about his painting, which is 98% finished, and
- [Julian on Living through Wellness and Woe](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2021/01/16/julian-on-living-through-wellness-and-woe/) - Julian of Norwich tells us that in life we “experience a wondrous mixture of well and woe” and that “this mingling of both well and distress in us is so astonishing that we can hardly tell which state we or our neighbor are in—that’s how astonishing it is!” The last ten days have been deep
- [Good News in the Midst of Evil News: The Feast of the Annunciation](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/24/good-news-in-the-midst-of-evil-news-the-feast-of-the-annunciation/) - We are all feeling the direness of our times, times of crazy and cruel and immoral wars in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan. Times of a crazy and vile war against our common Mother Earth who is reeling under the weight of climate change, while politicians sell their souls to fossil fuel companies and deny matricide is
- [Week of 3/17-22/2025: Celtic Wisdom, "I Am" Poems, & Democracy at Risk](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/23/week-of-3-17-22-2025/) - March 17, 2025: St. Patrick’s Day 2025: Gifts From the Celtic TraditionIn this time of darkness, Celtic spirituality can be a balm to the soul. Matthew explores two great books by Scottish theologian John Philip Newell: Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul and The Great Search. Celtic spirituality does not begin with original sin or put down women or denigrate
- [Trumpet Sounds, Five Alarm Shouts, of What Is Happening NOW in the U.S.](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/22/trumpet-sounds-five-alarm-shouts-of-what-is-happening-now-in-the-us/) - I share here a litany of warning signs of what is transpiring in America now. I tried to warn people about the presence of the antichrist energy before the election in my book, Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ. Both the religious and secular press was afraid to look at it or review it. It was apparently too hot
- [“I Am” Prayers From Aboriginal Poets of Australia](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/21/i-am-prayers-i-am-prayers-from-aboriginal-poets-of-australia/) - In a time of evil and antichrist energy active in MAGA in the highest places of our land, it is good to resist, and to resist from a place of strength. This is spiritual warriorhood. One way to resist the antichrist and its energies is to identify evil for what it is. “Do you create or do
- [More “I AM” Prayers from the East and from Hildegard & Julian](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/20/more-i-am-prayers-from-the-east-and-from-hildegard-julian/) - We have been meditating this week on the “I am” sayings of Celtic prayer and poetry as well as those of the Christ in John’s gospel in order to build up the spiritual warrior in each of us as a godless fascism assaults our country daily on many fronts. The “I am” motif is found in
- [The Bad News Continues and The Good News Stirs](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/19/the-bad-news-continues-and-the-good-news-stirs/) - The Bad News continues. Non-stop it seems. Each day brings an onslaught against anything resembling healthy democracy. More insults to our allies, whether Canada, Mexico, or Europe. Attacks on the free press. The world’s richest man saying no one has died by his closing of USAID when in fact children are dying from not getting their AIDS medicine and
- [Staying Strong: The “I Am” Poems of Ireland & the Gospels](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/18/staying-strong-the-i-am-poems-of-ireland-the-gospels/) - In yesterday’s DM, we celebrated St. Patrick’s feast day by meditating on a new translation from John Philip Newell of a poem attributed to him and by demonstrating how creation-centered the Celtic spirituality is. (Jansenism, exported from France in the 17th century to Ireland, and based on Augustine’s abusive dualism, poisoned Irish spirituality for centuries with
- [St. Patrick’s Day 2025: Gifts From the Celtic Tradition](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/17/st-patricks-day-2025-gifts-from-the-celtic-tradition/) - Happy St. Patrick’s Day! In a time of darkness and elevation once again of might over right, a return to Celtic spirituality can be a welcome thing. Scottish theologian John Philip Newell has been doing an excellent job of rediscovering the essence of Celtic Christianity, as in his two most recent books, Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul
- [Week of 3/10-15/2025: Corruption & Christian Nationalism vs. the Common Good](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/16/week-of-3-10-15-2025/) - March 10, 2025: Senator Blows Whistle on Putin-Like Corruption in First Weeks of New AdministrationSenator Chris Murphy, in a recent speech on the Senate floor, names several blatant examples of corruption committed by Trump in his first six weeks. He compares it to what has become normalized in Russia under Putin. Here are a few
- [“Christian Nationalism”—and Its Opposite: Join Me Saturday Morning](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/15/christian-nationalism-and-its-opposite-join-me-saturday-morning/) - In yesterday’s DM, I shared the very disturbing news about young MAGA followers who declared “Christian nationalism as a good alternative” to American democracy. Actually, there is nothing “Christian” in the authentic sense of that word about so-called “Christian nationalism.” Selling hatred is not in any way what Jesus was about. It is true that Christian history
- [The Common Good, not Greed, as the Root of Government](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/12/the-common-good-not-greed-as-the-root-of-government/) - In the midst of crazy goings-on in our politics and government, led by a mad wannabe king and his sidekick Mad Hatter (MAGA hat of course), it is good to return to basics. Let us talk and pray about the common good. The basics of society are not greed--even though greed plays big in the mindset
- [MAGA vs. the Common Good: An Amazingly Synchronistic Moment](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/14/maga-vs-the-common-good-an-amazingly-synchronistic-moment/) - Our last two daily meditations have been devoted to Thomas Aquinas’s powerful and substantive teachings on the common good. He is given credit after all to bringing that concept, first articulated by Aristotle, into western consciousness and jurisprudence. I find great meaning and even solace in his teachings at this time of chaos and rupture in western
- [Aquinas on Justice, the Cosmos, the Common Good & the Rich](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/13/aquinas-on-justice-the-cosmos-the-common-good-the-rich/) - Aquinas looks to the entire universe for its habits that humans can emulate. He teaches that all of nature follows a love of the whole, the common good therefore. Even stones follow that rule. Each part of creation naturally loves the common good of the whole more than its own particular good. This is evidenced by its operation,
- [Archetypes of the “Trickster” & the “Antichrist” in this Historical Moment](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/11/archetypes-of-the-trickster-the-antichrist-in-this-historical-moment/) - Tonight, Tuesday, is the second round of our gathering called “From Darkness to Dawn” consisting of four “conversations” with host Cameron Trimble, myself, and four notable spiritual teachers and activists. The title acknowledges what many are going through this critical moment of history when we recognize how Project 2025, called a “blueprint for fascism,” is being applied
- [Senator Blows Whistle on Putin-Like Corruption in First Weeks of New Administration](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/10/senator-blows-whistle-on-putin-like-corruption-in-first-weeks-of-new-administration/) - Astounding levels of corruption comparable to those of President Putin, have happened in the first six weeks of President Trump’s time in office, says Senator Chris Murphy. In a recent speech on the Senate floor, he names a number of blatant examples and closes with an appeal that the entire senate do something about it.
- [Week of 3/3-8/2025: Moral Outrage & Fasting from Billionaires](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/09/week-of-3-3-8-2025/) - March 3, 2025: Anti-Christ Strikes Again: Putin, Trump, Vance vs. ZelenskyyIn light of what's going on in the current regime in Washington, use of the word anti-christ feels more appropriate than ever. The label was further concretized when we witnessed the spectacle in the Oval Office as the president and vice-president verbally attacked a man
- [Further Fasts For Lent, 2025](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/08/further-fasts-for-lent-2025/) - In yesterday’s DM we reflected on the current Lenten season and shared two variations on Ash Wednesday practices including the practice of what to give up for Lent. This is the season to heed the prophet Isaiah: "Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the straps of
- [Lent Reconsidered: Stardust vs Ashes, Fasting From Billionaires](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/07/lent-reconsidered-stardust-vs-ashes-fasting-from-billionaires/) - We are now in the first days of Lent. As I write this, yesterday was Ash Wednesday when traditionally many Christians receive a cross made of ashes on their foreheads to remind them that “thou art dust and into dust thou shalt return.” I received an e-mail, however, that reminded me that today’s new cosmology offers
- [A Thank You to Rev. Dorsey Blake, Carrier of the Legacy of Howard Thurman](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/06/a-thank-you-to-rev-dorsey-blake-carrier-of-the-legacy-of-howard-thurman/) - My friend and colleague, the Reverend Dorsey Blake, who was vice president of the University of Creation Spirituality from its beginning to its closing, died this week. He was pastor at Howard Thurman’s Church of the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco for 31 years. That church was the first consciously interfaith and interracial church
- [Lech Wałęsa Writes Trump about the “Horror” of His Attack on Zelenskyy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/05/lech-walesa-writes-trump-about-the-horror-of-his-attack-on-zelenskyy/) - Lech Wałęsa, Nobel Peace Prize winner, first democratically elected president of Poland and called “hero of Poland’s democracy,” sent a scathing letter to the President of the United States yesterday. It was signed by 38 other “former political prisoners of the communist regime serving Soviet Russia.” It was their response to the “horror” they felt watching Trump’s
- [Aquinas on Oligarchy, Democracy & American Politics Today](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/04/aquinas-on-oligarchy-democracy-american-politics-today/) - In light of the Friday ambush staged by the current occupant of the White House and his henchman against Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, I invite you to meditate on Aquinas’ wisdom set forth up front on page ix of my recent book on Christ and antichrist. It strikes me as amazingly prescient. Aquinas’
- [Anti-Christ Strikes Again: Putin, Trump, Vance vs. Zelenskyy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/03/anti-christ-strikes-again-putin-trump-vance-vs-zelenskyy/) - I don’t want to say “I told you so,” but many people are contacting me saying that it really works for them to employ the term “antichrist” in light of the goings-on in the MAGA regime currently. Cutting one trillion dollars from the budget dedicated to children’s poverty and old people (Medicaid) and food stamps
- [Week of 2/24-3/1/2025: Antidotes to Greed, Madness & Chaos](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/02/week-of-2-24-3-1-2025/) - February 24, 2025: Elon Musk: The Mad King’s Mad Hatter?If Trump is a mad king, then his co-conspirator seems to fill the role of mad hatter. In many adaptations of Alice in Wonderland, the hatter is the male lead despite being a supporting character. This seems to parallel Musk’s current role in the White House. Musk, of course,
- [How To Stand Up to a Mad King & His Mad Hatter](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/25/how-to-stand-up-to-a-mad-king-his-mad-hatter/) - In Saturday’s and Monday’s DMs, we meditated on whether a particular wannabe king is a Mad King and whether his co-president is a kind of Mad Hatter. In such circumstances, it is good to resist wisely. What are we resisting? This particular article names seventeen reasons and I recommend it as a worthy summary. To add further
- [Aquinas’s Medicine for Greed--Listen up, y’all!](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/01/aquinass-medicine-for-greed-listen-up-yall/) - In the past two DM’s we have talked about how Greed is behind the current Republican budget that wants to cut over a trillion dollars from the most needy—those needing SNAP (food stamps) and Medicaid (health care), etc. And at the same time add $4.5 trillion to the debt (which will be mostly paid by
- [Hildegard & Aquinas Speak Truth to Power Re: Avarice & Greed](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/28/hildegard-aquinas-speak-truth-to-power-re-avarice-greed/) - The Republican tribe has now passed a budget that cuts $860 billion from Medicaid and $250 billion from SNAP. In other words, that devastates the poorest among us. Why? Primarily because the ruling class—those who own most of the media and legislators and the largest corporations and many supreme court judges--want still more tax breaks. They are committed
- [A Meditation on Greed: Hildegard & Aquinas vs. Trump, Musk & Co.](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/27/a-meditation-on-greed-hildegard-aquinas-vs-trump-musk-co/) - Last night the Republican-led Congress voted to effectively kill Medicaid and food and health care for the poor in order to please billionaires with new tax cuts. In an article entitled “Bernie Sanders Is Sending a Piercing Message About Musk and the Oligarchy,” John Nichols reports from the road on Sanders’ “Fight Oligarchy” tour, a
- [Ways to Ground Oneself in Fierce Times of Apocalypse & Antichrist](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/26/ways-to-ground-oneself-in-fierce-times-of-apocalypse-antichrist/) - It is no secret that we are living in a time of apocalypse and antichrist. Hildegard of Bingen painted such times as an unraveling of order. But also how Christ arrives to challenge Evil and bring peace. Thus, breakthroughs and revelations occur amidst the darkness. “Apocalypse” also means “Revelation.” I reproduce her painting and commentaries on it in
- [Elon Musk: The Mad King’s Mad Hatter?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/24/elon-musk-the-mad-kings-mad-hatter/) - In Saturday’s DM we meditated on the possibility of America being overseen now not by a president, but a king. A Mad king. Is it possible that a Mad king needs a Mad hatter around him? Many of us were exposed to the term “mad hatter” in childhood from the “Alice in Wonderland” adventures of Lewis Carrol’s
- [Week of 2/17-22/2005: Evil vs Courage & Spiritual Warriorhood](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/23/week-of-2-17-22-2005/) - February 17, 2025: Alexei Navalny: More Courage, Sacrifice, Conscience, Spiritual WarriorhoodWe are all called to be both prophets and mystics. The mystic is the lover in us; the prophet is the defender of what one cherishes. The mystic says “Yes” to Life; the prophet says “No” to injustice which is the greatest threat to life, love
- [What If We Had Not Just a King But a Mad King?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/22/what-if-we-had-not-just-a-king-but-a-mad-king/) - Donald T***p recently named himself a king. His cult followers rejoiced and his Republican sycophants kept their usual silence. What if he were not just a king but a MAD king? We know he is mad in the sense of angry and filled with rage and resentment, and it is his rage and resentment that appeals to
- [Governor Pritzker Speaks Truth to All Americans](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/21/governor-pritzker-speaks-truth-to-all-americans/) - Thanks are due to Rachel Maddow who, in opening her show last night, showed clips from Illinois governor JB Pritzker’s state of the state speech yesterday. I reproduce here the closing of his speech which feels to me to be a profound and unvarnished reading of the “signs of our times.” Governor Pritzker is Jewish
- [Imam Muhsin Hendricks & Other Spiritual Warriors Among Us](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/20/imam-muhsin-hendricks-other-spiritual-warriors-among-us/) - Speaking of our “spiritual warriorhood,” another example entered the news this week when the world’s “first openly gay Imam” was shot to death in South Africa. Muhsin Hendricks, 57 years old, ran a mosque in Cape Town as a safe haven for gay and other marginalized Muslims. In a documentary in 2022, when asked about the
- [When Presidents Celebrated the “Advancement of Human Nature”](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/19/when-presidents-celebrated-the-advancement-of-human-nature/) - In a thoughtful essay entitled “A Patriotic Opposition,” William Kristol writes about how “we oppose the current administration not because we’re ashamed of America but because we are proud of America.” He says he was proud of America because at times it was on the side of those fighting for liberty and against dictatorship. But things
- [Evil on the March, Resistance Too?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/18/evil-on-the-march-resistance-too/) - One year after Navalny’s death, authorities in Russia continue to go after people associated with his movement. One article reported, “In the year since Navalny died suddenly aged 47, dozens of Russians are still being arrested, tried and imprisoned for engaging in activities related to him and his memory.” Since his death last year, 695 detentions
- [Alexei Navalny: More Courage, Sacrifice, Conscience, Spiritual Warriorhood](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/17/alexis-navalny-more-courage-sacrifice-conscience-spiritual-warriorhood/) - In Saturday’s DM, entitled “Honoring the Courage of Those Who Sacrifice & Follow Conscience,” we remembered the heroism of Sister Dorothy Stang, US attorney Danielle Sasson, and five other US attorneys who quit their jobs rather than submit to breaking their oaths. (Since that time a sixth US attorney has left his job out of conscience.)
- [Week of February 10-15, 2025: Fighting Back Despair, Honoring Courage](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/16/week-of-february-10-15-2025-fighting-back-despair-honoring-courage/) - February 10: T.S. Eliot on the Mystics as Medicine for Despair “The mystics — or else despair,” said T.S. Eliot. The writings and actions of the mystics (and the mystic inside all of us) bring hope and medicine to combat the despair that tempts us to just give up when faced with oppression too great
- [Love & Justice, J.D. Vance vs. Pope Francis](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/14/love-justice-j-d-vance-vs-pope-francis/) - A criticism has arisen among a few responders to the DM that I should not use the language of “spiritual warriorship” because it has the word “war” in it. To eliminate that word would be to erase a lot of spiritual teaching over the years deriving from indigenous, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian Scriptures and teachings.
- [Honoring the Courage of Those Who Sacrifice & Follow Conscience](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/15/honoring-the-courage-of-those-who-sacrifice-follow-conscience/) - Three days ago, we honored the 20th anniversary of Sister Dorothy Stang’s martyrdom among the peasant farmers living in the rainforest, and committed to defending it against forces of greed that are trying to kill it in order to get rich quick by establishing cattle farms. The peasants, when they buried Sister Dot, said “we
- [On Praying the News in Times of Danger and Darkness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/13/on-praying-the-news-in-times-of-danger-and-darkness/) - The purpose of our daily meditations have been, from the beginning, to assist one another to pray the news. Not just watch the news. Or avoid the news—which is certainly a temptation at this moment in history when there is such an overload of bad news every day. One must protect oneself from too much news and
- [Today: The 20th anniversary of Spiritual Warrior Sr. Dot’s Martyrdom](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/12/today-the-20th-anniversary-of-spiritual-warrior-sr-dots-martyrdom/) - On this day twenty years ago, a 74-year-old white-haired North American woman was gunned down by hired assassins on a dirt road in the jungle of the Amazon. Why? Sister Dorothy Stang was a member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Lamur, whose charism is to work with the poor. For 40 years she doggedly worked
- [Mystics, Lovers, Warriors, Community, Work as Love](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/11/mystics-lovers-warriors-community-work-as-love/) - We are considering the role of the mystic in a time of unraveling of order and therefore a time of despair. And how the mystic lays the groundwork for the spiritual warrior or prophet in all of us. “The prophet is the mystic in action,” observed William Hocking. Yesterday we considered John of the Cross’s poem on
- [T.S. Eliot on the Mystics as Medicine For Despair](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/10/t-s-eliot-on-the-mystics-as-medicine-for-despair/) - There is considerable despair in the air these days. And for obvious reasons that do not need renaming here. T.S. Eliot offered the mystics as medicine for despair when he said, “the mystics—or else despair.” Why did he say that? What is he telling us? Clearly he believed that the mystics bring hope. What I mean by that is
- [Week of 2/3-8/2025: The Four Paths & Overcoming Evil](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/09/week-of-2-3-8-2025/) - February 3, 2025: Deepening Our Spiritual Warriorhood with John of the Cross & OthersA reader asked, "How can we sustain ourselves in such trying times?" As we wrestle with our call as mystics, prophets and spiritual warriors, Matthew suggests the Four Paths as a spiritual tool. He cites St. John of the Cross as a
- [Bad Religion’s Role in the Current Coup](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/08/bad-religions-role-in-the-current-coup/) - The fact that Russell Vought, the newly voted-in Director of the OMB, is a fierce Christian Nationalist cannot be underplayed. And that he is a prime architect of Project 2025. Isabela Dias, in a Mother Jones article called “The Bureaucrat Who Could Make Trump’s Authoritarian Dream Real,” cites Vought in a podcast last year telling Heritage President Kevin Roberts,
- [The Four Paths: Practice for the Spiritual Warrior in Us All](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/04/the-four-paths-as-a-training-of-the-spiritual-warrior-in-us-all/) - As the news gets more and more dire about the takeover of American democracy by politicians in bed with billionaires who took advantage of SCOTUS’ Citizen United decision to allow floods of cash into elections, more and more we must call on the spiritual warrior in all of us to stand up and be counted before it
- [The Coup & You & US: Time For Spiritual Warriorhood](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/07/the-coup-you-us-time-for-spiritual-warriorhood/) - Ours is a time for spiritual warriors—that is for sure. Every citizen who gives a damn about honesty and caring in our government and democracy should be on deck contributing what they can to resist and oppose the dismantling of our government that is going on now under our noses. We were warned. But 76 million Americans chose
- [Actions People are Taking to Combat Today’s Purge, Coup & Democracide](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/06/actions-people-are-taking-to-combat-todays-purge-coup-democracide/) - Yesterday I received a response to my DM on “What a President Would Say if He Were the Anti-Christ” and I want to share it here. This is unusual for sure, but so is our situation in America at this moment when a coup is underway in our government—a moment far more incendiary than January
- [If the Anti-Christ Were President, He Might Be Thinking This….](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/05/if-the-anti-christ-were-president-he-might-be-thinking-this/) - I will destroy democracy and replace it with an Autocracy or Oligarchy of billionaires who will be beholden to me. I will give them and the largest corporations they run tax breaks worth trillions of dollars (let others pay for it). I will do it almost overnight after getting elected as the last president of
- [Deepening Our Spiritual Warriorhood with John of the Cross & Others](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/03/deepening-our-spiritual-warriorhood-with-john-of-the-cross-others/) - In Saturday’s DM, responding to a reader’s request for guidance on how to sustain oneself in fierce times, we considered how to sustain the spiritual warrior in oneself by way of community such as OSE. Last week I finished cosmologist Brian Swimme and my seven-week course on “The Four Paths” with the Shift Network. We taught
- [Week of 1/27-3/1/2025: Conscience, Community Support & Self Care](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/02/week-of-1-27-3-1-2025/) - January 27, 2025: Deep Ecumenism, Spiritual Warriorhood & Humankind’s FutureIf one wants to lead a spiritual life, courage is required. Chief Arvol Looking Horse, keeper of the sacred White Buffalo Calf Woman pipe, has this to tell us: Each of us is put here in this time and this place to personally decide the future
- [Sustaining Your Spiritual Warrior in Times of Darkness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/01/sustaining-your-spiritual-warrior-in-times-of-darkness/) - As I opened my email this morning, the following headlines greeted me: “This Will Only Get Worse: Trump’s First 10 Days Have Been Nothing Short of Catastrophic.” “Trump Shocks with Baseless, Outlandish Crash Claim” “Top F.B.I. Officials Are Told to Resign or be Fired” “Conspiracy Theorist Buffoonery” “Sign the Petition to Stand Against the Withdrawal
- [OSE: Community Support in Trying Times](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/31/ose-community-support-in-trying-times/) - Tuesday was a powerful day for me because it was the last Tuesday of the month, so our Order of the Sacred Earth (OSE) met from 4-5 PM PT. Everyone is invited.* (see endnotes for details) This community offers some spiritual grounding in this crazy world of ours, getting ever crazier. OSE is a new spiritual order
- [Democracide on the Move, Rachel Maddow says, "Game On!"](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/30/democracide-on-the-move-rachel-maddow-says-game-on/) - Today we are all being subjected to an onslaught and firehose of rapid-fire decisions being made by a new White House occupant who is governing by executive decrees. It is not just the decrees themselves but the machine-gun-like rapidity of them and the radical nature of them that feels overwhelming. That is part of the strategy—to
- [More Thoughts on Conscience](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/29/more-thoughts-on-conscience/) - In yesterday’s DM, we emphasized the missing conscience of so many congresspeople at this time in history. Conscience that sees beyond one’s desire to keep one’s job and prioritizes values such as the common good ahead of one’s ambitions, salary, party, job, or re-election. It is meaningful that yesterday was the 80th anniversary of the liberation of
- [Politicians Sans Conscience: An American Emergency](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/28/politicians-sans-conscience-an-american-emergency/) - Yesterday we meditated on Deep Ecumenism, Spiritual Warriorhood, and Humankind’s Future and how all of us on earth have been called to stand up and be counted today. This is according to Chief Arvol Looking Horse. And how that takes strength, conscience, and confidence or trust, according to Thomas Aquinas. Speaking of conscience and spiritual warriorhood, I think we have a conscience
- [Deep Ecumenism, Spiritual Warriorhood & Humankind’s Future](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/27/deep-ecumenism-spiritual-warriorhood-humankinds-future/) - In Saturday’s DM we meditated on “Ecumenism, Spiritual Warriorhood, and Common Survival,” and invoked the Episcopal and Roman Catholic bishops of Washington, D.C. finding common ground to speak about important values today. Courage is required for a spiritual life. Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe, speaks to all
- [Week of 1/20-25/2025: The Continued Call for Spiritual Warriors](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/26/week-of-1-20-25-2025/) - January 20, 2025: Speaking of Spiritual Warriors: MLK, Jr. Day, 2025MLK was a powerful example of a spiritual warrior who preached and lived Jesus’ teachings about “loving your neighbor as yourself,” “do this to the least and you do it to me,” and “be you compassionate as your Creator in heaven is compassionate.” True to his
- [Ecumenism, Spiritual Warriorhood, and Common Survival](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/25/ecumenism-spiritual-warriorhood-and-common-survival/) - Beginning with my DM entitled “Dorothy Stang & the Lion Power of a Spiritual Warrior” which occurred on January 14, 2025, we have been playing with the archetype of the “spiritual warrior.” Day by day it seems important to remind ourselves of this theme that is common to all spiritual traditions because we need to be strong
- [Week of 1/13-18/2025: These Times Call for Spiritual Warriorhood](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/19/week-of-1-13-18-2025/) - January 13, 2025: Spiritual Warriorhood, Deep Ecumenism & Battles AheadWe explore Deep Ecumenism because, given the trials and tribulations that humanity is facing, we need the wisdom that Deep Ecumenism can summon. The most important questions is: “If science alone is not enough to rescue our species and Mother Earth, what more is required?” In a
- [Speaking of Spiritual Warriorhood: A Bishop Speaks Truth To Power](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/24/speaking-of-spiritual-warriorhood-a-bishop-speaks-truth-to-power/) - We have been meditating on the need for all of us to be true to our vocations as spiritual warriors or prophets. I have chosen this theme at this dangerous time in American, international, and planetary history because dangerous times call for inner strength—what the Zohar calls the “strength of the lion.” On Tuesday this week,
- [The Demise of the Word “Obviously”](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/23/the-demise-of-the-word-obviously/) - The new White House occupant, on his very first day in office, released all the perpetrators of the insurrection he fanned and encouraged on January 6, 2020. Some 1,500 of them can now return to the streets, towns, and cities of America. This includes those who committed extreme violence that resulted in the killing and suicides
- [Buddhist Teachings on the Spiritual Warrior](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/22/buddhist-teachings-on-the-spiritual-warrior/) - We continue, at this critical time in America’s and the world’s political life and under the urgency of our climate emergency, to search for universal teachings from the world's spiritual traditions. Among these are teachings about spiritual warriorhood. All are called to be spiritual warriors on behalf of justice, compassion, and truth-seeking at critical historical periods
- [Rabbi Heschel & Jesus: All People as Prophets & Spiritual Warriors](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/21/rabbi-heschel-jesus-all-people-as-prophets-spiritual-warriors/) - Yesterday, MLK Jr.’s feast day and holy day, we remembered him as the spiritual warrior he was, and we pray we all develop our call to the same vocation. Yesterday the nation also swore in a new president who, strangely and for the first time in 250 years, has proven himself to be above the
- [Speaking of Spiritual Warriors: MLK, Jr. Day, 2025](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/20/speaking-of-spiritual-warriors-mlk-jr-day-2025/) - Meditating on spiritual warriorhood as we have been doing lately, we now celebrate the national holiday of MLK, Jr. We honor of this courageous and saintly (which does not mean perfect) man who stood up for truth and justice and love and paid the ultimate price. “No greater love has a person than this, to lay
- [Spiritual Warriors All Around Us and Within Us](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/17/spiritual-warriors-all-around-us-and-within-us/) - There are many reasons for meditating on the archetype of the spiritual warrior at this time in history, an archetype found in spiritual traditions the world over. We have called on teachings from the Jewish tradition such as the prophets themselves; and the “lion” invitation in the Zohar. And while we are at it, let us not
- [Spiritual Warrior vs. Soldier](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/15/spiritual-warrior-vs-soldier/) - In the video for last Sunday’s DM, I shared Thomas Berry’s observations about the role of the “warrior” in the indigenous spiritual traditions. I also told the story of a student of mine from the First Peoples of Canada who was a student at the University of Creation Spirituality. He shared his experience of returning from
- [A Report from Rome: The Ceremony for Spiritual Warrior Sr. Dot](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/18/53718/) - Yesterday we meditated on spiritual warriors all among us. I share with you here a report from Tom Stang, brother of Sister Dorothy Stang, who wrote the following on the airplane returning from Rome where he attended the ceremony of his sister being named a contemporary martyr. A special thanks to Tom and his brother David
- [More Instructions on How To Be a Warrior](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/16/more-instructions-on-how-to-be-a-warrior/) - Hafiz elaborates on how a warrior prepares for battle when he instructs us to know ourselves and cleanse our wounds from the past. How would history be different if Trump had treated the wounds he received from his father? Or if Hitler had a way to deal with the wounds from his father who beat him daily?
