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Week of 8/19-24/2024:
Hope from Brazil, Inspiration from the DNC, plus Matthew’s New Book! 8/25/2024 |
August 19, 2024: Leonardo Boff: Hope from Brazil re: Kamala Harris for President
Matthew shares an article written by his Brazilian theologian friend, Leonardo Boff. Leonardo lays out the reasons why the
U.S. electing a female president would be a step forward for our country. He speaks about patriarchy and how it is such a blight on our planet. And although patriarchy affects us all, of course the primary victims have been women. Previously, he says: the destiny of women, in historical-social terms, has been defined based on the man who occupied every public space. As women have moved more fully into the workplace, academia, and politics, they have brought with them more sensitivity,
more collaboration, and more heart. To hear more, watch Matthew’s video HERE. (Scroll down to video.) |
On Paul Stahr’s cover for a July 1915 issue of Life magazine, “Retouching an Old Masterpiece,” a contemporary woman amends the Declaration of Independence while the ghost of a Founding Father looks on. Wikimedia Commons. August 20, 2024: Boff of Brazil & Kamala Harris as President,
Part II
Matthew met Leonardo Boff when they were both silenced by Cardinal Ratzinger---Boff for his Liberation Theology work, Matthew for his Creation Spirituality work. Boff talks about the wholeness that is being engendered by the possibiity of (finally) having a woman become president of our country. He writes of the emergence of a new, more androgynous human being: man rescuing
his anima dimension, with the help of women, the capacity for tenderness, unreserved delivery, cordial sensitivity, together with his animus dimension. The woman developing her animus, that is, her capacity for initiative, creativity, operational intelligence, direction together with her anima. August 21, 2024: Announcing My New Book on Trump, MAGA & the Antichrist
Matthew announces the completion of a brand new book entitled Trump & the MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election. The book was inspired by his trip to Orvieto, Italy this summer, and the powerful fresco he saw there about the
Antichrist. When Matthew saw the fresco, he immediately recognized Donald Trump. Later, upon his return home, he knew he needed to write about Trump and the Antichrist. The power of the Antichrist as an archetype is it helps name the evil in our midst. Included in the book are ten colored paintings---by Luca Signorelli, Fra Angelico, and Hildegard of Bingen. The book is currently available as an audio book, narrated by Matthew, and as an ebook no later than this Tuesday.
To pre-order the physical book, click HERE. To order the audiobook, go HERE. |
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August 22, 2024: My New Book on Trump & MAGA as Anti-Christ, continued
Here is the Table of Contents of Matthew's new book: Foreword by Caroline Myss; Introduction: An “Aha!” Moment in a Church in Orvieto;
Chapter One: Freud’s Encounter with the Antichrist Painting in Orvieto Cathedral; Chapter Two: The Antichrist as a Naming of Evil; Chapter Three: Christ as Archetype; Chapter Four: Antichrist as Archetype; Chapter Five: Jesus and Democracy; Chapter Six: MAGA: Making America Grotesque Again; Chapter Seven: 18 Signs of the Times: The Antichrist in American Politics, 2024; Chapter Eight: Hildegard of Bingen: The Antichrist as Patriarchy; Conclusion: Be a Camel and Escape the Allurement of
the Anti-Christ; Epilogue: Christ, Antichrist, and the 2024 Election; Afterword by Andrew Harvey; Appendix: MAGA’s Precarious Manhood vs. Authentic Masculinity. August 23, 2024: Reflections on the Democratic Convention, Aquinas Included
Matthew speaks about how the Democratic National Convention has been so spiritually meaningful. One thing that struck him in Tim Walz’s speech, was his reference to "the common good,” a phrase brought to the West by Aquinas, who in turn got it from Aristotle. Both Walz and Harris also speak
about and embody Joy. Joy, Aquinas emphasizes, comes from love. And "sheer joy is God's." Matthew, like many of us, was also moved by Gus Walz’s emotional display of pride in his father. Matthew says that this “says a lot about the noble vocation of fatherhood.” Matthew then shares, from the first page of his new book, many of Aquinas’s quotations about despots and tyrants, which reveal an eery similarity to a certain former president and current candidate. |
August 24, 2024: Kamala Harris, the Black Madonna, & Trump’s Yesteryear’s Masculinity
The DNC culminated with a fiery speech from Kamala Harris which inspired many, including a friend of Matthew’s
who “went to bed… crying with hope and possibilities dancing in her head.” Meanwhile, Matthew shares the final paragraphs of the Appendix and of the book. Here is one of them: 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. Matthew recognizes in Kamala the strength and "fierceness,"
grief and celebration of life, and support of the poor that characterize the Black Madonna. |
Matthew Fox, Trump & the MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election. To pre-order a print version,click HERE. To receive an audio version, narrated by Matthew Fox, click HERE. Banner image: Vice President Kamala Harris at campaign rally in Glendale, AZ on August 9, 2024. Photo by Gage Skidmore on Wikipedia.
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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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Sheer Joy: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation
Spirituality
Matthew Fox renders Thomas Aquinas accessible by interviewing him and thus descholasticizing him. He also translated many of his works such as Biblical commentaries never before in English (or Italian or German of French). He gives Aquinas a forum so that he can be heard in our own time. He presents Thomas Aquinas entirely in his own words, but in a form designed to
allow late 20th-century minds and hearts to hear him in a fresh way.
“The teaching of Aquinas comes through will a fullness and an insight that has never been present in English before and [with] a vital message for the world today.” ~ Fr. Bede Griffiths (Afterword).
Foreword by Rupert Sheldrake |
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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. "This delicious book for children of all ages celebrates joy as the essential truth of
reality." - Andrew Harvey, Author of The Hope and Radical Regeneration "I absolutely LOVED reading this beautiful, creative, stirring story—a charming, whimsical, powerful, parable." -
Robert Holden, Author of Happiness NOW! and Higher Purpose |
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