Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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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
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“Thou Shalt Dare the Dark” (Via Negativa)
Today we will begin to explore the Via Negativa. The Via Negativa is the way of darkness, silence,

Week of 7/24-29/2023: Matthew Fox, Creation Spirituality & the Four Paths
July 24, 2023. Creation Spirituality Steps Out of the Catholic WorldMatthew Fox was silenced by the Vatican from

On God, the Cosmic Christ, Laughter, and Mysticism.
By Richard Reich-Kuykendall Today we will look at a different kind of God—The Cosmic Christ, Laughter, and Mysticism. And

Creation Spirituality: An Amazing Gathering Place
Today we will look at the amazing diversity that Creation Spirituality embraces. A diversity of social activists, people

The Gospel of Creation, as told by Jesus: Nature’s Storyteller
Jesus’ biggest and most innovative decision was the manner in which he chose to preach. He chose the

The Via Positiva–What We Can Learn From the Works of Creation
All of the quotations today come from the book that started it all: Original Blessing, lauded as one of the

A Journey Through the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality
Over the next four weeks, we are going to be looking at the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality

Creation Spirituality Steps Out of the Catholic World
Fox was silenced by the Vatican from 1989-1990, was expelled from the Dominican Order on March 3, 1993,

Week of 7/17-22/2023: More Wisdom from M. C. Richards & Matthew Fox’s Early Years
July 17, 2023. M. C. on “Moral Imagination,” a Pathway to Justice & CompassionIn this meditation we explore

Matthew Meets His Mentor
In Paris, at the Institut Catholique de Paris he met his mentor, Pere M. D. Chenu. It was Chenu

Matthew Fox as a Young Man: the Turning Points
Matthew Fox was born on the winter solstice, in 1940, in St. Mary’s Hospital, in Madison, Wisconsin. From

Encountering Creation Spirituality and Matthew Fox
In July of 1988, after college, seminary and a switch to a different denomination, I was ordained as

A Special Note from Matthew Fox
Dear Readers of the Daily Meditations, I am writing to tell you that for one month I will

Art, Healing, Learning Discipline for Freedom, Play & Loving of Enemies
Healing dualisms can occur in art as meditation. M. C. Richards comments: Life is bipolar. Everything contains its opposite….

M. C. on “Moral Imagination,” a Pathway to Justice & Compassion
Theologian and sociologist Gregory Baum has written that classical theology “supposed that faith resides in the intelligence. It

Week of 7/10-15/2023: Exploring Justice, Compassion, & Incarnational Meditation
July 10, 2023. Remedies For a Sick and Diseased and Dangerous Supreme CourtIn this DM, we explore some

M.C. on Art as Meditation as Incarnational Meditation
Our lives can easily be heady and not truthful since truth comes from all the chakras and our whole self

M. C. Richards, Centering, and Fusion of the Opposites
We have been meditating on Holiness and what it means in the 21st century. Père Chenu, a great historian and

Justice & Compassion as Visions of God that Melt Hearts
When Aquinas says that “the vision of God is arrived at through justice” means that the Via Transformativa

More from Aquinas on Justice, Holiness and Compassion
Aquinas tells us that the prophet Isaiah talks about two things— Justice, which he possesses, and a vision

Coming up for Air: Spirituality and Justice from Thomas Aquinas
We have, necessarily it seems to me, been meditating on the very dark news coming from the current

Remedies For a Sick and Diseased and Dangerous Supreme Court
We ended the Sunday DM with this question: “Can anyone say ‘conflict of interest’? It sort of, kind of,

Week of 7/3-8/2023: An Unjust, Unethical Court
July 3, 2023. Justice, Holiness, Racism, History and the Supreme CourtMeister Eckhart tells us that “God and justice

Justice, Injustice, More Moral Stench from the Supreme Court
More secrets are being revealed about the most corrupt and compromised Supreme Court in history, hell-bent on undoing

The Silliness—and Clear and Present Danger–of Today’s SCOTUS
We are meditating on justice as a spiritual virtue and we are examining a particularly stunning action of

Silly SCOTUS Busy on a Non-case and a Non-existent Gay Couple
Sometimes history—including current history—is so absurd that it has to make one laugh (as well as cry). People with

Justice Jackson Challenges the Supreme Court’s Aristocracy
One of Justice Jackson’s objections to the recent Supreme Court decision disallowing race as a factor in college

Holiness and Justice and Perfidy of the Supreme Court
Last week we began looking at a fourth sign of holiness to accompany those of Joy, Courage and

Justice, Holiness, Racism, History and the Supreme Court
Justice and holiness go together. How could it be otherwise, since Justice is a well-recognized name for God or

Week of 6/26-7/1/2023: Fighting for Justice and a Solstice Pilgrimage
June 26, 2023. Dobbs: One Year AfterThe Dobbs decision of the Supreme Court one year ago, overturning Row