- [Dorothy Stang & the Lion Power of a Spiritual Warrior](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/14/deep-ecumenism-dorothy-stang-the-spiritual-warrior/) - In yesterday’s DM I promised to develop the archetype of the spiritual warrior whose inner strength is required to speak truth to power and interfere with selfishness, greed, and apathy that play such a role in denial of Climate Change. Let us consider, for example, this teaching from the Zohar, a Jewish medieval mystical work that instructs us:
- [Spiritual Warriorhood, Deep Ecumenism & Battles Ahead](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/13/spiritual-warriorhood-deep-ecumenism-battles-ahead/) - In my book, One River, Many Wells, demonstrating and practicing Deep Ecumenism and published in the year 2000, I laid out 18 themes or principles that I found commonly taught in all world religions. I shared teachings from Scriptures and mystics of the world religions to demonstrate how much they have in common—and how beautifully
- [Week of 1/6-11/2025: Compassion & Spiritual Warriorhood](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/12/week-of-1-6-11-2025/) - January 6, 2024: Further Lessons from the Universe: Interdependence & CompassionWe explore certain "habits" of the universe that expand our souls. First, we look at interconnectivity or interdependence. Compassion is "the moral law" of interconnectivity, the cosmic law of responding to another’s pain and suffering. Hildegard of Bingen said: Everything that is in the heavens on
- [Raging Fires in LA: Are Climate-Denying Politicians Criminals?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/11/raging-fires-in-la-are-climate-denying-politicians-criminals/) - A few days ago I was in a conversation with a Lutheran pastor in Florida and he was saying that the kind of hurricanes that so devastated his state this year will be regular occurrences now. Such events will occur not once every ten years, but annually. That’s how climate change has affected his state. I recall
- [On Becoming a Spiritual Warrior in a Time of Apocalypse](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/10/on-becoming-a-spiritual-warrior-in-a-time-of-apocalypse/) - A spiritual warrior takes care of his or her body and soul in order to be strong. And a spiritual warrior knows what he or she stands for, refines it, and finds allies for the resistance. A spiritual warrior develops “moral imagination” as the powerful resource it is to outwit the reptilian brain that often
- [Politics, Science, Spirituality and Spiritual Warriors](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/09/politics-science-spirituality-and-spiritual-warriors/) - In yesterday’s DM, I made reference to the anniversaries of January 6 and November 5 as being demarcations for our time of political apocalypse and what awaits us come January 20, inauguration day. Having grieved those anniversaries, having dealt with the anger that grief awakens and the sorrow that it brings, many Americans have now
- [Cultural Transformation & The Need for Spiritual Warriors](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/08/cultural-transformation-the-need-for-spiritual-warriors/) - Yesterday, January 6, was a stark anniversary of the precariousness of democracy. As was November 5. Our times call for inner strength and spiritual warriors. All of us are called to be spiritual warriors in our own ways and with our own talents and powers. Artists can be spiritual warriors and journalists can be spiritual warriors, mothers,
- [Creativity & Compassion: More Lessons from the Cosmos](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/07/creativity-compassion-more-lessons-from-the-cosmos/) - In Saturday’s DM, we meditated on the lessons of Extravagance, Generosity, Magnanimity and Expansion that the universe teaches us. And in yesterday’s DM, we meditated on Interdependence and Compassion as habits of the universe that can become incarnated in us. The word for “compassion” in Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic comes from the word for womb or rehem in Hebrew. In calling us
- [Further Lessons from the Universe: Interdependence & Compassion](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/06/further-lessons-from-the-universe-interdependence-compassion/) - In Saturday’s DM, we meditated on the lessons of Extravagance, Generosity, Magnanimity and Expansion that the universe teaches us. Today we want to reflect on a few more important “habits” or “laws” of the universe that translate to our survival as a species, and to our commitment to biophilia, the love of life, that alone
- [Week of 12/30/2024-1/4/2025: Holy Work, Jimmy Carter & Lessons from the Universe for the New Year](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/05/week-of-12-30-2024-1-4-2025/) - December 30, 2024: Holy Work: Critiquing Addictive Social Media, continuedWe continue to reflect on an article written by commentator Thom Hartmann called “Is Social Media This Generation’s Heroin?” He talks about how social media fans the flames of fear and rage. Hartmann reminds us that social media billionaires make huge profits on these tactics. Fear
- [Universe Lessons: Extravagance, Generosity & Expansion](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/04/universe-lessons-extravagance-generosity-expansion/) - In yesterday’s DM, I called for taking lessons from the universe itself to strengthen our souls for the challenges we face as citizens and as guests on this special but endangered planet. Let us consider some of these lessons which in my book, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth, I call “Gifts of
- [A Sense of the Whole and the Holy vs. a Rampaging Oligarchy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/03/a-sense-of-the-whole-and-the-holy-vs-a-rampaging-oligarchy/) - In yesterday’s DM, I asked the question whether the crashing down of so many elements of our “civilization” might suggest we ought to start over by beginning with the cosmos itself. When we lose a sense of the whole, we become lost. That is why peoples the world over consider creation stories as being central to
- [My Number One Wish for Humanity on New Year, 2025](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/01/my-number-one-wish-for-humanity-on-new-year-2025/) - As I write this DM today on New Year’s Eve, I ask myself this question: If I could have one wish for humanity this year, what would it be? I think it would be that we could rediscover our relationship to the cosmos, for it is from that relationship that our generosity, our gratitude, our wonder,
- [A Wish for Humanity in the New Year 2025, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/01/02/a-wish-for-humanity-in-the-new-year-2025-continued/) - We are meditating on our most powerful wish for humanity in this upcoming year, 2025. I named mine in yesterday’s DM this way: “That we could rediscover our relationship to the cosmos.” Why? Because it is from that that our generosity, our gratitude, our wonder, our sense of reverence and of the sacred are rediscovered and energized anew. And
- [Jimmy Carter: Model of Refirement as Holy Work](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/31/jimmy-carter-model-of-refirement-as-holy-work/) - It seems very synchronistic that as we have been meditating on Holy Work exemplified in the work of Lily Yeh as an artist who heals and build community that way, and then on Thom Hartmann, who with other journalists is trying to bring truth into our political discourse, President Jimmy Carter has died. Carter was
- [Holy Work: Critiquing Addictive Social Media, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/30/holy-work-critiquing-addictive-social-media-continued/) - In Saturday’s DM, we meditated on a recent article by Thom Hartmann whose work I admire, as I do that of artist Lily Yeh whom we meditated on in Friday's DM. Both are being true to their vocations to work with “fiery hearts and willing hands,” as the “Our Father-Mother” prayer from the Aramaic Jesus
- [Week of 12/23-28/2024: The Coming of the Light & Spiritual Warriors](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/29/week-of-12-23-28-2024/) - December 23, 2024: Is there One Advent—or Several?The convergence of the winter solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa is a potent time of year. It's a time when we celebrate the coming of the Light. Part of the mystery of existence is the play between the Via Positiva and the Via Negativa, the joy and the
- [Social Media as Heroin?  Thom Hartmann on Today’s Politics of Rage](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/28/social-media-as-heroin-thom-hartmann-on-todays-politics-of-rage/) - Yesterday we meditated on the wonderful work of artist Lily Yeh to organize the oppressed from the bottom up, i.e., beginning with the children, and uplift all of us by way of building community through joint art projects. Beauty unites and beauty heals. Her work was celebrated this month in her TED talk. I linked her vocation
- [Lily Yeh’s Fiery Heart and Willing Hands—and Ours](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/27/lily-yehs-fiery-heart-and-willing-hands-and-ours/) - In this Christmas season, it is good to bring more alive the mystic—that is the lover—in all of us. As well as the spiritual warrior or prophet. Jesus was both surely and he called all of us to our christ-like (or buddha-like or image-of-God-like) possibilities. As we shared in yesterday’s DM, his “Our Father” prayer was literally—based
- [Lily Yeh, Champion of the Vias Creativa & Transformativa, part 1](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2019/10/27/lily-yeh-champion-of-the-vias-creativa-transformativa-part-1/) - Lily Yeh is an artist and community activist who cofounded the “Village of Arts and Humanities” in the inner city of North Philadelphia in 1986. I was honored to host her as a speaker in my Creation Spirituality Master's program. Amid over two hundred abandoned lots, she set up community art places where citizens would
- [Christmas 2024: Jesus’ Prayer Sustaining Stern Warriors](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/26/christmas-2024-jesus-prayer-sustaining-stern-warriors/) - The reading from the Book of Wisdom for Christmas Midnight Mass speaks of the arrival of Christ as the arrival of a “stern warrior” who leapt into a “doomed land.” There are those today who look at the suffering of Mother Earth and the ongoing matricide and the denial of (some) politicians and are feeling
- [Christmas 2024: Our Birth as Immortal Diamonds & Original Blessings](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/25/christmas-2024-our-birth-as-immortal-diamonds-original-blessings/) - We ended yesterday’s DM, that of Christmas Eve, with one of my favorite passages in all of Scripture, one that traditionally was read at Christmas Midnight Mass, and which comes from the Book of Wisdom: When peaceful silence lay over all,and night had run the half of her swift course,down from the heavens, from the
- [Christmas Eve, 2024](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/24/christmas-eve-2024/) - We ended our meditation yesterday with a question about how a greater “sense of the preciousness of life” can be a valuable lesson we learn from loss and grief. Humanity is currently very much on the edge of losing a sense of the preciousness of life insofar as we careen toward a demise of Mother
- [Is there One Advent—or Several?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/23/is-there-one-advent-or-several/) - We have been meditating on the Dark Night of the Soul and Society and our Species because it is Advent and Winter Solstice, a time of darkness in the Northern hemisphere. And because we anticipate a great “Coming of Light” arriving with Hannukah, Christmas and Kwanzaa following on the shift toward greater light that December
- [Week of 12/16-21/2024: Advent, the Dark Night, Celebrations of Light, and Patriarchy on Trial](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/22/week-of-12-16-21-2024-advent-the-dark-night-celebrations-of-light-and-patriarchy-on-trial/) - December 16, 2024: Solstice, Hanukkah, Advent — Great Comings & Certain TensionsAdvent means "Coming," a time of waiting for a great coming. Even before Christians used this time to celebrate the coming of Jesus, indigenous peoples around the world eagerly awaited the turning of the Sun at the Winter Solstice, as evidenced by Stonehenge, Newgrange, and
- [Mechtild of Magdeburg on the Dark Night](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/21/mechtild-of-magdeburg-on-the-dark-night/) - Yesterday we interrupted our meditations on the Dark Night to meditate on the news from Avignon, and aboriginal peoples in Australia, and Washington D.C. about Patriarchy on trial. Today we return to the theme of the Dark Night we find ourselves in. The darkness of the solstice season and of Advent and of global warming and
- [Avignon, Aboriginals, Washington DC: Patriarchy on Trial](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/20/avignon-aboriginals-washington-dc-patriarchy-on-trial/) - Today, December 19, was not a good day for Patriarchy. It is the day 51 men in Avignon, France, were declared guilty of raping Gisèle Pelicot and were sentenced to jail. Her ex-husband, Dominique, was sentenced to the maximum 20 years in jail for organizing regular rape sessions and inviting other men, ranging in ages from
- [Susan Griffin, Eckhart, Gandhi: Lessons from The Dark Night](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/19/susan-griffin-eckhart-gandhi-lessons-from-the-dark-night/) - Susan Griffin says that “Nothingness spreads around us. But in this nothing we find what we did not know existed.”* The Dark Night has much to teach us. Meister Eckhart teaches that the Dark Night increases our sensitivity including our sensitivity to the suffering of others. What is this darkness? What is its name? Call it: an aptitude for
- [How the Dark Night of Society & Earth Meets Advent](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/18/how-the-dark-night-of-society-earth-meets-advent/) - In yesterday’s DM, we meditated on Rilke’s powerful poem about the darkness, the via negativa, that is integral to the season of Advent. It has special meaning today in the political sphere because Climate Change and Global Warming are presenting humanity with a stark reality of profound suffering of Mother Earth. And a president-elect and his
- [Having Faith in Nights—Even Dark Nights](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/17/having-faith-in-nights-even-dark-nights/) - This season of the return of Light (solstice) and the miracle of Light (Hanukkah) and the announcement of angels of doxa or glory and the birth of Christ incarnated (Christmas) and birthing community based on principles that are light-filled (Kwanzaa) promises a certain enlightenment to humanity for sure. And the prelude to that arrival of enlightenment is an honoring of
- [Solstice, Hanukkah, Advent—Great Comings & Certain Tensions](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/16/solstice-hannukah-advent-great-comings-certain-tensions/) - The word Advent means Coming. Advent is a time of waiting for a great Coming. Even before Christians used the term in reference to the Coming of the birth of Jesus, indigenous cultures eagerly awaited the Solstice season when the darkest day of the year—December 21—would yield to a turnaround with the sun emerging more
- [Week of 12/9-14/2024: Notre Dame, Mother Mary & Our Lady of Guadalupe](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/15/week-of-12-9-14-2024/) - December 9, 2024: Notre Dame Rising from the Ashes, Part IIWe continue to explore the symbolism of the restoration of Notre Dame at this time. Author, Henry Adams tells us that in the 11th century there was a martial religion of “predominate masculine energy” but Mary blessedly represented “the assertion of the supremacy of love
- [The Magnificat: The Fierce Feminine in the Gospel of Luke](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/14/the-magnificat-the-fierce-feminine-in-the-gospel-of-luke/) - The other day I was sharing some thoughts about Advent and the solstice and Hannukah and Kwanzaa, thoughts about the season we celebrate at this dark time of year in the northern hemisphere. And understandably, I invoked the “Magnificat” poem attributed to Mary, the mother of Jesus, in the first chapter of Luke’s gospel. It may
- [Our Lady of Guadalupe Feast Day, 2024](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/12/our-lady-of-guadalupe-feast-day-2024/) - Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. She is many things to many people, but the basis of her story is that she appeared to a 14-year-old Aztec boy whose people were conquered by the invading and marauding and so-called Christian Spaniards in 1531. They tore into his and other indigenous tribes in the
- [Our Lady of Guadalupe Feast Day, 2024, Part II](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/13/our-lady-of-guadalupe-feast-day-2024-part-ii/) - We are continuing to meditate with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe which is December 12. We are considering the meaning of the colors in her very familiar icon. Her red gown signifies “the Immaculate heart coursing with life.” The gown includes living roses outlined in gold. Roses “lift the human spirit”
- [Speaking of Notre Dame AND Trump, A Report from Andy Borowitz](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/10/speaking-of-ndtrump-a-report-from-andy-borowitz/) - In two recent DM’s, we meditated on the meaning of Notre Dame’s reopening and before that on Trump’s election on November 5th. It seems I was not alone in so doing. Satirist Andy Borowitz has offered his view on things with this very timely post in his The Borowitz Report entitled "Reopening of Notre-Dame Marred by
- [Good People, Bad People, Democracy & Spiritual Warriorhood](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/11/good-people-bad-people-democracy-spiritual-warriorhood/) - One person whom I spoke with recently told me that the bottom line to his disappointment in this election was the following: That he learned that the majority of Americans are not good people. And this has totally altered his view of America and living in America. Another person told me something similar. Now, when he walks
- [Notre Dame Rising from the Ashes, Part II](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/09/notre-dame-rising-from-the-ashes-part-ii/) - We are meditating on the meaning of the resurrection of Notre Dame Cathedral at this time. Henry Adams reminds us that Mary, after whom the Cathedral is named, represented the energy “of love and of matter.” Mary is a protector and living intercessor between mankind as individuals and “the perils of law, whether human or
- [Week of 12/2-7/2024: How to Survive and Live Fully following the Election](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/08/week-of-12-2-7-2024/) - December 2, 2024: Cosmology, Spirituality, & the Power of the 4 Paths to Awaken HumanityOne of the teachings of Thomas Aquinas is his observation that experience is not enough for teaching spirituality: One also needs concepts. When Matthew looks at his 55 years of teaching creation spirituality, sharing concepts is a notable piece of the pie. For instance, of
- [Notre Dame Rising from the Ashes](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/07/notre-dame-rising-from-the-ashes/) - This weekend the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris reopens. It is a major event for France and maybe for us all. Thanks are due to the expert craftspeople, historians, architects, donors, and government leaders who resurrected the Cathedral only five years after we watched it blazing on our television screens. The Cathedral is newly enforced with
- [Election Follow-Up](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/06/election-follow-up/) - In yesterday’s DM I wrote of the one-month anniversary of Trump’s re-election. One response went like this: Excellent Matthew … hope, courage, faith, fierce revolutionary love, making good trouble, keeping the balance between contemplation and action (Richard Rohr), dancing, singing, hugs, tears, laughter, “this too shall pass”, trepidation, uncertainty, one step at a time, first things
- [On the One-Month Anniversary of Trump’s Return](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/05/on-the-one-month-anniversary-of-trumps-return/) - Today marks one month since Americans voted to return Trump to the White House. For me, and for many, it has been a time of processing my grief and getting ready to live with a new version of America than I thought we lived in. One where a majority--but certainly no mandate as less than 50%
- [How We Fall in Love with the World—in Spite of History](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/04/how-we-fall-in-love-with-the-world-in-spite-of-history/) - This week in our meditations I have invoked cosmologist Brian Swimme and Seneca educator Sister Jose Hobday. Science and indigenous wisdom can assist us in times of crisis to bring Spirit alive. History is asking us: Can we evolve? Is humanity’s dark night a prelude to our moving to another level of being human? Creation spirituality offers
- [The Prayer to the Four Directions as Taught Me by Sister Jose Hobday](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/03/the-prayer-to-the-four-directions-as-prayer-to-4-directions-taught-by-sr-jose-hobday/) - Sister Jose Hobday was a Seneca woman chosen by her tribe at 7 years old to be a storyteller. She was also a Franciscan sister, friend and member of my faculty for two decades. One of the first prayers Sister Jose ever taught me was the Prayer to the Four Directions. It offers an excellent way to
- [Cosmology, Spirituality, & the Power of the 4 Paths to Awaken Humanity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/02/cosmology-spirituality-the-power-of-the-4-paths-to-awaken-humanity/) - One of the many gifts I have received from the teachings of Thomas Aquinas is his observation that experience is not enough for teaching spirituality: One also needs concepts. Concepts give us common language, thought patterns, maps, and guides to what we are talking about, especially in the arena of spirituality which addresses the ineffable—that
- [Week of 11/25-30/2024: A Letter to Men & A Letter to Women](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/12/01/week-of-11-25-30-2024/) - November 25, 2024: The Hidden Spirituality of Men: A Word to my BrothersSeventeen years ago, Matthew wrote The Hidden Spirituality of Men. He shares a letter he wrote then that feels as timely now as it did then. (He amended it a bit to reflect the different timeline.) He said, "Our species is in trouble,
- [A Word To My Sisters, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/30/a-word-to-my-sisters-continued/) - We are meditating on the role played by young men in light of the recent election. For this reason I have written a Letter to my Brothers and now a Letter to my Sisters, which I continue here. If women truly love the men in their lives, they will want to assist men in their own
- [The Hidden Spirituality of Men: A Word to My Sisters](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/29/the-hidden-spirituality-of-men-a-word-to-my-sisters/) - Dear Sisters, In reflecting on the recent election, one significant issue is the role men played in electing a president more on the side of the Antichrist than the Christ archetype. Thus I have written three letters to men on the return of the healthy masculine. I believe women have a stake—a huge stake—in men recovering
- [A Prayer on Thanksgiving Day, 2024, a la Julian of Norwich](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/28/a-prayer-on-thanksgiving-day-2024-a-la-julian-of-norwich/) - This is surely the most difficult Thanksgiving of my 83 years of spinning around the sun. One shudders and grieves and rages and fears about what is in store for America and the Earth and other countries when an elected antichrist and serial liar and man-committed-to-Project-2025 takes over the reins of government. Already, many of the
- [The Hidden Spirituality of Men: A Word to My Brothers, Part III](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/27/the-hidden-spirituality-of-men-a-word-to-my-brothers-part-iii/) - I am sharing a letter I wrote 17 years ago on the publication of my book, The Hidden Spirituality of Men. This because one of the lessons from the recent election is that men are often their own worst enemies. We ended the last DM speaking of the archetype of the “Hunter-Gatherer.” Our species was full-time hunter-gatherer for
- [Hidden Spirituality of Men: A Word to My Brothers, Part II](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/26/hidden-spirituality-of-men-a-word-to-my-brothers-part-ii/) - I am sharing a letter I wrote 17 years ago to my brother men as part of our reflection on finding the healthy masculine. The need for this hit me hard with the latest election results, where young men especially chose an election denier and global warming denier and instigator of attacking a democratic ritual of
- [The Hidden Spirituality of Men: A Word to my Brothers](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/25/the-hidden-spirituality-of-men-a-word-to-my-brothers/) - I came across this letter that I wrote 17 years ago. It seems relevant today still, especially because we have been meditating on a more healthy and more sacred understanding of masculinity. I have altered the time line to today’s time line. I also wrote a letter to my Sisters about recovering the healthy masculine and
- [Week of 11/17-23/2024: Exploring Healthy Masculinity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/24/week-of-11-17-23-2024-exploring-healthy-masculinity/) - November 18, 2024: Donald Reeves, Friend, Spiritual/Religious Pioneer and ProphetMatthew tells us about his remarkable friend, a vicar in London, who was unafraid to shake things up and whom Margaret Thatcher once called "a very dangerous man." In his obituary, the conservative Daily Telegraph called him a deeply caring priest who gave endless time to individuals
- [What makes a “Real Man”?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/23/what-makes-a-real-man/) - We continue our meditations on healthy masculinity since it was young men in particular who essentially elected Mr. Trump on November 5. In the Conclusion chapter of my book on the Sacred Masculine is a section called “False Masculinity: Real Men Eat Beef,” where I observe how society is continually trying to define for us
- [A Sign of the Times: Moving from Unhealthy to Healthy Masculinity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/22/a-sign-of-the-times-moving-from-unhealthy-to-healthy-masculinity/) - We are meditating on the healthy masculinity—what I call the “sacred masculine”--because one of the clear lessons from the recent election was that young men voted for the declared winner by 56% to 44%. And the declared winner is by no means a model of a healthy masculinity. Not only did he plunge the country into
- [Practices for Recovering an Authentic Masculinity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/21/practices-for-recovering-an-authentic-masculinity/) - One of the dimensions of my book on the The Hidden Spirituality of Men that most delighted the hostesses of the She SAID Talks podcast was the practices that I include in that book. So it strikes me that if we are to move on from patriarchy—a move that is absolutely essential if we are to survive
- [Alternatives to Patriarchy and Strongmen and Male Low Esteem](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/20/alternatives-to-patriarchy-and-strongmen-and-male-low-esteem/) - Yesterday I had the privilege to dialogue with two women, Jan Jorgensen and Anasuya Issacs of She SAID Talks, who are dedicated to bringing forth the Sacred Feminine. They are energized in particular by the archetype of the Black Madonna, which pleases me immensely. They asked to interview me on their program about my book on the Sacred
- [Donald Reeves, Friend, Spiritual/Religious Pioneer and Prophet](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/18/donald-reeves-friend-spiritual-religious-pioneer-and-prophet/) - I recently learned that an important spiritual leader and friend died a few weeks ago on Halloween. It was not unexpected, as he was suffering from serious Alzheimer’s at the end of his life, so in that sense his death was a blessing for him and his partner Peter Peltz, who was caring for him
- [Donald Reeves, Peace-Building, Bach’s Music & Repairing Democracy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/19/donald-reeves-peace-building-bachs-music-repairing-democracy/) - In yesterday’s DM, I paid homage to my friend Donald Reeves who was a no-nonsense critic of injustice and of religious tiredness. In the previous two DMs, we meditated on Otto Rank’s cure for ailing democracy, paying more attention to what he called the “irrational” dimension to life and creation and human nature. This includes art and
- [Week of 11/11-16/2024: Navigating These Times](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/17/week-of-11-11-16-2024/) - November 11, 2024: Veterans Day 2024Matthew reflects on the veterans in his family. A long-ago uncle served as a Union officer in the Civil War. He was in a tent with a general who was playing cards. A Confederate spy broke in and started to shoot. Matthew's ancestor placed his body in front of the
- [Love, Mysticism, Anger: Healing  of Democracy via the Irrational?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/16/love-mysticism-anger-healing-of-democracy-via-the-irrational/) - Yesterday we considered Otto Rank’s medicine for an ailing democracy. Rank was living at a time like ours, the rise of fascism and the dangerous irrationality of culture and politics in the late 1930’s. Just before WWII broke out. He was alert to what he called the “violent distortions” of the far-right politics of his time (and
- [Otto Rank on Curing a Weakening Democracy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/15/otto-rank-on-curing-a-weakening-democracy/) - There will be post-mortems emerging on the recent election surely. But one concern is this: 87 million Americans eligible to vote chose not to—the greatest number of non-voters in American history. Millions more Americans chose to turn their back on today’s version of democracy than did those who voted for the winner. It seems that in
- [What Happened Ten Days Ago Today?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/14/what-happened-ten-days-ago-today/) - Ten days ago a majority of Americans linked hands with Christian nationalists, neo-Nazis, and Putin--the first invader of a European sovereign nation since WWII. Now many are dancing in the streets in joy and celebration. They linked hands too with 1,500 people in prison for having invaded the nation’s Capitol in a raging riot we all
- [Are We Made For These Times?  More Practices from Kaira Jewel](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/13/are-we-made-for-these-times-more-practices-from-kaira-jewel/) - Are we really made for these times? Are we up to it spiritually? What does it take spiritually speaking to be up for times like ours? Can we ground ourselves in practices that work for us while not getting overly attached to any one practice as Meister Eckhart taught? Can we be curious about other ones whether from our
- [From Buddhism: More Spiritual Practices To Deal with Grief](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/12/from-buddhism-more-spiritual-practices-to-deal-with-grief/) - This past year a very fine book came out with a title that seems to speak to our situation today. It is called We Were Made For These Times: 10 Lessons for Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption. Its author is Kaira Jewel Lingo who was a nun in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Buddhist community for 16 years. Her
- [Veterans Day, 2024](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/11/veterans-day-2024/) - I am thinking on this Veterans Day 2024 of the veterans in my family, and how they would respond to the election of this past week. I am thinking of a great, great, great, great uncle (not sure I have all the “greats” counted correctly), who we are told was an officer in the Union
- [Week of 11/4-9/2024: Responses to the Election & Rituals for Our Grief](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/10/week-of-11-4-9-2024/) - November 4, 2024: On Evil, the Sacred, and What is at Stake in this ElectionWe list what is at stake in this election: this sacred Earth, the animals and the habitat in which they dwell, women and their basic human rights, men and children, our democracy, justice. The following issues stand out: climate change, giant
- [Reflections & Responses to Election 2024](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/09/reflections-responses-to-election-2024-continued/) - We are meditating on the recent historical situation that has rendered Trump and fascism’s election possible. One of the wisest responses to this election came, as expected, from Thom Hartmann. In an essay called “The Billionaires won: The 50-Year War on Democracy That Built Trump’s Oligarchy and Killed the American Dream,” he tells the history of
- [Grief Rituals for a Time of Rupture, Distress & Rising Fascism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/08/grief-rituals-for-a-time-of-rupture-distress-rising-fascism/) - There is a grief ritual that I can heartily recommend at this time of profound distress and dread and even doom. But also potential grace. I received it as a gift years ago from a shaman friend when I was going through a profound grief experience. Remember that grief has three layers to it: First is anger. (Just
- [Election 2024: The Day After](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/07/election-2024-the-day-after/) - Today is a very dark day—to put it mildly--for America and democracy and the future of Mother Earth and her creatures and the world. And women and Ukrainians and Palestinians and Europeans and many others. Following are a few responses to America’s election that I have received from a variety of sources in my email this
- [Election Day and My Father’s Birthday](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/06/election-day-and-my-fathers-birthday/) - I write this on the morning of Election Day. A lot of waiting and patience awaits us all today and maybe tomorrow. Today is also my father’s birthday. Were he still living, he would be 110 years old today. I write this at my desk with his picture on it, actually a picture of him and myself standing
- [Trump, Evil and the 7 Capital Sins and 7 Distorted Chakras](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/05/trump-evil-and-the-7-capital-sins-and-7-distorted-chakras/) - In my first and major study on Evil, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul & Society, I sought a new language for talking about Evil. This because so much of Western religion has so oversold sin that Westerners have an underdeveloped grasp of Evil. I cite psychologist Scott Peck who says our
- [On Evil, the Sacred, and What is at Stake in this Election](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/04/on-evil-the-sacred-and-what-is-at-stake-in-this-election/) - I recognize quite a list of issues and choices at stake in this year’s presidential election. Otherwise I would not have written a book on Christ and Anti-Christ, the Sacred and Evil. (Christ being a name for the Sacred; and Anti-Christ being a name and archetype for Evil.) Let us name some: Our Sacred Earth is on
- [Week of 10/27-11/2/2024: Heroes & Fascism vs. Democracy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/03/week-of-10-27-11-2-2024/) - October 28, 2024: Praying the News: Navalny, Stang, Gutierrez, Trumpian FascismMatthew has a wonderful suggestion. Instead of merely watching the news, we should "pray the news." There was much to pray about this past week. 1) Several key members of Trump's staff in the White House denounced him as a fascist; 2) The courage of
- [Equality and Love: Eckhart on Jesus and Democracy, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/02/equality-and-love-eckhart-on-jesus-and-democracy-continued/) - We continue our meditation on Jesus and democracy from yesterday’s DM. If we are so noble as Eckhart speaks of, then an equality ought to reign between us all. We should all be treated as equals in our basic rights and needs and treat others as equals. That is a premise of democracy—“all men are created equal”
- [Dark Money, Billionaires, & the Death of Earth & Democracy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/31/dark-money-billionaires-the-death-of-earth-democracy/) - Do you wonder why the election is as close as it is? One reason might be this statistic: $2 billion has been pumped into the 2024 election by 150 billionaires---and most was for Trump.* One of the signs of the antichrist in our day is the role of the powerful oppressing the many with dark money.
