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Kamala Harris, the Black
Madonna, & Trump’s Yesteryear’s Masculinity 08/24/2024 |
Last night’s fulsome finale to the DNC Convention culminating in Kamala Harris’s powerful speech was a moving event. I felt the message that Pete Buttigieg delivered about a “new politics” happening before our eyes. The energy that a politics of Joy and Justice brings was palpable. |
I received a note this morning from a friend who said she went to bed last night crying with hope and possibilities dancing in her head. Michelle Obama urged us three nights ago to “Do |
“‘An inflection point in history’: Maddow on Kamala Harris’ historic DNC speech.” MSNBC |
something” to make this election end successfully. I feel my contribution is my new book born of a 1503 fresco painting in Orvieto, Italy, of “The Antichrist.” Birthing a new book and rushing it into print all within two months has been a challenge for sure, but it is my effort to do something useful. Thus its title and subtitle, Trump & the MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024
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After Kamala Harris was chosen in the virtual nominating process and after she invited Tim Walz to join her as her running mate, I added an Appendix to the book which I previously thought was finished. The Appendix is called “MAGA’s Precarious Manhood vs. Authentic Masculinity” and it came out of the Republican National Convention which seemed to me to be especially beholden to a patriarchal and yesteryear version of
masculinity. |
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| Following are the final paragraphs of the Appendix, and the book therefore: To move beyond Patriarchy is to move to a world where caring is more a value than scaring; love than fear; joy than hatred; peace than war. This move begins in the human heart but does not stay there: it moves into society and reaches into politics. |
Perhaps it is becoming incarnated at this moment in the person of a potentially first woman president in Kamala Harris who carries the energy of a strong and accomplished woman and in her running mate, Tim Waltz. The former can represent the strong feminine. And the latter can represent the healthy masculine, for his track record in politics is not one of shaming and grievance and anger, but of working with others out of a caring for others. Good teachers and
coaches and congress people and governors develop the habits and virtues that bring about such transformation. Joy follows from a commitment to such values. And joy is contagious as well as energizing. Chapter 8 in the book is a reflection on Hildegard of Bingen’s amazing (and almost x-rated) painting and
commentary of the Antichrist and I call it “Hildegard of Bingen: The Antichrist as Patriarchy.” |
In contrast to a “precarious manhood” so evident in the Republican party of our day, I heard in Kamala Harris’ speech last night the deep presence of the Black Madonna who brings forward elements of love and joy, battling and peace, grief and celebration and support |
Matthew Fox reflects on the Black Madonna and the Divine Feminine. Matthew
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support of the poor. As well as a fierceness that accompanies it all and gets the job done.
~To be continued. |
See Matthew Fox, “The Sacred Marriage of Masculine and Feminine: The Green Man and the Black Madonna,” in Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine, pp. 221-248. And Fox, Trump & the MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024
Election, pp. 99-104, 81-84.
Banner image: Kamala Harris with anonymous young woman at “Linking Together: March to Save Our Care” Rally at the U.S. Capitol on June 28, 2017. Democratic leaders speak to defend “Obamacare” and replace efforts to replace it with a Trump alternative. By Mobilus in Mobili on Flickr. |
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Queries for Contemplation |
Do you sense a connection between Kamala Harris and the fierce energy and justice agenda of the Black Madonna? |
The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine
To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he unearths ten metaphors, or archetypes, ranging from the Green Man, an
ancient pagan symbol of our fundamental relationship with nature, to the Spiritual Warrior….These timeless archetypes can inspire men to pursue their higher calling to connect to their deepest selves and to reinvent the world.
“Every man on this planet should read this book — not to mention every woman who wants to understand the struggles, often unconscious, that shape the men they know.” — Rabbi Michael
Lerner, author of The Left Hand of God |
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Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election
Matthew Fox tells us that he had always shied away from using the term “Anti-Christ” because it was so often used to spread control and fear. However, given today’s
rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables in this book employing the archetype for the cause of justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a moment, for examining the archetype of the Antichrist, it is now…Read this book with an open mind. Good and evil are real forces in our world. ~~ Caroline
Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine. |
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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 does it again, here for our young ones, who so need a positive, cosmic vision
to thrive, or even survive, in a sad time." - Father Richard Rohr, Author of The Universal Christ "Matthew Fox offers a resounding affirmation of what our souls have always suspected: we are made for joy." - Mirabai Starr, Author of God of Love and Wild Mercy |
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