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More on Grieving the Loss of Young Life |
We are grieving the loss of still more young life at the hands of a young, 22-year-old, killer. |
Politicians’ hands are bloody when their rhetoric and demagoguery appeals to hearts full of hate and inviting violence toward LGBTQ persons. And the capitalist media support them because fear and hate sell their product (ask the late and very rich | MSNBC News Senior
Reporter Ben Collins questions the role of the media in responding to the rise in online anti-LGBT rhetoric following the shooting at Colorado Springs Club Q. |
Rush Limbaugh and his many clones such as Alex
Jones). And the NRA and politicians in bed with the NRA who hide behind the second amendment to resist legislation that can restrict weapons that can and are used to murder people. Lots of bloody hands to go around these
days. But the murders at the gay club in Colorado Springs is not the only bad news about young death in America this past week. Three college football players were shot to death by a young man at the University of Virginia for
reason still unknown. And four college students were viciously stabbed to death in their beds while sleeping at a college in Idaho. Such tragedies are not solely due to the young people doing the killing. It is also a
sign of a failing society where the elders are missing and the adults are confused and where adultism reigns. |
Stephen Jenkinson comments on the lost role of elders as wisdomkeepers. London Real | Adultism is where older ones resent the young (often unconsciously) instead of committing themselves to the best ways to serve and raise the young, offering healthy learning about what it means to be a human |
being and how to develop habits or virtues that guide one to become the best versions of themselves that they can be. Not
only healthy education, but healthy religion or spirituality is often missing today. Religion that is not self-serving and hypocritical seems to be rarer and rarer to many young people today. The latest scandals of child abuse coming from the Catholic church and its Opus Dei sponsors of fascism so well represented on the Supreme Court are reminders of such abuse. |
But so too are the revelations from the Jerry Falwell family and its Liberty University which prides itself on being “the largest Christian university” in the world. It and the Evangelical church has not only been preaching the MAGA philosophy vociferously, but its president and his wife have
been | MSNBC‘s Mehdi Hasan
reports on how Christian nationalist religious extremists present the former White House tenant as a messianic figure to be empowered over democracy. |
involved in super-charged sexual escapades of hyper hypocrisy. Also facts are coming out about decades-long sexual abuse cover ups in the Baptist church and the Mormon church. All of it is a story of abuse of young people and its cover-up and religious hypocrisy. Accompanying it too is the abuse of the name and person and teachings of Jesus. |
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See Matthew Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society, pp. 267-332. Banner Image: Vigil of solidarity in the wake of the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting, Minneapolis, MN, 6/12/2016. Photo by Fibonacci Blue on Flickr. |
Queries for Contemplation How do you handle the revelations of hypocrisy in religion of our times? Do you think that reality has a lot to do with young people turning their back on organized religion in favor of spirituality? Do you see it as a response to adultism? |
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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society Visionary theologian and best-selling author Matthew Fox offers a new theology
of evil that fundamentally changes the traditional perception of good and evil and points the way to a more enlightened treatment of ourselves, one another, and all of nature. In comparing the Eastern tradition of the 7 chakras to the Western tradition of the 7 capital sins, Fox allows us to think creatively about our capacity for personal and institutional evil and what we can do about them.
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a better vision
and depth of perception far beyond the grasp of any one single science. A breath-taking analysis.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, author of Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the new Physics | |
See Matthew Fox's full calendar HERE |
Join Matthew Fox in conversation with Robert Holden in a special Thanksgiving webinar: Thanksgiving with the Mystics: 5
Practices for Gratitude and Abundance as a Spiritual Path. Available online ONLY from Tuesday, November 22, 10:00 AM PT, through Sunday, November 27. Purchase tickets HERE. Join Matthew Fox as he leads a new course hosted by The Shift Network: Answer the Call for an Uncommon Life Through the Mystical Teachings of St. Hildegard. New 16-module video training with two live Q&A events starts Monday,
November 28, 12:00 PM 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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