The Creation Spirituality Lineage Calling All Social and Environmental Activists, Mystic Explorers, Justice Makers, Cosmic Thinkers, Earth Keepers
Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Week of 10/3 to 10/8: Honoring Animals and Creating an Order of the Sacred Earth |
Each Sunday, we are offering a brief summary of the meditations from the previous week as a kind of “index” inviting you to return to a previous meditation which may call to you. |
October 4, 2022. Spiritual Lessons Animals Teach Us. This day marks the feast day of St. Francis, and many churches around the world offer a special blessing of
the animals on this day. Matthew Fox describes one memorable time at St. John's Episcipal Cathedral in New York. Also, Matthew begins to delineate some of the ways that animals are teachers for us. |
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October 7, 2022. Why an Order of the Sacred Earth? In this inspiring meditation, Matthew Fox shares the powerful impetus
behind the creation of the book Order of the Sacred Earth, which he co-authored with two young leaders and activists, Jennifer Berit Listug and Skylar Wilson. Skylar Wilson, Jennifer Listug, and Matthew Fox, co-authors of Order of the Sacred Earth |
Banner Image: What better way to represent animals
and a sacred Earth? "Peaceable Kingdom." Painting by Edward Hicks - National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., online collection, Public
Domain. |
Order of
the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Vision of Love and Action By Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, and Jen Listug In the midst of global fire, earthquake and flood - as species are going extinct every day and national and global economies totter - the planet doesn't need another church or religion. What it needs is a newOrder,
grounded in the Wisdom traditions of both East and West, including science and indigenous. An Order of the Sacred Earth united in one sacred vow: “I promise to be the best lover and defender of the Earth that I can be.” Co-authored by Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, and Jennifer Listug, with a forward by David Korten, this collection of essays by 21 spiritual visionaries including Brian Swimme, Mirabai Starr, Theodore Richards, and Kristal Parks marks the
founding of the diverse and inclusive Order of the Sacred Earth, a community now evolving around the world. “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 Active Hope. | |
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 ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence which is the substratum of all compassionate activity. “Well worth our deepest consideration…Puts compassion into its proper focus after centuries of neglect.” –The Catholic Register | |
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Join Matthew Fox for the monthly online Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, discussing Original Blessing. Thursday, October 20, 4:00pm-6:00pm PT. Register 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.
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Creation Spirituality in Conversation |
| Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism, interviews Matthew Fox on The Essential Writings of Creation Spirituality, July 26, 2022. |
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