- [Fascism AND Christofascism are on the Ballot  ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/30/fascism-and-christofascism-are-on-the-ballot/) - Rivers of news reports are flooding out from the media about the explicitly fascist realities of Trump and MAGA followers at Sunday’s Madison Square Garden event. An event which made that clear to everyone and which we meditated on in yesterday’s DM. If you want fascism and Christofascism, a twofer is available! Vote for Trump and you
- [Did Jesus Preach Democracy?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/01/did-jesus-preach-democracy/) - In my recent book on Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, I present a chapter entitled: “Jesus and Democracy.” Does Jesus teach about democracy? And does Christ represent democracy in some way? Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) thought so: Christ teaches the dignity of human nature...and the full participation in Divinity which
- [Trump’s Fascist Rally at Madison Square Garden](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/29/trumps-fascist-rally-at-madison-square-garden/) - “Fascism on Full Display” says one headline about Donald Trump’s MAGA rally at Madison Square Garden Sunday night. And this after the warnings from his head of the Joint Chief of Staff last week that Trump is a “fascist to the core” and from his longest serving chief of staff, another four-star general who called Trump
- [Praying the News: Navalny, Stang, Gutierrez, Trumpian Fascism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/28/praying-the-news-navalny-stang-gutierrez-trumpian-fascism/) - When we began these Daily Meditations some six years ago, one way I described its purpose was that we “pray the news” and not just watch it. This past week’s news had enough in it to render one’s prayer dizzy. Learning that one presidential candidate praised Hitler, and was characterized by a four-star general and
- [Week of 10/21-26/2024: Resentment & Forgiveness, Global Warning, Idolatry](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/27/week-of-10-21-26-2024/) - October 21, 2024: The Freedom that Forgiveness BringsAs we reflect on the role resentment and scapegoating play in politics, we also look at the power of forgiveness---not as a way to turn away from the need for justice, but as a way to bring healing to our own selves. Matthew tells us of a young
- [A Course in Miracles on The Antichrist: Part II](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/26/the-course-of-miracles-on-the-antichrist-part-ii/) - We continue our meditation on the Course in Miracles’ teaching about the antichrist and linking it to my recent book on Christ, Antichrist, and the 2024 election.* We ended yesterday’s DM with this statement from the CIM: No one believes in idols who has not enslaved himself to littleness and loss. The message of Jesus that
- [The Freedom that Forgiveness Brings](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/21/the-freedom-that-forgiveness-brings/) - We meditated last week on the role that Resentment and Scapegoating play in our current politics—a role that characterized the politics of Germany in the 1930’s under Hitler. It's imperative that we remember this. We meditated on how a person or a group of persons move on from resentment by way of Letting Go or
- [The Course of Miracles on The Antichrist: Part I](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/25/the-course-of-miracles-on-the-antichrist-part-i/) - I have often credited the book, A Course in Miracles, with awakening many people to their mystical selves and this is a great contribution in a culture where religion as a whole has failed to do that. But recently, after finishing my book on Trump & MAGA as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, which is more prophetic
- [Phil Wilson’s Blunt Truths on Global Warming, Fascism, Trump](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/24/blunt-truths-from-phil-wilson-about-global-warming-fascism-trump/) - A recent commentary on the current presidential election begins with this headline: “Donald Trump’s MAGA Death Cult Is Coming for Us All.” And the subtitle to the article reads like this: Any serious discussion of Trump leads to one conclusion: something terrible, vast, and irredeemable has befallen us and we have no language to describe
- [Men Leaving the Workforce & Trump’s Appeal to Resentment](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/23/men-leaving-the-workforce-trumps-appeal-to-resentment/) - One wonders why the presidential race is as close as it is. One reason giving is that many young men are contemplating voting for Trump. Here is one headline, “Young men’s economic prospects are shifting along with their politics.”* The primary cause for this shift, we are told, is typified in a story of an 18-year-old Pennsylvania
- [Big Heart, Big Sky, & Origins of Life in Father Sky](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/22/big-heart-big-sky-and-origins-of-life-in-father-sky/) - A big heart is generous and has learned how to forgive. The word “generous” bears within it the word genesis and beginnings. Beginnings are sacred. A big heart “looks up to the sky” when troubles arise, as the psalmist sings about. Prayer can be a turning to the mountains and to the vast sky with all the wonders and history
- [From Resentment to Forgiveness: A Path to Freedom](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/19/from-resentment-to-forgiveness-a-path-to-freedom/) - The opposite of Resentment is Forgiveness and Forgiveness can be a path to freedom. The phrase “refusal to forgive” suggests that there is an invitation, perhaps even a constant invitation, to forgive. Where is this invitation or calling coming from? Were it only coming from an individual who may not deserve forgiveness, that would not be
- [Week of 10/14-19/2024: Politics, Resentment & Forgiveness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/20/week-of-10-14-19-2024/) - October 14, 2024: Blessed Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024!Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day. Matthew remembers fondly those indigenous elders who have had a great impact on his life. Among them: Buck Ghosthorse, Lakota teacher and friend; Sister Jose Hobday, Seneca elder and Franciscan sister; Eddie Kneebone, Aboriginal elder and activist; and Rod McAfee, an Akimel O’odham
- [Resentment & The Politics of Resentment, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/18/resentment-the-politics-of-resentment-continued/) - In yesterday’s DM, biologist Rupert Sheldrake instructed us on how resentment and those who preach it can create an entire culture or political movement around it. One wonders if that is happening today in America. It has been said that hatred is anger oriented to the past and resentment is anger oriented to the present. Anger
- [Rupert Sheldrake on the Politics & Science of Resentment](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/17/rupert-sheldrake-on-the-politics-science-of-resentment/) - I am asking these days how it is that Donald Trump, for all his obvious shortcomings, has so large a following among American voters and found myself turning to a book I wrote with British scientist Rupert Sheldrake several years ago. In our book, Natural Grace: dialogues on creation, darkness, and the soul in spirituality and
- [Thom Hartmann on a “Secular” or “Political” Antichrist](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/16/thom-hartmann-on-a-secular-or-political-antichrist/) - These days, I find myself bringing forward an ancient archetype from the Biblical apocalyptic tradition about evil, namely that of the antichrist. In my recent book on that topic, I go through some historical precedents, including of course the last book of the Christian Bible, the Book of Apocalypse, (which draws on the Book of
- [Will America Replace aWeak Democracy with a Strong Theocracy?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/15/does-america-want-to-replace-a-weak-democracy-with-a-strong-theocracy/) - Because that is what it will get if it elects Trump and Vance. As I laid out in the Saturday DM on Opus Dei, what has happened at SCOTUS will happen with the presidency if Trump and Vance win. The same gang that gave us six Supreme Court judges who want to exonerate all presidents of
- [Blessed Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024!](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/14/blessed-indigenous-peoples-day-2024/) - Indigenous Peoples Day in America is today. It was once known exclusively as Columbus Day in honor of the European who got lost and stumbled upon Turtle Island thinking he was in India. It is also Thanksgiving Day in Canada. I wish every day was Thanksgiving day around the world. I wish every day every human on
- [Week of 10/7-12/2024: Father Sky, Hurricane Milton, Opus Dei](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/13/week-of-10-7-12-2024/) - October 7, 2024: Surprise! A Second New Book—This One for KidsMatthew was surprised at the timing of the publication of his other new book, The Return of Father Sky: A Cosmic Mystery for Kids of All Ages. It arrived right on the heels of Trump and the MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ. The energies of the books
- [Awaiting Milton, A Paradise Lost? A Letter From the Ground in Florida](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/10/awaiting-milton-a-paradise-lost-a-letter-from-the-ground-in-florida/) - We have written recently of the “Scream of Helene,” meaning the lessons to learn from Hurricane Helene. What did Helene teach us? That it is not time for business as usual? For politics as usual? For lies and lying politicians who sell their souls to fossil fuel companies and call climate change a “hoax” as usual? And now cometh
- [The Return of Father Sky, a New Cosmology & the Sacred  ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/09/the-return-of-father-sky-a-new-cosmology-the-sacred/) - Is the gift of a new cosmology and therefore a return of Father Sky the return of the sacred cosmos? Might a return of the Sacred be arriving just in time for our species to renew itself and gather its genius that can save the planet, unite nations, reconstruct authentic masculinity, and inspire the young
- [Opus Dei, MAGA, the Dark Money Cult & 2024 Election](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/12/opus-dei-maga-the-cult-of-dark-money-the-2024-election/) - Many people, when they hear about the rise of Christian nationalism in America, think it is all about evangelicals who are Trump supporters. Nothing could be further from the truth. The fascist wing of the Roman Catholic Church, amply represented by Opus Dei (and others such as the Legion of Christ), have played a major and
- [Before/After Milton from the Ground in Florida](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/11/more-on-before-after-milton-from-the-ground-in-florida/) - In recent DM’s we have meditated on what Helene is telling us--or better screaming to us--and what Milton is saying as well. And in yesterday’s DM we shared what an observer, DM team member Cynthia Greb, had to tell us of Milton from the ground in Lakeland, Florida. Today I would like to share two other
- [Voting Adults, Evil, Cosmology for Kids, Rituals & the Sacred](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/08/voting-adults-evil-cosmology-for-kids-rituals-the-sacred/) - We meditated yesterday on the synchronicities in the release of my newest book on Father Sky for children with my just-released book on the Antichrist. Continuing the meditation: Pairing a book about Evil, aimed at adults facing a profoundly significant election, with a book on the new cosmology makes some sense, given the spiritual crisis
- [Surprise! A Second New Book—This One for Kids](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/07/surprise-a-second-new-book-this-one-for-kids/) - I am surprised to see a new book of mine, The Return of Father Sky: A Cosmic Mystery for Kids of All Ages, being launched at this time, when we have just launched my book on the Antichrist and the 2024 election. Clearly, I had no control over the timing of either book, since timing
- [Week of 9/30-10/5/2004: The Scream of Helene & Embrace of the Sacred](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/06/week-of-9-30-10-5-2004-the-scream-of-helene/) - September 30, 2024: MAGA/Trump Book Finally Landing, and An InvitationTrump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election is finally due to arrive. Profound apologies to all who were frustrated with the wait. Apparently the color paintings could not be printed on-demand and had to go through a time-consuming regular printing
- [Recovering the Sacred: Teilhard, Newell & the Celtic Tradition ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/05/recovering-the-sacred-teilhard-newell-the-celtic-tradition/) - I ended my DM yesterday with the all-important practical question: What other ways are there for recovering a sense of the sacred? Meaning, besides Lakota teacher Buck Ghosthorse’s practice of going without water to recover the sacredness of water. And Thomas Berry’s teaching that bringing back the experience of awe and wonder that the “numinous” universe gives
- [The Scream from Helene & the Denial of Denial](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/04/the-scream-from-helene-the-denial-of-denial/) - We are talking about Evil and the Sacred. How preserving our Sacred Earth so it remains hospitable to our and millions of other species, is grounded in a sense of the sacred. How sacred is Mother Earth? It is the task of healthy religion to awaken us to the sacred. As Thomas Aquinas put it, “the first
- [The Scream from Helene continued: Water & the Sacred](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/03/the-scream-from-helene-continued-water-the-sacred/) - My friend and co-worker, Lakota teacher and ceremony leader Buck Ghosthorse, said to our students one day, “Do you want to know how sacred water is? Go without it for three days. That first sip will remind you how sacred water is.” Today we are being told that it may be months before Asheville, North Carolina and
- [The Scream from Helene, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/02/the-scream-from-helene-continued/) - The disaster that hurricane Helene has left us is a wake-up call. Thanks go to all those first responders, neighbors, government workers and helpers who are reaching out to assist those most bereft in the wake of that storm. But we also must learn the lessons of what Mother Earth is trying to tell us in
- [The VP Debate & The Scream from Helene](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/10/01/the-vp-debate-the-scream-from-helene/) - I write this on the eve of the vice-presidential debate, and you will receive it on the day thereof. Hurricane Helene has spoken—no, screamed—to our world about what really matters in this presidential election and in the spiritual and moral life of our nation and species today. As I wrote 35 years ago in the opening chapter
- [MAGA/Trump Book Finally Landing, and An Invitation](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/30/maga-trump-book-finally-landing-and-an-invitation/) - PLEASE NOTE: With the days ticking down to 11/5, learn the deeper stakes in this year’s election. Get your copy of Trump & the MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election today! Choose your format in the book block below. Today, Monday, is the day our shipment of my new book on
- [Week of 9/23-9/28, 2024: Recovering a Sense of the Sacred, and Remembering More of Matthew's Family](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/29/week-of-9-23-9-28-2024-recovering-a-sense-of-the-sacred-and-remembering-more-of-matthews-family/) - PLEASE NOTE: With the days ticking down to 11/5, learn the deeper stakes in this year's election. Get your copy of Trump & the MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election today! Choose your format in the book block below. Monday, September 23, 2024: A Sense of the Sacred: The Opposite of
- [Further Recovering of a Sense of the Sacred](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/28/further-recovering-of-a-sense-of-the-sacred/) - Holiness and the sacred applies to plants and to trees and to stars, as Thomas Merton sees it: Every plant that stands in the light of the sun is a saint and an outlaw. Every tree that brings forth blossoms without the command of man is powerful in the sight of God. Every star that man has
- [More Thoughts on Recovering a Sense of the Sacred](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/27/more-thoughts-on-recovering-a-sense-of-the-sacred/) - A few Daily Meditations ago, we meditated on Recovering a Sense of the Sacred and I invoked Thomas Berry’s rich thoughts about beginning with the awareness that the universe, creation, is “the primary sacred reality.” We came to this topic by way of posting the question that arises from my most recent book about the
- [Art and Artists and Healing Times](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/26/art-and-artists-and-healing-times/) - I am thinking of the funeral of my oldest brother Tom taking place today in the land of the aurora and great lights, Iceland, where he and his artist wife Anna, who is from Iceland, retired and have been living for nine years. Yesterday our family mailing list of about 24 persons received a beautiful
- [More News of my Family, Including My Father](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/25/more-news-of-my-family-including-my-father/) - My brother Tom’s funeral service is being held in Reykjavik, Iceland, on Thursday, September 26, at 2 PM Icelandic time (7 AM California time). A number of people have inquired about this in order to send their prayers that way. Thank you for your inquiry and your generous intention. If you would like to attend virtually, it
- [Week of 9/9-14/2024: Tom Fox, Wisdom & Education](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/15/week-of-9-9-14-2024/) - September 9, 2024: My and My Brother’s Story in EducationMatthew intuited many years ago that one cannot teach spirituality using a “European model of education,” i.e. with the rational brain alone. In 1974, because of the success of his first book on spirituality, On Becoming a Musical, Mystical Bear: Spirituality American Style (now called Prayer: A Radical
- [Recovering a Sense of the Sacred](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/24/recovering-a-sense-of-the-sacred/) - The health and future of Mother Earth are in rapid decline due to Climate Change, which is in turn caused by human arrogance and indifference and greed. At the same time as it is becoming ever more clear humanity is bringing about such destruction, we are also being gifted with a new creation story from
- [A Sense of the Sacred: The Opposite of Evil, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/23/a-sense-of-the-sacred-the-opposite-of-evil-continued/) - PLEASE NOTE:With days ticking down to 11/5, Matthew Fox’s urgent new book turns the Anti-Christ archetype into a searing device for understanding the deeper stakes in the 2024 election.• For immediate access to Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, order the e-book with 10 full-color prints from Amazon HERE. • To get a print-on-demand paperback copy with
- [Week of 9/16-21/2024: Hildegard, Matthew's Mother & Brother, & the Anti-Christ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/22/week-of-9-16-21-2024/) - September 16, 2024: “Anti-Christ” as an Archetype Appropriate to our Apocalyptic TimesOver the course of the past nine years the media as it struggles to report on the phenomenon of trumpism often employs the world "unprecedented." His lies, his crimes, his influence of the highest court of our land, the insurrection... all of it is
- ["Anti-Christ" as an Archetype Appropriate to our Apocalyptic Times](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/16/anti-christ-as-an-archetype-appropriate-to-our-apocalyptic-times/) - PLEASE NOTE:With days ticking down to 11/5, Matthew Fox’s urgent new book turns the Anti-Christ archetype into a searing device for understanding the deeper stakes in the 2024 election.• For immediate access to Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, order the e-book with 10 full-color prints from Amazon HERE. • To get a print-on-demand paperback
- [Questions Posed about My New Book on Trump, MAGA, Antichrist](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/21/questions-posed-about-my-new-book-on-trump-maga-antichrist/) - Some questions that arise regarding my new book on Trump & Antichrist follow. Why is the first chapter about Sigmund Freud? Freud underwent an amazing encounter with the same fresco that I did on visiting the Orvieto Cathedral in 1897. In fact, he was so taken by it that he returned two more times to study it. An
- [Formal Launching of New Book: Trump & MAGA as Antichrist](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/20/launching-of-my-new-book-trump-the-maga-movement-as-anti-christ/) - Today a formal press release appeared announcing my new book, Trump & the MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, which is my third book on evil. Michelle Obama urged us all to Do Something! And this book represents my effort to do something to keep Trump & Company out of the White House. The
- [Remembering My Mother and Brother Nat](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/19/remembering-my-mother-and-brother-nat/) - Last week I shared stories of my oldest brother Tom who passed on and a little bit about my brother Nat who passed on four days later. I thank all those who sent prayers and condolences. It seems fitting here to tell some more about Nat but also about my mother who died at 89
- [Hildegard of Bingen’s Feast Day 2024](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/18/hildegard-of-bingens-feast-day-2024/) - Today, the day I write this DM, is the Feast Day of Hildegard of Bingen and you are reading it the day following her feast day. Hildegard has so much to teach us in our time which is one reason I have written three books about her. Her music is original and outstanding. Her interest in science
- [A Healing Dream for a Time of Apocalypse Like Ours](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/17/a-healing-dream-for-a-time-of-apocalypse-like-ours/) - Because we are talking about apocalypse and revelation at this time of Climate Change and of a critical election in America, I found myself picking up my book on The Coming of the Cosmic Christ. It was born of a powerful dream I had that culminated in the statement: “Your mother is dying.” My literal mother
- [Wisdom of the Young, Sin vs. Evil, Evil vs. the Sacred](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/14/wisdom-of-the-young-sin-vs-evil-evil-vs-the-sacred/) - Yesterday, we meditated on how wisdom flows from the young and the old. At least we can hope so. I ended the meditations this way: Let wisdom roll, from young to old and from old to young. Let there be intergenerational wisdom. Let each generation inspire the other. One way to approach a spiritual term is to go to its opposite first. The
- [Two Lessons Learned on Wisdom & Growing Older](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/13/two-lessons-learned-on-wisdom-growing-older-2/) - It is sometimes said that wisdom comes with old age. Well, it comes from the young too and the Scriptures speak to that and I am glad they do. “Out of the mouth of babes, comes wisdom.” (Ps 8.2) And “Wisdom gave speech to the tongues of babes.” (Wis 10.21) Two things I will say about wisdom and
- [Some Testimonies To Tom Fox & His Vocation as an Educator](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/12/some-testimonies-to-tom-fox-his-vocation-as-an-educator/) - First, I want to thank those many readers who sent their prayers and condolences about the death of my brother, Tom Fox, whose book, published shortly before his death, I am sharing in excerpts this week. Your support means a lot to me. He lived a full and productive life as is clear from the comments I
- [The “Wow” Factor, Science, Learning & Spirituality a la Tom Fox](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/11/the-wow-factor-science-learning-spirituality-a-la-tom-fox/) - What I call the Via Positiva and Heschel calls awe, educator Tom Fox calls the “wow.” In addition to the ‘wow’ of our universe and its ways of operating, their writings [scientists like Wilzek] frequently express the ‘wow’ of how our minds can imagine and work together to share that understanding....Both of these exuberant ‘wows,’ they
- [G. Thomas Fox on edGe-ucation](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/10/g-thomas-fox-on-edge-ucation/) - Let me turn to my brother G. Thomas Fox’s book linking uncertainty and “becoming edGe-ucated.” It strikes me as being very, very timely. I began my book called The A.W.E. Project on reinventing education with an observation from the Dalai Lama that “education is in crisis the world over.” I think both Tom and I intuited the same thing years
- [My and My Brother’s Story in Education](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/09/my-and-my-brothers-story-in-education/) - Matthew's new book exists currently in audio (narrated by him) and in e-book format. We apologize to all those who have purchased an advance copy of the paperback book which we thought would be out by now. Apparently the colored pictures have contributed to a delay. We do expect its appearance any time now. Meanwhile, we recommend Matthew's interview
- [Week of 9/2-7/2024: Aquinas, the Antichrist, the Apocalypse, & Tom Fox](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/08/week-of-9-2-7-2024-aquinas-the-antichrist-the-apocalypse-tom-fox/) - September 2, 2024: Aquinas vs. Trump, SCOTUS & Antichrist: My New BookMatthew's new book, Trump & MAGA as Anti-christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, was necessarily the fastest book he'd ever written. It was inspired by the iconic fresco of “The Antichrist” painted by Luca Signorelli which Matthew saw during his Aquinas workshop in Orvieto, Italy
- [The Passing of My Brother, Tom Fox, an Educator Par Excellence](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/07/the-passing-of-my-brother-tom-fox-an-educator-par-excellence/) - In the past week, I have experienced the loss of two brothers in my life. One being Michael Lerner, co-founder of TIKKUN magazine, author, rabbi, champion of a politics of meaning and of solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian wars—solutions based on each side recognizing the humanity in the other and therefore the dignity of an independent state
- [Are Our Times Both Apocalyptic & Revelatory?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/06/are-our-times-both-apocalyptic-revelatory/) - Are we living in apocalyptic times? What might be called also “End Times?” This is what triggered the impactful fresco on “The Antichrist” by Luca Signorelli after all. There was an “end time” mood in 1500 when he started the fresco that so impressed Sigmund Freud and many others, myself included. It was a “half millennium” moment. Many
- [Hildegard on the Anti-Christ, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/05/hildegard-on-the-anti-christ-continued/) - We are meditating on Hildegard’s painting of the antichrist. She paints an ugly head breaking loose from a mother figure and the head is topped with human dung. A monstrous and very black head appeared, having fiery eyes and ears like the ears of an ass and nostrils and mouth like the nostrils and mouth of
- [Christ & Antichrist as Pictured by Hildegard of Bingen](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/04/christ-antichrist-as-pictured-by-hildegard-of-bingen/) - Twelfth century abbess, musician, scientist, healer, saint and doctor of the church, Hildegard of Bingen has some strong words—and an even stronger image she painted in a picture of the antichrist. First, let us consider her painting of the Christ, since the antichrist is its opposite. She teaches that the “man in sapphire blue,” the “healing
- [Christ & Antichrist in Today’s Politics & Thomas Aquinas, ii](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/03/christ-antichrist-in-todays-politics-a-la-thomas-aquinas-continued/) - A second citation from Aquinas on the first page of my new book invokes his teachings that a democracy is preferable to a tyranny “where the advantage of one man is sought.” Aquinas attributes this passion to “greed” and tells us that a tyrant “oppresses” the body of others (that is to say, economic injustice
- [Aquinas vs. Trump, SCOTUS & Antichrist: My New Book](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/02/aquinas-vs-trump-scotus-antichrist-my-new-book/) - My new book, Trump & MAGA as Antichrist: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, was necessarily the fastest book I have ever written. Of course, I was under a time pressure, since the idea came to me this July after returning home from teaching for a week in Orvieto, Italy. Our weeklong workshop was in
- [Week of 8/26-31/2024: The Black Madonna & the Antichrist; Remembering Rabbi Michael Lerner](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/09/01/week-of-8-26-31-2024/) - August 26, 2024: On the Black Madonna in a Time of Kamala HarrisHealthy men are not threatened by strong women; instead they welcome and celebrate them. This healthy masculinity was in evidence at the DNC where so many men were excited by Kamala Harris. For decades, Matthew has honored the Black Madonna. A few years
- [The Death of a Prophet and Friend, Rabbi Michael Lerner](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/31/the-death-of-a-prophet-and-friend-rabbi-michael-lerner/) - I received this announcement just now from Rabbi Arthur Waskow of the “Shalom Report.” Dear Companions and Beloveds,Rabbi Michael Lerner has just died. May the memory of this great justice-pursuer be a blessing to us all. And may the One who gave his teachings such an impact on the world fulfill the compassion and the
- [Henry Adams, Kamala Harris & the Divine Feminine, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/27/henry-adams-kamala-harris-the-divine-feminine-continued/) - Henry Adams, whose grandfather and great-grandfather were both presidents, wrote poignantly of the role of Mary in his iconic book, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (written in 1904), about the renaissance and profound awakening in 12th century Europe. He called Mary “the dynamo” that led that renaissance (what historian Père Chenu called “the only renaissance that worked
- [On the Black Madonna in a Time of Kamala Harris](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/26/on-the-black-madonna-in-a-time-of-kamala-harris/) - A sign of healthy masculinity is welcoming the strong feminine, as I point out in my book on The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine. This was in evidence at the DNC where so many men were respectful of and excited by Harris as a strong leader. There, Kamala Harris’s many
- [Evil, the Antichrist, & Kali, the Black Madonna of the East](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/30/evil-the-antichrist-prayer-kali-the-black-madonna-of-the-east/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE, March 20, 2020] I am an elder. I will have traveled around the sun 84 times by the end of this year. One of my jobs as an elder is to tell stories to younger generations about what matters. Evil matters. And evil is real. And it is MUCH bigger than sin. It operates like spirit does,
- [Honoring the Black Madonna and MLK Jr.](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/29/honoring-the-black-madonna-and-mlk-jr/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE: January 16, 2024.] The Black Madonna is an important presence for our time. Andrew Harvey points out that, in a time like ours, we should pray to her because, among other things, she is "queen of hell" because her love for the human race "makes her invincible to all demonic forces. " Talking of the
- [Three Responses to My New Book on Trump, MAGA & Anti-Christ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/28/three-responses-to-my-new-book-on-trump-maga-anti-christ/) - I am sharing with DM readers today three interesting and early responses to my new book on Trump & MAGA as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election. From an Episcopal priest and activist: I’m really liking it and find it incredibly important and helpful. We've shared it with a few people, and the responses have
- [Week of 8/19-24/2024: Hope from Brazil, Inspiration from the DNC, plus Matthew's New Book!](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/25/week-of-8-19-24-2024/) - August 19, 2024: Leonardo Boff: Hope from Brazil re Kamala Harris for PresidentMatthew shares an article written by his Brazilian theologian friend, Leonardo Boff. Leonardo lays out the reasons why the U.S. electing a female president would be a step forward for our country. He speaks about patriarchy and how it is such a blight
- [Kamala Harris, the Black Madonna, & Trump’s Yesteryear’s Masculinity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/24/kamala-harris-the-black-madonna-trumps-yesteryears-masculinity/) - Last night’s fulsome finale to the DNC Convention culminating in Kamala Harris’s powerful speech was a moving event. I felt the message that Pete Buttigieg delivered about a “new politics” happening before our eyes. The energy that a politics of Joy and Justice brings was palpable. I received a note this morning from a friend who said
- [Reflections on the Democratic Convention, Aquinas Included](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/23/reflections-on-the-democratic-convention-aquinas-included/) - We began this week by sharing two DMs from Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff on the meaning of a female president of the United States, should that come to pass. And how the whole world is looking on at our election. I am writing this DM on Thursday morning following last night’s DNC gathering that included Nancy
- [My New Book on Trump & MAGA as Anti-Christ, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/22/my-new-book-on-trump-maga-as-anti-christ-continued/) - In yesterday’s DM, I introduced you to my new book, Trump & the MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election. Included in the book are ten colored paintings, seven of Signorelli’s frescoes, one by Fra Angelico and two by Hildegard of Bingen, one on Christ and one on the Anti-Christ. The Table of Contents follows: Foreword
- [Announcing My New Book on Trump, MAGA & the Anti-Christ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/21/announcing-my-new-book-on-trump-maga-the-anti-christ/) - I have some exciting news that is well timed, given that the Democratic National Convention is in session. My new book called Trump & the MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election comes out today as an e-book and audio book (learn more and order HERE). It will be available as an in-hand
- [Boff of Brazil & Kamala Harris as President: Part II](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/20/boff-from-brazil-on-kamala-harris-as-president-part-ii/) - In yesterday’s DM, I shared much of an article by Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff entitled: “A Female President of the United States: A Hope?” In yesterday’s video, I also shared what did not fit the format of our DM, and continue that sharing with you here so that you have it in written form. Boff and
- [Leonardo Boff: Hope from Brazil re Kamala Harris for President](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/19/leonardo-boff-hope-from-brazil-re-kamala-harris-for-president/) - This weekend I received the following article from my friend in Brazil, theologian Leonardo Boff. I have cut it some to fit our format, and include the remainder in the video accompanying this DM. Boff called it: “A Female President of the United States: A Hope?” The real possibility that a woman, Kamala Harris, will become
- [Week of 8/12-17/2024: Sports & Spirituality, Joy & Justice](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/18/week-of-8-12-17-2024/) - August 12, 2024: Olympic Games Ended: A Meditation on Sport & CompetitionAs a theologian, Matthew offers his view of the Olympic games. As a species, conflict inevitably arises from time to time. When we are creative, we can find ways to deal with these conflicts other than all-out war. For instance, when the Inuits had
- [A Feminine Feast Day & Honoring the Elephant Nation](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/15/a-feminine-feast-day-honoring-the-elephant-nation/) - Today is the 74th anniversary of the doctrine of the Feast of the Assumption of Mary declared in 1950 by Pope Pius XII. Carl Jung called it “the most important religious event since the Reformation.” Coming as it did at the halfway mark of the 20th century, a century when two World Wars raged, the atomic bomb was
- [Olympic Games Ended: A Meditation on Sport & Competition](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/12/olympic-games-ended-a-meditation-on-sport-competition/) - Today (Sunday) marks the end of the Paris Olympic Games. By the time you read this, many people will have seen the final ceremony, heard the count of gold, silver and bronze awards and all the rest, and have your opinion of what moved you most, or whether you participated in watching them or not. I
- [On Joy in Today’s World: Return to Joy?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/17/on-joy-in-todays-world-return-to-joy/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE: The Mystics on Play: August 16, 2019] The Harris-Walz presidential campaign has talked about itself as “joyful warriorhood” and Tim Walz has praised Kamala Harris for “bringing back the joy” to today’s politics. Harris brings humor and needed satire to the political scene and Walz follows suit. This certainly is in contrast to
- [Joy & Justice: American Mystic-Warrior, Kristal Parks](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/16/joy-and-justice-meet-american-mystic-warrior-kristal-parks/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE: August 13, 2019] One dimension to The Harris-Walz presidential message that people are finding refreshing is the dimension of Joy that they talk of while also talking of fighting and work for fairness that needs doing. This contrasts sharply with the dour message of the other team, the leader of whom declared yesterday that
- [Sports as Prayer & St. Paul on Athletics & Spirituality](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/14/sports-as-prayer-st-paul-on-athletics-spirituality/) - Sports can be prayer because they can be a radical response to life. Sport can be art as meditation. Sport and art often overlap. The Paris Olympics excelled at mixing the two, surely in the opening and closing ceremonies. French philosopher Gabriel Marcel insists that the artist is not just one who sings a song or paints
- [Sport and Spirituality, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/13/sport-and-spirituality-continued/) - There is joy in watching the beauty, the excellence, the accomplishment, the bodies, the boldness, the hard work, the craft of Olympic athletes. Whether we are talking about runners, divers, swimmers, breakers, climbers, gymnasts, jumpers, soccer players, basketball players, or....beauty and excellence bring joy. Along with cheers. And, of course, watching excellence and beauty shared between competitors
- [Week of 8/5/24--8/10/24: Caring, Weirdness, & 2 Kinds of Catholicism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/11/week-of-8-5-24-8-10-24-caring-weirdness-2-kinds-of-catholicism/) - August 5, 2024: Joe Biden's Vatican II Catholicism vs. J.D. Vance's Other Catholicism Sixty-two years ago, Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council, which came to articulate a new set of Catholic values that were revolutionary for that time. Among the new directions were interfaith or deep ecumenism, apologizing for antisemitism, and becoming more
- [Caring: The Opposite of Weird? continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/10/caring-the-opposite-of-weird-continued/) - One way to define a term is to go to its opposite first. We are asking: What might be the opposite of weird? Is it weird to tell someone in a violent marriage that they should stay married for the sake of the children? (VP candidate Vance supports that policy.) Is that as weird as calling women without
- [Election-Time Weirdness: Is Caring the Opposite of Weird?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/09/election-time-weirdness-is-caring-the-opposite-of-weird/) - In yesterday’s DM, we considered VP nominee Tim Walz’s naming of weirdness as characterizing much of his opponents’ positions and proposals. Today’s we offer a few more prime examples and then move on to an important question arising from this discussion. Is it weird to be a Roman Catholic vice-presidential candidate but ignore the pope’s
