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Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox 

11/14/2024

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They linked hands too with 1,500 people in prison for having invaded the nation’s Capitol in a raging riot we all saw happen on TV that injured 240 police officers and resulted in seven deaths, two by suicide. Rioters invading the Capitol on January 6, 2021 with 

First Felon supporters gathered at a Florida watch party erupted in celebration as Fox News projected that their candidate had won the US presidency. Guardian News.

bear spray and handcuffs to kill the (Republican) vice president and the Democratic head of the House, intent on interfering with a valid counting of ballots for president.    

The person elected president declared that January 6 was a “day of love.” Truth telling is not his strong point.

And hundreds of Republican congressmen, though cowering from the violence on the day of the riot, chose to anoint the instigator of said riot and render him once again head of the most powerful country in the world.

TheirNameWasFey sings against the anti-woman, anti-LGBTQIA actions taken and planned by the former White House occupant upon his return.

All that happened ten days ago today. The world may never be the same again. Mother Earth, already hotter than at any time in recorded history, will become even hotter faster because the new president has declared that global climate change is a 

“hoax” and he intends to “drill baby drill” and remove laws enacted to combat climate change. 

A number of persons have informed me they are contemplating suicide.

For 2,000 years we have been demarcating time pretty much by the abbreviation BC and AD, which for some signifies “Before Christ” and “After the Lord” and for some has come to mean “Before the common era” and after it. However, historians, if any remain, say, 100 years from now, may demarcate history anew as “BT” and “AT,” Before Trump and After Trump.  That is how pivotal this election may prove to be.

There can be no question that a vote for Trump is a vote for "I don’t give a damn about climate change." Increased hurricanes, wildfires, floods, droughts, tornados, setting of heat records every year and degrees of 140 be damned. And the melting of glaciers from which billions of humans get their water be damned. And the 

Between 1993 and 2023 mean sea level has risen across most of the world oceans. Coastal sea level rates (dots) can be larger due to ground settling or smaller due to ground rebound after ice-age glacier melt. NOAA Climate.gov map.

melting of Greenland and Antarctica ice with the subsequent rise of sea levels up to three feet be damned.  

And the emigration of billions of human beings—and subsequent flooding of immigrants into every corner of the earth where there is dry land—be damned. 

If you think you voted against immigration this November, look ahead to what awaits with climate change.

Obedience in advance: Johns Hopkins historian Tad Stoermer tells of finding the Colonial Williamsburg website's in-depth historical account, including slavery and indigenous encounters, deleted in advance of a T**** administration. TikTok video.

The beauty of the Earth, its health and the joy and hope and health of our children and grandchildren be damned.

The beauty of birds, fishes, forests, four-legged ones, finned ones and other creatures be damned.

The death of American democracy and the hope it extended to others be damned. And rule in America 

(and elsewhere?) by autocracy and oligarchy and crazy religious theocrats be expanded.

Why did this happen, this killing of Mother Earth and democracy and gleeful handing over the keys of presidential power to a wannabe strongman, admirer of Mussolini, Hitler, Putin, Kim Jung Un, Viktor Orban? What solutions and resistance await us?  

To be continued.

See Matthew Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality.

And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society.

And Fox, Trump & the MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election.

And Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth.

Banner Image: Following the projected 2024 election results, Democrats across Facebook blacked out their profile photos and banner images in mourning and protest. Redacted screenshot.

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Queries for Contemplation

With days under your belt, and time to reflect and meditate, process your grief, listen to others, read and pray the news, what do you think happened ten days ago? What solutions and resistance do you see on the horizon?

Recommended Reading

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

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

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.

For immediate access to Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, order the e-book with 10 full-color prints from Amazon HERE. 

To get a print-on-demand paperback copy with black & white images, order from Amazon HERE or IUniverse HERE. 

To receive a limited-edition, full-color paperback copy, order from MatthewFox.org HERE.

Order the audiobook HERE for immediate download.

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.

The Return of Father Sky: A Cosmic Mystery for Kids of All Ages

The second book in the Father Fox’s Fantastical Fables series, The Return of Father Sky helps boys and girls to celebrate a new relationship with the masculine by way of Father Sky, whose return excites joy and wonder and possibility that enlarge the soul to welcome others and all creation. Written in a rhyming Dr. Seuss-like style, this full-color, beautifully illustrated book, written by world- renowned theologian Matthew Fox weaves together modern science and classic spirituality in a whimsical, entertaining format to illustrate important truths to readers aged 4 and up. 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.

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