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Lent 2023: Is Rupert Murdoch
a Father of Lies? 02/24/2023 |
We considered yesterday how Lent is a time for self-reflection and asking: How can I do better? How can I live out my values more
authentically? |
It is also a time for asking: How can we do better? How can we live out our values more authentically, more really in our work and professions and relationships and life decisions? | |
This Lenten question certainly applies to our businesses and our work worlds. Fox News finds itself so much in the news these days since facts are emerging from the $1.6 billion defamation suit against
it of how far it has strayed from the purpose of the sixth chakra (our foreheads blessed on Ash Wednesday). The purpose of the sixth chakra, as I pointed out in yesterday’s DM, is about “purifying our minds, that is, to use them
for the purpose for which they were intended. To seek Truth and to share it.” |
Fox Chief Rupert Murdoch testified in a billion-dollar lawsuit defamation suit, accusing Murdoch and the network’s anchors of “repeatedly and knowingly” pushing false
claims. MSNBC‘s Ari Melber reports. | What is becoming evident for all to see is that Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is not seeking or sharing Truth so much as distorting it and investing big time in Big Lies. Lies that, of course, have vast consequences for the
larger community and the very foundations of democracy |
itself. January 6 was such a consequence. Media empire builder Mr. Murdoch is subject to the rule, “ashes to ashes and dust to dust,” just like the rest of us. Keeping in mind that he is 91 years old, his ashes moment cannot be very far away, even though as a multi-billionaire he can snap his fingers and get the best medical care in a second. As we saw two meditations ago, behind the scenes of his television studios he and his employees mocked guests they had on their show while before the cameras they shouted looney conspiracy theories promulgated by
them. |
All this stirring up of hatred and even violence and the January 6 insurrection and many vicious laws passed in state legislatures to interfere with the proper practice of voting. Democracy
suffers when lies prevail. Surely these practices qualify Mr. | New evidence reveals Fox hosts secretly viewed Trump’s election lies as “mind-blowingly nuts," “reckless” and "insane" while promoting the claims on air. MSNBC's Ari Melber reports. |
Murdoch as a reigning father of lies in our time. Maybe he and his employees would do well to take a retreat this Lent to explore why Truth is a name for Divinity while Satan is called “the Father of Lies.” To be continued |
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See Matthew Fox, The Reinvention of Work. And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society, pp. 333-358. Banner Image: Australian artist-activist Graeme Dunstan with Rupert Murdoch effigy – 2011
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The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood For Our Time Thomas Aquinas said, “To live well is to work well,” and in this bold call for the revitalization of daily work, Fox shares his vision of a world where our personal and professional lives are celebrated in harmony–a world where the self is not
sacrificed for a job but is sanctified by authentic “soul work.” “Fox approaches the level of poetry in describing the reciprocity that must be present between one’s inner and outer work…[A]n important road map to social change.” ~~ National Catholic Reporter | |
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 | |
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Join Matthew Fox for a lecture and Q&A on “The Reinvention of Work – A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time” in an Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, Thursday, March 16, 4:00-6:00 pm PT.
Register HERE. Join Matthew Fox and Isa Gucciardi for a new Lecture & Q&A on “ Liberation and Salvation: Healing Teachings in Buddhism & Christianity” at Convergence Hosted by
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Matthew Fox speaks on "Jung and Teilhard in Dialogue" to the Creation Spirituality Communities at their Global Kinship event in January 2023. | |
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