- [VP Nominee Tim Walz: The Man Who Called Weird “Weird”](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/08/vp-nominee-tim-walz-the-man-who-called-weird-weird/) - The newly nominated vice-presidential candidate chosen by Vice President Kamala Harris turns out to be the folksy and midwestern straight-talker, Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota. He is most famous for sharing easy-to-grasp language while trying to hold up values that put people and the climate first (they do sort of go together after all). It doesn’t
- [An Excommunicated Papal Nuncio & VP Religious Allegiance](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/07/an-excommunicated-papal-nuncio-vice-presidential-religious-predilections/) - Vice presidents are in the news currently while we are comparing Joe Biden’s Catholicism and that of VP hopeful JD Vance. Biden’s faith is born of Vatican II, Vance’s is born of the blowback to Vatican II that grew wings under the papacies of JP II and Benedict XVI.* Together, the two popes went out of
- [Biden’s Catholicism in Contrast to that of JD Vance’s, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/06/bidens-catholicism-in-contrast-to-that-of-jd-vances-continued/) - Yesterday we considered how JD Vance’s conversion to Catholicism five years ago seems to be of a very different ilk than the Catholicism Joe Biden has been practicing for some eighty years. In an article entitled “Vance gives Catholicism a bad name,” National Catholic Reporter editor Michael Sean Winters tells the story of how, when Vance was
- [Joe Biden’s Vatican II Catholicism vs. JD Vance’s Other Catholicism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/05/joe-bidens-vatican-ii-catholicism-vs-jd-vances-other-catholicism/) - Joe Biden’s Catholicism, like that of Nancy Pelosi and many Catholic politicians of the past fifty years, was born of the Second Vatican Council called by Pope John XXIII in 1962, to “open the windows” to more involvement in the world. One’s work is meant to bring one’s values into culture and the world after
- [Week of 7/29-8/3/2024: The Cosmos, Creativity, Olympics](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/04/week-of-7-29-8-3-2024/) - July 29, 2024: A Plan for Inspiring the YoungWe continue to look at ways we might support our youth in the face of the alarming news that, around the globe and across cultures, youth are not happy. Worse, many express having "bad mental health days." Without the passion and exuberance of our young people, our
- [Olympic Games, bell hooks & Thomas Aquinas on Truth & Justice](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/03/olympic-games-bell-hooks-thomas-aquinas-on-truth-justice/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE: November 3, 2022] We continue our spiritual journey with bell hooks and another philosopher, Thomas Aquinas in the context of current Olympic Games. In this DM from the past, they are interacting on the critical topic of Truth. Without truth, a community dies. Lies are poison to relationships of any kind. Bell acknowledges that when
- [bell hooks & Others on Beauty, Politics and Justice](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/02/bell-hooks-others-on-beauty-politics-and-justice/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE: JUNE 2, 2023] In yesterday’s DM we continued our meditations on the Opening Ceremony of this year’s Olympic Games in Paris. We also addressed the mistaken understanding of a scene depicting a Dionysian Grecian feast and not—as reported—the Last Supper. (American TV for some reason left out the key character in that depiction.) Also,
- [The Olympic Opening Ceremony, the Unio Mystica & the Next Revolution](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/08/01/the-olympic-opening-ceremony-the-unio-mystica-the-next-revolution/) - As boats made their way along the Seine, loaded with athletes from around the world, dance of many variations was celebrated: Ordinary citizens of many generations and ethnicities, young and old, some slim, some very large, all dancing. And professional dancers as well. Musicians singing and playing grand pianos in the rain—I’ve never seen that before—I
- [Kudos to the French Daring a New Olympic Opening Ceremony](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/31/kudos-to-the-french-daring-a-new-kind-of-olympic-opening-ceremony/) - Speaking of creativity that should mark the spirituality and value system of a post-mechanistic universe based on “cosmogenesis,” I wish to cheer the courage and creativity on display in the opening ceremonies of the French-designed Olympic Games of 2024. Instead of athletes entering a stadium under their national flag, the French offered up the city
- [Step Number One in Awakening the Young: Cosmogenesis](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/30/step-number-one-in-awakening-the-young-cosmogenesis/) - To say that the modern era is behind us is to say that a new vision is beckoning us, a new view of the universe that is reaching out to us. Call it the vision of Cosmogenesis, a cosmos that is birthing all around us and through us. A vision not of machinery but of generation and
- [A Plan for Inspiring the Young](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/29/a-plan-for-inspiring-the-young/) - Recently, I introduced a scientific study on how unhappy young adults are around the world, in both wealthy and poor countries. In offering some medicine for such a malaise, we must begin with the obvious, namely that a materialistic view of the world is never enough to satisfy the human soul. It never has been. 24/7
- [Week of 7/22-27/2024: Sadness among our Youth & Renewed Hope in the Face of Momentous Current Events](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/28/week-of-7-22-27-2024/) - July 22, 2024: The Unhappiness of Young Adults World Over: A Scientific StudyA recent article shares with us disturbing news about the state of young people around the globe.* For many generations, the pattern was for young people to be among the happiest of human beings and for there to be a dip in that
- [Elder and Youth Interacting on Holiness and More](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/25/elder-and-youth-interacting-on-holiness-and-more-2/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE: MAY 23, 2020] Along with the dramatic presidential news of this week, we have been meditating on the subject of the depression of young adults found around the world according to recent scientific studies. In the next three DM’s we will reach back to consideration of youth and spirituality. Today’s DM concerns an
- [Another Striking Observation from Howard Thurman about Youth & Spiritual Leadership](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/27/another-striking-observation-from-howard-thurman-about-youth-spiritual-leadership-2/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE: September 22, 2019] Adam Bucko and I published a book together called Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation. We passed out questionnaires to many young adults around the country about their spiritual journeys which included such topics as how they underwent their own “callings” and how that related to compassion and
- [Creating Ceremony for Ritual among Homeless Youth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/26/creating-ceremony-for-ritual-among-homeless-youth-2/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE: NOVEMBER 7, 2020] Continuing our reflections on the young, I offer this DM about creating rituals together. Many young people can be met and healed in deep ways by learning to create rituals that serve their needs. Not only the Cosmic Mass has revealed this to me over the past 26 years, but also
- [About Sadness Among the Young & Uplift Around Kamala Harris](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/24/about-sadness-among-the-young-uplift-around-kamala-harris/) - In a Daily Meditation two days ago, I shared a new study that scientists called “shocking,” which tells the story of how young adults all over the world are in states of depression. I promised to probe the question more deeply in subsequent DMs. I encourage all readers to go to the “Comments” section of that
- [The Unhappiness of Young Adults World Over: A Scientific Study](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/22/the-unhappiness-of-young-adults-world-over-a-scientific-study/) - Recently a disturbing article about depression among young adults world over was brought to my attention. Its title hints at the severity of the problem: Young People Are Now So Unhappy That They’ve Changed A Fundamental Pattern of Life.* That pattern is that the young are usually happier than the adults. Scientists report being “shocked” by their
- [Youth Despair and Biden’s Decision to Let Go](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/23/youth-despair-and-bidens-decision-to-let-go/) - We introduced yesterday a vital topic based on new scientific studies about depression among young people world over. Information scientists conducting the studies called “shocking” since young people traditionally are agents of joy, promise and possibility whose aspirations energize the older generations. We promised to develop this theme more fully. But also yesterday, there was breaking news, of
- [Week of 7/15-20/2024: The Divine Feminine; Resurrection & Reincarnation](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/21/week-of-7-15-20-2024/) - July 15, 2024: What About Resurrection and Reincarnation?One reader posed the following question to Matthew: Have you given any thought to whether the idea of “one shot at life is all anybody ever gets, and then your soul goes to heaven or hell,” especially when compared to the alternative that our souls reincarnate many times? Matthew
- [Julian of Norwich Celebrating Divine Wisdom and the Feminine](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/20/julian-of-norwich-celebrating-divine-wisdom-and-the-feminine-2/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE: 9/16/21] Being aware how rarely the divine feminine and Mother Earth and feminine values are invoked in the current presidential goings-on in Milwaukee, we are trying to bring some needed spiritual dimensions to the political scene. Here we speak of Wisdom (who, like Mother Earth and our powers of birthing is feminine). Julian
- [Transformation and the Divine Feminine: Rich & Eckhart](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/19/transformation-and-the-divine-feminine-rich-eckhart-2/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE: February 8, 2022] We are trying to bring some feminist awareness--such as protecting Mother Earth--to the current political scene where, alas!, one whole political party has no interest in combating climate change, i.e. saving Mother Earth. And awakening not power-over but a transforming power of creativity. Power-with. Thus, the DM below. Speaking
- [Hildegard of Bingen’s Vision of the Divine Feminine](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/18/hildegard-of-bingens-vision-of-the-divine-feminine-2/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE: MAY 15, 2019] What strikes most about the Republican convention in Milwaukee is the utter silence about the number one moral and political issue of our day: Our treatment of Mother Earth. Climate Change. Matricide. Ecocide. All this gets ignored in a party whose favorite slogans are “drill, baby, drill” and “we have the right to
- [After Death: Stanislav Groff, Rabbi Zaslow and St. Paul](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/17/after-death-stanislav-groff-rabbi-zaslow-and-st-paul/) - We are meditating on what Reincarnation and Resurrection share in common. Psychiatrist Stanislav Groff comments on death and dying this way. Modern consciousness research has validated many of the claims of the great mystical traditions. It has shown that the spiritual scriptures, rather than being products of primitive minds dominated by willful and magical thinking, describe with
- [Resurrection and Reincarnation, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/16/resurrection-and-reincarnation-continued/) - We are responding to a question posed in yesterday’s DM about whether Reincarnation makes more sense than Resurrection. I believe that Resurrection and Reincarnation share more in common than we have been told. The Resurrection traditions are found in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. We tend to identify the Reincarnation tradition with the East but in fact Origin,
- [What About Resurrection and Reincarnation?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/15/what-about-resurrection-and-reincarnation/) - Recently, I received the following question from a DM reader: Have you given any thought to whether the idea of “one shot at life is all anybody ever gets, and then your soul goes to heaven or hell,” especially when compared to the alternative that our souls reincarnate many times? I don’t think this gets
- [Week of 7/8-13/2024: Democracy & Threats to Democracy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/14/week-of-7-8-13-2024/) - July 8, 2024: Jesus and Democracy according to Meister EckhartAs threats to democracy arise around the globe, and certainly in our country, we look to Eckhart for words of wisdom. In one extended treatise entitled “Everyone an Aristocrat, Everyone a Noble Person,” he makes explicit a theological grounding for democracy, based on the case that Jesus
- [Religion & Fascism: Examination of Conscience](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/13/religion-fascism/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE: November 29, 2023, originally titled "Religion & Fascism: Examination of Conscience in a Time of Advent"] Unfortunately, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference has embarrassed itself again by declaring that their number one priority this upcoming presidential election year will be: Abortion. Not the destruction of democracy and rule of law; and not even
- [Political Hacks & Religious Quacks: Christofascism in SCOTUS](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/12/political-hacks-religious-quacks-christofascism-in-scotus-2/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE: July 11, 2022] Recently I learned that Leonard Leo played a major role in Senator McConnell’s most nefarious deed: His refusal to allow President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland even a vote. We continue with our look back at the impact of Leonard Leo and Opus Dei on American politics. Opus
- [Political Hacks & Religious Quacks: Christofascism in SCOTUS](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2022/07/11/political-hacks-religious-quacks-christofascism-in-scotus/) - Opus Dei champion Leonardo Lee pushed far right judges onto the Supreme Court who find the whole idea of pluralism and separation of church and state repugnant. SCOTUS recently broke precedent about federal money for church schools and followed it up with a ruling that school districts cannot prohibit high school football coach's prayers on the
- [Senator Whitehouse on SCOTUS-Maker, “Creepy Leonard Leo”](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/11/senator-whitehouse-on-scotus-maker-creepy-leonard-leo/) - In yesterday’s DM, I made reference to Leonard Leo which one must always do if one is talking about the unsupreme court and its bevy of unjustices. His presence has been all-pervasive for years in the fashioning of the court and ensuring that the christofascist values he and Opus Dei embody are well represented there. Leo
- [When Injustices & Unjustices Attack Democracy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/10/when-injustices-unjustices-attack-democracy/) - We have been meditating on the teaching that lies behind democracy that Jesus and Eckhart talk about: The dignity and nobility of all persons, their rights and responsibilities born of being “images and likenesses” of the Holy One, the Great Mystery, the Creator and “Source without a Source.” Such uplifting teachings come up against hard
- [Jesus on Democracy à la Meister Eckhart, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/09/jesus-on-democracy-a-la-meister-eckhart-continued/) - Eckhart celebrates the theme of the “royal ‘person” as found in the Scriptures. The royal person in Israel was responsible for justice and keeping the community together. Eckhart insists we are all royal persons. We share in the dignity and nobility of royalty—but also in the responsibility for justice, compassion and keeping community together. This forms the
- [Jesus and Democracy according to Meister Eckhart](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/08/jesus-and-democracy-according-to-meister-eckhart/) - We find ourselves these days in a time of soulful struggle over democracy, whether in France, Italy, Hungary or other places. And certainly in a MAGA America and its UnSupreme Court eager to make kings of presidents and snatch decision-making about the environment from scientists—climate change and Mother Earth be damned—and give it to corporate
- [Week of 7/1-6/2024: Pride, SCOTUS & Concerns about Democracy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/07/week-of-7-1-6-2024/) - July 1, 2024: Pride Month: Science’s Latest Findings on Sexual Diversity among Numerous SpeciesFor years Matthew has cited a statistic that science has found 464 other species besides humans who practice homosexuality. That number has now blossomed to over 1500 observed species. Why is this important? Because for many centuries the argument against the diversity of
- [Hope and Pragmatism from Michael Moore](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/06/hope-and-pragmatism-from-michael-moore/) - Yesterday I offered David Orr’s definition of hope as “a verb with the sleeves rolled up,” and asked DM readers how they found their hope. Replies were both inspiring and practical. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. shared another fine definition of hope, just a week before he was martyred: “The refusal to give up.”
- [What Can We Do about a Rogue SCOTUS?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/05/what-can-we-do-about-a-rogue-scotus/) - Plenty. We can vote and organize and get out the vote—first for a president who will promise to expand the Supreme Court with intelligent persons with proven character who will uphold the Constitution of the United States. The Democratic Party is currently wrestling with who that candidate will be. Whoever it is must have the stamina and
- [July 4th & SCOTUS Proposes Presidents are Kings Immune from the Law](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/04/on-july-4-eve-scotus-rules-presidents-are-kings-immune-from-law/) - The profoundly ethically compromised SCOTUS has just ruled that what we thought was our republic, built on the Constitution and obedience to laws, is not that at all. Instead, they have declared that presidents are immune from obeying laws--just like the kings of old that the American Revolution fought to depose. Just two years after declaring
- [Letter to President Biden, Continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/03/letter-to-president-biden-continued/) - Following is a continuation of my Letter to President Biden begun in yesterday’s DM Dear President Biden, Your voluntary departure from the presidential race would open the door for a younger and more vigorous candidate to carry your “right” values into the future. You can retire as an elder statesman who can offer your wisdom to
- [A Letter to President Biden](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/02/a-letter-to-president-biden/) - Dear President Biden, Like many who watched the presidential debate on Thursday last week, I was dismayed by your performance. As a person who is your elder by a few years, I want to be candid with you and Jill and say people our age should not be running for president. The day after your sorry
- [Pride Month: Science’s Latest Findings on Sexual Diversity among Numerous Species](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/07/01/pride-month-sciences-latest-findings-on-sexual-diversity-among-numerous-species/) - I write this at the end of Pride month, but it will run on July 1. For years I have cited a statistic that science has found 464 other species besides humans who practice homosexuality. That number has now blossomed to over 1500 observed species. Why is this important? Because for many centuries the argument against
- [Week of 6/24-29/2024: Sr. Dot, Orvieto Art & Reinventing Education](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/30/week-of-6-24-29-2024/) - June 24, 2024: Sister Dorothy Stang to Be Formally Recognized as a Modern-Day MartyrMatthew was recently informed that Sister Dorothy Stang will be the first American woman included in The Sanctuary of New Martyrs at the Basilica of San Bartolomeo all’Isolaon in Rome, Italy.* Other modern-day martyrs to be included will be Saint Archbishop Oscar Romero,
- [Antichrist Image in Orvieto Cathedral: Archetype For Our Times?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/26/the-anti-christ-pictured-in-orvieto-cathedral-an-archetype-for-our-times/) - The Orvieto Cathedral has been called “a masterpiece of Italian Gothic architecture” and “the most beautiful church in the world.” Its façade, carved in the 1320s, has been called “The Bible in Stone.” One of the most amazing accomplishments among the many art pieces in the Orvieto Cathedral spanning three centuries is the the Apocalypse of Luca
- [Creation Spirituality Teachings at the Medieval Cathedral in Orvieto](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/25/creation-spirituality-teachings-at-the-medieval-cathedral-in-orvieto/) - CORRECTION: Yesterday I received a letter from Teresa Phillips of the Office of Justice, Peace, and Care of Creation from the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, Ohio Province,which apologized for "the confusion and incorrect information that was sent out," re: Sister Dorothy. It seems that The Sanctuary of New Martyrs is not a "Vatican memorial" but is
- [Contemplation, Another “C” toward Becoming Human](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/29/contemplation-another-c-toward-becoming-human-2/) - We are proposing an alternative to the silly and unconstitutional and unimaginative law by the state of Louisiana to put the ten commandments in all public schools. We call it the “10 c’s” and they have been tested in a test project in an inner city high school in Oakland, California. [FROM THE ARCHIVE: 8/5/2020] One
- [Educating for Character and Chakra Development](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/27/educating-for-character-and-chakra-development/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE: 8/3/2020]Recently, the state of Louisiana passed a law demanding that the Ten Commandments be posted in ALL public classrooms in the state—and the governor begged groups to sue them. Which is happening since there is supposed to be a separation of church and state in education. I propose that instead of such a
- [Building Character, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/28/building-character-continued1/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE: 8/4/2020] Instead of putting the 10 Commandments in every classroom--a silly and unconstitutional and unimaginative idea—we are proposing that we reflect on the “10 C’s” as a shared value system. We are currently addressing the “C” called Character. Character is about committing to values, values that count. “Value-free” education is a ruse. Value-free
- [Sister Dorothy Stang to Be Formally Recognized as a Modern-Day Martyr](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/24/sister-dorothy-stang-to-be-formally-recognized-as-a-modern-day-martyr/) - Marlene Denardo, director of our Master’s program at ICCS and UCS years ago, alerted me recently to a new honor bestowed on Sister Dorothy Stang. When Sister Dot was a student at ICCS, Marlene and she were delighted to reunite, since Marlene had been part of her religious community of Sisters of Notre Dame de
- [Week of 6/17-22/2024: Aquinas, Summer Solstice, Juneteenth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/23/week-of-6-17-22-2024/) - June 17, 2024: Happy Father’s Day 2024—One Day Late! Aquinas as Spiritual FatherMatthew, upon his return from Orvieto, Italy, shares some of his experiences there. He taught each morning, and the Art as Meditation teachers helped participants to explore Aquinas with their creativity, which helps truth and wisdom to unfold from within. One participant told Matthew
- [The First Juneteenth Holiday, 2021](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/22/the-first-juneteenth-holiday-2021/) - FROM THE ARCHIVE: June 20, 2021 This weekend we celebrate the first national holiday of Juneteenth, the culmination of the freedom of slaves in the USA (on paper at least). It is a holiday and holyday long overdue in the larger community, commemorating a keystone in Black American history. Juneteenth is to that community what
- [Aquinas on Truth, Justice, and Compassion—Issues in Today’s Presidential Run?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/18/aquinas-on-truth-justice-and-compassion-issues-in-todays-presidential-run/) - In yesterday’s Father’s Day DM, both essay and video, we celebrated Thomas Aquinas as a spiritual father to myself, and so many other people. In the video I recalled what a powerful spiritual father he was to Dante, Mechtild (a Beguine and member of the women’s movement of the Middle Ages), Meister Eckhart—and all the
- [Juneteenth: Survival in the Face of Racism, Sadism, Domination](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/21/juneteenth-survival-in-the-face-of-racism-sadism-domination-2/) - FROM THE ARCHIVE: 6/19/2020 Juneteenth is a celebration of the end of slavery, a day to honor the survival and resilience of Black people throughout 400 years of sheer inhumanity: from the profound sadism of slavery, through the Jim Crow laws, lynchings, and segregation, to the racism of today. Sadism is a kind of tyranny,
- [Two Days of Celebration this Week: Juneteenth & Summer Solstice](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/20/two-days-of-celebration-this-week-juneteenth-summer-solstice/) - FROM THE ARCHIVE: 6/24/2020. This week we celebrate two days of celebration—Juneteenth and the Summer Solstice. The Feast Day of Juneteenth honors the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, and resilience in the face of 400 years of enslavement and ongoing oppression of Black people. Slaves ripped from their land, culture and religion; the middle passage; hundreds of
- [Aquinas on Compassion & Politics, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/19/aquinas-on-compassion-politics-continued/) - In his commentary on the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew’s gospel, Aquinas defines compassion this way: To be compassionate is to have a heart that suffers from the misfortune of others because we think of it as our own.....You are truly compassionate when you are eager to repel the misfortune of others. We see
- [Happy Father’s Day 2024—One Day Late! Aquinas as Spiritual Father](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/17/happy-fathers-day-2024-one-day-late-aquinas-as-spiritual-father/) - I am writing this on Father’s Day, but you will receive it a day late. But I have a good excuse as I was on a plane for 12 hours yesterday coming home from Orvieto, Italy, where about 55 of us gathered to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Aquinas and the 750th
- [Week of 6/10-15/2024: Teilhard, Aquinas, Sister Dorothy & David Paladin](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/16/week-of-6-10-15-2024/) - June 10, 2024: From Orvieto: Aquinas and TeilhardMatthew is in Orvieto, Italy marking the 800th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Aquinas, leading a weeklong retreat which also features three art-as-meditation teachers. Last week we reflected on Teilhard de Chardin. Both Teilhard and Aquinas were lovers of both nature and science. Matthew asks himself, How
- [From Orvieto: Aquinas and Teilhard](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/10/from-orvieto-aquinas-and-teilhard/) - I am now in Orvieto, Italy, where I am on pilgrimage, one might say, to a place that was dear to Thomas Aquinas. I am leading a week-long workshop on him, along with three Art As Meditation instructors. I felt this 800th anniversary of his birth (and 750th anniversary of his death) deserved special attention. As in
- [More Wisdom from Artist-Shaman David Paladin](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/15/more-wisdom-from-artist-shaman-david-paladin/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE: April 29, 2021] In a previous DM, we referred to Sister Dorothy Stang and the role art as meditation played in building her courage and deepening her roots for the prophetic work that made such demands on her and that ultimately ended in her martrydom. Navajo painter David Paladin speaks to art as
- [Eco-Martyr Sister Dot & the Sacred Masculine](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/14/eco-martyr-sister-dot-the-sacred-masculine/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE: 5/29/2019] Let us explore more fully the story of Sister Dot and her martyrdom on behalf of Mother Earth. At Sister Dot’s funeral one of the indigenous farmers she had served stood up and declared: “Sister Dot, we are not burying you; we are planting you.” When she knew her life was in
- [Green Man Jesus Inspires <br>Eco-Martyr Sister Dorothy Stang](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/13/green-man-jesus-inspires-eco-martyr-sister-dorothy-stang/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE: 5/28/2019] Let us meditate on how the Green Man archetype challenges toxic masculinity today. We see examples in Hildegard of Bingen and in Sister Dorothy Stang. The former called Jesus a “green man.” ...This is striking for many reasons, first it shows how alert and aware Hildegard was to the signs of her times, since
- [Teilhard and Aquinas Battling Dualism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/12/teilhard-and-aquinas-battling-dualism/) - Teilhard, like Thomas Aquinas before him, waged an incessant battle against dualism. Aquinas did it by moving from Plato and Augustine to Aristotle. Teilhard, for example, challenges the meaning of “purity.” (Eckhart does the same.) Purity is not a debilitating separation from all created reality, but an impulse carrying one through all forms of created beauty. He rescues “purity” from
- [Teilhard, Aquinas and Creation Spirituality](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/11/teilhard-aquinas-and-creation-spirituality/) - Teilhard was accused of being “too pagan.” I was criticized for “working too closely with Native Americans.” (I think that might be a criticism of our having a sweat lodge on Holy Names College campus but I cannot be sure since Cardinal Ratzinger never spelled it out for me.) Of course, we also taught Native American spirituality
- [Week of 6/3-6/8/2024: Survey, Teilhard de Chardin, the Nobility Inside](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/09/week-of-6-3-6-8-2024/) - June 3, 2024: The DM Survey & Modest Changes to the DM Entering into its Sixth YearThank you to our readers who participated in a survey marking five years of bringing you Daily Meditations. We are gratified that you find these meditations helpful. Moving forward, we have decided to make a small change in order
- [The DM Survey & Modest Changes to the DM Entering into its Sixth Year](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/03/the-dm-survey-modest-changes-to-the-dm-entering-into-its-sixth-year/) - Dear DM Readers, First, I want to thank those of you who were able to participate for your contribution to our Survey of ten days ago. We learned a lot and had an above average response in terms of numbers, and thank you for the time and effort you put into your responses. It was encouraging to
- [Scripture on "The Nobility Inside"](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/08/scripture-on-the-nobility-inside-2/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE: 5/31/2019] We continue our exploration of the theme, “The Nobility Inside” which is such good medicine for a time when fascism is on the rise at home and abroad because it addresses the foundational issue: self-hatred, according to psychologist Erich Fromm. The Hebrew Scriptures speak of royal personhood being a sign of
- [Meister Eckhart on “The Nobility Inside”](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/07/meister-eckhart-on-the-nobility-inside-2/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE: 5/30/2019] Scripture has plenty to say about the “royal person” and the “nobility inside.” After all, Meister Eckhart’s approach to the topic, as we saw yesterday, is based on a gospel story that he develops. We consider Scriptures’ teaching on royalty and nobility in this DM. We have been speaking of the forgotten “nobility
- [The Nobility Inside](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/06/the-nobility-inside-2/) - [FROM THE ARCHIVE: 5/26/2019] After I wrote my book on The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine, I was speaking at an Earth Conference in New Mexico and an indigenous man approached me. He told me that he had been a chaplain in a state prison for men for 12 years and that
- [More Stories and Teachings from Teilhard de Chardin](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/05/more-stories-and-teachings-from-teilhard-de-chardin/) - One story that really rang a bell for me in the new film on Teilhard was this: The original buzz saw he ran into with the Vatican happened from a modest article he wrote on Original Sin. That was the match that first lit a fire against him, a fire that died down. It rang a
- [A Good Film on Teilhard de Chardin Now Available](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/04/a-good-film-on-teilhard-de-chardin-now-available/) - Recently, I watched a new movie on Teilhard de Chardin.* It was very well done and devoted a lot of time to the story of Teilhard, including his important relationships with women in his life. And also how much he suffered from his treatment by Rome and his Jesuit Order which forbade him to publish any of his books
- [Week of 5/27-6/1/2024: Joy, Panentheism, Beholding & a New Creed](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/02/week-of-5-27-6-1-2024/) - May 27, 2024: On the Origins of Joy: Who Is Our Beloved?Recently Matthew was being interviewed by Andrew Harvey on the topic of Joy. Andrew stressed that Matthew's teachings on panentheism bring an intimate groundedness to Joy which is so needed in this time. Matthew quoted Aquinas: "Love is the cause of joy" and "Everyone
- [Dorothee Soelle’s Creed in Contrast to the Nicene Creed](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/06/01/48648/) - Earlier this week, I criticized the Nicene creed for leaving out the teachings of Jesus. Quite a lacuna, I would say! I recommend the following creed gifted to us by the late feminist theologian, Dorothee Soelle, who has written substantively on Meister Eckhart and on the Beguines. Notice how, unlike the Nicene creed, it is less
- [Heschel, Eckhart, Merton on Beholding](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/31/heschel-eckhart-merton-on-beholding/) - Yesterday we meditated on Rabbi Heschel’s invitation to “behold in order to stand face to face with the beauty and grandeur of the universe.” Meister Eckhart also calls us to behold. He explains that “the word ‘behold’ implies three things: something great, something marvelous, or something rare.” What is great and marvelous and rare calls out
- [Learning to Behold](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/30/learning-to-behold/) - In yesterday’s DM, I cited Jesus who told us to “Behold the lilies of the field” and their beauty. I offered some examples of our learning to behold. How important is it to learn to behold? A lot of the Via Positiva is an exercise, a practice, in beholding. Behold a newborn baby. Behold my friend, parent, spouse,
- [When Faith & Panentheism Are Actions, Not Just Beliefs or Dogmas](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/29/when-faith-panentheism-are-actions-not-just-beliefs-or-dogmas/) - In yesterday’s DM, we reflected on a detour taken by Christianity in the fourth century when an emperor converted to Christianity called an Ecumenical Council that resulted in the Nicene Creed. And how that creed, while offering some basic common beliefs that helped bring warring Christian factions together, left out the teachings of Jesus! It focused exclusively
- [The Two-Fold Detour of Christianity in the Fourth Century](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/28/the-two-fold-detour-of-christianity-in-the-fourth-century/) - Christianity took a two-fold detour in the fourth century. First, when the emperor Constantine became Christian and spread Christianity through the empire in order to make some peace between warring factions of Christians. While peacemaking is a good thing, Christianity paid a severe price when it moved from being essentially a thorn in the empire’s
- [On the Origins of Joy: Who Is Our Beloved?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/27/on-the-origins-of-joy-who-is-our-beloved/) - Recently, I sat for an interview with Andrew Harvey for a course he is teaching on Joy. I have great respect for Andrew, who is busy bringing forth a Christ Path that incorporates essential wisdom from Christianity and other world spiritual traditions. Andrew was very close to the monk Father Bede Griffiths, and was with him
- [Week of 5/20-25/2024: Resisting Religious Fascism & Learning to Play with Dogmas](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/26/week-of-5-20-25-2024-resisting-religious-fascism-learning-to-play-with-dogmas/) - May 20, 2024: A Mother's Wisdom in Resisting Ecclesial Complicity & Religious NonsenseOn the 110th birthday of his mother (who died 21 years earlier), Matthew reminisces about his trip to visit his mother, just before the story about his silencing by the Vatican was about to hit the papers. He wanted her to hear the
- [Play, Art, Thawing and Melting of Dogmas and Ice, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/25/play-art-thawing-and-melting-of-dogmas-and-ice-continued/) - Yesterday, in response to a candid assessment by Pope Francis about the “suicidal’ conservatism of too many American bishops, whom he recognized as “closed up in a dogmatic box,” I offered a DM with an invitation to play in the sandbox of dogmas. Dogmas, ideas, as playthings. Toys in a sandbox. Or at the beach. That’s what ideas
- [Playing with Dogmas: Instead of Dogmas in a Box, Dogmas in a Sandbox!](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/24/playing-with-dogmas-instead-of-dogmas-in-a-box-dogmas-in-a-sandbox/) - Yesterday, we meditated on the importance of healthy criticism of institutions--but also the dangers of destroying them altogether, as fascists want to do. Recently, Pope Francis called out American bishops who become “closed up inside a dogmatic box.” It is good to hear a Pope criticize his own institution and confront American bishops for their
- [Destroying Institutions: Warnings from History](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/23/destroying-institutions-warnings-from-history/) - The Catholic Church is just one of many institutions that are diminishing before our eyes and being tempted to entertain simplistic ways out of their dilemma. It is very important in a time like ours, when so many institutions are failing us in so many ways, to criticize them in order to renew them. New ways
- [My Up-Close and Personal Experience with Fascism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/22/my-up-close-and-personal-experience-with-fascism/) - We are talking about cures for fascism. Fascism is born of fear and the compulsion to control. I have experienced Fascism up close and personal from that wing in the Roman Catholic church that was fascist in the first half of the twentieth century and has returned in our time to attack Pope Francis and others. The
- [A Church Protest by Myself and Jerry Mander in the New York Times ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/21/a-church-protest-by-myself-and-jerry-mander-in-the-new-york-times/) - In yesterday’s DM, which I wrote on my Mother’s birthday, I shared a story about her response to my official silencing for a year by the Vatican. And how she surprised me with her own church protests at 76 years of age. On the eve of my silencing, I published in the New York Times a full-page ad
- [A Mother’s Wisdom in Resisting Ecclesial Complicity & Religious Nonsense](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/20/a-mothers-wisdom-in-resisting-ecclesial-complicity-religious-nonsense/) - In the Saturday DM, I cited Pope Francis criticizing American Catholics bishops for their backwardness. I write this DM on Saturday, May 18, the 110th birthday of my mother (who died at 89 years of age). She left behind many stories that can, I think, inspire others. Just this past week, I told the following story
- [Week of 5/13-18/2024: Learning about & Healing Fascism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/19/week-of-5-13-18-2024/) - May 13, 2024: Wisdom and the Youth vs. Adultism, continuedAdults aren't doing a very good job at taking care of the world right now. When wise young people stand up and speak out for what's right, adults of conscience need to support and encourage them. The Cosmic Christ says: Do not confuse childlike and childish. Be
