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Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Week of Oct. 17-22: Defending Democracy, Honoring Albert Nolan, OP. |
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 17, 2022: Further Cataclysms including Elephant
Futures Matthew Fox concludes his reflections on “cataclysm,” addressing the need to pray, meditate, and act on the multiple assaults on U.S. democracy, climate change denial, the matricide of Mother Earth, and the killing of our more-than human relations, the elephants and other animals. |
October 18, 2022: Is Democracy Sacred and Worthy of Saving? Democracy is rife with failures and
imperfections. But what are the alternatives? With the challenges facing democracy in our world today, and the authoritarian and far-right movements rising against it, we are asked to explore what is needed for democracy to survive in our times. |
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| October 19, 2022: The Death of a Prophet, Albert Nolan, OP We recall and honor the memory of South African Dominican Albert Nolan, theologian, author, and activist for social justice. He declined his election as Master of
the Order of Preachers (the Dominican Order), and was a source of guidance and inspiration when Matthew Fox was dismissed from the order and joined the Episcopal church. |
October 20, 2022: Albert Nolan, OP, Prophetic Activist & Author, continued Matthew Fox continues sharing his memories of Father Albert Nolan: the late theologian/activist’s thoughts on the lack of solidarity in America; and the only way to liberate oneself from one’s enemies: by “reaching down to the root cause of all oppression and domination: man’s lack of compassion.” |
October 21, 2022: Nolan on the Jesus Story, Politics and Religion What was Christianity before it became a
religion? How did Jesus’ early followers live their faith under the Roman empire? We reflect on the teachings of Albert Nolan from his book, Jesus Before Christianity, on the days when Christianity was a matter of spirituality rather than religion, showing the primacy of experience over structures. |
“Christ of the Breadlines” by Fritz Eichenberg for The Catholic Worker. Uploaded to Flickr by Jim Forest October 22, 2022: The Price of Democracy and the Price of Compassion We bring the life of Albert Nolan into the
context of other brave men and women who have stood and sacrificed for democracy and justice, returning to the need to begin with compassion and the discovery of our common humanity, taking a stand against those forces working against our shared humanity. How do we carry this core realization with us into the polling place? |
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Image: “Mahsa Amini #1” On Saturday, October 8, 2022, several hundred protesters gathered at Parliament Square as part of a worldwide series of protests in solidarity with Iranian women and Iran’s wider population struggling for personal, political and religious freedom and social justice against a ruthless authoritarian theocracy. Photo by Alisdare Hickson on Flickr. |
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 | |
Confessions: The Making of a Post-Denominational Priest (Revised/Updated
Edition) 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 current changes taking place in church, society and the environment.
“The unfolding story of this irrepressible spiritual revolutionary enlivens the mind and emboldens the heart — must reading for anyone interested in courage, creativity, and the future of religion.”
—Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, World as Self | |
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 | |
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. | |
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