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Hope and Pragmatism from Michael
Moore 07/06/2024 |
Yesterday I offered David Orr’s definition of hope as “a verb with the sleeves rolled up,” and asked DM readers how they found their hope. Replies were both inspiring and practical. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. shared another fine definition of hope, just a week before he was martyred: “The refusal to give
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I wish to share a very hopeful vision of the present struggle the country is going through, offered on July 4th by Michael Moore. I confess that watching fireworks from a craggy viewpoint near Crockett, California last night, I asked myself: “Will this be the last Independence Day we ever truly celebrate?” If Trump and his Project 2025 gets voted in this November, and with SCOTUS committed to turning our Constitution inside out, this is an authentic—and even necessary— |
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question to be asking. Our current leader, President Biden, is not only frail but was losing the election before the debate, and is now losing in the polls by even more points. Moore’s essay—which I highly recommend—makes several important observations, and ends on a very hopeful—even
inspirational—note. |
Shortly after Biden’s election in 2020, documentary filmmaker Michael Moore was optimistic about how his Catholic faith would inform his administration. Video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. | He begins with a Richard Pryor
joke: “Who are you going to believe? Me, or your own lying eyes?” And criticizes the leaders of the Democratic Party for wanting us to deny what we saw last Thursday night, with shibboleths like “it was a cold” or “an off night,” etc. Instead, he insists, “what we
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was heartbreaking” and scary for our ever “more fragile democracy." Moore offered appreciation of Biden—“the most progressive President of my lifetime”—and offers a list of his accomplishments including his “almost religious zeal to fight greed” born of a “true compassion” for those “dealt a bad hand in life.” |
Moore criticizes those who put him on the debate stage for their cruelty and “elder abuse,” and the risk to his life that is at stake if we push him to remain. “Leave Mr. Biden alone. Let him rest. Let him go home.” Let him resign with dignity at a celebration on the White
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Lawn, and swear-in Kamala Harris as president. No big drama at the Chicago convention. America will be the better for having their first female president—another gift from Biden who chose her as vice president. “The first of many women and people of color who would lead us to our
better selves.”
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Michael Moore, “We Are Asking the Wrong Question about Joe Biden on this Fourth of July,” Substack, July 4, 2024. See Matthew Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality. And
Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth. And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society.
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Image: Kamala Harris takes the oath of office for the vice presidency, January 20, 2021. Photo by the White House. Wikimedia Commons.
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Queries for Contemplation |
Do you also, with Michael Moore, appreciate what Biden has accomplished, and yearn that the next president will “lead us to our better selves?” I like that as a qualification for a president, don’t you? Is that worth rolling up our sleeves for and working to “preserve the good” found in Mother Earth, our Original Blessing? |
Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
Matthew Fox lays out a whole new direction for Christianity—a direction that is in fact very ancient and very grounded in Jewish thinking (the fact that Jesus was a Jew
is often neglected by Christian theology): the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an extended and deeply developed way.
“Original Blessing makes available to the Christian world and to the human community a radical cure for all dark and derogatory views of the natural world wherever these may have originated.” –Thomas Berry, author,
The Dream of the Earth; The Great Work; co-author, The Universe Story |
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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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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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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 |
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