- [Pope Francis on 60 Minutes this Sunday](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/18/48321/) - A recent article in the National Catholic Reporter (a mildly progressive lay-run Catholic newspaper) reported that Pope Francis clearly worries about America. The U.S. church has ‘a very strong reactionary attitude,’ he told a group of Jesuits last year. ‘Being backward-looking is useless.’* Pope Francis is being interviewed by an American woman journalist on 60 Minutes this Sunday. It will be interesting to see
- [Some Truths about Fascism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/17/some-truths-about-fascism/) - Let me tell you some characteristics of Fascism: Fascism seeks to control. Fascism wants to control women’s bodies. Fascism wants to control ideas. Fascism wants to burn books or ban them. Fascism is Patriarchy unmasked. Fascism is dualism on steroids—Us vs. Them. Fascism blames others and projects onto others. Fascism is ill at ease with
- [Original Blessing, Self-Love, and the Curing of Fascism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/16/original-blessing-self-love-and-the-curing-of-fascism/) - If self-hatred leads to fascism, then the cure for fascism is self-love. Meister Eckhart asks, How can anyone be compassionate toward her neighbor who is not compassionate toward herself? This is why Jesus says: ‘Be compassionate!’ He wants our compassion to begin at home. He wants us to be compassionate toward our own body and our own soul. He
- [Mysticism, Love & the Curing of Self-Hatred & Therefore Fascism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/15/mysticism-love-the-curing-of-self-hatred-and-therefore-fascism/) - The cure for self-hatred is self-love. It is mysticism therefore. The mystic in us is the lover in us. Love includes loving oneself and loving creation which birthed us. Hear what Thomas Aquinas says about self-love: Self-love is the form and root of all friendship. Well-ordered self-love is right and natural—so much so that the person who hates
- [Is “Original Blessing” Part of the Cure to Today’s Fascism? ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/14/is-original-blessing-part-of-the-cure-to-todays-fascism/) - Why the rising tide of fascism today? Why the appeal of authoritarianism, strong man politics, “Christian” white nationalism, etc. at this time in history? I would like to explore that pressing question in the next several Daily Meditations. I think a big part of the answer relates directly to my book on Original Blessing. Why do I say
- [Wisdom and the Youth vs. Adultism, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/13/wisdom-and-the-youth-vs-adultism-continued/) - We continue our meditation on how the young awaken a sense of morality and justice when adults are acting badly and “adultism” rules. When adults think they alone make the rules and can rip them up whenever they like. Current headlines are shouting facts like these: An obscene war raging in Gaza has killed 34,000
- [Mother’s Day 2024 & a Survey on Our 5th Anniversary](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/11/mothers-day-2024-a-survey-on-our-5th-anniversary/) - Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. A blessed and grateful and joyful Mother’s Day to all mothers and grandmothers—the literal ones and the mothering principle in all of us! Julian of Norwich talks about motherhood this way— A mother’s service is nearest, readiest and surest.... Compassion belongs to the motherhood in tender grace and it protects, increases our
- [Week of 5/6-11/2024: Compassion, Activism, Wisdom](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/12/week-of-5-6-11-2024/) - May 6, 2024: Compassion, Eckhart, and Humanity’s FutureMatthew is teaching a class on what Eckhart and other mystics can teach us about compassion. Matthew says he's excited because when we talk about compassion, we talk about "the best humanity has to offer—and Meister Eckhart is a genius on compassion." Compassion is recognized in all the world
- [Values, Education and Heeding the Wisdom of the Young](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/10/values-education-and-heeding-the-wisdom-of-the-young/) - We ended yesterday’s DM citing congressman Ro Khanna about the sit-ins on campuses around America and the world protesting war. Other adults—as opposed to politicians making up ways to prove antisemitism is behind it all—have offered similar observations of the truth telling going on on campuses. Values, Values, Values are missing in current academia. The dwindling of liberal
- [Youth: Speaking Truth to Powerful Guardians of Education](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/09/youth-speaking-truth-to-powerful-guardians-of-education/) - The youth need to speak truth to power—someone has to after all. The powerful are often tired guardians of the status quo and its mighty institutions. When one sees presidents of universities cower under questioning at congressional hearings, then rush back to their campus and call in the police to harass and beat up on their
- [Young on Campuses and Truth on the Rise: Thoughts from Heschel](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/08/young-on-campuses-and-truth-on-the-rise-thoughts-from-heschel/) - If anything characterizes the politics of our time--and the distorted media and social media in our time--it is the disregard for truth. Rabbi Heschel underscored what is at stake when truth gets lost. Truth is severe, harsh, demanding. We would rather hide our face in the sand than be confronted by it. Denial is not truth; denial
- [Beyond Patriarchy: Teachings on Mysticism from Dorothee Soelle](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/04/beyond-patriarchy-teachings-on-mysticism-from-dorothee-soelle/) - Dorothee Soelle combined the mystical tradition and prophetic activist traditions wonderfully—as did her mentor, Meister Eckhart. And the Beguines of the women’s movement of the Middle Ages about whom she also wrote in depth. Soelle teaches mysticism as an alternative to patriarchy: We must approach mysticism, which comes closest to overcoming the hierarchical masculine concept of
- [Gratitude for Youth Protest on Campuses in a Time of Moral Crisis](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/07/gratitude-for-youth-protest-on-campuses-in-a-time-of-moral-crisis/) - Having come of age in the time of protests against the Viet Nam war and ossified education that were happening in Europe and North America in the 1960s, it is a sign of hope to see so many students today protesting the horrors of the war in Gaza. Being a student in Paris and Munster, Germany in
- [Week of 4/29-5/4/2024: Christofascism, the Un-Supreme Court, & the Wisdom of Dorothee Soelle](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/05/week-of-4-29-5-4-2024/) - April 29, 2024: Five Men on the Once Supreme Court Embarrass Themselves AnewRegarding SCOTUS being willing to consider immunity: One lawyer called it a “dark day” for the rule of law. Another called it an “embarrassment.” Another suggested that we move the Supreme Court to the RNC Headquarters because that is whom SCOTUS is now serving. Is all
- [Compassion, Eckhart, and Humanity’s Future](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/06/compassion-eckhart-and-humanitys-future/) - I am genuinely excited about a new class I am teaching with Shift Network beginning tomorrow, called “Cultivating Compassion in Spirituality: What Meister Eckhart & Other World Mystics Can Teach Us about Navigating Collective Turmoil.” Why am I so excited? Because when we are dealing with compassion, we are dealing with the best humanity has
- [Dorothee Soelle Offers Medicine for Christolatry & Christofascism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/03/dorothee-soelle-offers-medicine-for-christolotry-christofascism/) - Having spent the last DMs on the bad news of Christofascism and Patriarchy and their many incarnations at SCOTUS and Opus Dei, it is a refreshing thing to meditate on medicine for such sicknesses. I find much balm in the work of feminist and liberation theologian and lover of Meister Eckhart, Dorothee Soelle. It was from
- [A Deeper Look at Opus Dei, Christofascism, Misogyny & SCOTUS](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/02/a-deeper-look-at-opus-dei-christofascism-misogyny-scotus/) - Since the far-right wing cult in the Roman Catholic church known as “Opus Dei” has played such a prominent role in Leonard Leo’s life and in the current Supreme Court that he has fashioned, it seems fitting to take a closer look at the organization. Christofascism is always steeped in misogyny. So was the fascist founder
- [SCOTUS & the Unleashing of Patriarchy, Christofascism & Misogyny](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/05/01/scotus-the-unleashing-of-patriarchy-christofascism-misogyny/) - What a contrast there was on that fateful SCOTUS Thursday last week between the women and the male judges! The former talked about speeding up the process and about the price to be paid by allowing presidents vast immunity loopholes. The male judges, drowning in Patriarchy and exuding disdain, arrogance and privilege, wrapped themselves in airy
- [The Triumph of Disdain: Patriarchy & the Boys at SCOTUS](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/30/the-triumph-of-disdain-patriarchy-the-boys-at-scotus/) - In yesterday’s video, I cited male SCOTUS judges informing us they weren’t interested in the current case before them but about “the future.” Disdain—a “value” everywhere cherished by Patriarchy-- is everywhere in SCOTUS’s pontificating. Webster’s defines “disdain” as “a feeling of contempt for what is beneath one. Scorn.” (“Arrogance” also defines disdain.) This SCOTUS sees everyone as
- [Five Men on the Once Supreme Court Embarrass Themselves Anew](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/29/five-men-on-the-once-supreme-court-embarrass-themselves-anew/) - One lawyer called it a “dark day” for the rule of law. Another called it an “embarrassment.” Another suggested that we move the Supreme Court to the RNC Headquarters because that is whom SCOTUS is now serving. One justice, overcome with his own importance, proclaimed that they were destined to write an opinion for the ages. Another,
- [Cecil Williams, Mystic & Prophet & Authentic Christian Leader, Part II](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/27/cecil-williams-mystic-amp-prophet-amp-authentic-christian-leader-part-ii/) - We are meditating on the life and gifts of Cecil Williams, pastor since 1963 at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco who died this week. Cecil and his wife Janice Mirikitani founded countless healing groups not just for AA but for all manner of wounds and addictions, and moved people from victims to agents. Many of
- [Week of 4/22-27/2024: Fighting Climate Change & Honoring Cecil Williams](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/28/week-of-4-22-27-2024-fighting-climate-change-honoring-cecil-williams/) - April 22, 2024: Earth Day, Passover & the Cost of Climate ChangeWe reflect on the meaning of both Passover and Earth Day, which fall on the same day this year. A recent study explored the economic ramifications of climate change. The climate crisis will shrink the average global income 19% in the next 26 years. The
- [Remembering Cecil Williams: A Great & Real Religious/Spiritual Leader](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/26/remembering-cecil-williams-a-great-real-religious-spiritual-leader/) - A great man died this week on Monday, which was Earth Day and Passover Day. Rev. Cecil Williams, co-founder in 1963 of Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District, passed on at age 94. A mystic and prophet who knew what healthy religion is meant to be, I think it can be said that Cecil
- [Forces of Greed & Forces of Justice Joining to Combat Climate Change?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/25/forces-of-greed-forces-of-justice-joining-to-combat-climate-change/) - Bill McKibben observes in the CommonDreams article* that if the world economy loses $38 trillion per year due to climate change by the beginning of 2050, it “seems like a lot.” He suggests that “these findings should persuade major companies to embrace climate action for self-interest reasons.” Fossil fuel companies and banks are very good at
- [The Silver Lining in Recent Bad News about Climate Change](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/24/the-silver-lining-in-recent-bad-news-about-climate-change/) - In honor of the liberation from slavery and the “angel of death” in this Passover season, and in honor of Earth Day this week, yesterday’s and Saturday’s DM dealt with a recent study about Climate and Economics. Is Climate Change an “angel of death” coming to get us all? If so, what can we do about
- [The Silver Lining & Possible Game Changer Regarding Climate Change](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/23/the-silver-lining-possible-game-changer-regarding-climate-change/) - What makes the current scientific study about climate change a game changer for the environmental movement fighting Climate Change is this: Previous information aroused people (and some governments) with a conscience considering the damage to come for world order and the disappearance of millions of species. The droughts, floods, wild fires, increased hurricanes, rising seas,
- [Earth Day, Passover & the Cost of Climate Change](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/22/earth-day-passover-the-cost-of-climate-change/) - In Saturday’s DM, we shared Rabbi Heschel’s valuable reflections on Liberation and Redemption, and how all human deeds are meant to “advance the drama of redemption.” All are called to participate in such works of liberation—and Passover commemorates that. He says our work for compassion and justice is meant to be a joyful work that elicits
- [Week of 4/15-20/2024: The World as Love, Jews of Conscience, Passover & Earth Day](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/21/week-of-4-15-20-2024/) - April 15, 2024: Is the World Love as Teilhard Teaches?Teilhard de Chardin said that we should add to the teaching “God is Love” a teaching that “The World is Love.” Is he being naive or is he onto something? Teilhard was a passionate advocate of evolution, and it cost him much professionally. He was banished to
- [Earth Day & Passover 2024: Heschel on Passover](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/20/earth-day-passover-2024-heschel-on-passover/) - On Monday, we are celebrating both Earth Day and Passover for they fall on the same day this year. That synchronicity is special. Maybe there is a deep meaning behind honoring Earth’s Liberation and the Israelites’ Liberation on the same Holy Day this Spring. The Jews were enslaved and unfree at the time of the original Passover. Plagues
- [More on Love & Collective Atonement from Jews of Conscience](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/19/more-on-love-the-collective-atonement-from-jews-of-conscience/) - We are meditating on God as Love and the World as Love—the latter being a statement proposed by Teilhard de Chardin in light of the history of evolution that, in his view, has been a history of increased consciousness and awareness of the Love that the universe bestows on us. How the direction of evolution
- [Jews of Conscience Speaking Out on Brutality to Palestinians](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/18/jews-of-conscience-speaking-out-on-brutality-to-palestinians/) - We have been meditating on Teilhard’s teaching that not only is God Love but also “the world is Love.” We have brought Thomas Aquinas, Julian of Norwich, Ernesto Cardinale and others into the conversation as well. But often the news tells us that humans are very far from love and loving—a huge gap exists between a
- [Aquinas on Love in the Universe, the World as Love](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/17/aquinas-on-love-in-the-universe-the-world-as-love/) - Love has brought us here. Evolution has brought us here. The Universe has brought us here. And where is here? The universe, our home. The universe is a demanding place. This is not a cheap date, our existence. It costs us to be here. There is suffering, there is war, there is loss, there is regret, there is death. But above all,
- [Aquinas & Teilhard Envisioning the World as Love](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/16/aquinas-teilhard-envisioning-the-world-as-love/) - In yesterday’s DM, we posed a question triggered by the teachings of Teilhard de Chardin--Should we not only recognize that “God is Love”, but also that “the World is Love”? Again, by “world” Teilhard is not talking about the world that humanity makes so much as the bigger picture—the world that makes us. The world that
- [Is the World Love as Teilhard Teaches?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/15/is-the-world-love-as-teilhard-teaches/) - In Saturday’s meditation, I cited Teilhard de Chardin, scientist, mystic, and Jesuit priest, who said that we should add to the teaching that “God is Love” a teaching that “The World is Love.” Is the world Love? Is Teilhard being naïve about evil, shadow, miscommunication (the Tower of Babel story), hatred, war, injustice, racism, sexism,
- [Week of 4/8-14/2024: The Way of the Mystic as an Antidote to Despair](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/14/week-of-4-8-14-2024/) - April 8, 2024: Can the Best of Humanity Please Show Up?In an op-ed article in the New York Times, Jose Andres, founder of World Central Kitchen, condemned Netanyahu for the intentional attacks of workers delivering food aid to Gaza. He said, “It is time for the best of Israel to show up.” Matthew suggests that
- [The Mystics Reinforcing the Via Positiva](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/13/the-mystics-reinforcing-the-via-positiva/) - We began the week meditating on the Solar Eclipse that many experienced as a mystical experience. Mystics—including all of us—are people in touch with the Via Positiva which invites us to stretch and grow our soul. We are meant to fall in love at least three times per day. With creation. If mystics are lovers, no doubt
- [From Despair to Cosmic Beauty, Awe, Celebration & Gratitude  ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/12/from-despair-to-cosmic-beauty-awe-celebration-gratitude/) - Thomas Aquinas teaches that despair is the “most dangerous” of all sins. It is not the worst—injustice is—but it is the most dangerous. Why? Because when a person or a society is in despair it does not care about itself and certainly not about others. Despair kills compassion. Many politicians are preaching despair today and are not interested in
- [The Mystic, the Best in Us, Tackles Despair, the Worst in Us](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/11/the-mystic-the-best-in-us-tackles-despair-the-worst-in-us/) - T. S. Eliot says this about the mystics: “Mystics are the only hope—or else despair.” The mystic offers medicine for despair and confronts it--despair in oneself, despair as it wafts through a culture in a particular historical period. There is a lot of despair in the air these days, in fact people are writing books, offering
- [Can a Solar Eclipse Assist in Making Mystics & Lovers of Us All?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/10/can-a-solar-eclipse-assist-in-making-mystics-lovers-of-us-all/) - Called “the most viewed astronomical event in history,” the solar eclipse on April 8 for those who were in its path did not disappoint. People said they were “wowed” and “moved deeply” and underwent an “unforgettable experience.” Another way to talk about it is that they had a mystical experience. Humans tend to undergo mystical experiences when
- [The Mystic in Us: The “Best in Humanity”?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/09/the-mystic-in-us-the-best-in-humanity/) - In yesterday’s DM, citing Jose Andres, we asked that the best of humanity please stand up. What is the best in humanity? Carl Jung says, “it is to the mystics that we owe what is best in humanity.” It seems important then that we learn more about the mystics. This will be a common theme in our forthcoming
- [Can the Best of Humanity Please Show Up?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/08/can-the-best-of-humanity-please-show-up/) - In Saturday’s DM, we cited the founder of World Central Kitchen, chef Jose Andres, whose organization has provided 43 million meals for victims of war in Palestine. He appropriately declared that in the crisis going on there, “it is time for the best of Israel to show up.” I couldn’t agree more—but I also want to
- [Week of 4/2 - 6/2024: Reflections on Resurrection](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/07/week-of-4-2-6-2024-resurrection-reflections/) - April 2, 2024: Resurrection Appearance Stories Yesterday & TodayMatthew was visiting a rabbi friend who is dying. The rabbi brought up the subject of resurrection. Matthew reminded him that "Resurrection is a Jewish idea that was in hot debate in the first century." Jesus espoused the concept of resurrection. Matthew shared Aquinas’s teachings on the
- [Human Transformation, Emmaus & Efforts to Feed the Starving in Gaza](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/05/human-transformation-emmaus-efforts-to-feed-the-starving-in-gaza/) - In yesterday’s DM, I ask whether human nature itself has been transformed by the Resurrection and Resurrection appearances. We do look for transformation of the shadow side of our humanity so everywhere present in headlines day after day. Whether Putin’s war in Ukraine or the war in Sudan or the horrors in Gaza triggered initially by
- [Jose Andres: Wisdom & Hope for a Transformed Humanity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/06/jose-andres-wisdom-hope-for-a-transformed-humanity/) - Jose Andres is founder of World Central Kitchen and a well-known chef. He knew and worked alongside the seven people who were trying to relieve starvation in Gaza and were blown up by the Israeli army on Monday. In a moving and powerful article in the New York Times, Jose says this about his co-workers: “they
- [The Resurrection Story & the Transformation of Human Nature](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/04/the-resurrection-story-the-transformation-of-human-nature/) - We ended yesterday’s DM with New Testament scholar Bruce Chilton explaining the Resurrection by its results and impact on the historical movement that occurred in the name of Jesus. In that movement, believers conceived that Jesus, alive after his death, appeared in visions, conveyed purity, assured the promise of the coming age, provoked an extension
- [Resurrection Appearances: The Heart of the Resurrection Story](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/03/resurrection-appearances-the-heart-of-the-resurrection-story/) - In yesterday’s DM, we considered Resurrection stories today and yesterday from the perspective of appearances of the deceased. I appreciate many things in New Testament scholar Bruce Chilton’s recent book on Resurrection Logic: How Jesus’ First Followers Believed God Raised Him from the Dead. In it, he criticizes the “obsessive” quest for an empty tomb that often
- [Resurrection Appearance Stories Yesterday & Today](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/02/resurrection-appearance-stories-yesterday-today/) - Recently, a rabbi friend who is dying invited me to visit him. He is a person I admire deeply who has contributed very much to the world as rabbi, theologian, and activist. We discussed many things, including battles we engaged in side by side over the years, and more. I let him lead the conversation and at
- [Week of 3/25-31: Aquinas, Holy Week & Easter](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/04/01/week-of-3-25-30-aquinas-holy-week/) - March 25, 2024: Aquinas on Spirit as Feminine, Creativity, & God as ‘Artist of Artists’Matthew tells us that Aquinas's teachings on the Via Creativa are "without parallel" and influenced a number of mystics, including Dante. Aquinas spoke these beautiful words: “The same Spirit who hovered over the waters at the beginning of creation, hovers over
- [Easter & Resurrection: Hope and Promise in Dark Times](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/31/easter-resurrection-hope-and-promise-in-dark-times/) - Resurrection is an archetype filled with meaning and promise that can move us beyond fear and doubt, to joyful action and building a “new creation” and a renewed humanity. Thomas Aquinas speaks of the “first and second resurrection,” and says this about the first: ‘Arise from the dead’ means from dead or destructive actions. Christ ‘will
- [What is Death? Lessons in the Via Negativa from Holy Week](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/30/what-is-death-lessons-in-the-via-negativa-from-holy-week/) - What is death? It seems most creatures are not preoccupied with that question. Instead, they are very busy getting on with life securing their individual place in the world and carrying on the work of their species. But humans are regularly asking ourselves that question. And especially when witnessing it. I see death as a reminder that our
- [Good Friday, 2024: A Meditation on Death](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/29/good-friday-2024-a-meditation-on-death/) - As I write this, my sister-in-law lies very near to death, having just received the last rites of the Catholic Church. Her family has gathered in a vigil at her hospital bed, playing the music of Leonard Cohen to whom she was very devoted. Two weeks ago, I went to say Goodbye to my brother in
- [The Four Paths and Holy Week: A Meditation](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/28/the-four-paths-and-holy-week-a-meditation/) - This is Holy Week and today is Holy Thursday. Holy Week is more of a liturgical art form to remind us of the events surrounding Jesus’s last days than it is a literal chronology of the week, as Biblical scholars remind us. I find it useful to look at the week in light of the Four
- [Aquinas on the Marriage of Imagination & Our Prophetic Vocation](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/27/aquinas-on-the-marriage-of-imagination-our-prophetic-vocation/) - In recent daily meditations, we have been considering the immense role that the Via Creativa plays in Thomas Aquinas’s theology. Being an “image of God” is not about preening ourselves in front of the mirror after all--it is about giving birth. What do we choose to give birth to in these times of rupture and brokenness
- [Aquinas and the Via Creativa, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/26/aquinas-and-the-via-creativa-continued/) - Aquinas sees all creation carrying the mark of creativity, because “things were made like God not only in being but also in acting.” Furthermore, “the dignity of causality is imparted even to creatures.” Yes! And to a special degree, the human creature has been blessed with this “dignity of causality.” Do we feel such dignity?
- [Aquinas on Spirit as Feminine, Creativity, & God as ‘Artist of Artists’](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/25/aquinas-on-spirit-as-feminine-creativity-god-as-artist-of-artists/) - We continue our meditation on the proto-feminism of Thomas Aquinas. His emphasis on art and creativity as a spiritual path is part of his appreciation of the Feminine side of Divinity. His teachings on the Via Creativa are without parallel and inspired Meister Eckhart, Mechtild of Magdeburg, Julian of Norwich (the first woman to write a
- [Week of 3/18-23/2024: Celebrating the Feminism and Deep Ecumenism of Thomas Aquinas](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/24/week-of-3-18-23-2024-celebrating-the-feminism-and-deep-ecumenism-of-thomas-aquinas/) - March 18, 2024: Honoring Thomas Aquinas’s Non-Dualism & Proto-FeminismA woman devoted to women's rights asked Matthew to make the case for attending our summer workshop on Aquinas in Orvieto, Italy. Matthew calls Aquinas a proto-feminist. He tells us that the late Catholic feminist theologian Dr. Rosemary Ruether has written how the foundation of patriarchy is
- [Aquinas, Chenu, Feminism, Sheldrake on Nature as Revelation](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/23/aquinas-chenu-feminism-sheldrake-on-nature-as-revelation/) - Aquinas’s respect for matter, nature and science is laid bare in this one teaching from him: ”Revelation comes in two volumes: Nature and the Bible.” He is putting the work of the scientist on a plane equal to that of Biblical exegetes. Chenu summarizes Aquinas’s teaching this way: The subtle analysis Aquinas used to vindicate the interiority
- [Cosmology, Science & A Spirituality of Matter in Aquinas](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/22/cosmology-science-a-spirituality-of-matter-in-aquinas/) - We have been meditating on Aquinas as a proto-feminist, a practitioner of Deep Ecumenism, a lover of creation and cosmology. He honored science and the scientific vocation, and his embrace of Aristotle scandalized many. Aquinas wrote an elaborate commentary on the cosmology of Aristotle’s day, where he both explains and critiques in detail the theories
- [More Feminism and Deep Ecumenism and Science from Aquinas](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/21/more-feminism-and-deep-ecumenism-and-science-from-aquinas/) - Further evidence of the proto-feminism of Thomas Aquinas includes his reminding his readers on several occasions that the word “Spirit” in Hebrew is feminine (ruah). He also says, Christ is “like a mother”—which no doubt impacted Julian of Norwich who developed that concept more richly than any theologian until the late 20th century. That and
- [Aquinas, Feminism, Deep Ecumenism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/20/aquinas-feminism-deep-ecumenism/) - Yesterday I received an e mail from a reader of our DM who told me that my perspective on Thomas Aquinas and his proto-feminism was unique compared to that she had learned from Roman Catholic teachers. I have been living with Aquinas since I was fifteen years old and went to my parish priest (the
- [Aquinas, Ruether, Misogyny & the November Election](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/19/aquinas-ruether-misogyny-the-november-election/) - Yesterday we meditated on Thomas Aquinas’s courageous and controversial move against dualisms of matter vs spirit and body vs. soul that had characterized much of Christian theology for centuries. We invoked theologian Rosemary Ruether who lays much of the oppression of women to a philosophy of dualism found in the “fathers” of the Christian church. She
- [Honoring Thomas Aquinas’s Non-Dualism & Proto-Feminism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/18/honoring-thomas-aquinass-non-dualism-proto-feminism/) - I opened an e-mail early this morning, from a woman leader who is very committed to women’s rights, including the ordination of women. She asked me to make the case for attending our summer workshop in Orvieto, Italy, on Thomas Aquinas. I am happy to make that case. In my major study on Aquinas, Sheer
- [Week of 3/11-16/2024: Our Work as an Act of Holiness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/17/week-of-3-11-16-2024/) - March 11, 2024: Why Human Work Counters Despair & Is a Path to HolinessWe have been reflecting on the words of retired lawyer Kenneth Matheny who, though very critical of his profession and SCOTUS at this time, assures us that “all is not lost.” Matthew says: I think the key lies with humans who are
- [Experiencing God in Nature, Including Our Work That Bears Fruit](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/16/experiencing-god-in-nature-including-our-work-that-bears-fruit/) - Thomas Aquinas alerts us to how “God works at the heart of all activity.” The late California poet Bill Everson (also known as “Brother Antoninus” when he was a Dominican brother and poet for sixteen years) used to say that “most people experience God in nature, or experience God not at all.” Is Everson saying
- [The Via Negativa in Work & Mystics Contextualizing Our Work](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/15/the-via-negativa-in-work-mystics-contextualizing-our-work/) - We ended yesterday’s DM speaking of the inner work that feeds our outer work which is what we leave behind when we depart this world. Humans work. All beings have their work to do, their contribution to make to the whole, to the cosmos, to “making the wheel of the cosmos go around” as Hildegard of
- [Ecstasy, Inebriation, the Universe and Our Work](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/14/ecstasy-inebriation-the-universe-and-our-work/) - In yesterday’s DM, we cited Hildegard on her vision that linked our work to the altar and a temple, therefore to the universe and to cosmogenesis. For the universe is God’s temple and a temple is meant to stand for the center of the universe in the Jewish tradition. Aquinas comments on the psalmist’s song “They
- [Hildegard on Our Work as Cosmic and Sacramental Work](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/13/hildegard-on-our-work-as-cosmic-and-sacramental-work/) - Recently, a successful businesswoman in Oakland who runs a car repair shop, told me that my book The Reinvention or Work “is even more needed today than 30 years ago when you wrote it.” She told me she gives the book out to all her employees when she hires them as it lays out the values for her
- [Harriet Tubman, A Holy Worker Par Excellence](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/12/harriet-tubman-a-holy-worker-par-excellence/) - In yesterday’s DM we honored work as a forge of holiness. And in recent DMs we remembered black heroes and sheroes of old. Harriet Tubman (c. 1820-1911) is one of those sheroes. Called the “Moses of her people,” she escaped from slavery and then committed herself to assisting others to escape. Called a “conductor” of the Underground
- [Why Human Work Counters Despair & Is a Path to Holiness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/11/why-human-work-counters-despair-is-a-path-to-holiness/) - We ended a recent DM citing lawyer Kenneth Matheny, who, though very critical of his profession and SCOTUS at this time, assures us that “all is not lost.” Even though much is going backwards, right before our eyes—“all is not lost.” A long list that includes the gutting of civil rights laws bought at such a
- [Week of 3/4-9/2024: Lawyers on Dreadful SCOTUS; Rabbis about Bushnell & Gaza](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/10/week-of-3-4-9-2024/) - March 4, 2024: The Sickness and Treachery of Today’s Supreme Court, continuedSCOTUS's decision to hear Trump's plea for immunity from criminal prosecution will go down in infamy. This morally compromised Court has also invited dark money into our political system; vetoed gun controls; refused to critique gerrymandering; and rejected a 50-year precedent in order to
- [Hostility to Democracy in the Current Judiciary](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/09/hostility-to-democracy-in-the-current-judiciary/) - We are interacting with a lawyer who responded two days ago in the Comments section to my DM on “Dred Scott & SCOTUS Spreading Dread Across the Land.” Kenneth Matheny warns us that another court case coming this year from SCOTUS may well “greatly weaken federal agencies that protect our environment, consumers, and workers.” He also
- [More from Rabbi Waskow & Aaron Bushnell on Resistance](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/08/more-from-rabbi-waskow-aaron-bushnell-on-resistance/) - We are meditating on the disturbing news of the tragedy in Gaza and on a disturbing act of self-immolation by Aaron Bushnell meant to bring attention to this crisis. Rabbi Waskow compares Aaron’s act of self-immolation to the attack on October 7 against Israelis as well as the Israeli response and finds it far less
- [Rabbis Speaking Out on the Evil in Gaza & One Man’s Sacrifice](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/07/rabbis-speaking-out-on-the-evil-in-gaza-one-mans-sacrifice/) - Two rabbis have spoken to me recently about the tragedy going on in Gaza—one in person and the other in his newsletter. One said, “It is simply evil what President Biden is doing supporting Netanyahu in his genocide in Gaza.” The second rabbi wrote a powerful and thoughtful piece about the sacrifice offered by Aaron
- [A Lawyer Responding to Yesterday’s DM on SCOTUS & Dread](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/06/a-lawyer-responding-to-yesterdays-dm-on-scotus-dread/) - I do not often respond to the “Comments” section of our Daily Meditations, but today I choose to do so because the stakes are exceptionally high. I thank Kenneth Larry Matheny for his Comment yesterday to my SCOTUS/Dred Scott DM and want to share it because I think it names much of the pain and
- [Dred Scott & SCOTUS Spreading Dread Across the Land](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/05/dred-scot-scotus-spreading-dread-across-the-land/) - I spoke four DMs ago about “interrupting” our DM on courage and sacrifice of spiritual activists such as Alexei Navalny and Sister Dot and Frederick Douglas and Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman. Why such an interruption? In order to speak to the current decision by SCOTUS to take up the ex-president’s total immunity case and thereby delay
- [The Sickness and Treachery of Today’s Supreme Court, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/04/the-sickness-and-treachery-of-todays-supreme-court-continued/) - Instead of the "Supreme Court of the United States," perhaps the SCOTUS should rename itself this: “Supremely Compromised Outfit Targeting the United States.” Targeting it from within. I believe Wednesday will be remembered as the Pearl Harbor and “day of infamy” delivered from within by the SCOTUS. This same Court has invited dark money into our
- [Week of 2/26-3/2/2024: Douglass & Sojourner Truth; Shameless SCOTUS](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/03/week-of-2-26-3-2-2024/) - February 26, 2024: The Holiness and Greatness of Frederick DouglassFebruary is Black History Month and today we celebrate the brilliance of Frederick Douglass. He has been called “the most influential black man in 19th-century America” who experienced “untold acts of brutality” as a slave. An exquisite orator and writer, he is said to have “mastered
- [The Supreme Shame of the Supreme Court](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/02/the-supreme-shame-of-the-supreme-court/) - I write this on the day of the funeral for Alexei Navalny who died for a more just Russia. I pause our meditations on him, Sr. Dorothy Stang, Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth who all stood up for justice to reflect with you on what happened this Wednesday. The Supreme Court decided to take the Trump
- [Sojourner Truth, Sacred Activist, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/03/01/sojourner-truth-sacred-activist-continued/) - Because of her visibility as an abolitionist, President Lincoln invited Sojourner Truth to the White House in October 1864. While living in Washington, she did a kind of Rosa Parks act and insisted on riding in streetcars that were for whites only, thus protesting segregation. After the War, she worked hard to find jobs for freed
- [Sojourner Truth, Another Spiritual Hero and Activist](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/29/sojourner-truth-another-spiritual-hero-and-activist/) - We have been meditating on courageous spiritual-political activists including Sister Dorothy Stang, Alexei Navalny and Frederick Douglass. We cannot talk about great black leaders of Spirit in the 19th century without also talking about Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman, both of whom knew and interacted with Frederick Douglass. Indeed, Douglass gave a eulogy for Sojourner Truth
- [Douglass: Learning, Education, & 2 Versions of Christianity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/28/douglass-on-learning-education-two-distinct-versions-of-christianity/) - Learning meant everything to Douglass who as a child found ways to learn to read and write even though it was forbidden to slaves. He tells us: Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty, it means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only
- [The Wisdom of Frederick Douglass, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/27/the-wisdom-of-frederick-douglass-continued/) - We continue our meditations on the courage and accomplishments that emanate from the holiness of Frederick Douglass. The following teaching has by no means grown old. Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to suppress, rob
- [The Holiness and Greatness of Frederick Douglass](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/26/the-holiness-and-greatness-of-frederick-douglass/) - We have been meditating lately on the marks of holiness such as Joy, Courage, Justice, and Generosity that underscored the life, work and martyrdoms of Sister Dorothy Stang and Alexei Navalny. This is Black History Month. When one thinks of the holiness of great heroes and sheroes of black America, one thinks of people like Dr.
