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Please Vote. And get others to vote. Vote for the Planet, for the future therefore, and for the young and generations not yet born. |
Vote for the animals and vote for the oceans and the finned ones who live therein. Vote for the sky and the air and the waters and our Mother the Earth. | Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin team up to get out the vote for the sake of the planet. Greenpeace USA. |
Vote that humans can mend our ways and
re-connect to the beauty and harmony of nature and the sacredness of our existence, fragile that it is on this tiny planet so diverse, so beautiful, so special for our existence and that of the millions of species with whom we share it. Vote for the
poor and the forgotten and the victims of war and of hate. And for those who hate and feel distant from the original goodness of creation that can also to be found within them. |
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Rep. Jamie Raskin join Chris Hayes to discuss voter intimidation and the risks of fascism and white nationalism in the midterm
elections. MSNBC | Vote for leaders that will lead by way of justice and compassion and not by way of power for power sake or worship gods of wall street and want to give still more tax breaks to the richest among us and the corporations among
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that are, more than anyone except maybe Mr. Putin, responsible for inflation, having inflated their prices of gas and of food during Putin’s war and the pandemic and are making exorbitant profits that everyday
Americans are paying for. Vote as if democracy depended on it. Because it does. Vote as if authoritarianism (also known as fascism or “institutional violence”) and the violence it brings with it is at our door to kill democracy. Because it is. Vote as if authoritarianism and lies and fascism are in our living rooms via certain media and social media platforms. Because it is. Vote as if the future of the planet and our
children’s children and so much more depends on it. Because it does. |
Vote as if voting matters. Because it does. Vote as if there are forces and election deniers running for office who want to end the possibility that voting will ever matter again. | More than 300 election questioners or deniers are vying for posts as federal legislators, as governors, attorneys general, or secretaries of state. If elected, they could
determine the result of the 2024 election. USA TODAY |
Vote as if justice and compassion matter. Because they do. Vote as if our world is a 13.8 billion year-old Original Blessing and it has birthed us, original blessings also, whose purpose is to praise and bless creation
and one another. Vote as if our “existence is a miracle” (Rilke). Which it is. Vote as if you are giving thanks for the miracle of existence and of all creation that brought us here and sustains us here. |
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And Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth.
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Queries for Contemplation What does voting in 2022 mean to you? With authoritarianism on the rise, are you concerned and acting to see that this is not our last democratic election? |
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Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality 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): the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an extended and deeply developed way.
“Original Blessing makes available to the Christian world and to the human community a radical cure for all dark and derogatory views of the natural world wherever these may have originated.” –Thomas Berry, author, The Dream of the
Earth; The Great Work; co-author, The Universe Story | |
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 people who inhabit it as the gift of a good and
just Creator.
“A watershed theological work that offers a common ground for religious seekers and activists of all stripes.” — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice. | |
See Matthew Fox's full calendar HERE |
Join Matthew Fox at the Louisville Festival of Faiths for an online/onsite workshop on “Significant Stories for Our Times: A Workshop with Matthew Fox: Earth Survival
from Thomas Merton, Science, Creation Spirituality Mystics and Ourselves” November 9-12, 2022 (Wed-Sat) Louisville, KY: Onsite and Virtual - Friday Workshop – 4:00pm-5:15pm ET on-site (1:00pm-2:15pm PT virtual)
- Saturday Spiritual Practice – 8:30am-9:15am ET on-site (5:30am-6:15am PT virtual)
https://festivaloffaiths.org/ Purchase a Friday ticket HERE Join Matthew Fox for the monthly Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, discussing Matthew Fox: Essential Writings on Creation Spirituality. Thursday, November 17,
4:00pm-6:00pm PT. Register HERE. Join Matthew Fox for the monthly Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, discussing Christian Mystics: 365 Readings and Meditations. Thursday, December 15,
4:00pm-6:00pm PT Register HERE. Creation Spirituality Conversations |
In a podcast episode with the Earth and Spirit Center, Matthew Fox reflects on how creation-centered spirituality, and the marriage of the divine feminine and sacred masculine, can help us respond with hope
to the troubles of our apocalyptic times. Listen HERE. | |
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