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Howard Thurman’s Vision for the Fellowship of All Peoples, continued 10/18/2023 |
I am sharing some of my thoughts on the occasion of the Naming of the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples as an Historic Landmark by the city of San Francisco. |
As we saw yesterday, Howard Thurman’s vision is that we strip ourselves beyond religious denominationalism “to the literal substance of ourselves
before God." There lies a vision for the 21st century. |
Dr. Howard Thurman in the pulpit during a service at The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples, circa 1950. Source: The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples, by permission. |
My talk continues: To do this letting go, undergo this
emptying called kenosis and also forgiveness, we need to look at our mistakes and misdeeds–personal and communal–over the centuries. Slavery, genocide, hatred, lynchings, injustice of an economic kind, racial kind, gender kind, homophobic kind, hatred of Mother Earth–creation itself, ecocide and matricide looming so large in our growing awareness today—all this very often in the name of religion. |
“On the Gaza hospital bombing: ‘We as humans have to believe that the truth matters.’” Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow discuss the moral issues involved in negotiating peace between Israel and Palestine. | The latter is a situation that Howard Thurman warned us about when he wrote: The collective psyche shrieks with the agony that it feels as a part of the death
cry of a pillaged nature. |
Yes, we share a collective psyche, and we share a “pillaged nature” and the “death cry” it is sending forth–no matter how we identify ourselves, whether African or African
American, European or Caucasian, Asian or Latino, LatinX, or Indigenous; whether Catholic, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, atheist, humanist or “none.” We share a collective psyche and we are all homo sapiens. Are we stretching to be our better selves and bigger selves, our more generous and courageous, creative and joy-filled
selves? |
The Church for the Fellowship of all Peoples. When we look at the suffering of our species and the potential of our species, and the wisdom of our spiritual ancestors, we will always look to this place that named an aspiration, a |
Yael Deckelbaum – Prayer Of The Mothers (Official Video) |
hope, a possibility: That all peoples might find community together, fellowship together. In light of today’s crisis of fellowship of all peoples evident in hate and violence in the Middle East, I urge you to listen to the prayer sung by Jewish and Muslim mothers together above. |
See Matthew Fox, A Spirituality Named Compassion.
And Fox, Christian Mystics, pp. 203-217.
Banner Image: A sacred circle dance for women of a variety of ethnicities in northern Israel, led by author/visionary Jalaja Bonheim (out of view), 2009. Photo from JalajaBonheim.com, by permission.
Corrections: Yesterday's email subject incorrectly identified The Church For the Fellowship of All People as the The Church Of the Fellowship of All People. We sincerely regret the error. |
Queries for Contemplation How does your soul come alive while listening to and watching the video of Jewish and Muslim mothers marching and singing for peace? |
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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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Christian Mystics: 365 Readings & Meditations
As Matthew Fox notes, when an aging Albert Einstein was asked if he had any regrets, he replied, “I wish I had read more of the mystics earlier in my life.” The 365 writings in Christian Mystics represent a wide-ranging sampling of these readings for modern-day seekers of all faiths —
or no faith. The visionaries quoted range from Julian of Norwich to Martin Luther King, Jr., from Thomas Merton to Dorothee Soelle and Thomas Berry.
“Our world is in crisis, and we need road maps that can ground us I wisdom, inspire us to action, and help us gather our talents in service of compassion and justice. This revolutionary book does just that. Matthew Fox takes some of the most
profound spiritual teachings of the West and translates them into practical daily mediations. Study and practice these teachings. Take what’s in this book and teach it to the youth because the new generation cannot afford to suffer the spirit and ethical illiteracy of the past.” — Adam Bucko, spiritual activist and co-founder of the Reciprocity Foundation for Homeless Youth |
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Q&A – Grounding & Expanding, Psyche & Cosmos, Friendship with Self, Others, the Universe: Toward a “Cosmic Religion” (Einstein) and Human/Planetary Survival Thu 7:30am-8:15am – Guided Practice – Finding the Divine (the “I am”, the Christ, the Buddha Nature, the Tselem or Image of God) Within Thu 12:00pm-1:30pm – Workshop – Recovering the Sacred Masculine and the Divine Feminine Register HERE. |
Join Matthew Fox as he delivers a Lecture and Q&A: “Towards a New Mythology: New & Ancient Names for God from Mystical Ancestors and Contemporary Science (&
Fit for Some Atheists too)” as part of the Unitarian Universalist of Berkeley Lawrence Lecture Series. Friday, November 10, 2023, 7:00pm-8:30pm PT. Register HERE. |
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connection with Creation Spirituality, drawing upon centuries of knowledge and wisdom from indigenous and mystical traditions world-wide… particularly from the Rhineland Mystic Movement of the medieval European Renaissance, and a most extraordinary woman at its helm: Hildegard von Bingen. |
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