- [Week of 2/19-24/2024: Navalny & Sr. Dot, Creativity & the Holy Spirit as a River](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/25/week-of-2-19-24-2024-martyrs-creativity/) - February 19, 2024: Greater Love than This: Navalny, Sister Dorothy, MLK, JesusWe are reflecting on the tremendous courage of people like Alexei Navalny, Sister Dorothy Stang, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Jesus, each of whom stood up against the forces of evil and were killed because of it. Both Sr. Dorothy and Navalny were urged
- [Further Lessons from Navalny, Sister Dorothy Stang, Putin & Aquinas](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/24/further-lessons-from-navalny-sister-dorothy-stang-putin-aquinas/) - We have been holding up the bravery, creativity and godlikeness of people like Sister Dorothy Stang and Alexei Navalny who paid a steep price for standing up to forces of evil. Of course, history is filled with martyrs like them including MLK Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus, and many others. Thomas Aquinas, an amazing observer of human
- [How Our Creativity, Morality, & Divinity Flow Side by Side](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/23/how-our-creativity-morality-and-divinity-flow-side-by-side/) - We are considering Meister Eckhart’s powerful sermon on emptying (the Via Negativa) and creating (the Via Creativa) about a “rapid river that divinizes us” in light of the gifting that Sister Dorothy Stang and Alexei Navalny bestowed on us by their martyrdoms. Every moral decision we make belongs in the Via Creativa section of our
- [Creativity as Bestowing Divine Gifts & Bliss on One Another](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/22/creativity-as-bestowing-divine-gifts-bliss-on-one-another/) - We are finding in Eckhart’s sermon on “the Holy Spirit as a ‘rushing river’” insight on what makes a Sister Dorothy Stang or an Alexei Navalny joyful and generous and brave. Becoming empty of ego and fear and agendas--“living without a why” as Eckhart puts it on many occasions--allows Spirit to enter and work in
- [Meister Eckhart’s “Rapid River that Divinizes Us”](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/21/meister-eckharts-rapid-river-that-divinizes-us/) - We ended yesterday’s DM about Joy, Courage and Generosity as signs of holiness with reference to Meister Eckhart’s amazing sermon on “The Holy Spirit, Like a Rapid River, Divinizes Us.” Let us explore that sermon more today. Eckhart first cites Psalm 46:4: “There is a river whose streams refresh the city of God, and it sanctifies
- [Courage, Joy, Generosity: Lessons from Sr. Dot & Navalny](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/20/courage-joy-generosity-lessons-from-sr-dot-navalny/) - Yesterday we meditated on the sacrifice that Sister Dot and Alexei Navalny paid in their commitment to supporting peasant farmers and defending the Amazon Forest on the one hand, and on struggling for democracy in Russia on the other. It is not enough just to honor the story of people like Sr. Dot and Alexei
- [Greater Love than This: Navalny, Sister Dorothy, MLK, Jesus](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/19/greater-love-than-this-navalny-sister-dorothy-mlk-jesus/) - We have been honoring the life, teachings and martyrdom of Sister Dorothy Stang, gunned down 19 years ago by powerful forces of greed and hatred bent on destroying the Amazon rainforest and peasant farmers. Now the world has learned of the death of Alexei Navalny, Russian prisoner of conscience and leader of the opposition to
- [Week of 2/12-17/2024: The Courage, Wisdom & Faith of Sr. Dorothy Stang](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/18/week-of-2-12-17-2024/) - February 12, 2024: Dorothy Stang & Père Chenu: Teachers of Courage, Firmness, ResistanceWe continue to celebrate the feast days of Père Chenu and Sister Dorothy Stang. Sister Dot (as her friends called her) worked to support peasant farmers and the preservation of the Amazon rainforest where they live and work. She refused to back down
- [More Questions for the Opus Dei Head of Catholic Bishops Conference](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2019/11/29/more-questions-for-the-opus-dei-head-of-catholic-bishops-conference/) - The new head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops will have a lot of power to wield in Washington DC, on the media, as well as in decision making about priorities and other matters for the bishops to follow individually and as a group. For this reason it is truly alarming that a
- [Sister Dorothy’s Teachings, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/17/sister-dorothys-teachings-continued/) - We are meditating on Sister Dorothy Stang’s writings taken from letters to her sisters and her family. We concluded yesterday’s meditation with her teaching about a “real God”—one whose essence is goodness. The goodness of creation and of the Amazon forest and of people trying to live a good life stand as evidence of that. Thomas Aquinas
- [Lenten Meditations?  Try These Teachings from Sr. Dorothy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/16/lenten-meditations-try-teachings-from-sr-dorothy/) - Sister Dorothy Stang taught us a lot by her decisions and her actions—even the short reference from her brother about her washing her clothes in the sink while at a hotel bespeaks a teaching: That of a simple life style. At least one commentator on yesterday’s DM shared the impact that story had on her. By the
- [David Stang’s Letter about His Sister, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/15/david-stangs-letter-about-his-sister-continued/) - I am sharing a letter from David Stang, Sister Dorothy’s brother, which I began in yesterday’s DM. We then went to the Lawyers' plush building and auditorium. But first outside in the courtyard were several hundred people singing in a circle and also praying for Dot. Ninety percent were peasants. We then walked into the
- [Ash Wednesday Meets Valentine’s Day: Lessons from Kabir & Sr. Dot](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/14/ash-wednesday-meets-valentines-day-lessons-from-kabir-sr-dot/) - Today is both Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day. An interesting combination. On the one hand, we are reminded of our mortality; and on the other, we are reminded of our powers of love. Kabir, the fifteenth century mystic from India, has written a poem that speaks of love and death, eros and thanatos: Friend, hope for
- [Sister Dorothy Stang’s Story, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/13/sister-dorothy-stangs-story-continued/) - Sister Dorothy’s story continues to spread. A recent article named “The Amazing Grace of Sr. Dorothy Stang,”* tells us that she “chose to live in extreme poverty in order to help others living in poverty.” Those who knew Sister Dorothy said that she had a passion for people of all cultures, for social justice, peacemaking, fairness, and
- [Dorothy Stang & Père Chenu: Teachers of Courage, Firmness, Resistance](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/12/dorothy-stang-pere-chenu-teachers-of-courage-firmness-resistance/) - Our Saturday DM was dedicated to two great souls who were each committed, in their own way and on their own continents, to love, justice, and the sacredness of creation. Their feast days are back-to-back: Père Chenu, father of the Creation Spirituality movement as well as Liberation Theology, died on February 11. And Sister Dorothy
- [Week of 2/5-10/2024: The Return of the Divine Mother; Celebrating Chenu's Feast Day](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/11/week-of-2-5-10-2024/) - February 5, 2024: Calling on the Cosmic Mother at the Hour of Our CreativityWe have been exploring the original version of the “Hail Mary” prayer, which lacks the 16th century addendum that talks of being sinners and the fear of death. In Matthew's proposed addendum to the original 12th century prayer, we accept our divine
- [Celebrating Feast Days of Père Chenu & Sister Dorothy Stang](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/10/celebrating-feast-days-of-pere-chenu-sister-dorothy-stang/) - This weekend is of special significance to me and to anyone keen on remembering and celebrating people of great spirit. My mentor, Père Chenu, OP, died on February 11, 1990. And my student, Sister Dorothy Stang, was martyred in the Amazon on February 12, 2005. Chenu named the Creation Spirituality tradition for me in class in the
- [Harvey, Boff, and the Call of the Mother, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/09/harvey-boff-and-the-call-of-the-mother-continued/) - We continue our meditations on the return of the Divine Feminine by way of Mary, the mother of Jesus, as both Andrew Harvey and Leonardo Boff speak of it. Andrew applies Boff’s call for liberation that we saw in yesterday’s DM to saving creation: ...and it is not only Christianity that has to make this
- [The Return of the Mother: Julian, Andrew Harvey, Leonardo Boff](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/08/the-return-of-the-mother-julian-andrew-harvey-leonardo-boff/) - We have been meditating on a revolution in values that the return of the Divine Feminine represents. Such archetypes as Mary and the Black Madonna carry this energy forward. Julian of Norwich talks of Jesus as Mother due to his emphasis on compassion. What if the Europeans who set sail for the “New Worlds” one century after
- [The Return of the Divine Feminine & the Revolution It Represents](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/07/the-return-of-the-divine-feminine-the-revolution-it-represents/) - In yesterday’s DM we meditated on a “revolution in values” that is symbolized by moving from Patriarchy’s preoccupations with power-over to a Biblically grounded power-with, that is to say, compassion and a justice-based value system. Such a revolution is found with the prophets of Israel and with the teaching and example of Jesus and also
- [The Revolution in Values the Cosmic Mother Represents](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/06/the-revolution-in-values-the-cosmic-mother-represents/) - The Divine Mother represents a revolution in values. We need a revolution in values. We have been running on patriarchal “values” for long enough, values that appeal to the reptilian brain of power-over and domination, of “I win, you lose.” Or "my country wins, yours loses". Or “our empire wins, you lose.” Or “our species wins, you lose.” Or “power
- [Calling on the Cosmic Mother at the Hour of Our Creativity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/05/calling-on-the-cosmic-mother-at-the-hour-of-our-creativity/) - We are meditating on St. Brigid within the context of the “Magnificat” and the original 12th century “Hail Mary.” Instead of dwelling on patriarchy’s labeling us all sinners preoccupied with guilt and death, a better prayer is to remind ourselves of our powers of creativity as co-heirs with Christ and the angels. Accepting our
- [Week of 1/29-2/3/2024: Mother Mary, "Hail Mary," St. Brigid](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/04/week-of-1-29-2-3-2024/) - January 29, 2024: A Revised Hail Mary Prayer For Our Post-Modern TimesWe are meditating on the original 12th century version of "Hail Mary:" Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you, untroubled maiden. You are blessed among women, you who brought forth peace to people and glory to the angels. Blessed too is
- [St. Brigid, Druidic Ecumenism, and the Divine Feminine  ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/03/st-brigid-druidic-ecumenism-and-the-divine-feminine/) - One story tells us Brigid’s mother was a Christian and her father a Druid or spiritual leader in pre-Christian Celtic society. Iona was a sacred site for Druidic pilgrims before St. Columba in the sixth century. The name “Hebrides” means “the islands of Brigid or Bride.” Thus she stands for “a symbol of continuity in the Celtic
- [The Divine Feminine and St. Brigid](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/02/the-divine-feminine-and-st-brigid/) - I am writing this DM on the Feast Day of St. Brigid of the Celts so you will receive it a day after. It was fitting in yesterday’s DM that we focused on Meister Eckhart’s teaching that we are all “mothers of God” and that we birth the Christ when we birth good work that
- [The Aramaic “Hail Mary” & Eckhart’s Call to Birth the Christ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/02/01/the-aramaic-hail-mary-eckharts-call-to-birth-the-christ/) - Apropos of the call for new versions of the “Hail Mary” prayer, I received a video teaching* from Aramaic scholar Neil Douglas Klotz. I am proud to say that Neil was on our faculty for years at ICCS in Oakland where he led body prayer every morning and taught courses on the Aramaic Jesus and
- [The Magnificat, Mary and Ourselves as Mystic-Prophets](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/31/the-magnificat-mary-and-ourselves-as-mystic-prophets/) - In addition to the “Hail Mary” that is built on the Annunciation scene in the gospels, one can also meditate on Mary’s own prayer which we call the “Magnificat” attributed to her in Luke 1.46-55. And Mary said:My soul proclaims the greatness of the LordAnd my spirit exults in God my savior;Because he has looked
- [A Revised “Hail Mary” & A New Cosmology Banish Despair](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/30/a-revised-hail-mary-a-new-cosmology-banish-despair/) - We have proposed a new Hail Mary prayer that is also a more ancient one: Hail Mary, full of grace,the Lord is with you, untroubled maiden.You are blessed among women,you who brought forth peace to peopleand glory to the angels.Blessed too is the fruit of your womb,who by grace made it possible for us to
- [A Revised Hail Mary Prayer For Our Post-Modern Times](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/29/a-revised-hail-mary-prayer-for-our-post-modern-times/) - We are meditating on the original, 12th century, version of the “Hail Mary” prayer of the Middle Ages, which goes like this: Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you, untroubled maiden. You are blessed among women, you who brought forth peace to people and glory to the angels. Blessed too is the
- [Week of 1/22-27/2024: Wisdom on the Subject of Death; the Rosary](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/28/week-of-1-22-27-2024/) - January 22, 2024: On Death and Dying and GriefMatthew tells us about his day yesterday. From 1 - 2 p.m. he gave a talk at The Conference on Death, Grief and Belief, and at 3:30, an 83-year-old member of his household died in the arms of his son. When a person dies, Matthew often says:
- [The Original (and Pre-Colonial) Version of the Rosary](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/26/the-original-and-pre-colonial-version-of-the-rosary/) - Sad to say, there is a shadow side to today’s rosary practice which taints the original version of the “Hail Mary” prayer created in the Middle Ages. A pope in the sixteenth century remade the medieval rosary by adding the words, “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour
- [Rituals at the Time of Death: The Novena & Rosary, Filipino Style](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/27/rituals-at-the-time-of-death-the-novena-rosary-filipino-style-2/) - All peoples have their way of expressing grief and of ritualizing the death of their loved ones. Archeologists have found evidence of death rituals extending back hundreds of thousands of years and not only among homo sapiens but among Neanderthals and other cousins of ours as well. I am currently undergoing a certain expression of ritual
- [Fear of Death & Destruction of Democracy: Otto Rank & Resurrection](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/25/fear-of-death-destruction-of-democracy-otto-rank-resurrection/) - Psychologist Otto Rank defines “soul” as “rebirth” and interprets all of human history as a quest for immortality, a quest that drove the building of the pyramids in Egypt with all it cost in human lives and labor because people felt that if the pharaoh lived forever, others could participate vicariously in his immortality. The
- [Wisdom on Death from Shamans & Mothers](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/24/wisdom-on-death-from-shamans-mothers/) - David Palladin continues his reflections on shamanhood and dying when he says: We have the privilege of serving others, of reaching out to them. We can share with others that they have died and are reborn. Even Christ said that you’re not alive until you’ve born again. The shaman is a warrior who has experienced that kind of
- [Indigenous and More Motherly Reflections on Death](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/23/indigenous-and-more-motherly-reflections-on-death/) - We are considering lessons that surround death. We saw in yesterday’s meditation how M. C. Richards, on hearing of her pending death, challenges head on the patriarchal platitudes about death. “O, death be not proud” and other parallel utterances. In yesterday's video we shared her poem alongside Mary Oliver’s poem “When Death Comes.” Frederick Turner has
- [On Death and Dying and Grief](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/22/on-death-and-dying-and-grief/) - Yesterday was a unique day in my household. From 1 to 2 PM I gave a Zoom talk at an annual two-day conference called The Conference on Death, Grief and Belief. At 3:30, an 83-year old member of my household died in the arms of his son, also a member of our modest community. His death was
- [Week of 1/15-20/2024: MLK, the Black Madonna, Mary Oliver, & the Christian Right](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/21/week-of-1-15-20-2024-mlk-the-black-madonna-the-christian-right/) - January 15, 2024: On Martin Luther King Jr., His Movement & His MentorsDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had at least three mentors who inspired him to use civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance as a means toward ending injustice. They were Jesus, Howard Thurman, and Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi was inspired by the Sermon on the Mount
- [The Christian Right & Thomas Merton on American Idolatry](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/20/the-christian-right-thomas-merton-american-idolatry/) - In yesterday’s DM we considered the rise of billionaire media moguls with their agendas for a post-democracy America. Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, David Smith (the new owner of the Baltimore Sun) and the remaining Koch brother, who is again before the Supreme Court with a proposal that would essentially wipe out all oversight of environmental regulation, qualify.
- [Billionaire Buyer Turning Another American Newspaper Rightward?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/19/billionaire-buyer-turning-another-american-newspaper-rightward/) - Yesterday I received an alert from a friend in Baltimore to the news that the Baltimore Sun had been bought by a local right-wing activist billionaire. It went like this: The Baltimore Sun has been purchased by the executive chairman of the far-rightwing Sinclair Broadcasting empire (headquartered in Maryland), which aims to make the 187-year-old
- [“Resounding Melody”:  Hildegard, Mary Oliver, and Word Made Flesh](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/18/resounding-melody-hildegard-mary-oliver-word-made-flesh/) - For Hildegard, words are alive, and take many forms. Word is music, a “resounding melody” inherent in every being and found in every corner of the universe. The whole universe vibrates with music, making melody. “God’s Word is in all creation, visible and invisible.” Word, music and light go together. The Light in all things is the Cosmic
- [Gifts Given: In Gratitude to Mary Oliver](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/17/gifts-given-in-gratitude-to-mary-oliver/) - Today is the fourth anniversary of Mary Oliver’s death. She died January 17, 2019. She did not die before her work was finished, her work of paying attention--what she rightly called “prayer”-- and poetry, her sharing of what paying attention accomplishes. She is a prime example of a creation-centered mystic and artist, a lover and observer of
- [The Black Madonna and MLK Jr.’s Holiday](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/16/the-black-madonna-and-mlk-jrs-holiday/) - Part of the contribution of Christena Cleveland in her book God Is a Black Woman is to invite a new appraisal of that archetype within her own community. What the Black Madonna stands for is what MLK Jr. stood for: Justice in the face of injustice; attention to the anawim, those without a voice; love, not hatred; peace,
- [On Martin Luther King Jr., His Movement & His Mentors](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/15/on-martin-luther-king-jr-his-movement-his-mentors/) - Today we celebrate one of the greatest Christian saints of all time: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. King had at least three mentors: Jesus, Howard Thurman, and Gandhi. One thing that made him great was his deep ecumenism, insofar as he humbly learned from a Hindu saint, Mahatma Gandhi, how to apply Jesus’ teachings to battling
- [Week of 1/8-13/2024: Hildegard & Grey, Creativity, Divine Eyes, Black Madonna](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/14/week-of-1-8-13-2024/) - January 8, 2024: Alex Grey and Hildegard of Bingen on the Divine Eye(s)We have been celebrating and comparing the creative works of Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century Christian mystic, and Alex Grey, a Jewish/Buddhist artist. Alex's new painting, "Greening Power," incorporates hundreds of green hands with eyes in the palm of each. Hildegard's painting,
- [The Black Madonna: A Resource for Our Troubled Times](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/13/the-black-madonna-a-resource-for-our-troubled-times/) - Later today I have the privilege of joining Alessandra Belloni in leading a zoom workshop on “Gifts of the Black Madonna for the New Year.” Alessandra, who comes from southern Italy and is currently artist-in-residence at St. John the Divine Cathedral in New York City, has been a practitioner and teacher of the Italian tradition
- [Hildegard on Humans as Co-Creators Whose Vocation is to Create](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/12/hildegard-on-humans-as-co-creators-whose-vocation-is-to-create/) - Hildegard sees creativity at the core of our vocation as human beings, and pictures God saying, I have been moved by the form of humankind, I have kissed it, grounded it in faithful relationship. Thus I have exalted humankind with the vocation of creation. I call humankind to the same norm. We have a vocation to create, which
- [Hildegard on Greening Power, Spirit, Nature & Creativity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/11/hildegard-on-greening-power-spirit-nature-humanitys-creativity/) - We continue our journey deeper into Hildegard’s teachings on viriditas which is a major theological category invented by Hildegard. In Latin it means literally “greening power.” Greening was a very important category for her, since she lived in the Rhineland, which is a richly green area not unlike Galilee, the green part of Israel that Jesus was from. So
- [Greening Power, Peace, Creativity, Angels](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/10/greening-power-peace-creativity-angels/) - We have spent the better part of the past two weeks meditating on a marvelous new painting by Alex Grey which he calls a “homage to viriditas,” where he links up with Hildegard of Bingen and her teachings about greening power or viriditas. In his painting Alex connects eyes with hands and all of it with
- [Grey & Hildegard: Angel Wings, Human Works, “Singing Justice”](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/09/gray-hildegard-angel-wings-human-hands-works-singing-justice/) - Yesterday’s meditation on Alex Grey’s painting on Greening Power ended with Hildegard’s telling us how armies of angels are busy singing “every kind of music.” Why are they singing? “With amazing voices they were glorifying God magnificently for those miracles which God performs in blessed souls.” God brings about wonders in human souls and human works. The work
- [Can Grace Mark this New Year, 2024?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/01/can-grace-mark-this-new-year-2024/) - We have been meditating on Grace lately. Such meditations are very worthwhile, especially when ongoing wars in the Ukraine, Middle East, Sudan—display not our “better angels” but our darkest ones. We considered the grace of a 70-year-old fish seller in a market in Iran who invited people to sing and dance, and initially paid a price
- [Alex Grey and Hildegard of Bingen on the Divine Eye(s)](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/08/alex-grey-and-hildegard-of-bingen-on-the-divine-eyes/) - We are meditating, this first week of a New Year, on the team of Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century Christian mystic, and Alex Grey, a 21st century Buddhist/Jewish artist. Grey’s recent and delicious painting honors “Greening Power” and prominently displays hands with eyes in them, all contributing, he hopes, to a re-greening of the Earth and
- [Week of 1/1-6/2024: Grace, Creativity & Viriditas, plus Sad News in Academia](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/07/week-of-1-1-6-2024-grace-creativity-veriditas-plus-sad-news-in-academia/) - January 1, 2024: Can Grace Mark this New Year, 2024? We have been exploring the concept of grace---in the Iranian fish seller and his countrypeople who began to dance and sing in public in spite of the law against it; in the generous message from Kurt Vonnegut to students, encouraging them to be creative in
- [Hand and Eyes and Grace in Alex Grey’s Homage to Viriditas](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/06/hand-and-eyes-and-grace-in-alex-greys-homage-to-viriditas/) - Alex tells us that “the Green Hand is my homage to Viriditas!” Which indeed it is. Green hands bespeak the reality of human work that can bring eco-justice and eco-balance alive again. Whatever our work, it can be a grace that heals our ailing souls and communities and planet. In her celebrated painting of the “Man in Sapphire
- [Alex & Allyson Grey, Hildegard, and Grace For a New Year](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/05/alex-allyson-grey-hildegard-and-grace-for-a-new-year/) - When I asked Alex Grey recently for permission to share his latest painting in our daily meditations, he responded generously. Dear Matt, How great to hear from you!! I just turned 70! Rick Doblin & I were born one day apart so we are having a celebration tonight at CoSM & Entheon.* We are doing what
- [A Sad Day & Important Lesson for Harvard & Academia](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/04/a-sad-day-and-important-lesson-for-harvard-academia/) - Yesterday we learned that the president of Harvard University, only eight months into her job, resigned. Claudine Gay was the first black woman to head the prestigious university. Some say what toppled her were aggressive questions from a New York Republican congresswoman; or the fact that she left some footnotes out of an otherwise award-winning thesis; or
- [Alex Grey on Viriditas, Greening Power, Grace & Creativity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/03/alex-grey-on-viriditas-greening-power-grace-creativity/) - Alex Grey is a notable artist of our time with whom it has been my privilege to work on several occasions. He gave the teaching at one of our Cosmic Masses at Historic Sweets Ballroom in downtown Oakland when the theme for the Mass was “Creativity.” Putting a chair and easel on the altar platform, he
- [More Reflections on Grace](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/01/02/more-reflections-on-grace/) - In yesterday’s meditation, we asked the question whether this New Year 2024 can be marked by a deeper appreciation for the grace of our existence and that of the universe and Earth that birthed us. As Thomas Aquinas put it, “the greatness of the human person consists in this: that we are capable of the
- [Week of 12/25-30/2023: Divinity on Earth, Grace, Creativity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/31/week-of-12-25-30-2023/) - December 25, 2023: The Grace & Heart of Christmas, 2023A story of Grace and Good News lies at the heart of Christmas, and it is this: The Creator chose to visit our tiny planet in human form. St. Irenaeus said: “God became a human being in order that human beings might become God.” This Great
- [Kurt Vonnegut to Teenagers: How to Grow the Soul via Art as Meditation](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/30/kurt-vonnegut-tells-teenagers-how-to-grow-the-soul-via-art-as-meditation/) - As yesterday’s DM indicates, we can easily underestimate the power and grace that art transmits. In 2006, a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond. His response follows: Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer
- [Grace & the Reinvention of Work, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/29/grace-the-reinvention-of-work-continued/) - One example of the power of human grace reinventing one’s work emerged recently in Iran when a 70-year-old operator of a fish market stall started to groove in public—which is a violation of Iranian law. The result? A new kind of anti-government protest was born. The fish seller’s upbeat folk song attracted crowds who joined in by
- [Evidence of Divinity Visiting the Earth: Humans at Work](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/28/evidence-of-divinity-visiting-the-earth-humans-at-work/) - In yesterday’s DM we asked the questions: Is there evidence that God truly visits the Earth? and Do you sense that the essence, powers and activity of humans have become divinized? and What are those times? The evidence needs to come from from humanity itself. Unfortunately, human history is often less than edifying, less a story
- [Further Meditations on Grace, Christmas & Divinity Visiting Earth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/27/further-meditations-on-grace-christmas-divinity-visiting-earth/) - Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner connects Christmas and grace in a very direct way when he writes that the “highest realization” of the “Christian doctrine of grace [is] when the divine logos becomes a creature.” It follows that Christmas is an especially grace-filled event with consequences for all humanity. Indeed, grace “divinizes the essence, powers and activity
- [The Grace & Heart of Christmas, 2023](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/25/the-grace-heart-of-christmas-2023/) - At the heart of Christmas, there lies a story of Grace and Good News fit for all humans: That the Maker of this two-trillion-galaxy-universe — each with hundreds of billions of stars — has visited our tiny planet in human form. “Why?” you ask. Meister Eckhart says God visited us out of compassion, and had
- [Christmas, Grace & the Divine Life Inside Us & Our Actions](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/26/christmas-grace-the-divine-life-inside-us-our-actions/) - Yesterday, on Christmas, we cited Peter’s epistle and Clement of Alexandria and Saint Irenaeus, a second century Celtic bishop in Lyons, France, about God becoming human in order to instruct us in our divinity. They were not alone in this assessment of the Incarnation, that is the Maker of the universe joining the human race. “God
- [Week of 12/18-23/2023: Earth, a "Rare Gem" in the Universe, Gay Marriage, Grace](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/24/week-of-12-18-23-2023/) - December 18, 2023: Science Calls Earth “A Rare Gem in a Universe Very Hostile to Life”Physicist Marcelo Gleiser reminds us that science is asking this question: “Are we alone in the Universe?” He says that with our current capabilities, we are at a point where we can actually begin to answer this question. "And it all points
- [Speaking of Grace, So Many Gifts, So Many Graces](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/23/speaking-of-grace-so-many-gifts-so-many-graces/) - I am writing this DM on the winter solstice, 2023, which is also my 83rd birthday. Yesterday we introduced the topic of “grace” responding to a request by a reader. I feel deeply, as an elder, human being, and a priest for 56 years, that life is a grace. A gift. Gratuitous. Glorious, that is filled with glory or doxa which is
- [On Grace](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/22/on-grace/) - Recently a DM reader asked me to write on grace. I am happy to oblige. A number of years ago I was leading a workshop on the Cosmic Christ at a large conference in New York City. Following the workshop, a group of five Jewish women came up to me and said, “We have asked our rabbi
- [More on Gay Catholics, Pope Francis, Science](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/21/more-on-gay-catholics-pope-francis-science/) - Yesterday I spoke of the courage of Pope Francis in making the significant—albeit modest—step of allowing priests to bless gay couples (though not acknowledging gay marriage as such). I speak of courage because the pope was up against powerful forces within and without his institution. Regarding the latter, some American non-Catholic “Christians” called the pope an
- [Pope Francis Blesses Gay Unions](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/20/pope-francis-blesses-gay-unions/) - Pope Francis has now signed off on Catholic priests blessing gay couples. It is a major step forward in recognizing that gay people exist and gay love happens and gay unions are real and gay love is love and, after all, didn’t someone once say that “God is love”? (See 1 Jn 4.16). And Love comes in
- [Our Earth, a “Rare Gem” in the Universe, & Us](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/19/our-earth-a-rare-gem-in-the-universe-us/) - In Saturday’s and Monday’s DMs, we heard from scientist Marcelo Gleiser how, “Exoplanet discoveries reveal Earth’s profound rarity in the cosmos.” After studying about 1/3 of the known exoplanets in our solar system, Earth stands out as “a rare gem.” In response to that DM, I heard from astrophysicist Joel Primack who, with his wife Nancy,
- [Science Calls Earth “A Rare Gem in a Universe Very Hostile to Life”](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/18/science-calls-earth-a-rare-gem-in-a-universe-very-hostile-to-life/) - Physicist Marcelo Gleiser reminds us that science is asking this question: "Are we alone in the Universe?” And: We live in this very special time when we can actually begin to answer this question. And it all points to our planet being a rare gem in a Universe that is very hostile to life.* Knowing the laws
- [Week of 12/11-16/2023: The Legacy of Norman Lear, the Importance of Art](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/17/week-of-12-11-16-2023-the-legacy-of-norman-lear-the-importance-of-art/) - December 11, 2023: A Thank You to Norman Lear, a Bearer of LightHumans are called to be bearers of Light. Norman Lear, well-respected television writer and producer, who left us this past week at the age of 101, was a light-bearer. He was a prophet in the sense that Rabbi Heschel talks about a prophet—one
- [Creation, Liberation, & Supporting of Artists in Depression Times](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/14/creation-liberation-supporting-of-artists-in-depression-times/) - The God of creation is also the God of history and of liberation/salvation as is clear from the prophets. Indeed, the prophets who preach justice and peace were themselves creators and artists. Consider this song from Isaiah: Send justice like dew, you heavens,Let the clouds rain it down.Let the earth open upSo salvation will spring up,Let deliverance
- [Science Speaks: Earth's Rarity in the Universe](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/16/science-speaks-earths-rarity-in-the-universe/) - We interrupt our discussion of human creativity and issues of the wars in Ukraine and in Gaza, courts struggling with an ex-president's 91 apparent felonies, Climate Change, the Supreme Court of Texas choosing to kill a mother to save a dying fetus, inflation, congressional Republicans supporting Putin over Ukrainian democracy, threats from China to invade
- [WPA, Good Work, and Artists](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/15/wpa-good-work-and-artists/) - The WPA, created by FDR during the bleakest days of the Great Depression—when over 20 million Americans were unemployed—accomplished a lot. It put 8.5 million Americans to work—many of them unskilled laborers-- building 4,000 schools, repairing or building 650,000 miles of roads, 75,000 new bridges, 8,000 parks, 800 new airports, and 125,000 public buildings. Many of
- [The Role of Art in Healing, Love & Justice-Making](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/13/the-role-of-art-in-healing-compassion-love-justice-making/) - Our two most recent DMs celebrated the life and work of Norman Lear who revolutionized television comedy and television itself by daring to shed light on the brokenness in our society. His method? The art of comedy. By getting us to laugh, he taught us to listen more deeply to self and others. And to those different from
- [The Moral Imagination & Holiness of Norman Lear](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/12/the-moral-imagination-holiness-of-norman-lear/) - Norman Lear was a champion of moral imagination, as all prophets are. I believe Norman Lear was a holy man employing a saintliness fit for our times. Simone Weil says, “today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness...” I
- [A Thank You to Norman Lear, a Bearer of Light](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/11/a-thank-you-to-norman-lear-a-bearer-of-light/) - Advent and Hannukah season are now both upon us. Each brings promises of light to a world clearly wrapped in darkness at this time of history. It is often useful when discussing spiritual topics to go to its opposite first. We have been doing this recently by discussing how the Catholic Bishops Conference is pushing abortion as
- [Week of 12/4-9/2023: The "Power of Round" & the Homophobia of Catholic Prelates](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/10/week-of-12-4-9-2023/) - December 4, 2023: The Roundness to the Recent Synod in the Vatican When Matthew was asked his opinion about the recent synod in the Vatican, his spontaneous response was that the round tables were the most important part. Sitting at round tables, where one can look into each person's face and gauge reactions, enables more empathy.
