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Harriet Tubman, A Holy Worker Par Excellence 03/12/2024 |
In yesterday’s DM we honored work as a forge of holiness. And in recent DMs we remembered black heroes and sheroes of old. |
Harriet Tubman (c. 1820-1911) is one of those sheroes. Called the “Moses of her people,” she escaped from slavery and then committed herself to assisting others to escape. Called a “conductor” of the Underground Railroad, she made about nine precarious trips south to free
others–around 70 people in all, historians tells us. On these nine very risky journeys, she assures us, she never lost a single person in the process. |
Harriet Tubman, 1895. Photo by Horatio Seymour Squyer, National Portrait Gallery. Wikimedia
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As an enslaved child in Maryland, she was already put to work at five years of age. When 12 years old, she intervened when a master was beating a black man and in the process was hit with a metal object that rendered her with severe headaches and narcolepsy the rest of her life. She served
as a scout, spy, guerilla soldier and nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War and is recognized as the first African American woman to serve in the military. She would dress as an old woman and wander streets of Southern cities talking to slaves and gathering reconnaissance for the army that way. |
Trailer of the 2019 movie Harriet, starring Cynthia Erivo. Focus Features. | As a nurse she dispensed herbal remedies to black and white soldiers alike who
were dying of infection and disease. She worked with the army in Union-held portions of South Carolina and participated in one of the more daring |
raids of the Civil War–a nighttime raid at Combahee Ferry in June, 1963. She helped guide Union soldiers along mine-filled waters, and then coming ashore, they rescued 700 enslaved people from plantations nearby. All the while, slave owners and Confederate soldiers were shooting at the
rescue team. |
After the war, she entered the battle for women’s suffrage, joining Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony in that quest. She also cared for her aging parents and worked with a writer to develop her autobiography. |
Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged, Auburn, NY, U.S. National
Register of Historic Places. Wikimedia Commons. |
With very modest financial resources, she opened a Home for the Aged for impoverished Black people near Auburn, New York and died in that home of pneumonia in 1911. We recognize in her accomplishments the same courage and bravery, vision and generosity, commitment to action for justice—in short, holiness–that we find in her sister
Sojourner Truth and brother Frederick Douglass. |
See Matthew Fox, The Reinvention of Work.
And Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth.
Banner Image: Mural, Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center, Cambridge, MD. Photo by Kirt Morris on Unsplash |
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Queries for Contemplation What most inspires you in Harriet Tubman’s story? Do you see it embodying parallel bravery of people like MLK, Jr. and
Jesus and Alexei Nevalny and Sister Dorothy Stang? |
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your comment, or read other comments and enter into dialog, please click HERE to go to our website and scroll down to the Comments
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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 |
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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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In the Beginning There Was Joy: A Cosmic Celebration for Kids of All Ages
The first book in the Father Fox’s Fantastical Fables series tells the story of the big bang and how
humans fit into the awesome, fantastical, cosmic picture! With artwork curated from illustrators around the world, this book expresses the joy and wonder of all peoples and cultures, planting seeds of respect, cooperation and hope to work together for the healing of our planet. "Matthew Fox has created a narrative, for every
parent and grandparent, both spiritual and scientific, that is a gift for all elders who recognize their responsibility in initiating the young ones into the grandeur of existence." Cosmologist Brian Swimme, Author of Cosmogenesis and The Universe Story "Matthew Fox has given all of us, children included, a
wondrous and enchanting view of creation and all that humanity should aspire to." - Caroline Myss, Author of Anatomy of the Spirit and A Time for Grace Receive a 20% discount when you buy this and one other book from Matthew Fox’s store! Use Promo Code 20% at
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Join Matthew Fox as he discusses his book Passion for Creation: The Earth-Honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart in an Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, Thursday, March 21, 4:00-5:30 pm PT.
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Join Matthew Fox, Mariko Middleton and Skylar Wilson of the Order of the Sacred Earth in a free virtual meeting for connection and networking with other mystic warriors, Tuesday, March 26, 4:00-5:00pm PT. Learn more at www.orderofthesacredearth.org |
Join Matthew Fox as he discusses his book Sheer Joy: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality in an Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, Thursday, April 18, 4:00-5:30 pm PT.
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Join Matthew Fox as he discusses his book Natural Grace: Dialogues on Creation, Darkness and the Soul in Spirituality and Science in an Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, Thursday, May 16, 4:00-5:30 pm PT.
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Matthew Fox speaks on "What the Mystics Tell Us About Dying" at the 2024 Symposium on Death and Bereavement Studies. To listen, click the video thumbnail at right. |
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