The Creation Spirituality Lineage Calling All Social and Environmental Activists, Mystic Explorers, Justice Makers, Cosmic Thinkers, Earth Keepers Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox |
An Imam and Rabbi Teaching & Demonstrating Compassion, continued 11/01/2023 |
Yesterday we shared good news from the program All Things Considered* that invited an Imam and a rabbi to interact on the current war in Gaza and Israel. |
When asked what they wanted to say to each other, this was their response: Rabbi Brous: I will say to you, Imam
Herbert, I’m holding you and your |
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community, your beloveds in your mosque and their families in Gaza in my heart and in my prayers. And I know that there is a better way for humanity that we can walk together toward peace, dignity and justice for all people. And I really appreciate you as a partner in that work. Thank you. Imam Herbert: I share the same sentiment. For me, I think one of the most profound things that I heard you say that really, really stuck out to me, rabbi, was you mentioned that the real enemies of this are not the Jews or the Israelis or the Palestinians. It’s those people who have
decided that violence is the only answer. And that really, really stuck with me. That this shows that there actually is a way to have a conversation. |
Religious siblings making history: A rabbi, a priest & an imam discuss the Abrahamic Family House (a compound of a mosque, synagogue, and church just opened in Abu Dhabi). euronews | I am very moved by this conversation, yesterday’s and today’s. These spiritual leaders speak to what we have been meditating on for several days, that humanity is capable of listening, of understanding, of speaking truth with one another and looking for common ground. In short, we are capable of compassion and working out of our |
commonality, our shared interdependence, our shared joys and our shared sorrows. It is good news to hear that sermons on Fridays in
mosques and on Saturdays in synagogues and hopefully on Sundays in churches speak to this bottom line of what it means to be human. And what it means to survive and thrive as humans and carry on as humans. Compassion is the only way. War is obsolete—and so, so, so deja vu. |
See Matthew Fox, A Spirituality Named Compassion.
And
Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society.
Banner Image: “Compassion and Solidarity.” An Orthodox Jewish man holds a Palestinian flag at a 2014 London protest of Israeli lethal force against unarmed Palestinian protesters. Photo by Alisdare Hickson on Flickr.
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Queries for Contemplation What do you derive from listening to this Imam and this rabbi interact at this fraught time in the Middle East? Would you like to hear more of this kind of interaction between faith leaders? |
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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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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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UPCOMING EVENTS See Matthew Fox's full calendar HERE Join Matthew Fox for two days of learning and practice as he speaks at the online Stanford Medicine Contemplation by Design Summit, Wednesday and Thursday, November 1-2, 2023. Wed 4:00pm-5:30pm PT – Lecture, 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 and 7 other speakers at “Unleashing Otto Rank: The Creation of Modern Depth Therapy – An International Online Conference” hosted by the Existential-Humanistic Institute. Matthew Fox presents: “Otto Rank as a ‘New Personality Type’ Calling for the Unio Mystica: a Reunion of Psyche and Cosmos,” Saturday-Sunday, November 4-5, 9am – 1:30pm PT. 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. Creation Spirituality Conversations |
Hunger for Wholeness: What is Wholeness in the Midst of Crisis with Matthew Fox (Part 1) In the midst
of increased violence between Israel and Palestine, Ilia Delio and theologian Matthew Fox discuss the state of the world today and how to have courage in Part 1 of their conversation. Ilia and Matt discuss his mentor, Marie Dominique Chenu, the influence of liberation theology on social justice in the church today, and what can still be learned. |
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