- [Some Questions for Homophobic Catholic Prelates](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/09/some-questions-for-homophobic-catholic-prelates/) - I propose some questions for the anti-gay wing of the Church: Since Jesus never once talked about homosexuality, it seems strange that you consider it a pillar of your faith. Where do you get your sureness buttressing your homophobia? Doesn’t your certainty about gay morality closely resemble the certainty of the inquisitors in the 17th century who
- [Cardinal Burke, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/08/cardinal-burke-continued/) - Cardinal Burke, recently ejected from his 5000-square-foot rent-free luxury apartment in the Vatican by Pope Francis, is a friend of Steve Bannon and far-right wing American politicos. He was the keynote speaker in 2019 at the gathering of super right-wing Catholics at the Napa Institute. Senator Lindsey Graham, former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker and recently removed
- [Pope Francis Cleans House, Expelling Cardinal Burke from His Vatican Apartment](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/07/pope-francis-cleans-house-expelling-cardinal-burke-from-his-vatican-apartment/) - Kudos to Pope Francis, for expelling Cardinal Burke from his lace-based luxurious apartment in the Vatican confines. That apartment received special attention from French journalist Frederic Martel in his eye-opening book, In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy. Left alone in the apartment while awaiting an interview with Burke, the author describes
- [Round Models of Organization: Can They Work?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/06/round-models-of-organization-can-they-work/) - We have been meditating in recent DM’s on the round model of the recent synod in Rome. It comes from the Global South. Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the apostolic nuncio to the United States, spoke recently about how in 2007 CELAM (the Episcopal Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean) met in Aparecida, Brazil. That conference was “a
- [Black Elk & Meister Eckhart on the Power of Round](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/05/black-elk-meister-eckhart-on-the-power-of-round/) - In yesterday’s DM, I praised Pope Francis’s recent synod for its round tables where everyone sat—pope, cardinals, bishops, archbishops, lay people, young and old. I pointed out how Sara’s Circle, not climbing ladders, is the future. Such a form renders joy and justice more possible and easier, since one can see each other’s eyes and
- [The Roundness to the Recent Synod in the Vatican ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/04/the-roundness-to-the-recent-synod-in-the-vatican/) - Recently I was interviewed by Franciscan Sister Ilia Delio, scientist, theologian, author of The Emergent Christ, The Unbearable Wholeness of Being, and other good books. One question she posed was what I thought of Pope Francis’s recent Synod held last month in the Vatican. My spontaneous response—I had never been asked that question before—was this:
- [Week of 11/27-12/2/2023: Fighting Fascism & Finding Joy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/03/week-of-11-27-12-2-2023/) - November 27, 2023: Joy and Justice, Birds of a FeatherAquinas, Terry Tempest Williams, and Rabbi Heschel all celebrate Joy. Rabbi Heschel teaches: “When we sing, we sing for all things,” and that “joy lies at the very heart of worship.” Also, that God is not only the Creator of earth and heaven but is also the One
- [Further Questions for USCCB in Advent & Presidential Election Season](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/02/further-questions-for-usccb-in-advent-presidential-election-season/) - Advent is about a coming. For believers that means we are awaiting and working toward the coming of the Prince of Peace who announces the Good News of a new kind of kingdom. This reign is oriented to the dignity of the poor and dispossessed and to the priority of Joy and Justice over control,
- [More Good News alongside Questions for the USCCB](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/12/01/more-good-news-alongside-questions-for-the-usccb/) - Advent is a time of year where we await and recommit to working for the coming of Good News in human history. Such news as this from Luke’s Gospel: The Spirit of the Lord has been given to me,for he has anointed me. He has sent me to bring the good news to the poor,to proclaim liberty
- [Advent 2023:  Good News & Bad News](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/30/advent-2023-good-news-bad-news/) - Advent is a time of awaiting a new kind of kingdom or queendom: One that announces the coming of Good News. In the Bad News department, however, it is no small thing that American Bishops are pushing abortion as the number one issue in an election year. Playing into the hands of fascist politicians eager to
- [Religion & Fascism: Examination of Conscience in a Time of Advent](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/29/religion-fascism-examination-of-conscience-in-a-time-of-advent/) - In yesterday’s DM, I referred to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference’s contribution to the authoritarianism afoot in current American politics. The Conference recently declared that their number one priority this upcoming presidential election year will be: Abortion. Not the destruction of democracy and rule of law; and not even Climate Change, the subject of not one but two encyclicals
- [Is There Joy in Injustice and Fascism?](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/28/is-there-joy-in-injustice-and-fascism/) - We have been meditating on the union of Joy and Justice. I offer the following question: Are fascists joyful? Is there joy in fascism? Fascism or authoritarianism or “daddy knows best” or “institutional violence” or “power-over” dynamics or “let’s kill democracy in the name of our beloved leader” is very au courant around the world today.
- [Joy & Justice, Birds of a Feather](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/27/joy-justice-birds-of-a-feather/) - In our last DM, we celebrated Aquinas’s teaching that joy is born of love, and that “the only person who truly has joy is one who lives in love.” And how such joy and love is deeper than even our suffering and sorrow. It keeps us going when times are difficult, and injustice seems to be prevailing.
- [Week of 11/20-25/2023: On Gratitude, Praise, and Joy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/26/week-of-11-20-25-2023/) - November 20, 2023: On Thanksgiving and Finding Joy in Spite of Bad NewsEven in the midst of a warring planet, it is always appropriate to give thanks. There is a reason why Meister Eckhart tells us, “If the only prayer you say in your whole life is ‘Thank You,’ that would suffice.” And, as Julian of
- [Hildegard & Einstein Giving Thanks for Intellect & Intuition](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/25/hildegard-einstein-giving-thanks-for-intellect-intuition/) - For Hildegard, as for Einstein, awe and knowledge, intuition and intellect, aren't at odds but are companions on the journey. When she says “there is wisdom in all creative works,” Hildegard is honoring wisdom and creativity while reminding all of us of the importance of wisdom and not to settle for knowledge alone--something I deeply
- [Where Does Joy Come From? ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/24/where-does-joy-come-from/) - According to Aquinas, Joy is born of Love. That is why joy is an anchor when struggle, strife and suffering swirl all around us. Aquinas teaches that “love is the cause of joy,” because “everyone takes joy in their beloved,” and “love and joy constitute the basis of all attraction—love is the origin and joy is
- [Thanks, Praise, Grace on Thanksgiving Day](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/23/thanks-praise-grace-on-thanksgiving-day/) - A Deep Thanksgiving to all on this day of Praise in this time of concern and sorrow. As we saw in yesterday’s meditation, to be human is to praise. To praise is to recognize the goodness in things and to respond with gratitude. The Via Positiva is all about praise. Julian of Norwich says, “God is the
- [Heschel & Hildegard on Thanksgiving, Praise & What It Means to be Human](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/22/heschel-hildegard-on-thanksgiving-praise-what-it-means-to-be-human/) - It seems to me that Rabbi Abraham Heschel offers a deep insight into this most important question: “What does it mean to be human?” Heschel says that it is humanity’s role to articulate the “silent worship” of all beings. Indeed, The cosmos is a congregation in need of a Cantor...It is humanity who is the Cantor
- [The Mystics on Joy & Thanks (Whatever the News)](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/21/the-mystics-on-joy-thanks-whatever-the-news/) - Joy is bigger than and deeper than humans hating one another and themselves and even Mother Earth. Joy trumps our sadness when we can learn to let go. As Meister Eckhart puts it, “the soul grows by subtraction and not by addition” and “we sink eternally from letting go to letting go into the One.” We are
- [On Thanksgiving & Finding Joy in Spite of Bad News](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/20/on-thanksgiving-finding-joy-in-spite-of-bad-news/) - Thanksgiving week is upon us. Even though we are in the midst of a number of wars, it is always right and appropriate that we humans give thanks. There is a reason why Meister Eckhart tells us, “If the only prayer you say in your whole life is ‘Thank You,’ that would suffice.” Just as there is
- [Week of 11/13-18/2023: Coming Together in Compassion for Our Common Survival](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/19/week-of-11-13-18-2023/) - November 13, 2023: A Big Lesson from Iceland on Moving Beyond WarMatthew's brother is married to an Icelandic artist. As the entire town of Grindavik was evacuated, his brother wrote one thing that especially moved Matthew: The one thing that is absolutely sure is that at a time like this, all Icelanders get together and
- [The Mystics on Justice, the Holy Spirit, & Compassion](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/18/the-mystics-on-justice-the-holy-spirit-compassion/) - In the prophetic tradition of Israel, justice and compassion go together. “Compassion means justice,” Eckhart reminds us. Eckhart is not alone in connecting compassion and justice. Mechtild of Magdeburg, a Beguine of the 13th century in Germany, teaches this: If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment, then you will seek to do
- [Replacing Dualism & War with Non-dualism, Interdependence, Compassion](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/17/replacing-dualism-war-with-non-dualism-interdependence-compassion/) - Dualism is the basis of all war. It creates either/or thinking. Subject/object thinking is necessary for carrying on wars. Mysticism is non-dualism. Julian of Norwich invented the word oneing. How much oneing are we capable of? Our experiences of ecstasy are oneing experiences. Our experiences of awe are oneing experiences. Our experiences of grief and loss can be oneing experiences also. Also, interdependence
- [Keeping--and Not Keeping--the People Informed about Mother Earth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/16/keeping-and-not-keeping-the-people-informed-about-mother-earth/) - To rediscover life means not to take it for granted. Not the Earth. Not our relations with all other creatures with whom we are utterly interdependent and all other humans with whom, whether we agree with them or not, we need to co-survive. My brother's letter, which initiated the recent DM’s, on how the emergency facing
- [Cataclysms & Rediscovering Life, Nature and Creation](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/15/cataclysms-rediscovering-life-nature-and-creation/) - Today as we look for ways to stop the bickering, get over our wars and rumors of war, including our war with Mother Earth, we wonder if humanity can change and transform quickly. Time is of the essence. We are in a hurry. Not only wars between nations and peoples threaten our survival but the war
- [From Bickering & War to Common Work & Common Survival](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/14/from-bickering-war-to-common-work-common-survival/) - Yesterday I shared with you what I felt was an important observation about humans getting over our action-reaction, reptilian response to one another, moving beyond dualisms and therefore beyond war. How do we do that? I shared the story from my brother and sister-in-law in Iceland where, as they put it, the current volcanic crisis was
- [A Big Lesson from Iceland on Moving Beyond War](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/13/a-big-lesson-from-iceland-on-moving-beyond-war/) - I have a brother who is married to an Icelander who is an artist. For years they lived in Chicago where she attended the Art Institute, painted, and held exhibits there, as well as in New York City and Iceland. They agreed to move to Iceland after he retired from his work. I admired him for
- [Week of 11/6-11/2023: Exploring Humanity's Nobility & Compassion](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/12/week-of-11-5-11-2023/) - November 6, 2023: Our True Nobility, cont'dMatthew tells the story of a tall, elegant Native American man who, after one of Matthew's lectures, introduced himself as a prison chaplain. He said that "men in prison do not want to look inside. They are busy projecting onto others." He said that Matthew's book The Hidden Spirituality of
- [From the City of St. Louis---More Good News of Humanity's Nobility](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/11/from-the-city-of-st-louis-more-good-news-of-humanitys-nobility/) - More good news about humanity’s capacity for compassion, and therefore nobility, comes from the city of St. Louis. In an article entitled “St. Lous Looks to Resettle Chicago Migrants from Venezuela to Reverse Declining Population, Boost Workforce,” we learn that the migrant crisis in Chicago triggered a smart response from the city of St. Louis. It
- [Good News of Human Nobility & Compassion from 150 Rabbis](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/10/good-news-of-human-nobility-compassion-from-150-rabbis/) - We ended yesterday’s DM with this question for pondering: How is humanity today, how are we today, doing in expressing our divine nobility by way of compassion and justice? What is holding us back? I share here some Good News that tells of humanity’s nobility that is found in our power for compassion and justice.
- [Our Divine Nobility, Justice and Compassion](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/09/our-divine-nobility-justice-and-compassion/) - In her doctoral thesis on the theme of “Royal Personhood,” Helen Kenik points out that in Judaism, “the ideal of kingship was seldom realized”* and that kingship was often negative and pessimistic. But its ideal or aspiration was there; and with it, a hope that a king with true nobility would one day reign. Isaiah
- [Our Nobility, Our Godlikeness, Our Responsibility](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/08/our-nobility-our-godlikeness-our-responsibility/) - We are considering Eckhart’s teaching that every human is “born from the intimate depths of the divine nature and the divine wilderness” and is therefore noble. The theme of our “nobility” is very much related to the principal theme of Jesus’s preaching, namely that the “kingdom of God” is within and among us. The theme
- [Eckhart on Our Nobility, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/07/eckhart-on-our-nobility-continued/) - As I shared in my video accompanying yesterday’s Daily Meditation, Meister Eckhart devotes a lengthy treatise to the topic of our royal personhood applying it to the power politics of his time. So much so that Marxist scholar Ernst Bloch credits Eckhart with inspiring Karl Marx’s criticism of social and class injustice. Eckhart also says this:
- [Our True Nobility, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/06/our-true-nobility-continued/) - Yesterday we considered the teaching of Père Chenu that spirituality can be understood as “our true nobility.” How meditating on that can be good medicine in a time of wars like our current times. An important lesson in nobility occurred to me a number of years ago, shortly after my book on men and spirituality came
- [Week of 10/29-11/04/2023: All Saints, All Souls, & Compassion](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/05/week-of-10-29-11-04-2023-all-saints-all-souls-compassion/) - October 29, 2023: Good News in Times of War: We Are Capable of Compassion (Aquinas)Matthew reviews Thomas Aquinas's definition of compassion, “To be compassionate is to have a heart that suffers from the misfortune of others because we think of it as our own," and how "through compassion, human beings imitate God" who is "rich
- [Our Nobility](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/04/our-nobility/) - We find ourselves in the midst of four wars that are raging. The war in Ukraine; the war in the Middle East; the war against democracy being carried out in the United States, Hungary, Israel (before Hamas invaded) and, until the last election at least, Brazil. And the war against Mother Earth that we call “Climate Change.”
- [More from Chenu on Matter, Time, Space, the Cosmos](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/03/more-from-chenu-on-matter-time-space-the-cosmos/) - Living in a time of war and wars, it behooves us to get a bigger perspective. An awareness of history helps with that, as does an awareness of cosmology, the story of time and space and our place in the universe. French Dominican Père Chenu, about whom I wrote yesterday, had a profound sense of history—he was
- [Thoughts on All Saints Day & All Souls Day](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/02/thoughts-on-all-saints-day-all-souls-day/) - Today is All Saints Day in the Christian tradition. Tomorrow, as you read it, will be All Souls Day. Together they have lessons to teach us about our greatness and holiness as a species on the one hand; and about our relationship with ancestors who have gone before us, including their holiness and greatness, on the
- [An Imam and Rabbi Teaching & Demonstrating Compassion, continued](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/11/01/an-imam-and-rabbi-teaching-demonstrating-compassion-continued/) - Yesterday we shared good news from the program All Things Considered that invited an Imam and a rabbi to interact on the current war in Gaza and Israel. When asked what they wanted to say to each other, this was their response: Rabbi Brous: I will say to you, Imam Herbert, I’m holding you and your community, your
- [An Imam and a Rabbi Speaking Out Together on the War in Gaza](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/10/31/an-imam-and-a-rabbi-speaking-out-together-on-the-war-in-gaza/) - We are meditating on our species’ capacity for compassion. Meister Eckhart says, “What happens to another, whether it be a joy or a sorrow, happens to me.” That is a fine working understanding of compassion. In Matthew 25, Jesus says that in his own way: Feed the hungry and you feed me; visit the prisoner and

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- [Elementor Archive #512](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=elementor-archive-512) - Archives Template: Elementor Archive #512 The American Pope Gianluigi Gugliermetto July 15, 2026 Slightly more than a year in, is it time to offer an evaluation of Pope Leo XIV from the point of view of Creation Spirituality? I think it is. The beautiful, elegant way in which he responded to the recent inconsiderate attacks
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- [Matthew-Fox-Page-v1--DMMF](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=matthew-fox-page-v1-dmmf) - About Matthew Fox Matthew Fox (b. 1940) is an internationally acclaimed spiritual theologian, Episcopal priest, and activist who was a member of the Dominican Order for 34 years. He holds a doctorate, summa cum laude, in the History and Theology of Spirituality from the Institut Catholique de Paris and has devoted 45 years to developing
- [Team-Page-v1--DMMF](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=team-page-v1-dmmf) - About the Daily Meditations Team Jill Angelo has more than 30 years of experience in business and operations management, an education in marketing and design, and a background in psychology and the mystical arts. She guides veteran, first-time, and self-published authors who seek her advice and assistance with publishing, marketing, and social media. A native
- [Home-Page-v2--DMMF](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=home-page-v2-dmmf) - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox The Creation Spirituality Lineage Calling All Social and Environmental Activists, Mystic Explorers, Justice Makers, Cosmic Thinkers, Earth Keepers About CS Beauty & Grace, Aquinas & Eckhart: Medicine in a Time of Despair In a time as fraught with despair and evil as ours, the need to remember the everyday presence
- [About-Page-v2--DMMF](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=about-page-v2-dmmf) - About Us Creation SpiritualityDaily Meditations TeamAbout Matthew Fox Matthew Fox on Creation Spirituality: CS is about recovering nature and all of creation as sacred again. It reaches back to the earliest humans who were struck with the awe of their existence in the midst of the awe of nature and it is found in the
- [Book CTA: Wrestling With the Prophets](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-wrestling-prophets) - Wrestling with the Prophets: Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life In one of his foundational works, Fox engages in substantive discussions with some of history’s greatest mystics, philosophers, and prophets on today’s social and spiritual issues on such challenging topics as Eco-Spirituality, AIDS, homosexuality, spiritual feminism, environmental revolution, Native American spirituality, Christian mysticism, Art
- [Header-Template-v3--DMMF](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=header-template-v3-dmmf) - Home About Us Topics Living CS Balancing Gender Reinventing Culture Engaged Mysticism Deep Ecumenism Rituals & Practices Home About Us Topics Living CS Balancing Gender Reinventing Culture Engaged Mysticism Deep Ecumenism Rituals & Practices
- [Book CTA: Tao Of Thomas Aquinas](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-tao-of-thomas-aquinas) - The Tao of Thomas Aquinas: Fierce Wisdom for Hard Times A stunning spiritual handbook drawn from the substantive teachings of the mystical/prophetic genius Thomas Aquinas, offering a profound roadmap for spirituality and action. Learn More
- [Book CTA: Hildegard Illuminations](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-hildegard-illuminations) - Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen An introduction to the life and work of Hildegard of Bingen, Illuminations reveals the life and teachings of one of the greatest female artists and intellectuals of the Western Mystical Tradition. At the age of 42, she began to have visions; these were captured as 36 illuminations–24 of which are recorded
- [Book CTA: Hildegard Book of Divine Works](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-hildegard-book-of-divine-works) - Hildegard of Bingen's Book of Divine Works: With Letters & Songs Author Matthew Fox writes about Hildegard as abbess, healer, artist, musician, reformer, and more… and what we can learn from her. This gathering of her work includes 1) her final and most mature book, “Book of Divine Works” and 2) 42 of her most
- [Book CTA: Physics Of Angels](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-physics-of-angels) - The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science & Spirit Meet When was the last time a scientist and a theologian discussed angels together? What are angels? Many people believe in angels, but few can define these enigmatic spirits. Now visionary theologian Matthew Fox and acclaimed biologist Rupert Sheldrake—pioneers in modern religious thinking and
- [Book CTA: One River Many Wells](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-one-river-many-wells) - One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from Global Faiths Matthew Fox calls on all the world traditions for their wisdom and their inspiration in a work that is far more than a list of theological position papers but a new way to pray—to meditate in a global spiritual context on the wisdom all our traditions
- [Book CTA: Meditation-Cards-Stations-Cosmic-Christ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-cards-stations-cosmic-christ) - Stations of the Cosmic Christ Meditation Cards with Guide Booklet Beautiful full-color cards from Stations of the Cosmic Christ to aid in your meditations on the Cosmic Christ, featuring the images of 16 wonderful clay tablets by Javier Ullrrich Lemus and M.C. Richards. Step beyond the traditional Stations of the Cross and experience a spirit
- [Book CTA: Natural-Grace](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-natural-grace) - Natural Grace: Dialogues on creation, darkness, and the soul in spirituality and science Biologist Rupert Sheldrake and theologian Matthew Fox show that not only is the synthesis of science and spirituality possible, it is to be celebrated when one considers the extraordinary insights they have come upon in their work. The chasm between science and
- [Book CTA: MF Confessions](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-mf-confessions) - Confessions: The Making of a Post-Denominational Priest Matthew Fox’s stirring autobiography, Confessions, reveals his personal, intellectual, and spiritual journey from altar boy, to Dominican priest, to his eventual break with the Vatican. Five new chapters in this revised and updated edition bring added perspective in light of the author’s continued journey, and his reflections on the
- [Book CTA: Christian Mystics](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-christian-mystics) - Christian Mystics: 365 Readings & Meditations The 365 writings in Christian Mystics represent a wide-ranging sampling of these readings for modern-day seekers of all faiths — or no faith. The visionaries quoted range from Julian of Norwich to Martin Luther King, Jr., from Thomas Merton to Dorothee Soelle and Thomas Berry. Learn More
- [Book CTA: Coming of the Cosmic Christ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-cosmic-christ) - The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and the Birth of a Global Renaissance In what may be considered the most comprehensive outline of the Christian paradigm shift of our Age, Matthew Fox eloquently foreshadows the manner in which the spirit of Christ resurrects in terms of the return to an
- [Book CTA: A New Reformation](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-a-new-reformation) - A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality & The Transformation of Christianity A modern-day theologian’s call for the radical transformation of Christianity that will allow us to move once again from the hollow trappings of organized religion to genuine spirituality. A New Reformation echoes the Reformation initiated by Martin Luther in 1517 and offers a new vision
- [Book CTA: Naming the Unnameable](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=naming-the-unnameable) - Naming the Unnameable: 89 Wonderful and Useful Names for God …Including the Unnameable God Too often, notions of God have been used as a means to control and to promote a narrow worldview. In Naming the Unnameable, renowned theologian and author Matthew Fox ignites our imaginations by offering a colorful range of Divine Names gathered from
- [Book CTA: The Pope's War](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-the-popes-war) - The Pope's War: Why Ratzinger's Secret Crusade Has Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved The Pope’s War offers a provocative look at three decades of corruption in the Catholic Church, focusing on Josef Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI. The final section in the book focuses on birthing a truly catholic christianity. Matthew Fox
- [Book CTA: Sheer-Joy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-sheer-joy) - Sheer Joy: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality Matthew Fox renders Thomas Aquinas accessible by interviewing him and thus descholasticizing him. He also translated many of his works such as Biblical commentaries never before in English (or Italian or German of French). He gives Aquinas a forum so that he can be heard in
- [Book CTA:Laudato Si +CS Coming of Age](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-laudato-si-cs-coming-of-age) - Laudato Sí: The Pope’s Encyclical and the Coming of Age of Creation Spirituality In this extended commentary, Matthew Fox examines Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical, noting its creation spirituality perspective and calling on readers to abandon doctrinal squabbles and unite in protecting “our common home” through the vias positiva, negativa, creativa and transformativa. Learn More
- [Book CTA: Stations-Cosmic-Christ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-stations-cosmic-christ) - Stations of the Cosmic Christ This is a book of meditations on the Cosmic Christ, accompanying the images of 16 wonderful clay tablets by Javier Ullrrich Lemus and M.C. Richards. Together, these images and meditations go far beyond the traditional Stations of the Cross to inspire a spirit awakening and understanding of the cosmic Christ
- [Book CTA: Meister Eckhart Mystic Warrior](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-meister-eckhart-mystic-warrior) - Meister Eckhart: A Mystic Warrior for Our Time While Matthew Fox recognizes that Eckhart has influenced everyone from Julian of Norwich to Eckhart Tolle, Karl Marx to Carl Jung, and Annie Dillard to Anne Morrow Lindbergh, he also wants to introduce Eckhart to today’s activists addressing contemporary crises. Toward that end, Fox creates dialogues between
- [Book CTA: Reinvention-of-work](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-reinvention-of-work) - The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood For Our Time Thomas Aquinas said, “To live well is to work well,” and in this bold call for the revitalization of daily work, Fox shares his vision of a world where our personal and professional lives are celebrated in harmony–a world where the self is
- [Book CTA: Prayer Radical Respose](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-prayer-radical-response) - Prayer: A Radical Response to Life A new edition of one of Matthew Fox’s most powerful early books, in which Fox proposes that prayer is our deep Yes to Life and our deep No to life’s enemies, and is prompted by Spirit through us, and that our magnanimous mystical and prophetic response to life draws
- [Book CTA: Spirituality Named Compassion](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-spirituality-named-compassion) - A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew Fox delivers a profound exploration of the meaning and practice of compassion. Establishing a spirituality for the future that promises personal, social, and global healing, Fox marries mysticism with social justice, leading the way toward a gentler and more
- [Book CTA: Occupy Spirituality](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-occupy-spirituality) - Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation Authors Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox encourage us to use our talents in service of compassion and justice and to move beyond our broken systems–economic, political, educational, and religious–discovering a spirituality that not only helps us to get along, but also encourages us to reevaluate our
- [Book CTA: Thomas Merton A Way To God](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-thomas-merton-a-way-to-god) - A Way to God: Thomas Merton's Creation Spirituality Journey In A Way to God, Fox explores Merton’s pioneering work in interfaith, his essential teachings on mixing contemplation and action, and how the vision of Meister Eckhart profoundly influenced Merton in what Fox calls his Creation Spirituality journey. Learn More
- [Book CTA: Order-of-the-sacred-earth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-rorder-of-the-sacred-earth) - Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Vision of Love and Action By Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, and Jen Listug“The Order of the Sacred Earth not only calls us home to our true nature as Earth, but also offers us invaluable guidance and company on the way.” ~~ Joanna Macy, environmental activist and author of
- [Book CTA:Meditations With Meister Eckhart](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-ctameditations-with-meister-eckhart) - Meditations with Meister Eckhart: A Centering Book This book of simple but rich meditations exemplifies the deep yet playful creation-centered spirituality of Meister Eckhart, a 13th-century mystic, prophet, feminist, activist and defender of the poor who was condemned shortly after he died. “These quiet presentations of spirituality are remarkable for their immediacy and clarity.” –Publishers
- [Book CTA: Original Blessing](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-original-blessing) - Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality In this book Matthew Fox lays out a whole new direction for Christianity—a direction that is in fact very ancient and very grounded in Jewish thinking (the fact that Jesus was a Jew is often neglected by Christian theology). Here Fox lays out the Four Paths of Creation
- [Book CTA:Re-Enchanting The World](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-ctare-enchanting-the-world) - Re-Enchanting the World: A Call to Mystical Activism By Kristal Parks, M.A.Kristal Parks brings together the wisdom and perceptions of a disciplined nature mystic with the passion and commitment of a seasoned activist. Her book heralds a stunning new vision for both activism and mysticism alike. Learn More
- [Book CTA: Sins of the Spirit](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-sins-of-the-spirit) - Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society Fox makes the point that religion has so often oversold the concept of “sin” that it has left us without language or power to combat evil. Through comparing the Eastern tradition of the 7 chakras to the Western tradition of the
- [Book CTA: The Lotus and the Rose](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-lotus-and-rose) - The Lotus & The Rose: A Conversation Between Tibetan Buddhism & Mystical Christianity How can we move away from “us vs. them” thinking as our surroundings feel more divided and polarized than ever? Co-authors Matthew Fox and Lama Tsomo discuss how Tibetan Buddhism and Mystical Christianity answer this question from unique points of view, with
- [Book CTA: Whee-We-Wee](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-whee-we-wee) - Whee! We, Wee All the Way Home: A Guide to Sensual Prophetic Spirituality One of Matthew Fox’s earliest books, this title explores the importance of ecstasy in the spiritual life. Fox considers the distinction between “natural” ecstasies (including nature, sex, friendship, music, art) and “tactical” ecstasies (like meditation, fasting, chanting); he names the spiritual journey
- [Book CTA: Painting the Dream](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-painting-the-dream) - Painting the Dream: The Shamanic Life and Art of David Chethlahe Paladin By David Chethlahe PaladinA glimpse into the remarkable life and visionary artwork of spiritual artist and activist David Chethlahe Paladin. Exploring the spiritual traditions and shamanic history in the creation of his artwork, the book also features commentaries by Matthew Fox and others
- [Book CTA: Creativity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=creativity) - Creativity: Where the Divine and Human Meet Because creativity is the key to both our genius and beauty as a species but also to our capacity for evil, we need to teach creativity and to teach ways of steering this God-like power in directions that promote love of life (biophilia) and not love of death
- [Book CTA: AWE-Project](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=awe-project) - The A.W.E. Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human After 29 successful years of offering an alternative educational model to adults, Matthew Fox here lays out his basic educational philosophy and presents a revolution in education in the process. “A.W.E.” stands for Ancestral Wisdom Education: balancing the three R’s by honoring the teachings of the Ancestors
- [Book CTA: Passion For Creation](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-passion-for-creation) - Passion for Creation: The Earth-Honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart Matthew Fox’s comprehensive translation of Meister Eckhart’s sermons is a meeting of true prophets across centuries, resulting in a spirituality for the new millennium. The holiness of creation, the divine life in each person and the divine power of our creativity, our call to do justice
- [Book CTA: Martyr of the Amazon](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-martyr-of-the-amazon-2) - Martyr of the Amazon: The Life of Sister Dorothy Stang By Roseanne MurphyThe murder in 2005 of an American nun, Sister Dorothy Stang, focused the world’s attention on the plight of poor farmers in the Brazilian Amazon and their struggles with rapacious developers. This book presents the inspiring story of a woman who died defending
- [Book CTA: CS-Liberating-Gifts](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-cs-liberating-gifts) - Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth Fox’s spirituality weds the healing and liberation found in North American Creation Spirituality and in South American Liberation Theology. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of every religious and political persuasion to unite in a new vision through which we learn to honor the earth and the
- [Book CTA: Hildegard of Bingen](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-hildegard) - Hildegard of Bingen, A Saint for Our Times: Unleashing Her Power in the 21st Century Author Matthew Fox writes in Hildegard of Bingen about this amazing woman and what we can learn from her.In an era when women were marginalized, Hildegard was an outspoken, controversial figure. Yet so visionary was her insight that she was sought
- [Book CTA: Hildegard Feather On Breath CD](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=feather-on-breath-cd) - Hildegard von Bingen: A Feather on the Breath of God This is the record that started the Hildegard craze back in 1982–and you need only listen to Emma Kirkby glide and soar through Columba aspexit (the opening hymn) to understand why. ~ Matthew Westphal Learn More
- [Book CTA: Illumination CD](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=book-cta-illumination-cd) - Illumination: Hildegard von Bingen: The Fire of the Spirit Original compositions, interpretations, and arrangements by Richard Souther, inspired by the music of Hildegard of Bingen. Learn More
- [Blog-Index-and-Sidebar--v3--DMMF](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=blog-index-and-sidebar-v3-dmmf) - Previous Meditations Week of 7/6-11/2026: Music & Beauty, Good Ecological News, God as Freedom This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and some are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also,
- [Book CTA: Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=healing-journeys-black-madonna) - Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna: Chants, Music, and Sacred Practices of the Great Goddess The mysteries of the Black Madonna can be traced to pre-Christian times, to the ancient devotion to Isis, the Earth Goddess, and the African Mother, to the era when God was not only female but also black. Sacred sites of
- [Book CTA: The Hidden Spirituality of Men](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/?elementor_library=hidden-spirituality-men) - The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he unearths ten metaphors, or archetypes, ranging from the Green Man, an ancient pagan symbol of our fundamental relationship with nature, to the Spiritual Warrior….These timeless archetypes can inspire men to pursue their higher calling
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- [Being Human](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/being-human/)
- [Character/Moral Development](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/10-cs/character-moral-development/)
- [Contemplation](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/10-cs/contemplation/)
- [Creativity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/10-cs/creativity/)
- [10 Cs](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/10-cs/)
- [Compassion](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/10-cs/compassion/)
- [Critical Thinking](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/10-cs/critical-thinking/)
- [Cosmology/Ecology](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/10-cs/cosmology-ecology/)
- [Chaos](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/10-cs/chaos/)
- [Community](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/10-cs/community/)
- [Courage](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/10-cs/courage/)
- [Ceremony](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/10-cs/ceremony/)
- [Soul](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/soul/)
- [Compassion](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/compassion-2/)
- [Justice](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/justice/)
- [Gratitude](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/gratitude/)
- [Thomas Merton](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/thomas-merton/)
- [Truth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/truth/)
- [Julian of Norwich](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/julian-of-norwich/)
- [Wisdom](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/wisdom/)
- [Hildegard of Bingen](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/hildegard-of-bingen/)
- [Goodness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/goodness/)
- [Howard Thurman](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/howard-thurman/)
- [Meister Eckhart](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/meister-eckhart/)
- [Healthy Masculine](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/healthy-masculine/)
- [Spiritual Warriorhood](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/spiritual-warriorhood/)
- [Resurrection](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/resurrection/)
- [Resurrection](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/liberation-theology/resurrection-liberation-theology/)
- [shamanism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/shamanism/)
- [David Paladin](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/david-paladin/)
- [Thomas Berry](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/thomas-berry/)
- [Bede Griffiths](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/bede-griffiths/)
- [Black Madonna](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/black-madonna/)
- [Green Man](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/green-man/)
- [Breakthrough](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/breakthrough/)
- [Emily Dickinson](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/emily-dickinson/)
- [Celtic Spirituality](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/celtic-spirituality/)
- [Creation Stories](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/creation-stories/)
- [Indigenous Spirituality](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/indigenous-spirituality/)
- [Beauty](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/beauty/)
- [Love](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/love/)
- [teilhard de chardin](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/teilhard-de-chardin/)
- [ernesto cardenal](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/ernesto-cardenal/)
- [Sports](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/sports/)
- [Sins of the Spirit](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/sins-of-the-spirit/)
- [Acedia](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/acedia/)
- [Desert Fathers](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/desert-fathers/)
- [Tribalism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/tribalism/)
- [abortion](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/abortion/)
- [anger](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/anger/)
- [chakras](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/chakras/)
- [Arrogance](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/arrogance/)
- [Sacred Masculine](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/sacred-masculine/)
- [Goddess](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/goddess/)
- [Names of God](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/names-of-god/)
- [Nicolas of Cusa](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/nicolas-of-cusa/)
- [Indigenous Rights](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/indigenous-rights/)
- [Climate Change](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/climate-change/)
- [Cosmic Christ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/cosmic-christ/)
- [Thich Nhat Hanh](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/thich-nhat-hanh/)
- [Dorothee Soelle](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/dorothee-soelle/)
- [toxic masculinity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/toxic-masculinity/)
- [Christmas/Hanukkah](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/christmas-hanukkah/)
- [Light](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/light/)
- [Malidoma Some](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/malidoma-some/)
- [The Cosmic Mass](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/the-cosmic-mass/)
- [bell hooks](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/bell-hooks/)
- [Advent/Christmas](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/advent-christmas/)
- [Christmas](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/christmas/)
- [Values and Virtues](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/values-and-virtues/)
- [Father Sky](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/father-sky/)
- [Awe](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/awe/)
- [joy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/joy/)
- [Adrienne Rich](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/adrienne-rich/)
- [Grief](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/grief/)
- [Praise](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/praise/)
- [Mystics](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/mystics/)
- [Suffering](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/suffering/)
- [Healing](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/healing/)
- [War in Ukraine](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/war-in-ukraine/)
- [patriarchy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/patriarchy/)
- [Original Blessing](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/original-blessing/)
- [Otto Rank](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/otto-rank/)
- [The Beyond](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/the-beyond/)
- [Pope Francis](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/pope-francis/)
- [Creation Spirituality](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/creation-spirituality/)
- [Holy Week](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/holy-week/)
- [Interspirituality](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/interspirituality/)
- [Family](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/family/)
- [Earth Day](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/earth-day/)
- [Motherhood](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/motherhood/)
- [Supreme Court](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/supreme-court/)
- [Constitution](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/constitution/)
- [Opus Dei](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/opus-dei/)
- [fascism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/fascism/)
- [idolatry](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/idolatry/)
- [Rupert Sheldrake,](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/rupert-sheldrake/)
- [sufism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/sufism/)
- [spark of the soul](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/spark-of-the-soul/)
- [nothingness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/nothingness/)
- [God](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/god/)
- [Unfathomableness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/unfathomableness/)
- [Silence](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/silence/)
- [Stillness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/stillness/)
- [Via Negativa](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/via-negativa-2/)
- [Apophatic God](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/apophatic-god/)
- [Cosmology](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/cosmology/)
- [the Universe](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/the-universe/)
- [John of the Cross](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/john-of-the-cross/)
- [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/rainer-maria-rilke/)
- [Rabbi Heschel](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/rabbi-heschel/)
- [Webb telescope](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/webb-telescope/)
- [Fascism in America](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/fascism-in-america/)
- [Dark money](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/dark-money/)
- [The Cosmos](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/the-cosmos/)
- [Via Transformativa](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/via-transformativa-2/)
- [mahatma gandhi](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/mahatma-gandhi/)
- [david korten](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/david-korten/)
- [women's rights](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/womens-rights/)
- [Theocracy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/theocracy/)
- [animal companions](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/animals/)
- [Elections](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/elections/)
- [Sacred Earth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/sacred-earth/)
- [Voting Rights](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/voting-rights/)
- [Overcoming Evil](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/overcoming-evil/)
- [Fighting injustice](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/fighting-injustice/)
- [Florida](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/florida/)
- [January 6](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/january-6/)
- [Rise of Fascism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/rise-of-fascism/)
- [Life!](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/life/)
- [Prayer](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/prayer/)
- [Life](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/life-2/)
- [Democracy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/democracy/)
- [Albert Nolan](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/albert-nolan/)
- [Hannah Arendt](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/hannah-arendt/)
- [Consciousness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/consciousness/)
- [Inner Life](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/inner-life/)
- [Mary Oliver](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/mary-oliver/)
- [Four Elements](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/four-elements/)
- [Air](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/air/)
- [Sacred stories](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/sacred-stories/)
- [Caring for the Earth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/caring-for-the-earth/)
- [Cosmic Mass](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/cosmic-mass/)
- [Youth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/youth/)
- [Rites of Passage](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/rites-of-passage/)
- [Adam Bucko](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/adam-bucko/)
- [Occupy Spirituality](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/occupy-spirituality/)
- [darkness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/darkness/)
- [Winter](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/winter/)
- [repose](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/repose/)
- [panentheism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/panentheism/)
- [Black Elk](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/black-elk/)
- [solitude](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/solitude/)
- [Upanishads](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/upanishads/)
- [Godhead](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/godhead/)
- [Advent](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/advent/)
- [Our Lady of Guadalupe](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/our-lady-of-guadalupe/)
- [Hannukah](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/hannukah/)
- [Miracles](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/miracles/)
- [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/clarissa-pinkola-estes/)
- [Wildness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/wildness/)
- [Creativity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/creativity-2/)
- [Solstice](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/solstice/)
- [Kabbalah](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/kabbalah/)
- [Transfiguration](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/transfiguration/)
- [Divinization](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/divinization/)
- [Josef Ratzinger](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/josef-ratzinger/)
- [Pope Benedict XVI](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/pope-benedict-xvi/)
- [Dr. Martin Luther King](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/dr-martin-luther-king/)
- [Nondualism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/nondualism/)
- [Père Chenu](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/pere-chenu/)
- [Martin Luther King](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/martin-luther-king/)
- [Pere Chenu](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/pere-chenu-2/)
- [incarnation](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/incarnation/)
- [Rafael Jesús González](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/rafael-jesus-gonzalez/)
- [Sister Dorothy Stang](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/sister-dorothy-stang/)
- [Oscar Romero](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/oscar-romero/)
- [trees](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/trees/)
- [Hinduism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/hinduism/)
- [Buddha nature](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/buddha-nature/)
- [propaganda](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/propaganda/)
- [Lent and Easter](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/lent-and-easter/)
- [True self](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/true-self/)
- [Original mind](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/original-mind/)
- [Creation](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/creation/)
- [Glory](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/glory/)
- [sacred creation](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/sacred-creation/)
- [Ground of Being](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/ground-of-being/)
- [God is Love](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/god-is-love/)
- [Love of the Earth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/love-of-the-earth/)
- [Holy Spirit](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/holy-spirit/)
- [guns](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/guns/)
- [conscience](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/conscience/)
- [Buddhism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/buddhism/)
- [Doctrine of First Discovery](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/doctrine-of-first-discovery/)
- [Right Speech](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/right-speech/)
- [Right Livelihood](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/right-livelihood/)
- [Doctrine of Discovery](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/doctrine-of-discovery/)
- [civil rights](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/civil-rights/)
- [Easter](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/easter/)
- [crucifixion](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/crucifixion/)
- [Holiness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/holiness/)
- [Ernest Becker](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/ernest-becker/)
- [shame](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/shame/)
- [Shamelessness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/shamelessness/)
- [Chimpanzees](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/chimpanzees/)
- [Brian Swimme](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/brian-swimme/)
- [Depression](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/depression/)
- [psychology](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/psychology/)
- [Mothers Day](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/mothers-day/)
- [Daily Meditations](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/daily-meditations/)
- [Mother's Day](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/mothers-day-2/)
- [Healing Depression](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/healing-depression/)
- [Fred Shuttlesworth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/fred-shuttlesworth/)
- [Trust](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/trust/)
- [Integrity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/integrity/)
- [Fear](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/fear/)
- [self-hatred](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/self-hatred/)
- [service](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/service/)
- [Nonviolence](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/nonviolence/)
- [Jesus](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/jesus/)
- [Daniel Ellsberg](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/daniel-ellsberg/)
- [generosity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/generosity/)
- [Sister Jose Hobday](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/sister-jose-hobday/)
- [Interrelatedness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/interrelatedness/)
- [nobility](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/nobility/)
- [equality](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/equality/)
- [Juneteenth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/juneteenth/)
- [Capitalist Economy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/capitalist-economy/)
- [Prodigal Son](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/prodigal-son/)
- [body](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/body/)
- [Hafiz](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/hafiz/)
- [M.C. Richards](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/m-c-richards/)
- [MC Richards](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/mc-richards/)
- [Embodiment](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/embodiment/)
- [Matthew Fox](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/matthew-fox/)
- [Vatican II](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/vatican-ii/)
- [Mysticism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/mysticism/)
- [The Four Paths](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/the-four-paths/)
- [Big Dream](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/big-dream/)
- [Blessings of the Flesh](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/blessings-of-the-flesh/)
- [Homosexuality](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/homosexuality/)
- [Social Justice](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/social-justice/)
- [anthropocentrism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/anthropocentrism/)
- [healing the Planet](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/healing-the-planet/)
- [Chinese philosophy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/chinese-philosophy/)
- [augustine](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/augustine/)
- [Russell Sanders](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/russell-sanders/)
- [saint francis](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/saint-francis/)
- [Brother Sun](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/brother-sun/)
- [Sister Moon](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/sister-moon/)
- [Louis Vitale](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/louis-vitale/)
- [Peacemaking](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/peacemaking/)
- [Spiritual Warrior](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/spiritual-warrior/)
- [St. Francis](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/st-francis/)
- [warrior-prophet](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/warrior-prophet/)
- [Israel-Hamas War](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/israel-hamas-war/)
- [Folly of War](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/folly-of-war/)
- [Feeling Safe](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/feeling-safe/)
- [Communion of Saints](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/communion-of-saints/)
- [Immigrants](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/immigrants/)
- [Media Ethics](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/media-ethics/)
- [Einstein](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/einstein/)
- [Intuition](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/intuition/)
- [Intellect](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/intellect/)
- [Catholic bishops](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/catholic-bishops/)
- [the rise of fascism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/the-rise-of-fascism/)
- [Ladder](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/ladder/)
- [Circle](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/circle/)
- [Episcopal Conference](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/episcopal-conference/)
- [Round models](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/round-models/)
- [homophobia](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/homophobia/)
- [Synod](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/synod/)
- [Catholic prelates](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/catholic-prelates/)
- [Prophets](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/prophets/)
- [grace](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/grace/)
- [gay marriage](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/gay-marriage/)
- [planet Earth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/planet-earth/)
- [kurt vonnegut](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/kurt-vonnegut/)
- [Divinity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/divinity/)
- [Alex Grey](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/alex-grey/)
- [Academia](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/academia/)
- [Viriditas](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/viriditas/)
- [Veriditas](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/veriditas/)
- [Christena Cleveland](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/christena-cleveland/)
- [Allessandra Belloni](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/allessandra-belloni/)
- [Rightwing Christians](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/rightwing-christians/)
- [False idols](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/false-idols/)
- [Death & Dying](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/death-dying/)
- [Mother Mary](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/mother-mary/)
- [Rosary](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/rosary/)
- [Neil Douglas-Klotz](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/neil-douglas-klotz/)
- [St. Brigid](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/st-brigid/)
- [Druidism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/druidism/)
- [Hail Mary](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/hail-mary/)
- [Leonardo Boff](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/leonardo-boff/)
- [Andrew Harvey](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/andrew-harvey/)
- [Père Chenu](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/pere-chenu-3/)
- [Dorothy Stang](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/dorothy-stang/)
- [Amazon rainforest](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/amazon-rainforest/)
- [Martyrs](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/martyrs/)
- [Alexei Navalny](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/alexei-navalny/)
- [Frederick Douglass](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/frederick-douglass/)
- [Slavery](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/slavery/)
- [Christian Nationalism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/christian-nationalism/)
- [Unsupreme Court](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/unsupreme-court/)
- [Black History](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/black-history/)
- [Sojourner Truth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/sojourner-truth/)
- [Corruption](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/corruption/)
- [Forced Birth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/forced-birth/)
- [Aaron Bushnell](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/aaron-bushnell/)
- [Gaza](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/gaza/)
- [Misogyny](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/misogyny/)
- [Dualism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/dualism/)
- [Matter & Spirit](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/matter-spirit/)
- [Nature](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/nature/)
- [Feminism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/feminism/)
- [Bruce Chilton](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/bruce-chilton/)
- [Jose Andres](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/jose-andres/)
- [despair](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/despair/)
- [Eclipse](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/eclipse/)
- [Passover](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/passover/)
- [Jews of Conscience](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/jews-of-conscience/)
- [bill mckibben](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/bill-mckibben/)
- [Cecil Williams](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/cecil-williams/)
- [beyond patriarchy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/beyond-patriarchy/)
- [original sin](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/original-sin/)
- [self-love](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/self-love/)
- [erich fromm](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/erich-fromm/)
- [dogma](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/dogma/)
- [Council of Nicaea](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/council-of-nicaea/)
- [Beholding](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/beholding/)
- [Scripture](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/scripture/)
- [Wounded healer](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/wounded-healer/)
- [trauma](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/trauma/)
- [racism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/racism/)
- [sadism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/sadism/)
- [Freedom](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/freedom/)
- [Summer Solstice](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/summer-solstice/)
- [orvieto](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/orvieto/)
- [Reinventing Education](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/reinventing-education/)
- [LGBTQ+](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/lgbtq/)
- [project 2025](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/project-2025/)
- [leonard leo](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/leonard-leo/)
- [reincarnation](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/reincarnation/)
- [Hope](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/hope/)
- [Art](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/art/)
- [olympics](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/olympics/)
- [Catholicism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/catholicism/)
- [anima/animus](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/anima-animus/)
- [Carl Jung](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/carl-jung/)
- [anti-christ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/anti-christ/)
- [Kamala Harris](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/kamala-harris/)
- [Tim Walz](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/tim-walz/)
- [DNC](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/dnc/)
- [Antichrist](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/antichrist/)
- [Rabbi Michael Lerner](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/rabbi-michael-lerner/)
- [Tikkun](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/tikkun/)
- [Tom Fox](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/tom-fox/)
- [apocalypse](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/apocalypse/)
- [Letting Go](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/letting-go/)
- [The Sacred](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/the-sacred/)
- [Mother Earth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/mother-earth/)
- [MAGA](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/maga/)
- [Hurricane Helene](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/hurricane-helene/)
- [water](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/water/)
- [Denialism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/denialism/)
- [Philip Newell](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/philip-newell/)
- [Hurricane Milton](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/hurricane-milton/)
- [resentment](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/resentment/)
- [Forgiveness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/forgiveness/)
- [fossil fuels](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/fossil-fuels/)
- [A Course in Miracles](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/a-course-in-miracles/)
- [Reflections](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/reflections/)
- [equanimity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/equanimity/)
- [The Irrational](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/the-irrational/)
- [Donald Reeves](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/donald-reeves/)
- [hunter-gatherer](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/hunter-gatherer/)
- [Men's allies](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/mens-allies/)
- [four directions](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/four-directions/)
- [Notre Dame](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/notre-dame/)
- [Election](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/election/)
- [Magnificat](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/magnificat/)
- [winter solstice](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/winter-solstice/)
- [Mechtild of Magdeburg](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/mechtild-of-magdeburg/)
- [Social Media](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/social-media/)
- [Thom Hartmann](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/thom-hartmann/)
- ["Fiery hearts"](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/fiery-hearts/)
- [refirement](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/refirement/)
- [wonder](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/wonder/)
- [oligarchy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/oligarchy/)
- [Jimmy Carter](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/jimmy-carter/)
- ["refirement"](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/refirement-2/)
- [New Year](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/new-year/)
- [bonhoeffer](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/bonhoeffer/)
- [LA Wildfires](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/la-wildfires/)
- [soldier v. warrior](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/soldier-v-warrior/)
- [Joanna Macy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/joanna-macy/)
- [Pema Chodron](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/pema-chodron/)
- [Injustice](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/injustice/)
- [democracide](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/democracide/)
- [Self-care in dark times](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/self-care-in-dark-times/)
- [activism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/activism/)
- [coup](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/coup/)
- [Pray the News](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/pray-the-news/)
- [Resistance](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/resistance/)
- [Transgender Rights](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/transgender-rights/)
- [patriotism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/patriotism/)
- [Autocracy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/autocracy/)
- [prophetic action](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/prophetic-action/)
- [greed](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/greed/)
- [mad hatter](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/mad-hatter/)
- [Lent](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/lent/)
- [fasting](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/fasting/)
- [common good](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/common-good/)
- [Saint Patrick](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/saint-patrick/)
- [First Nations](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/first-nations/)
- [I AM](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/i-am/)
- [Annunciation](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/annunciation/)
- [evil](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/evil/)
- [Devil](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/devil/)
- [Satire](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/satire/)
- [Masculine archetypes](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/masculine-archetypes/)
- [trump-musk brogime](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/trump-musk-brogime/)
- [empathy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/empathy/)
- [Dark night of the Soul](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/dark-night-of-the-soul/)
- [Good Friday](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/good-friday/)
- [Gianluigi Gugliermetto](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/gianluigi-gugliermetto/)
- [christ consciousness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/christ-consciousness/)
- [Courage](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/courage-2/)
- [clarity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/clarity/)
- [magnanimity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/magnanimity/)
- [aquinas](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/aquinas/)
- [balance](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/balance/)
- [perfection](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/perfection/)
- [Cosmic hospitality](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/cosmic-hospitality/)
- [Pope Leo XIV](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/pope-leo-xiv/)
- [Motherhood of God](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/motherhood-of-god/)
- [Gluttony](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/gluttony/)
- [Wealth disparity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/wealth-disparity/)
- [Heart chakra](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/heart-chakra/)
- [Rationalism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/rationalism/)
- [envy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/envy/)
- [the shift network](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/the-shift-network/)
- [america](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/america/)
- [Political divide](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/political-divide/)
- [Walter Brueggemann](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/walter-brueggemann/)
- [Human rights](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/human-rights/)
- [fathers](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/fathers/)
- [Elders](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/elders/)
- [Diversity Equity & Inclusion](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/diversity-equity-inclusion/)
- [Refugees](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/refugees/)
- [W.H. Auden](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/w-h-auden/)
- [Walt Whitman](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/walt-whitman/)
- [etty hillesum](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/etty-hillesum/)
- [the holocaust](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/the-holocaust/)
- [Palestine](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/palestine/)
- [Genocide](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/genocide/)
- [Journalism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/journalism/)
- [Violence](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/violence/)
- [parenting](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/parenting/)
- [satan](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/satan/)
- [junipero serra](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/junipero-serra/)
- [Scapegoating](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/scapegoating/)
- [René Girard](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/rene-girard/)
- [archetypes](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/archetypes/)
- [shadow work](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/shadow-work/)
- [Mentorship](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/mentorship/)
- [Shambala Warriors](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/shambala-warriors/)
- [Fruits of the Spirit](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/fruits-of-the-spirit/)
- [Buck Ghosthorse](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/buck-ghosthorse/)
- [the Great Work](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/the-great-work/)
- [Combatting Despair](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/combatting-despair/)
- [Saints](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/saints/)
- [Hiroshima](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/hiroshima/)
- [Via Negative](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/via-negative/)
- [Clouds](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/clouds/)
- [Ecocide](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/ecocide/)
- [Everyday Saints](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/everyday-saints/)
- [Lion](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/lion/)
- [Tragedy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/tragedy/)
- [Narcissism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/narcissism/)
- [Natural and Tactical Ecstasy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/natural-and-tactical-ecstasy/)
- [Embodied Prayer](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/embodied-prayer/)
- [St. Dominic](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/st-dominic/)
- [LSD/Psilocybin](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/lsd-psilocybin/)
- [Transcendence](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/transcendence/)
- [labor](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/labor/)
- [music](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/music/)
- [leadership](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/leadership/)
- [Epstein](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/epstein/)
- [Peter Thiel](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/peter-thiel/)
- [Charlie Kirk](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/charlie-kirk/)
- [Trans rights](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/trans-rights/)
- [DEI](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/dei/)
- [radicalism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/radicalism/)
- [authoritarianism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/authoritarianism/)
- [Comedy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/comedy/)
- [vows](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/vows/)
- [Modern Monasticism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/modern-monasticism/)
- [Pronoia](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/pronoia/)
- [Global Sumud Flotilla](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/global-sumud-flotilla/)
- [Yom Kippur](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/yom-kippur/)
- [atonement](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/atonement/)
- [Elephants](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/elephants/)
- [understanding](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/understanding/)
- [Jane Goodall](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/jane-goodall/)
- [Ecstasy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/ecstasy/)
- [St. Teresa of Avila](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/st-teresa-of-avila/)
- [Bible](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/bible/)
- [church history](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/church-history/)
- [religion vs. spirituality](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/religion-vs-spirituality/)
- [Silicon Valley](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/silicon-valley/)
- [cruelty](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/cruelty/)
- [All Hallows' Eve](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/all-hallows-eve/)
- [Witchcraft](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/witchcraft/)
- [United Nations](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/united-nations/)
- [Beguines](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/beguines/)
- [Witch Hunts](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/witch-hunts/)
- [Billionaires](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/billionaires/)
- [Citizens United](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/citizens-united/)
- [elegies](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/elegies/)
- [Sadness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/sadness/)
- [November](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/november/)
- [Heaven and Hell](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/heaven-and-hell/)
- [purgatory](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/purgatory/)
- [Aeesha Clottey](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/aeesha-clottey/)
- [St. Augustine](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/st-augustine/)
- [wholeness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/wholeness/)
- [3I/Atlas](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/3i-atlas/)
- [Holy People](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/holy-people/)
- [ceasefire](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/ceasefire/)
- [American history](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/american-history/)
- [western values](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/western-values/)
- [European Union](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/european-union/)
- [Israel](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/israel/)
- [Nativity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/nativity/)
- [steven herrmann](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/steven-herrmann/)
- [sentimentalism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/sentimentalism/)
- [sustainability](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/sustainability/)
- [ICE](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/ice/)
- [AI](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/ai/)
- [Loneliness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/loneliness/)
- [doxa](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/doxa/)
- [Nikolai Berdyaev](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/nikolai-berdyaev/)
- [Prince of Peace](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/prince-of-peace/)
- [Peace](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/peace/)
- [war](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/war/)
- [wee-ness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/wee-ness/)
- [Minneapolis](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/minneapolis/)
- [Greenland](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/greenland/)
- [solidarity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/solidarity/)
- [Alex Pretti](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/alex-pretti/)
- [Renee Good](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/renee-good/)
- [biophilia](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/biophilia/)
- [mystery](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/mystery/)
- [Right Action](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/right-action/)
- [saintliness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/saintliness/)
- [Leonard Cohen](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/leonard-cohen/)
- [Joel Primack](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/joel-primack/)
- [Father Bede Griffiths](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/father-bede-griffiths/)
- [Immortality](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/immortality/)
- [Nancy Abrams](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/nancy-abrams/)
- [Ancestors](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/ancestors/)
- [Dorothy Day](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/dorothy-day/)
- [ritual](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/ritual/)
- [War in Iran](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/war-in-iran/)
- [The Maya](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/the-maya/)
- [Mayan Calendar](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/mayan-calendar/)
- [Jose Arguelles](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/jose-arguelles/)
- [Time](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/time/)
- [Anima Christi](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/anima-christi/)
- [Cosmic time](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/cosmic-time/)
- [retreat](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/retreat/)
- [Sardinia](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/sardinia/)
- [Archbishop Mullally](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/archbishop-mullally/)
- [Palm Sunday](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/palm-sunday/)
- [Gerard Manley Hopkins](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/gerard-manley-hopkins/)
- [sacred air](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/sacred-air/)
- [No Kings](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/no-kings/)
- [the Christ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/the-christ/)
- [the cross](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/the-cross/)
- [cosmogenesis](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/cosmogenesis/)
- [The Second Coming](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/the-second-coming/)
- [dance](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/dance/)
- [Care for the Earth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/care-for-the-earth/)
- [Laudato Si](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/laudato-si/)
- [Eros](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/eros/)
- [Tantra](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/tantra/)
- [Christ](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/christ/)
- [sensuality](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/sensuality/)
- [Sacred breath](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/sacred-breath/)
- [income inequality](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/income-inequality/)
- [Catholic Church](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/catholic-church/)
- [Economic inequality](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/economic-inequality/)
- [Work](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/work/)
- [Un-Supreme Court](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/un-supreme-court/)
- [New World Order](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/new-world-order/)
- [New Monasticism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/new-monasticism/)
- [Spiritual Counseling](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/spiritual-counseling/)
- [the Jesus Prayer](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/the-jesus-prayer/)
- [Eco-Justice](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/eco-justice/)
- [Stephen Colbert](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/stephen-colbert/)
- [Taoism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/taoism/)
- [Sacred Activism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/sacred-activism/)
- [Pentecost](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/pentecost/)
- [Magnifica Humanitas](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/magnifica-humanitas/)
- [Engineers without Borders](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/engineers-without-borders/)
- [Catholics and Protestants](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/catholics-and-protestants/)
- [sacred sites](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/sacred-sites/)
- [Evelyn Underhill](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/evelyn-underhill/)
- [Character](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/character/)
- [Perfectionism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/perfectionism/)
- [John the Baptist](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/john-the-baptist/)
- [Robert Thurman](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/robert-thurman/)
- [Heresy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/heresy/)
- [Enlightenment](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/enlightenment/)
- [separation of Church & State](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/separation-of-church-state/)
- [Brendan Doyle](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/brendan-doyle/)
- [liturgy](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/liturgy/)
- [liturgical music](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/category/liturgical-music/)

## Tags

- [Mother Earth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/mother-earth/)
- [Mothers Day](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/mothers-day/)
- [Hildegard of Bingen](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/hildegard-of-bingen/)
- [Sacred Feminine](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/sacred-feminine/)
- [sister dorothy stang](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/sister-dorothy-stang/)
- [Goodness](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/goodness/)
- [Spiritual Warriorhood](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/spiritual-warriorhood/)
- [Justice](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/justice/)
- [Mysticism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/mysticism/)
- [Activism](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/activism/)
- [Creativity](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/creativity/)
- [Birth](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/birth/)
- [Meister Eckhart](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/meister-eckhart/)
- [Holy Spirit](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/holy-spirit/)
- [Holy Ghost](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/holy-ghost/)
- [Virgin](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/virgin/)
- [Wife](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/wife/)
- [Climate change](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/climate-change/)
- [walt whitman](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/walt-whitman/)
- [Mahatma Gandhi](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/mahatma-gandhi/)
- [Animals](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/animals/)
- [solar eclipse](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/solar-eclipse/)
- [Hope](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/hope/)
- [olympics](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/olympics/)
- [france](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/france/)
- [paris](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/paris/)
- [representation](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/representation/)
- [vow](https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/tag/vow/)